FFFIND// Experimenta Utopia Now

INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART @ The Carriageworks Everleigh

11 - 16 October, Monday to Saturday (closed Sunday), 10am - 5pm

FFFIND// Ode to motionographers

After watching this piece, i felt a warm tingly feeling from knowing i wasn't alone in this world in motion. Thank you all!

Gettin' Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too)

Money Money Money - "Gettin' Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too)" from Brad Chmielewski on Vimeo.

Production Company: Daily Planet Productions ltd.
Music: Money Money Money (myspace.com/​karatekickthegame)
Lyrics: Money Money Money & Jon Adler
Producers: Jon Adler, Brad Chmielewski & Vanida Vae
Director: Jon Adler
Director of Photography: Aaron Hui
Camera: Aaron Hui
Animators: Brad Chmielewski, Vanida Vae, Jon Adler, Jess Donofrio, Scott Pellman
Rotoscopers: Maeve Price, Anne Rooney, Drew Kordik, Shawn Sahara
Editor: Maeve Price

FFFIND// Market Eggs

Nothing better on a saturday then picking up some fresh market eggs. As coy as my fuzzy friends seems in the image below, just prior to the snapping of these pic she did have two of the woolly egg coasters against her chest, visually depicting our collective cup sizes.

The creator of these delicate delights boast the quality of her product. All made from 100% wool and will not burn if you set fire to it. Her strangest order yet...... a bacon scarf with a fried egg nestled onto the end of it.

Oh the inner west insight around every corner. Pick yourself up some woolly bits Saturday morning at Glebe markets.

WORK// Are You With Me? The Potbelleez

An unexpected encounter with The Potbelleez by an elevator today reminded me of the music video i worked on with Brendan Cook & Darryn Rogers whilst at PictureDRIFT. The extremely digital labour intensive clip had the three us entranced by the sweeping colours for weeks after delivery.

FFFIND// Coalition of the Willing

Coalition Of The Willing from coalitionfilm on Vimeo.

‘Coalition of The Willing’ is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social revolution, ‘Coalition of the Willing’ makes a compelling case for the new online activism and explains how to bring the fight against global warming to the people. As the film tackles the subject of online activism, we decided that the logical home for ‘Coalition of The Willing’ is here online. Between the start of February and the beginning of June 2010, Coalition of the willing was released in sections onto this website. Groups of sections were released roughly every 2-3 weeks, with the final completed film going online at the start of June. This un-conventional release strategy allowed us to build and engage with an audience whilst the film itself was being made. “coalitionfilm” has now become an online environmental brand in itself, with contributors Tweeting and Facebooking every day about issues discussed in the film; environmentalism, open source culture and swarm politics. See the links above to follow coalitionfilm.

http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/

WORK// My friends in folly

A few from the 'V' team.

WORK// Face painting

Just before Plummeting head first into an epic design & animation job that will suck the life & spirit out of me..... i spent 50 bucks on face paints coaxed my models into trusting that it was artistic & i got to deface their faces. The best part is.... I can call it work.
Photography by Robin Sung

Beard by Ant

PLAY/REVIEW // Splendour In The Grass

A splendid affair indeed. There is certainly something awesome about being at a place for 4 days with 33,000 other people who, like you, have nowhere they would rather be in the world. You’re all on the same schedule and mission.

From the get go it was a surreal event. I arrived at the airport, having culled my belongings down to bare essentials I realised, just as I was checking into my already boarding flight, I had left my ID at home. PURE MAGIC & fudging great people resolved the seeming buzz threatening revelation.

The shuttle bus ride from Bris Vegas airport to woodford was yet another remarkable event. A coach filled with like minded music enthusiast on a trip that is meant to take 45mins hit traffic along the single road in to the event and lasted for an entertaining 4 hours. Our driver (the dad-like comedian) made the ride easy and offered us a more financially viable form of entertainment by playing his harmonic for us. People on the road ditched their vehicles and took to walking in a Woodstock-esk manner we were past by musicians carrying instruments on their heads, couples strolling as though they were the only two people on earth and a dog.

Half the Titanic later, we arrived.

It was on….Treking across two massive hills from tent to festival grounds, establishment of safe place (just in case we loose each other). Continuous drinking of mid strength beverages from midday till the wee hours. Dancing 2 inches deep in mud. The running between one incredible act to another. My favourite parts were one the 5 minute conversations with complete strangers, its funny how much people will divulge when they know you are not likely to ever meet again.

Musical highlights? Its fudging hard to tell. Loved Grizzly Bear, always carve up a storm to Cloud Control, Florence is incredible, Miike Snow, Hot Chip & Goldfrapp had the crowd unite in a dance frenzy. Jonsi- euphoric. Tame Impala – Intensely hallucinating. The Strokes- trip down memory lane. There is soooo much more, the worst part about this line up – it was so awesome that it broke your heart as you couldn’t physically be everywhere.

Another incredible part of festivals are the number stories that evolve at once. In this case 33,000 different outcomes from the same time, same location. Mine? In a nutshell?....... Epic journey. An encounter with an old belt and an elbow touch. Dance, dance & drinking in different arenas, with different people. A visit to first aid (for a friend). Blinking tree heads. Tent meetings. Monkey man. A massive sensory explosion..... Lets face it, I have no final words. All I know is that i returned to work more zen than a sloth being hand fed at the zoo & days later I am still recalling some fleeting moments.

PLAY// I swear he yelled my name

Strolling with a friend through Surry Hills........... and then we were late for dinner.

GTGo// Underbelly Arts Festival

This is one of those events that proves Sydneys art & culture to be alive & kicking. (Take than oh wondeful Melbourne!) The Underbelly Arts Festival running from the 8th-17th of July opens the doors to The Lab (artist studios) around the Chippendale area that are usually closed to the public.

Along side studio tours are an array of sensory stimulating events, installations, artworks in progress, film, sound art & projection, performances, dance, puppetry & interactive exhibitions. Some events are freebies others need some pennies and pre-planning so check out the festival website for event info & tix.

image by I Can Draw You A Picture

FFFIND// Burger Shoe.... Its True!

it came to me via email.

The designer in me... INTRIGUED

The hung over glutton in me... ENTICED

The zumba® dancer in me... DISGUSTED

WORK// Arthouse Gallery / Anna Lochtenberg Williams

Again i was lucky to be invited to profile another wonderful local artist in her studio to promo her exhibition at Arthouse Gallery.

Working primarily with distressed and discarded materials, Lochtenberg Williams reworks and re-crafts painted wood, plastic and metal to create evocative interior worlds and landscapes.

FFFIND// Girls Suck at Video Games

I am not going to pretend that this doesn't bring out the feminist, african american women in me. "mmmmm hhhmmmmm, you heard me girlfriend!"

Design by Stephanie Mercier.

Sound Design by Benjamin Alves & Vincent Hazard.

Postproduction By DOKAN

Girls suck at video games / Les filles sont nulles aux jeux vidéo from Stéphanie Mercier on Vimeo.

PLAY/WORK // Caitlins Room - Mural WIP Timelapse

WORK// GPS at St Kilda

OH! My little love 'GPS' screens tomorrow night at the St Kilda Film Festival Opening. Written & directed by Sam Bryant, Art Direction and design by yours truely ;)

The production spanned over 5 shooting days in maze like locations, with torrential weather, bogged vehicles, emergency flares & psychotic sugar eating possums. But the end result? Totally worth it!!

PLAY/WORK // Caitlins Room

The beginnings of something BIG! For full details see L'atelier Made in Oz

WORK// BPay 'awesome time wasting'

And here it is! After weeks of research, experimentation & getting our hands royally dirty BEHOLD! our BPay spots that express 'Awesome time wasting'

Working with director Sam Bryant and a cast of many others my role was that of Art Director/Snail Wrangler/Beast Feeder & Cleaner/Animator & whatever else i could get my hands on.

BPay 'Snails' from viscious on Vimeo.

This one was loads of fun.... but fudging hard work. 4 days animating crates around an AWESOME house. Huge thanks to renown stop motion animator John Lewis.

BPay 'Crates' from viscious on Vimeo.

WORK// A GREAT couple days work

Again, nothing warms my heart more then a couple days away from the computer to get me hand dirty REAL DIRTY on a job.

Working with Director fine feathered Sam Bryant & accomplice in slime Dan Jackson we locked ourselves away in a dark room for over a week with hundreds of slime critters. Below is time lapse of the last couple days and just a touch of the mayhem it took to create the endframe of a job i will post up in a couple of days

WORK// Arthouse Gallery / Danelle Bergstrom

I was called up by a super, awesome friend of mine who works for Arthouse Gallery to help out and quick create a teaser for the latest works by Danelle Bergstrom.

Danelle let me into her painterly world and gave us an insight into the origins and inspirations that made up 'Symphony'.

WORK// Gluteus Maximus

Haha well.... this one always seems to make me blush. What can i say i am a romantic at heart.... i miss my little googly eyed parisian couple.

This is the trailer to the short animation i took part in. The film made it into to the 2009 Flickerfest festival has also screened at the following events 2009 Annecy International Animation Festival, the 2009 Revelation Perth international Film Festival & the 2009 Melbourne International Animation Festival. The film was written by the remarkable Mick Elliot, directed by Brendan Cook with illustrations and animations coming from myself & the dazzling Darren Rogers.

FFFIND// Macho Taildrop

A fudging fantastic Fuel TV film. Fingers crossed it makes it to Sydney

WORK// A good days work

Every now & again we are handed a fun-tastic brief that requires intense research & experimentation. A few months ago the concept for a giant paper plane fell from the heavens and into my heart!

And so the research began.....

Big thanks to Dan the man for his folding hand..... and Chris for his plane model critique & editing together a small section of the in-depth research spent on the project.

PLAY// a 50mm walk

Newtown / Erko on one fine eve

WORK// GPS short film - trailer

Short Film Trailer 'GPS' from viscious on Vimeo.

PLAY// Nepali Time

WORK// GPS short film

Meet one of my lost loves Thomson the leading kookie character in Sam Bryant's shortGPS. After a month off of work i returned to the funtastic news that the film had won 2 Flickerfest awards at the 2010 festival. My roles in the film was that of Art Director, Designer & Animator.... working under the direction of my fine feathered friend Sammy B. A massive congrats goes out to the editor, as well as the entire cast & crew that dedicated many long hours to bring the film to life.

"The Avid Award for Best Editing in An Australian Short Film was awarded to editor Mark Burnett, who edited comedy GPS, from director Sam Bryant and producers Andrew Morris, Lucas Jenner and Lawrence Foster. The film also won the SBS Television Award, with SBS purchasing the title for broadcast." Quoted from the Flickerfest website