Film festival action

The National Student Film Festival is on in Bristol this weekend. Check out all the info on their website. If you're in the area come and see some awesome films! I'm going to be there having some jokes because The Knitties is being shown and perhaps I shouldn't mention this, not wanting to tempt fate etc... but it's been nominated for an award!

Check out the magnets

Now I have floaty people. Which is good because the chairs I'm making are liable to collapse under any kind of weight...

RoboKnit

I always knew that knitting had a life of it's own. Now I see that it's been the robots all along.
Erm... anyway, here's the armature in Ahab's girlfriend. It's yet to be proven to work though. I'll be conducting a series of tests and publishing a report shortly.

Setting up an animation studio

Ta-Da!
Here are the beginnings of my awesome shed-based animation studio. Note the green screen, a new addition funded by a job in Singapore. And you'll also notice that Ahab now has a boat to carry him off across the seas to seek adventures and whales.

I am Ahab

The dawn of a new knitimation is upon us. It will take the form of a music video to the song 'I am Ahab' by Not-Too-Distant-Future. Go and listen to them and jump up and down!
Months of knitting and moving things just a tiny bit at a time await me now... Woo Hoo!!!!

Yesterday on tinternets...

I was innocently searching out how to do an alternate cable cast on for a knitted hat when I made a shocking discovery. As I watched the video of how to do this new cast on I thought to myself 'this knitting looks pretty strange, let me just watch the how to knit video'. To my horror it was not remotely like how I knit! When I was learning I sort of made it up from some confusing instructions and I've actually been using a method called combined knitting. Oh dear. So now I've been learning how to knit all over again, it's slow, but at least patterns make sense now!

New knitimation

I've just finished a new knitted animation for Donna Wilson.
She made the wonderful bunnies, also known as Kate Hare and I animated them.
Have a look at it here.

Landmarks

My knitted piece 'Severed Monster Head' is in a show called Landmarks. It opens this Wednesday so if you've never seen it go along and have a look before it gets sold for millions of pounds.....

It's at The Lethaby Gallery on Southampton Row, just up from Holborn station in the bottom of Central St. Martins college. It's open from the 16th-31st August daily from 9am - 6pm.

Get in!

Today I met Donna Wilson she knits really cool creatures! I'm going to animate some of her long-legged bunnies doing a can can dance, should be good fun. And I'm doing work experience for her in October. Top stuff!

Horror knitting

Check out this German crocheter. She makes bloody woolen monstrosities too!

Patricia Waller

I'm loving the shark eating a leg.

In other news I'm on summer hols till October now. So I will mostly be knitting and learning to crochet. Any suggestions for things to knit would be most welcome!