Radio 4

This morning I recorded an interview with my mum and gran for Women's hour on Radio 4. We were talking about the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre exhibition at Kinetica in Spitalfields market. It's going to be broadcast this Friday so make sure to listen in and be amused by whatever nonsense I was spouting in my seriously jetlagged state! In the meantime here's a picture of me in the most amazing tea shop in the world. It had tiny little birdies flying around inside! More on Day 6 of the seoul photos.

Jokes in Seoul

Well here I am in South Korea setting up a Cabaret Mechanical Theatre exhibition at The Seongnam Arts Centre in Seoul. It opens tomorrow. Here's a picture of some automata that me and Steve made in a spare moment!
You can see more photo's of the trip so far here:

Day 6
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
Day 2
Day 1

Fun stuff!

And the winner is...

The Knitties! Hurrah! It won the award for Best Animation and was nominated for Best Music Video and Technical Expertise at The National Student Film Festival this weekend. I got a copy of Avid Xpress Pro and a bottle of King Cobra beer pictured here in the obligatory cheesy grin photo. I also got a smart little glass trophy! It was a really great event, all very professional and The Knitties was shown on a cinema size screen, which was, like, totally the greatest thing ever. The thank yous go to Thea for making me enter in the first place and The Stabilisers for having such an awesome song for me to make the video for. If you still haven't seen The Knitties you can watch it here or here.

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.