history lessons

The following animation was made in collaboration with Daphne . The brief for her art direction project asked to create an animation for promoting the reading of literature. Daphne drew and all the elements in Illustrator and Photoshop while I did the animation in After Effects.

Does humor belong in art and can it make an equally strong statement? The question is rhetoric. Visit Jonathan Gilhooly's website and read the review by Micheál O'Connell here .

Collaborative work between Daphne and I. These three interactive pieces relate to the theories of archetypes by Carl Jung. Although there are many, we picked the shadow, the mother and the anima. It is a humorous approach and we hope that they're seen in that way. These small pieces will hopefully drive one to find out more about Jung's theories which personally I find very interesting and glaring of truth (even though placed on the side and considered fairly outdated by mainstream psychology). One should also be patient for the files to load, they're a bit large. If one wants to view them at their actual size then go here . or here . or mere . Also be on the lookout for Daphne's 'Carl's Archetypes' which should be posted soon enough on her blog .

It has come to my attention that after the "ahoy space" post yesterday, I had an interesting visit on my blog a while ago. Busy, busy little bees, or erm, spiders? Today's lesson: ITT works! So does StatCounter . Invest in either for pure voyeuristic pleasure. Good times.

"With piracy on the rise, commercial space satellites equipped with ITT imaging systems are becoming an important tool for locating exactly where the attacks occur and where the hijacked ships are being held". ( link ) But then there's this: "The pirates showed "quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy."" ( link ) And when the number of deaths from swine flu reaches 3000 then we'll start calling it a pandemic . A daily dosage of Bill Hicks and South Park is bound to free you from fearmongers (I repeat myself when I'm distressed).

For the Design Against Fur International Animation Competition (that's a large name, makes it sound important), Daphne and I created the following. The drawings were made in illustrator then animated in After Effects. Music is done by me, apart from the silly scream, taken from some sample library of the BBC. The regulations said to upload the video as a video response on YouTube and I must admit the participants in the competition are very few. But I suppose no one needs an animation to advertise against the wearing of fur when one has got all those aesthetically pleasing Peta ads satisfying so much the male gaze.

Elvis is not dead . He is video projected.