The One Hour Plays!

For the past couple of months I've been designing posters for the fantastic fringe show The One Hour Plays.

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"What the hell is The One Hour Plays?" I hear you ask. Well, in their own words:

"With copious help from our audience, each play is conceived, devised, costumed, scripted and performed before your very eyes - with a newly painted backdrop and a freshly composed score! Art Attack meets Anneka Rice with live playwriting, this is a richly sensory spectacle which lays bare the nuts and bolts of the theatre in all its eccentricity."

Good.

To find out more about the plays, go to their website, and to see a few more of my posters just take a scroll.

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New Showreel for 2013

Showreel time. 

This includes music videos for The Low Anthem, Efterklang, Allo Darlin' and Liz Green, short films and commercial work.

There's work created in After Effects, Shake, Final Cut Pro and Dragon Stop Motion.

Most of the cinematography is my own, except for The Low Anthem's 'Boeing 737', which was shot by the hugely talented Pablo Rojo. 

I'm always looking for new interesting work, so if you like what you see, please get in touch.

Sobering Scent

I worked with the Leisure society last year when I made the music video for their track 'Dust on the Dance Floor'.

The band are a really lovely group of people, and I worked again with Christian on a little viral marketing video later that year.

Since then they've been in the studio incubating their new album 'Alone aboard the ark'.

The artwork for the album was created by Owen Davey, who I've known since my art foundation. Owen has worked on many of my videos with me, as well as providing much of the score for my documentary, Little Tibet. He's a very talented man.

Anyway, before I start writing sonnets...

I was very pleased to get a call from Nick asking if I'd be up for creating a short teaser for the album using a segment of a new track.

The track ended up being 'The Sober Scent of Paper', which is a beautiful ode to the tragic life of Sylvia Plath.

I knew the video would be another paper animation, but I wanted to try using origami models instead of the cut and glued models I've used in the past. I wanted it to appear that the models could simply have grown from the discarded lyrics, left to take life on their own.

I kind of suck at origami, but luckily Bec Boey, from The Matey Institute, is rather a master. So having enslaved her I set about dunking things in fish tanks and constructing make-shift greenscreens.

If you like what you see, or more importantly what you hear, head of over to Clash Music, where you can download the full track for free and read more about the band.

Flipping the Bird

A well a everybody's heard about the a bird, b-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word.

A couple of months back the wonderful people at  MediaCore  asked me to create a short animation about 'the flipped classroom'; a new approach to teaching which aims to re-energise the teacher/student relationship.

I'm not going to explain it in any more depth than that, so you'll have to watch the video below.

I hope you liked it, and I'll be bringing you something rather more aquatic in the near future.

Walrus says, "Don't do drugs kids."

End of the Road Festival Trailer

Another festival trailer for you all! This time it's for End of the Road Festival, and features yet more paper animation.

Those of you who saw my animation for last year's festival may recognise one or two shots, but there's a whole load of new work in there too, including some rather time consuming line-up banners.

There were also some additional icons from the festival, including the boat and disco ball (no, I will not use a ping-pong ball, I will build a sphere from paper. Okay?) and the Somerset Cider Bus.

Also a badger joins the cast of animals this year, who is currently living beside the bear over my fireplace.