Eyeworks Experimental Animation Festival this weekend!

I am so honored and excited to be invited as the festival guest to Eyeworks this year! Look at this FINE poster! Even the poster is animated!
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2011 Poster Trailer from Eyeworks Festival on Vimeo.
Festival Trailer:
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2011 Preview Trailer from Eyeworks Festival on Vimeo.

http://www.eyeworksfestival.com/

The Learnings of Show...

Jen at Commonwealth Skateboarding posted a little write-up HERE about the 'Learnings of' show... Thanks to Commonwealth Skateboarding for inviting me to do this showcase and also to everybody who came out to see it!

 

Quick & Dirty Animated Exquisite Corpse

This is my end frame for the Quick & Dirty Animated Exquisite Corpse project.  You can visit their site to see the other transitional frames.

Tonight! Here in Portland, OR...

HOPE TO SEE YOU!

Daydreaming Animal

New paintings for sale now at Grass Hut!

 

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Big and rad art show in Portland tomorrow night!

Got some last minute art in this exciting show that opens tomorrow night. The paintings are leaving LA on a plane this evening to arrive just in the nick of time! Paintings as fresh as farm fresh eggs! If you are in Portland, hope you can check it out. Wish I could be there.

Support Poler!

My friend Benji started a really fine company to support outdoor adventure making times.  The Poler one man tent is now available in the Poler Store! Click this photo to be taken to Poler’s first ever special offer. Just 150 dollars gets you the tent and a Free sleeping pad along with no tax and free ground shipping. They will be releasing different products every few weeks for a limited time, all the while building towards the launch of their full line up of camping stuff. Check them out!

Special screening in LA tonight!

FLORESTINE COLLECTION SCREENING
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
Saturday, June 18, 8 pm

Florestine Collection by Helen Hill and completed by Paul Gailiunas

also featuring the following films by friends.
I am honored to have one of my films included!

Inside the Weeping Volcano by Trixy Sweetvittles, sound by Mahalchick
Superliner by Julianna Parr
The Telephone by Cosmo Segurson
Winter by Mar Elepano
Talent by Lori Damiano
Returning by Nancy Jean Tucker, music by The Bedroom Walls
The Collagist by Amy Lockhart

manhandles

 

For sale at See See Motorcycle Shop

Come out this Friday to support SEE SEE's Grand Opening

Friday June 10th at 5pm
633 N Tillamook
Portland, OR  97227
BBQ & Cold Beverages will be in attendance along with some art!
I am making some things to put on the wall right this moment.
Hope you can make it!

Florestine Screening This Saturday!

 I have been helping to organize this screening which is taking place this Saturday!  Please help us spread the word about this special event by forwarding or posting about it.

Hope to see you there!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Slain New Orleans Filmmaker's Voice and Vision Resound in Animated Documentary

“The Florestine Collection,” by Helen Hill, completed by Paul Gailiunas

Hollywood Theatre

4122 Northeast Sandy Boulevard

Portland, OR 97212

June 4, 2011

7:00-9:00PM

Award-winning animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an elderly seamstress.

Before Hill could finish the film, Hurricane Katrina flooded her house, the dresses and the part of the film she had completed.  Tragedy then struck again.  In 2007, Hill, then 36, was murdered and her husband, Dr. Paul Gailiunas, shot while protecting their child.

Gailiunas survived and vowed that Hill's final film would not go unfinished.  Now, four years later, Gailiunas has completed “The Florestine Collection.”  The film begins with Hill's story of the amazing treasure trove of dresses and weaves into it the heartbreaking and, finally, transcendent story of Hill and Gailiunas' life before and after Hurricane Katrina and their unique artistic partnership.

At the center of “The Florestine Collection” is the magical, do-it-yourself animation style characteristic of Hill's work.  Her extensive body of work has earned her wide renown in the animation and experimental film world.  In 2004, Hill was awarded a Media Arts Fellowship Grant by the Rockefeller Foundation for her achievements in film.  Her work has been featured in several film festivals of note, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival.  In 2007, Hill's alma mater, Harvard, established The Helen Hill Collection, features 16 millimeter prints of ten of her films.  In 2009, the Library of Congress selected her film “Scratch and Crow” for the National Film Registry. 

Gailiunas has been intimately involved in Hill's filmmaking.  A musician in calypso bands including Piggy and The Troublemakers, he has contributed music to a number of Hill's films, including “The Florestine Collection.”  Hill and Gailiunas have also co-produced short films and co-written songs.

“The Florestine Collection” captivates viewers by capturing Hill's and Gailiunas' determination to overcome an almost unfathomable adversity.

The screening will also include two other films by Hill, “Tunnel of Love” and “Bohemian Town,” plus a few other shorts by Hill's friends and local Portland filmmakers, including Lori D. and Benjamen Popp.  Along with the films, a vegan bake sale will also take place before and after to raise money for the theatre rental as well as to help support Wee Pigs sanctuary in Columbia, SC, where Paul and Helen's pot bellied pig, Rosie, now resides.

For more information on "The Florestine Collection" and Hill, see  http://helenhill.org

Limited Edition Prints available through Hungry Eyeball

"Hags of the Mist"

11" x 17"

Signed giclee print on archival paper

Limited edition of 100

$45

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"Nailed It"

8 1/2" x 11"

Signed giclee print on archival paper

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This Friday!

CHILI COOK OFF!

Center for Cartoon Studies

Big thanks to everyone in White River Junction who came out for my little presentation and who helped me defy gravity!  If you aren't familiar with the Center for Cartoon Studies check it out here!  They've got a beautiful thing going!

Rubber in the Spirit World

 

Thanks everybody who came out to the show in the wild rainstorm!

NYC Art Show this Thursday!

'Tendencies'

Sean Morris & Lori D.

Thursday March 10

6-9pm

Bold Hype Gallery
547 W 27th St, 5th Floor

New York, NY 10001

Hope you can make it!

TONIGHT! The ONE Motorcycle Show

Don't miss out if you are in the regional proximity of Portland tonight.

I've got some art in this motorcycle show but paintings are but a sliver of what will be showcased in this evening's festivities.  Please visit the site for more info:
http://theonemotorcycleshow.com/

POLER STUFF

An old standby has been made into a new T-Shirt by the new camping and adventure company POLER.  They make good kits for wandering.  Check em out!

VISIT POLER

Tell the teens!

It's that time of year again.  CSSSA application time.  Tis a majestic anomaly.  The very rare government funded youth arts program known as the California State Summer School for the Arts is currently accepting applications for the 2011 summer session until February 28th.  This program is life changing for the teen-aged aspiring artists of every discipline.  Please visit the CSSSA site below for more info if you know of any youngsters who might benefit from an intensive summer arts school that will also be one of the most wonderful communities they will ever find themselves in.  Click on the image below to visit the site.  Thanks for helping get the word out to those who might not otherwise know it exists!

For Yoni

My friend Yoni put together a neat show where he invited people to paint on this lightboxes he built out of old drawer frames.  I think the show is still up at Valentine's in Portland, OR.