Finishing Backstage, Car Crashes & Swapmeets
Wednesday July 29 2009
In the studio it's so cold that I turn on the heat gun and hang it from a nail. If you hear that the studio had burnt down then it's probably that or the latex oven that's set to full and door-less. ...
Static Electricity, M&M and Galahs
Tuesday April 14 2009
Have I told you about the static electricity in the building? With the dry heat, humble reader, the static comes out of the walls like "brown wood roaches onto a bin crudely made by hanging a plastic bag on a nail, that, yes I did say I was going to put out - but c'mon baby - I’m relaxing"...
Hot Glue, Scene 13 and being daunted...
Friday September 5 2008
Ahh Perth… sunny, dry and far from where you have to be in 10 mins... yes I might concede that the public transport system takes a little longer but meh.. So for the last 7 months I’ve been in Melbourne doing some guff and bunk on a stop- mo feature which...
AA, Apostrophes and Abraham Lincoln
Friday February 1 2008
Currently I'm in Melbourne and will be here for 5 months. I have another stint of 'Max and Mary' the Adam Elliot stop-motion feature. I'm an Animation Assistant which we call an AA to save time - as enough is wasted building cabinets that I swore I measured...
6 weeks, tasty skills and top shelves
Tuesday November 13 2007
Hmm... well for the last 6 weeks I’ve been working over in Melbourne-icanic-o-tron-land tempest place... on a stop motion feature film called Mary and Max. My position was called 'slashing' which is the verb for 'slasher' the noun. This role was a hybrid of Animation assisting and model making...
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'Criminals', Trees and Picking up Cotton
Friday August 31 2007
If I had to think of a word to describe the action of the 'criminals' who liberated about 20 metres of copper piping from the side of our studio thus
stopping the flow of water to either the mens or female toilets, I would say
audacious, nay exceptionally audacious.
Now our flushing system is a bucket that we fill with water. Copper piping is very expensive, and to get the external plumbing system fixed may be expensive, so perhaps I would rather just have the 'criminal' come up to me and say "I was thinking of taking your copper pipes inhales the crack and selling them so I can drink booze and buy lewd reading material". Then I would just pay him directly so he wouldn’t have to go through the trouble of stealing the pipes under cover of daylight nor would we suffer the visuals of unflushed toy-toys.
In other news... erm... trees... We made some trees. Lots of trees... expanda foam is the winner there. The studio is still 12 degrees. The canopy of the trees is made with sawdust but its going moldy from the lack of drying.. the floor could do with a sweep. Steve built a war machine and a ballista that can fire in slow motion. Hmm, this report could do with a third paragraph.
We have gone through a surprisingly large amount of jute. We never really
budgeted for more than one packet of string but we seem to be running low.
When does anyone really consider how much string they'll need when creating an 11th century epic...
I just went over to Steves house so we could pick up some cotton... anyhoo he has a fingerprint identification device to open his door, and I suspect he
says in a computer voice when I'm not there - "welcome home Steve" and makes piston noises when he pushes the door open...
This self-glorification is by Pierce Davison. He received 51% in TEE English so you can email spelling corrections etc to spelling@davisonbros.com
Or you know, look at what's blathered rather than how its blathered. ps its blather.
