Caesar ‘ad some jam for tea

I haven’t updated this for a little while, and I’ve built up a back­log of things to write about

Things I need to write about:
Brighton Zine­fest (I’ve got a whole heap of photos to sort out)
Typic­al Grrls II
Univer­sity Work
Oliv­er Post­g­ate Book
I’ve also got a whole load of films I need to scan.

I’ve been spend­ing the last few days cutting out silhou­ettes and making wax-resist paint­ings for Moogie Wonder­land. It’s going to be some anim­ated films on the life of Caesar, and also how to tell your fortune via liver or bird. I need to do this stuff for uni anyway (well, not really need, I don’t have any set projects, more like should, or prob­ably more like might as well), and their theme this time is the Ides of March, so it fits. It’s good to have dead­lines to make me get off my lazy arse, but as always I go “Yeah! I want to do that! That sounds great!” and then about half an hour later melo­dra­mat­ic­ally think “Oh shit, I’ve got to actu­ally do it now! I’m going to be a horrif­ic fail­ure! I should just quit doing anything creat­ive and go back to being a receptionist/​junior accounts assist­ant! Woe is me!” and then end up doing whatever it was anyway because I don’t like to let people down. (With extra last minute perfec­tion­ist panic)

The anim­a­tion will be done with silhou­ettes, taking inspir­a­tion from Lotte Rein­i­ger, and the back­grounds are based on textiles. News­agent wax cray­ons + draw­ing ink. It’s one of those things that looks hideous in the origin­al (like bad 90s wall­pa­per), yet some­how scans better. Anyway I made a large pile of this sort of thing, with added colour vari­ations via photoshop. Maybe I won’t use all of them. Hope­fully I won’t feel inspired to throw anything on the floor and stamp on it.