The Makers of Things
On-going series of short films documenting a lifetime of making things, from London-based director and illustrator Anne Hollowday.
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Annotating Interaction and Graphic Design, Creativity, Diversity, Highbrow, Lowbrow, Architecture, Art, Environment, Access, Datum, Research, Hunches and Stuff.
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- Jabberwocky by Jan Švankmajer (1971) Beginning with a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, and mixing ingenious stop frame animation with an eye for the macabre, Czech animator Jan...
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- Filmmaker Ed Emshwiller’s 1965 winsome short of ‘outsider’ artist George Dumpson’s backyard George Dumpson’s Place , 1965, an early short film by Ed Emshwiller. Music by Stuart Scharf, Jay Berliner and Bill Lee. In this charming ...
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- Listen to artist Grayson Perry’s fascinating talks from Playing to the Gallery: BBC Reith Lectures 2013 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry as his female alter ego Claire Grayson Perry , winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, delivers the annual BB...
- UK Radioplayer — UX/Design Guidelines Radioplayer is a partnership between the BBC and UK commercial radio , to provide radio audiences with easy online listening and to impro...
- New music: The Man Who Died In His Boat by Liz Harris’s Grouper Grouper (Liz Harris), Brisbane, October 2012. (via Flickr ) Liz Harris has a knack of creating stripped-down, unpretentious music that i...
- Music video: CFCF’s ‘Beyond Light’ CFCF, Beyond Light , 2013. Video directed by Derrick Belcham and Ruby Kato Attwood. Creative director Derrick Belcham and artist Ruby K...