Grizzly Bear’s new music video, by Allison Schulnik, is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. It’s so beautiful, strange, and haunting..
Dallas Clayton created “An Awesome Book!” The story is universally appealing and brilliantly illustrated. The way Dallas has promoted the book is also incredibly inspiring:
“With a traditional publisher, you go to stores and you try to read the book to audiences to sell it to them. Since I did this all myself I can do whatever I want. My idea was to read the book to as many kids as I could and for every book that I had already sold I wanted to give one away.”
You can read the whole book here.
1. The Seed (2009): “a two-minute animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.”
2. Procrastination (2007): “Graduation film for MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. An investigative and exploratory hands–on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things ‘off’. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.”
3. Shelly (2007): “the story of a lobster with a new-found love for music” based on a short story by David O’Doherty.
More Johnny Kelly:
Making of “The Seed”
mickeyandjohnny.com
Johnny Kelly on Flickr
Johnny Kelly on Vimeo
Cleaning out my old room in my parents’ house in New Jersey, I found a folder of poems and short stories I wrote when I was in the 3rd grade. Ms Bopp corrected a few spelling errors and marked them with checks and stars. I uploaded a bunch of images of them here.
Make a key.
Find a lock that fits.
If you find it, burn the house
that is attached to it.
-Yoko Ono, 1964 spring