CrumpArt

This went down smashingly well in my assessment today. /happy dance

I’ve been working on it (on and off) all semester, with a lot of the shooting/reshooting and all the editing done this week. Apart from the traditional origami models, they’re all models that I came up with (although some were based on other models I found online and in books). I’d been staring at it for so long that I couldn’t really tell if it was any good or not anymore, so the positive reaction today was totally awesome.

Rated S for sadness.

Sadako’s Cranes origami stop-motion animation.

Also, I was showing it to a Japanese friend from uni today, when she noticed that the timecode was 4:44 — apparently 4 is the death number in Japan, because the word for four is also the word for death. Freaky!

You’ll need Quicktime 7 to play the movie…

I’m very, very sick of listening back to my own voice.

More tomorrow (or later today, it seems…)

Seeing as NaNoWriMo was the kickstarter I needed to get my art and crafting going again a few years ago (it gave me something to procrastinate over), and was therefore a major force in me getting this blog going, I totally have to do this…

Assessment is in a week and a half, and I need some volunteers. I’ve screenprinted sixteen postcards on my Alice in Wonderland theme and I want to send twelve of these out to a bunch of you, have you write/draw on them and then send them back to me. In time for the assessment.

I have nothing to offer to you for this favour except my undying gratitude.

My prerequisites for volunteers are:

1. You must be in Australia (I would love to send these babies overseas, but I just don’t have the time or the money).
2. You must be able to fill the postcard out and send it back to me straight away.
3. You must have met me in person at least once.
4. You must have an imagination.

Please leave a comment on this blog post (not on the livejournal syndication please — on the post at http://www.crumpart.net/blog/?p=328 ) if yr interested, and I’ll send you an email to get yr postal address if I don’t have it already.

Edited to add:
I have eight seven cards left to send out.

The top four search queries to find my site so far this months are…

bobby flynn
badges
pie fight
wayne coyne

Perhaps knitted Wayne and the pie need a Bobby friend, complete with the Stipe stripe?

Mr Crumpet just linked to this awesome animation, and as I was reading through the comments, I noticed this one. Possibly the most offensive thing you could say to anyone who’s just spent weeks and months and bucketloads of their time and imagination creating the things they love:

“as a classic rock fan I say….THIS ROCKS…maybe you could shop it around to classic rock radio stations for a TV commercial.”

O.

M.

G.

My day was already shitty, and then I caught the last few minutes of Australian Idol.

So long, Bobby.