photo by Conor Rogers
So, our pop-up shop! Knack/One Day We Could Be Famous/the shop/hallam art pop up shop/shop hallam shop what art no/whatever
As the class was split into two groups, technically there was two shops, however, in the end it doesn’t even matterrrr name-wise as the shops were pretty much merged. “My” groups shop was called Knack on account of nothing in particular. I designed the flyer (that ended up never getting flyered, but there ya go) and the website, as well as adding people’s info and writing the text about it all.
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At some point during my childhood, my parents videoed a bunch of animated shorts. Lately I’ve been revisiting a few, and it’s strange watch many of them for the first time since… well, videos. 
Richard Condie, The Big Snit, 1985. 10 minutes.
This short is a really great example of somebody making something that is them: everything about this is clearly the mind of one guy, thrown onto the screen. (And this is a great quality you find in animated shorts in general.) If wikipedia is to be trusted, Condie studied as a sociologist for two years before coming to animation, and I think it really shows in his work. Initially only wild, humorous, goofy, The Big Snit, Getting Started, even The Cat Came Back, are secretly subtle, intimate and sensitive portrayals of human emotions as well.
Cordell Barker, Strange Invaders, 2001. 8 minutes.
Another Canadian animation, I love this! It’s so cute! Can’t even put my finger on why I like this one so much at the moment, I just do.
Aardman, Next, 1989. 5 minutes.
”William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.” (IMDB’s description.)
This is one I remember being particularly obsessed with - and, honestly, that’s still true. I’ve watched this (at very least) five times since I rediscovered it about three weeks ago. I honestly don’t know how they did it, it only gets more exciting and fascinating as it progresses. Each shot leads perfectly on to the next, it feels like the natural and correct order, though of course there’s no such thing. There’s an indefinite amount of ways they could’ve ordered this and an infinite number of ways they could’ve represented each story. And this is coming from somebody with no knowledge and no real interest in any of Shakespeare’s works.
I’d love to see a high definition version of this, sad to think that mustn’t exist considering the year it was made.
Aardman, Loves Me, Loves Me Not, 1993. 7 minutes.
I actually kind of hate this, it’s so naf! The gunshot when he picks up the flower… Really, now? The beginning part with him playing with the flower is way too long. But when it does finally get into it it unfolds into a really dark place (well, it is on the aardmansdarkside channel) and delivers the message wonderfully.
Aardman, Stage Fright, 1997. 11 minutes.
A contained drama told in flashbacks, this is again something that totally is what it is. I don’t think it could’ve worked as well in any other medium, particularly not live action. There’s something both creepy and charming about the claymation style which ties perfectly into this story. This is some of Aardman Studio’s best word in my opinion!
2/2. Perry, Julie and M.
Perry… ~sigh~ cute ginger depressed beatnik
I’m aware Julie’s outfit is impractical. she’s an impractical character! a dreamer, a wildchild.
now that I’m uploading this I get the feeling that perhaps the book meant rugby player physique when it described ‘broad and tall’… err, well, either way this is the M i imagined.
anybody read the book? send me an ask, tell me what you thought! how did you imagine the characters?
1/2 for fanart friday! hi, R!
(this one refuses to sit nicely with the other images because it’s too tall so it gets its own upload)
i recently read the zombie romance book Warm Bodies (yes, zombie twilight!), the first book i’ve vividly visualised the characters for in a while. really interesting book - really cheesy at times, too - worth a read still. (don’t read if you don’t like gore, though! just a warning)
i thought i’d pen some of the characters down before the film comes out and there’s too much of a cemented idea of how they look.
i imagined R would actually be genuinely quite skanky looking to be honest. he’s got mucky, stinky, stained and ruffled clothing, what you’d expect for a zombie really. underneath all that you could see he was once a handsome young man, however right now he ain’t that. the more yucky i reasoned R would be the more i believed Julie as a character, if she could see through a stinky horrid zombie then she really must be a nice person!
because I know how you all love reading about me reading! there isn’t a day that goes by that somebody doesn’t ask me “cherry, why are you posting this?!” and hehe, well fans, I suppose the answer is because I made this as I was going through the year, might as well do something with it right?
(list obviously not including everything I read, doesn’t include essays or reference books. also cheats a bit and has comics in it, and we all know comics doesn’t really count. podcasts totally count though.)
11/01/10 - Annette Curtis Klause - Blood And Chocolate (Audiobook, 2nd reading)
11/02/15 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes, A Study In Scarlet (2nd reading)
11/02/22 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes, The Sign Of The Four (2nd reading)
11/02/26 - Mariko Tamaki, Steve Rolston - Emiko Superstar
11/02/27 - Castellucci, Rugg - Janes In Love
11/03/18 - Stuff Mom Never Told You (Podcast, entirety of back catalogue)
11/04/20 - Stuff You Missed In History Class (Podcast, entirety of back catalogue)
11/04/30 - Jan Stradling - Pocket History - Good Girls Don’t Make History
11/05/02 - Frank Miller, Lynn Varley - 300
11/05/17 - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
11/05/28 - Randall C - Sleepyheads
11/05/29 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
11/05/29 - Martin Flinn - The Man of Glass
11/05/29 - Josceline Fenton - Circle #1
11/05/29 - Nicola Stuart - Thank Goodness for Herald Owlett 1 & 2
11/06/20 - Felix Salten - Bambi’s Children, Part One
11/06/28 - Tina Fey - Bossypants (Audiobook)
11/08/06 - Randy L Schmidt - Little Girl Blue, The Life of Karen Carpenter
11/08/09 - Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Stephen King - American Vampire
11/08/09 - Tove Jansson - Comet in Moominland
11/08/27 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
11/09/14 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
11/09/30 - Dave West, Andy Bloor - The Wolfmen & Fall of the Wolfmen
11/10/02 - Posy Simmonds - Bouncing Buffalo
11/10/02 - Maurice Sendak - The Sign On Rosie’s Door
11/10/02 - Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing
11/10/14 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
11/10/17 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear (Audiobook, 2nd Reading)
11/10/30 - Roald Dahl - The Great Automatic Grammatizator & Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat
11/10/30 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Audiobook)
11/10/04 - Robert C. O’Brien - Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
11/11/04 - Roald Dahl - The Butler & Man from the South & The Landlady
11/11/07 - Arthur Conan Doyle - His Last Bow (Audiobook)
11/11/21 - Roald Dahl - Katina & Neck & Parson’s Pleasure & Royal Jelly & Taste & The Umbrella Man & The Way Up to Heaven & Vengeance is Mine Inc.
11/11/23 - Anne Fine - Bill’s New Frock
11/11/30 - Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’ Diary (Audiobook)
11/12/01 - Charlotte Mullins - Rachel Whiteread
11/12/07 - Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’ Diary: The Edge of Reason (Audiobook)
ps. send me a note if you did a similar list!
