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I find it’s always helpful to have a stupid phrase when travelling to non-English speaking countries. And I’ve discovered that ‘I am Spongebob Squarepants’ seems to be universally amusing so I’m making it my mission to learn it in as many languages as possible. So far I have:

French – Je suis Bob l’eponge
German – Ich bin Spongebob Schwammkopf
Spanish – Soy Bob Esponja
Korean – Na nun Sponge man
Japanese – watashiwa suponnji bobu desu (Thanks Erin)
Estonian – Mina olen Käsna-Kalle (Thanks Ing)

Can anyone help me learn some more?!
Let me know in the comments below and I’ll add them to the list. We can build up a hugely useful resource for travellers.

By the way, you can’t just use an internet translation tool as Spongebob has many different pseudonyms and I’m looking for what he’s called on the telly box in your chosen country.

Here’s the show reel that I put together at the end of the 3 month animation course in Bristol in December. It was a fantastic course and I learnt plenty of animation skills which I’ll be putting to good use in my next knitimation!

And here’s some of the other students work that are on youtube. Lots of variety!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=biuJotTBo9Y

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X3xiWIfPmAs

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_fRRDxWh8

I’m outsourcing my knitting to puppets now. They seem to be pretty good at it…

This week I am mostly having difficulty learning to run and walk with 4 legs. But last week I think I did a reasonable job of walking with 2 legs, or at least an amusing job… See for yourself:

By the way, this is all because I’m at The Bristol School of Animation trying to improve my knitimation skillz before I use them to make a bid for world domination… or something like that.

The Affordable Art Fair was last weekend and there was knitting and crochet mania. Eyeballs and blood went everywhere. It was all under the guise of workshops to coincide with National Knitting Week and create more gore for my Bear’s cauldron in the sculpture ‘A Job for a Bear’. Much fun was had by all and we converted many new people to the yarn arts. At the end of it all the bear was sold and has a lovely new home to continue working his cauldron magic in.

Here’s a picture of my stand in the recent graduates section where you can see the crowds flocking around the knitted plinth to watch my animation ‘I am Ahab’. The other is of me teaching a spot of knitting. And a big thank you goes to I Knit for providing yarn, knitting needles and crochet hooks to make the Horror Knitting workshops possible.

Well here it is a brand new look for Max’s World! With incredibly smooth blog integration…….. The excitement of it all!
Anyway you can expect to find lots more knitting based everything from now on.
Oh and if you spot any bugs please let me know. I think everything is working, but you never know…