I submitted Terms of Service to this years Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival. Baltimore WBAL did a feature on the in-person physical exhibit at Area 405 and the festival, and TOS was used as b-roll in the segment. Really great!
The frestival was one day this year. I really enjoyed both blocks, and my favorite from the international block was Yummy (Director – Martinus Klemet from Estonia), Ducks (Director – AJ Jefferies in the United Kingdom) and Play Fight! (Director – Katrina Larner from USA).
To my surprise and utter delight, Terms of Service won the jury award for Best Animation in the Baltimore showcase! A winner!!!
I was given an Wacom Intuos Pro, and licenses for Dragonframe and TV Paint! I’m over the moon!
I am very fortunate to be included in this years Sweaty Eyeballs physical exhibit of works that pertain to animation. It’s at area 405 again this year.
As of this writing, I’m working on my next animation entitled Fishwife. The dioramas included in this piece are small studies.
I am very blessed this fall. My little film Magus Incognito is screening at Sweaty Eyeballs. And I contributed two seconds to the signal film once again. I was included in the Animation Adjacent exhibit, AND participated in the variety show with my daughter Lily.
Here are some scenes from the Baltimore Showcase Friday night.
On Saturday, we did grocery shopping, errands and took a hike. It was good we did, because we sat for several hours during the International Blocks 1, 2 and Miguel Jiron’s retrospective.
Sunday brought my artist talk at Area 405, two more blocks of screenings, and a trip to the art supply store.
As part of this year’s Sweaty Eyeballs animation festival, there was an in person physical-space showand a variety show held at the Area 405 gallery on Friday, October 11.
My initial impulse was to perform my piece 7:77. I had envisioned playing drums, bass and guitar while one of my animations projected behind me. My intuition decided this was not the venue for this.
I switched gears and decided to shorten it to maybe 5:55. I worked up a bunch of new animated material, but I still wasn’t sure. I talked with my daughter about it, and she said “Would you like me to do this with you?”
YES!
Since the physical work I have in the gallery relates to The Kybalion, I thought I might make a film connected to Magus Incognito and the physical work. It’s called ESP and other games, and without any intentional effort from me, it ended being 4:44!
Lily and I spent an hour playing on a couple of Sunday afternoons. I assembled a rough cut of the film to see how this could work.
We did two run throughs on Wednesday night at the space.
The night of the show, we arrived at 6:45 and set up for a 7:10 performance.
I had so much fun, and I am so thankful that Lily did this with me. It was a dream come true. The audience seemed to like the film and our audio. I am pleased with what we pulled off, and Lily has agreed to do this again sometime.
I began this whole thing in the pandemic – playing to film – and it feels so good to have done it in public now.
Here I am with Mr. Sweaty Eyeballs himself, my buddy Phil Davis!
And my long time musical collaborator, dear friend and Bazooka Joe bandmate Guppy was in town.
It was a very satisfying night, after several weeks of hard thinking and work. I’m looking forward to doing more of this.
Photos below (and the featured one at the top) by Lena McBean.
In partnership with Baltimore’s homegrown Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Area 405 Gallery hosts a group show, Sweaty Eyeballs: Animation Adjacent. Animation is an all-encompassing artform, embracing any medium and process an artist can come up with. Each frame of an animated film is an artwork in its own right, but when that artwork extends beyond the screen into the gallery, expect the unexpected. This exhibition highlights work by animators that finds its best home off the screen and outside the theater. Whether made during film production or as an adjacent practice, the artists in this exhibition expand their work through collage, sculpture, protocinema, projection mapping, augmented reality, and generative processing.
September 13, 2024 – Station North Second Friday Art Walk Opening Reception 5-9pm, FREE Opening remarks at 7pm
Join us at AREA 405 during the Station North 2nd Friday Artwalk to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
This is a small part of the cool stuff you can interact with at this show!
I was invited to present some work in the Animation Adjacent exhibit, which is part of Sweaty Eyeballs, and will accompany the festival (see Behind the Screens). I’ve been making physical work that is represented in my short, Magus Incognito.
Here are the dioramas and shadow boxes I made to support Magus Incognito, and my persistent fascination with the Kybalion.
