My YouTube Channel (2024-2023)
Autism and The Arts: I have started a YouTube channel, and will add pages with links as the situation develops. Although autism is in the title, most content will not deal specifically with this topic.
Original content for this channel includes new animation projects, as well as a quartet of animations re-released from circa 2013. The new stuff is packaged as YouTube Shorts.
One may view my YouTube venture as yet another attempt to extend the reach of my neglected website. Last Update: 4/22/24
Converted Video
Original Animation Archive (2009-2008): Original Flash SWF animations are here converted to html video. As minor works, they should be viewed in the small format for which they were designed. Films are grouped in twos and links are provided below. Last Update: 10/05/19
Dung Beetle | Grocery Gawkers
Bird Song | Because I Wear Johnny’s Class Ring
The Gibberer | Saucer Invasion
The Snowy Monopole
Animated Gifs (2008)
Loose Ends: A few more SWFs, although here turned into animated gifs. These may be described as glorified flipbooks.
I intended to make a fair number of animated gifs as calling cards, but the era of animated gifs was even shorter than the Planck Epoch that followed The Big Bang. It was perhaps their overuse as emojis in office emails that doomed them. Last Update: 5/05/13
Experimental Covers It: It is understandable why Walt Disney hired an army of animators to do his heavy lifting. One could devote the labor of an entire life to making a single short animated film—and it may not even be that good as a first film.
My animations, presented here, combine original art with modified imagery from other sources. These works are admittedly low tech, dirty workarounds in a medium dominated by CGI and professional animation studios, but it is work in which misanthropes should be encouraged.
Finding ways to make snippets of images and strange sounds interesting is what lies at the center of these films. The less time the viewer has to see something, the less they are able to process it. Similarly, I sometimes split the narration from its animation, whether as text or an audio file, and then run them consecutively. Consumers of this information must cut-and-paste meaning from imperfect memory. Invariably, it is a salad.
Mystery lurks in nooks and crannies. You just missed it, or saw only a part of it, or got part of it backwards. We revisit material where we have questions; and where there is no better answer, we are forced to step away with most of what we encountered left inscrutably intact. For some, these are acts of abandonment and frustration. For others, it is a brush with their own mortality.