4/26/2025: "For Immediate Release". Hard for me to believe that April 2025 is rapidly coming to an end. Not a thing you can do about the time that goes by! Maybe it would be helpful to not have a way to tell time? Another topic: some times I find Saturday or Sunday mornings to be the perfect time to listen to the music of Chris Smither. I've seen him perform once; hoping to see him again some day. ..Back to the topic of April 2025; the spring feel has been real and I appreciate that. Getting a good rain today I hear; it is needed! ..been working on a project for a while now; it's a slightly longer duration than most things I do ...so it takes some time ...and it takes some energy to stay with it (boy I'm enjoying knowing the code for italics these days!)... but I'll stick with it and then enjoy doing something else (probably not so time consuming or structured) very soon after. Anyway, I've been listening to this specific collection of Smither's while I've been writing this, and like most his releases, it goes down easy (maybe I'll listen to and write about John Martyn next time..).
4/19/2025: "Is There Something?" has been added to animations from 2024 ...it's just a lil thing; requires very little investment on your part. I shall note that there is the sound of a person (me) blowing into a trumpet making a sound on the soundtrack to "Is There Something?". Now, that trumpet sound may not be music itself; the attempt at music around it helps it fit in tho. But anyway it is the sound of someone successfully blowing into a trumpet and making a noise, and sometimes ya just gotta celebrate things like that. "Hey listen to me playing the trumpet" you (or in this case, "I") could say. And what will they say back? "Hmmm, I suppose you are right: that is the sound of a trumpet I suppose. It doesn't sound good, or it doesn't sound right, but yes I agree, that is the sound of you making noise, or maybe music, coming out of a trumpet". Now, if you've ever felt intimidated to put your mouth on a trumpet, maybe you'll now feel so empowered to give it a try?? At least that is the hope I have of relating such a string of nonsense as I have written above! Aside from that, my friend The Great Gambino has released a great lil springtime music just in time for that great springtime feel. Go listen now!
4/12/2025: It's great to say hello to the day that is in front of you. Here is "Big Race" from the year 2021. Quite a "narrative" in that one, if you can even make out what is happening during its brief duration. Funny to think of animation (or hand-drawn/time consuming animation of the sort that I do) as a medium in which to "improvise" with ...which is what I feel like I do sometimes, or that's the approach I'd like to take to it ..be "loose" with it. But you do have to sit with it all (the drawings, the sound, the editing) and make some "sense" of it all. Anyway, I could go on and on, about this and other topics. Oh, here is a track over in music called My Town from some time ago. I take a similar approach to music as I do animation (or at least sometimes?) in that the point isn't any kind of "perfection". What is the point? (note: boy I should learn the code for italics instead of using "quotes" all the time ..a simple thing to look up, but I'm not going to do it this second, sorry to say!) ...the "point" is:
I live/I have lived and this is what I have seen.. this is what I have wanted to see.. this is what I am trying to see.. this is what I have heard.. this is what I am trying to hear.. this is what I have thought..
Life is meant to be lived and observed upon ...and your perspective should be shared if you are comfortable sharing it (even if it doesn't have a "point" or doesn't make any "sense"). Anyway, some words for a day in April, the year 2025.
4/4/2025: Good Golly Miss Molly here we are in the month of April, in the year of 2025, and I have yet to say a word! Well here goes something: "On A Dark Night Etc" has here by, or hear by?, been added to the wonderful selection of animation on the day that was today. This was made in the year 2022. Funny thing is that I feel like this was made like 2 months ago! But, nope, not the case. Ya know, I never knew that this song was not a DEVO song (song and performance are amazing), but a cover of a song from this movie. Crazy. Some mysteries of life reveal themselves if you live long enough I suppose!
3/30/2025: "Why Do Such Things?" is yet another of the kind of things that I do - added to animation. Why? do such things indeed.. I should do more narrative animations I suppose.. something with more "thought" put into it.. Maybe.. I find it's easier to just have fun instead! Too much thinking involved with narrative or "story" stuff ...too much to worry over, and who wants that? Meanwhile.
3/29/2025: Another day of it not being April yet. Ya can't win 'em all! ..or You Can't Win 'em All. For the sake of humankind, "Ok - No One - Haircut", has been added to good ole animation.
3/28/2025: Before you know it, the month will be April. All you have to do is hang in there, for it's bound to be April in just a number of days that I am too lazy to count at the moment. Take 31 seconds, though, to watch "Take A Second" which was just added to animation a second ago. And I will mark this very specific set of seconds with the declaration that I am listening to this tune for the first time right now while I write this. Sure, I dig it, why not? And just like that (many seconds have actually flown by since two sentences ago!) now I'm listening to this recent Kim Deal album "Nobody Loves You More". Good job everyone throughout time and space for all the great music out in the world. All your work and creativity wasn't for nothing!
3/20/2025: New to animation is "Enough".
3/17/2025: Somtimes in the toilet of life, you must flush. Or, sometimes in the card game of life, you get a flush. And then other times in life you make an animation called "Wax" and then you put it on the internet and then put a coat of polyurethane finish on your kitchen counter top. I say: "do things because you must, for today is just another day to do things, because you must!" And also I say: "I saw the wax alien".
3/15/2025: Hey, hello, hi. New to animation is "I Got Video Hands and Video Feet and No New Ideas So.." and "Arrival Departure" both from the grand old year of 2023. These sorts of things used to just make themselves way back then. Just draw some pictures and let 'em go! Everyone was doing it! I remember it well. Those days can come again if we wish it to be so.
3/9/2025: More stuff from 2019 ("Exercise") and 2018 ("Nothing" / "Moreover" / "Feelin' Whimish Subaru Commercial") to animation.
3/8/2025: New to animation are some animations I did with works by R Stevie Moore:"Scented Candles" and "The Meeting That Couldn't Be". Find out more about RSM at his website or on his bandcamp.
3/7/2025: Animations of various sorts: "Hypnotize" and "Big Movie" from good old 2022 and "Window Blinds" from 2021.. also found at the usual place: animation. Windy outside today, cold too. How about that! A March 7th to remember, to be sure. Unrelated to anything drawing goes here:
3/2/2025: Added this animation "New Day" from 2021, to animation. I am thankful it is now the month of March. Unrelated to anything drawing goes here:
3/1/2025: Added "Dirt", "Day Off". and "Confusing Plot" to the animation page.
2/27/2025: Added only animations that start with the letter "Y" to the animation page today: "Yep, Thanks (1)", "Yep, Thanks (2)", "You Jerk!", and "You Will" .
2/24/2025: Added "It Continues" and "Holidears" to the animation page.
2/23/2025: Added a Music tab/page.
2/22/2025: Uploaded more animations today.
2/19/2025: Uploaded some animations today.
2/15?/2025: Here you can find the kind of things that I do.
