a promise is a promise

hihi i told you that i would upload the videos from my workshops. this is the first one, coming with eight months delay. i hope i have been able to embed it correctly. there are some problems with the animations and timing (and the mug being moved by mysterious powers at one point), but please remember it was a two-hour workshop!! and i quite like the light, which was helped by dear hubby and one fellow colleague, who i thank a lot...so here you go:

inside out from meric taylan on Vimeo.

voila! i'm waiting for you:)

yes, here is the poster. my workshop will take place during the 'animation celebration' from 1st to 4th december. what will i be doing? well, you'll have to come and see for yourselves:) the date and place might vary a little. during my beloved influenza, i had to keep at home, meaning i missed the last meeting on the event. i will update in a while. i'm excited!!! brrr.

edit: i changed the poster to fit the actual time and place. the university is maltepe, of course:)

observando

aagg! my puppets can't stand waiting for their time!! there is still at least a week for them to remain secret, so basically this is all i can give of them right now. but hey, i will inform everyone about the event. so that i can be even more humiliated if i can't make it. hehe. anyway, it is a two hour stop-motion workshop. i'm soo excited. here you can see that there is a lot of brutal painting going on, which, in fact i start to believe has not been a good idea. why oh why is there no undo in the real world?

i'm expecting you, too! please come! i'll upload my poster in a short while:)

a strange coincidence

what is the thing that makes me most jealous nowadays? check out coraline; the incredible stop-motion feature that gets stop motion to another... height? you know i'm quite crazy about stop-motion...i am even jealous about the super cool website. the film doesn't seem quite suitable for children, but it has a strange extra meaning for me:

when i was a small kid, i could spend ridiculous amounts of time just looking at things. i used to stare at the world atlas for hours, literally, just to imagine about being in a specific country. i was just memorizing the political maps which gave no information about the countries except for maybe the capital city and a bunch of smaller cities. oh and their block colors that meant nothing for the mappers but to distinguish one country from another.

well, another strange thing that i spent hours examining was my mother's button collection. she didn't collect them as a hobby, of course. they just accumulated over years in a plastic bag as spare buttons for sofas, shirts, skirts, trousers, jackets... so they were quite a sight to look at. i would sit down on the carpet and check their sizes, colors, textures, their sewing details... i would dream about this small pearlish pink one, then about that big green velvety one with a hole underneath... is that freakish?

anyway, the coraline movie is quite obsessed about buttons, too. which makes me feel happy in a weird way because i see i was not the only one;)

hope the movie arrives here soon!!