happy international animation day!

 

saa siivettömät tyytyä maan kylmän kahleisiin

 

fransescon synttärit sekä leffaidean uudelleenlähestymistä

 Reapproaching the film idea after a break. I still like one detail.

more yellow birds

 

skrätsi skräts

 

I made a skratching animation test which didn't turn out great in movement, but I liked some individual frames. This was made with two layers of crayon color and black ink on top. I think black acrylic could work as well or better. I was inspired and guided (or ignoring the guidance) by two written thesises of EKA animation alumnis, Aspasia Kazeli and Silvan Zweifel. 

the abundance of apples

 

 

 

  

 

Trying to somehow catch the abundance of apples seen from my window. It's hard without color.

How to not try to draw everything?

 

This poor baby didn't fit to the scanner. 

  

 

Here is a picture my home table (or our table; as seen taken over by me). I took the photo because there's several things I like: Kristel visited with Elo the day before and brought flowers & grapes. There's a teapot gifted by my godmother. I was working with crayons on a shared tiny thing which I enjoyed. I had made colourful food and started a Wim Wenders book found from Mustan Kanin Kolo in Helsinki.

Now I've been sick with flu. 

How are you? 

vermehrt schönes

There is animation format I really like: small notebooks sponsored by Austrian Erste Bank. A new stack was recently gifted and brought to me from Vienna (originating from Waltraud in Tricky Women's office, transported by David - danke schön). It's a nice notebook with a thin paper working like onion skin. Occasionally, the pages have aphorisms on beauty. Also a Bipa (cheap cosmetics shop chain) bag has an aphorism concerning beauty. Is this an Austrian thing?

 

The notebook in question.

my German skills are so lousy that I can live oblivious about these deep thoughts.

This animation was so "long" that it consumed two notebooks.

 

 

I have to admit that Bipa has a very good shampoo for sensitive hair.

 

passio

 

  

 

näen pyörteitä vain

  

 

pyöräretkellä sannin kanssa

 

ei maltsunkaan suu ole tuohesta

 

la notte

 

anibar faces

I was invited to be in the jury in Anibar, Peja, Kosovo, from July 12th to 19th. It was hot, warm people, loads of feta cheese and rakia and roasted bell peppers, films in open air, and a lot of trash and street dogs and memories of the recent war. Best thing was a puppy dog up the river in the swimming place. I didn't meet any cows, despite the high expectations. There's nothing wrong with traveling except for all the flying and polluting and being an idiotic priviledged tourist who should have never left home. I send my hopes and prayers for that god damn long Rail Baltic project.

Me waiting for the Rail Baltic.