Interview for Book Apothecary, Newcastle

Completed suitcase commission

 In Passing suitcase finished ready for exhibition at the Hancock Museum, Newcastle and the Stephenson Works, Newcastle.

'Traces' project suitcase for Book Apothecary

Viewfinder

Suitcase progression

Cards Cut 

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Scoring and hole punching

Card Jig

School workshop in July

Lately I have been the planning an Animation Activity Day at Greenfields School - Newton Aycliffe. The workshop will be on 17^th July with a group of ten students. Encouraging participants to think about how they view the everyday world.

First we will animating a route in an outside environment using digital stills cameras; incrementally taking shots, afterwards learning to use Adobe Flash software to combine the stills.
After lunch we'll be recreating environments using CGI software Sketch-up and creating animations from these simulations.
The conclusion of the workshop will see participants with hybrid animation sequences including real/digital simulation; learning two animation techniques and two software programmes.

Building framework+components

Framework materials

In Passing /Work in progress

Test animation cylinder

In Passing /Designs

CAD Model

Framework

 

Book Apothecary - In Passing project

http://www.bookapothecary.co.uk/

A suitcase holding a set of mechanical animations operated by turning a handle on its outside. The animations are made from films and animations shot from moving view-points. The multiple groups of image sequences derive from films that are taken of environments seen in passing; on foot, by train and by road. Still images are extracted from these films then bound onto cylindrical drums using book making techniques. 

The image sequences become animated when a handle is turned on the outside of the suitcase rotating the drums. Taking inspiration from early kinetic animation machines and reworking their form and subject.

Using animations related to moments of direct visual encounter and with manual control over the passing of time this work is concerned with ideas of visual interest, self-regulated subjective experience and the role of viewpoint to the formation of understanding.