The Geekorium

My first clay-mation… if you could call it that.

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This is another movie I did a while ago with iStopMotion.

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This was the first stop motion video I created using iStopMotion, an excellent little mac program for creating frame-by-frame movies. I added the sound in Final Cut Express.

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I’m gonna start putting this stuff online, as it’s wasted sitting on my hard drive. It’s my blog - I’ll do as I like

http://burstofbeaden.com Home of Jon Klassen and very talented artist and animator.

I was catching up on my Channel Frederator (now only 11 weeks behind), and was thrilled by the simplicity and elegance of their 100th cartoon short - An eye for Annai (Episode 26).*
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This beautiful film is the story of little one-eyed Annai, a little fellow who’s on the hunt for a second eye. His journey takes him from tall mountains to the depths of the sea (look out for a tiny recorder rendition of the Imperial March - Darth Vader’s theme). How Jon has managed to pour so much expression into a creature with only an eye and a mouth is wonderful to watch.

This is animated film like it should be.

So I checked out his site (above) and found a lot of his work to be just as simply beautiful as An Eye for Annai. He’s put a widescreen version of the short on Putfile. Check it.

To my 3 loyal readers, sorry I haven’t written in a while. To be honest, I keep up with you regularly anyway, and you know all my news. And frankly, anything I think I’d like to share with the world gets covered in other blogs very quickly by a lot of people before I can anyway.

So on to my update:

• I have a new job working in a school. I already worked in a school, but this time I get to make the big decisions.

• I have a new Mac - my dad’s mini, which is very cool, but in vital need of a stick of RAM.

• I’m at my parent’s-in-law’s place - a very nice house between two little towns outside Adelaide, where Mil and I have been trying to recharge. While my Internet credit has suffered (my father-in-law doesn’t use it as much as I), we are appreciating the chance to stretch out in a house three or for times the size of our flat (and we aren’t even using a third of the house!)

• I purchased the 1949 movie serial ‘Batman and Robin’ and have finished watching all 15 episodes. It’s really fun, and I’m gonna take the time to write something on it soon. Until then, here is a little taste of how marvellous it is.

• I’ve got a few extra plans for my site (or my ‘NunnOne Network’ as I’ve facetiously called it). One is to create a wiki, where (in a genius moment of sheer egotism) Josh Nunn’s (and only Josh Nunn’s) from all over the web can write about themselves. Hehe.
  Edit: It’s done… kinda… When I’m ready to tell other Josh’s I’ll make an official post, but check it at Josh Nunn Wiki

• One amazing discovery I’ve made is that setting a text editor to default to Unicode line breaks and then forgetting can make a whole bunch of web-site files stop working when you upload them. I’ve set it to Unix line endings - now my .htaccess files might work properly…

• I’ve got my bookmarks to follow me around now, so no matter where I am, I can find that site quickly. You can check out my setup at http://bm.nunnone.com(site no longer active) - but you’ll only see my public bookmarks.

• By the way, does anyone want to give me money? I’ll take it… I’ve been eyeing off the new Intel Macs you see…

• Nothing else. There is no third thing… (my text based ‘Spanish Inquisition’ impression needs work I know)