Recently I discovered the music of Ólafur Arnalds who is a musician hailing from Reykjavík, Iceland. I instantly fell in love with his Eulogy for Evolution album and while listening to it I found myself seeing images from the film I made for the Twenty 120 project – Left Unsaid. Left Unsaid is a very personal piece for me and something I have fought internally over for sometime.
Originally the piece was designed to have a score and after a number of variations I cut it to the soundtrack of Hecq’s I Am You from his Night Falls album, but because I had talked alot with Ben (Hecq) while he was writing that piece and understood his reasons for it somehow it felt slightly wrong to use it. Just before I released Left Unsaid we were in the hotel at the Flash on the Beach conference and we realised that the film was more powerful by purely isolating the voice over thus creating a very lonely piece which is one of the main themes of the film.
I struggled with this decision for sometime and although I do love the original version a part of me has always wanted to have a score to it so after hearing the recurring theme to Ólafur Arnalds’ Eulogy I wrote to him asking whether I could use the track 00:40 as a score to the film as it worked so well. I’m honoured and thankful to say that he agreed! Now although I don’t particularly view this as a definitive version but I do love the idea of this as a counterpart to the original which is slightly more accessible for those put off by the intensity of the isolated voice over. Check it out here anyway and let me know what you think. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.
March 10, 2009 at 12:02 pm |
Finally the interview (in two parts, part 1 here and part 2 here) with DigUp.tv that myself and Chris Hewitt did as Devoid of Yesterday back at the OFFF conference in Lisbon last year has been released online! Its all a bit out of date now and I can remember being totally burned out at the time after flying in from a 5 week stint in New York at DK and then was still frantically editing the Lisbon OFFF title sequence while stressing Chris out who was yet to grade and add titles to it so be kind if you leave comments!
March 5, 2009 at 3:59 pm |
Just finished work on a sequence for Director Stephen Cooter’s Horizon show entitled “How to Survive a Disaster” which screens next Tuesday, March 10th on BBC2 at 21.00. The sequence I worked on is all set within the official Death Statistics office and the motion tracked graphics reflect the data they record and speak about. If you miss the show next week and are based in the UK you can catch up using the BBC iplayer app!
March 4, 2009 at 1:38 pm |
Jon Mills of Beautiful Waste recently contacted me asking if it would be ok to create his own score to Left Unsaid. I said yes and his interpretation of the piece is up here! Original version here.
March 3, 2009 at 5:13 pm |
The blog is back up and running after a short period of down time due to it being over run with spam by hackers (hence some posts got deleted). Many thanks to Chris Bush for sorting it all out and updating everything for me! Expect some updates in a week or so but in the meantime have a quick look at this latest photo set over at Flickr!
February 24, 2009 at 4:02 pm |
Last night saw the airing of the second show of Horizon this year that I have worked on. “Can we make a star on Earth” (view here if you are in the UK) featuring Prof. Brian Cox and directed by Gideon Bradshaw featured a number of graphic shots including some 5fps sequences shot in London to match some scenes shot in San Francisco. A bit different from the usual motion work I do for the BBC but an interesting watch all the same. Keep an eye out for a third program to be aired during March this year.
February 18, 2009 at 11:57 am |
This Friday I will heading North to the city of Leeds to give a short presentation on my work at a Screen Yorkshire event! More info can be found here.
January 20, 2009 at 11:45 am |
When I first started out on my own working under “The Ronin” one of my goals that I set for myself each year was to be recognised by one of the design industries leading publications – Creative Review. Now 8 years later (after a brief flirtation a couple of years ago with being nominated for one of the Creative Future awards until they realised I was over 30 years old!), I have managed to get a paragraph and image in an article on Flash on the Beach for my work on the title sequence! Thanks to Andy Polaine for the kind words!
December 11, 2008 at 12:25 pm |
A little bit late with this news but recently Computer Arts Projects (Issue 117) was/is a Motion Graphics issue and luckily I have been featured across 7 pages for my work on title sequences for both the Webby’s and the Flash on the Beach conference!
December 4, 2008 at 1:06 pm |
Illustration for the upcoming issue 183 of .net magazine for an article on the next generation of Social Apps in particular focusing on “the Sekai Camera” which is an application for the iphone that lets you tag images that you see through the camera!
October 24, 2008 at 11:00 am |
