Gosh, haven’t blogged on here since the beginning of December!
By mid Dec the kids were off school, so I was forced to take time out to play hostess to my Mum and brother for Christmas. I can’t say I envy all of you on here that have been blogging right up and over Christmas – do you never give yourselves a break??!!
Refreshed for 2012, I blogged here: http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.com/ about collaborations with Apparatjik.
I’ve made a few remixes in my initiation into becoming a pop/rock star (!) my favourite is probably Don’t Eat Brian Sewell’s Banana, which is less of a song and more of a sort of art critique:
http://soundcloud.com/apparatjik/00029-dont-eat-br…
Yesterday I re-edited this to reflect some news about Velvet Underground suing Warhol http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/warhol-foundation-in-bana_n_1200180.html but Apparatjik haven’t uploaded any new tracks yet.
For Christmas, someone bought me one of those crystal kits, with little cardboard Nordic pines and solution to grow crystals. This is forming part of the animation, but my printer seems to get through a lot of printing ink to print the starry sky for the set. i want it to be absolutely perfect before I even begin to animate anything, otherwise if I change something it’ll look wrong. And not in a nice William Kentridge fashion – it’ll just look Wrong.
Kurt (son) has a new laptop (from Santa!) and has put After Effects on it, so I hope to put the animation together using that, but am starting to wonder if I’ll manage to get enything even started (let alone finished) before the deadline, but plan to use one of my Apparatjik songs as the soundtrack.
It’ll effectively become a music video :-)
Meanwhile, my youngest son is finally being converted into a mad artist! He used to say he wasn’t a mad artist like me, but the other teatime he illuminated his kinetic wooden flag sculpture that he made in Design Tech with a bike light and videoed it along with sounds played with a stylophone.
I did not teach him to do that, he’s been annoyingly watching what I do and copying me. I should be paid the salary of a teacher, but I do not earn anything from these kinds of things, so I try my best to discourage him.
