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Often about animating dust bunnies but with sundry other detritus along the way.
I'm hoping to make an animated film about sentient and occasionally mouthy household dust bunnies and their existential duel with a 1500 watt vacuum cleaner. The story’s a very serious bit of whimsy in the spirit of The Clangers, The Borrowers and Beatrix Potter's tales.
On Animation: From to eew to aww. Part 2 - Discount Store dust bunnies versus Ai
Strange how potent a bag of fluff, googly eyes and styrofoam balls from the discount store are. Strange how bad Ai is.
24 November 2024
On animation: From eew to aww. Part 1 - Dust bunnies are going to need a makeover
Sadly dust bunnies are unprepossessing items in the harsh light of day. For their animated debut they’ll need as much romancing and glamourising as modern technology allows.
23 November 2024
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What does your messy bedroom floor look like to a wee dust bunny?
There's a big, big, big world down here on the floor
01 March 2024
Dust bunny thwarters
Somebody must have been very hostile towards dust bunnies to go to all the trouble of designing and making these
24 January 2024
What to do when you don't know what to do next
As per bloody usual, the inspirational Muse is a no-show.
10 December 2023
Fluff and nonsense. The seed of a lovely but tragic idea
High whimsy inspired by the god of Wind
18 October 2023
Where the inspiration for the migrating dust bunny scene came from
The bit of footage that inspired a scene for the dust bunny film
08 August 2023
The author's instruments of dust bunny doom - a new addition
The SEBO AIRBELT D4 Premium Onyx Canister Vacuum
23 May 2023
Music to make hydrogen bombs by
Listen to the beautiful music as the Russians tell the story of a 50 megaton bomb being detonated over Novaya Zemlya in 1961.
09 May 2023
What are dust bunnies made of, and where did they come from? Part 2
A two-part investigation into recent advances in dustbunnyology and dustbunnyogenesis
17 April 2023
What are dust bunnies made of, and where did they come from? Part 1
A two-part investigation into recent advances in dustbunnyology
22 February 2023
Wind in the willows
In which I am captured by country animals and a pagan god
22 August 2022
The man whose horse became a spaceship
Tilting at horizontal-axis utility-scale wind-driven electricity generators
19 May 2022
A bit of the old ultra-violence
Through Dante’s hell to the bruising world of Tom and Jerry
03 February 2022
The Gathering of the a**holes
It's the most wonderful time of the year - the geese are leaving
09 November 2021
Dust bunny variants becoming a cause for concern
Mutant dust bunny numbers on the increase as domestic apathy continues
12 August 2021
Japanese art found on alien planets
It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to
French fantasy and science fiction comic book art collides with Japanese woodblock prints - and I only just noticed.
03 July 2021
The Canada goose - what an a**hole
Yet another airborne threat to avoid this Spring
15 April 2021
Dust bunnies in the time of Covid
Spring cleaning? Why, just why?
31 March 2021
The oddest song I've ever heard - gangsta rap from 1445
Villon Song by Stick In The Wheel.
Villon Song is a 15th century poem, a gangsta rap written by a thief, a murderer and poet. This 21st century remix uses crime slang from 1884 to tell why crime doesn't pay.
21 January 2021
