through the looking glass: July 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Lorna Thornber caught my life story gently in a butterfly net ....

HER business magazine New Zealand August 2010 issue

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

songs in the key...

having agreed to make a short film /music clip

and having decided to shoot it in stop-motion animation

and having realised today that I am already 2 months into the project and not one frame has been shot .....

...I thought it high time to mention what is going on...

to a stills photographer 2 months pre-production time sounds insanely long ...

for film it appears years are needed ... I have 4 months more
before finished product must be visible
tick tick tick ...tick.....tick...tick tick tickticktick...

(pick yourself up off the floor Mr Failsafe!)

*first step listen to the song a million times and read the lyrics

*second step interpret story - make alot of notes and scribbles for producer to make weird comments about ..try and understand that my weird scribbles don't translate to someone outside my brain

*third step design character - make a lot of sketches

*fourth step realise that you have to work out how to construct an entire workable puppet head from scratch, with moving eyes and eyelids that you can get to in the back of her head in a small set and move in tiny increments during a very long period of time...that wont fall apart during 4 months of filming

hmmmmmmmmmmm

well at least I have her eyeballs so far

Sunday, July 18, 2010

och a wee shooooooooow for insomniacs .....................August 2010

a new show

by candlelight

in the Scottish settler city of Dunedin

sheltered between the high cliffs and the harsh antarctic sea

curated by Larry Matthews

at the Lagniappe gallery

this is a group show featuring works only by pinhole camera ...

which I have been secretly working away on for 5 years ...

of my diorama pinhole polaroid collection I will show 6 images

camera oscura ..... the origins of photography

how to make a pinhole camera

always proposed to do an exhibition by torch or candlelight ,........
wonderful telepath that Larry ...!!!!

{lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery is a not-for-profit art space along george street in dunedin, new zealand behind mou very bar and above alchemy cafe. run by artist/designer/poet/magic

ian larry matthews it is open only when the sky is dark.