We went up to Montreal to the bookfair up there, which was hectic & fun & energizing & exhausting all in one swoop. I was so busy within the bookfair itself that I forgot to take pictures. My favorite part of the experience was learning how to talk about our newest graphics campaign that focuses on the MesoAmerica Project of globalized industrial expansion and the grassroots resistance to that. It's an overwhelmingly big topic and I have a lot to learn still. But I was able to get the basics down while I was there and have some great conversations about it with folks who came through our "booth".
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| this is an abandoned train station that we stopped by on the way up to Montreal. Explored it just from the outside. |
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| this is the group house that we stayed in. Thats Matt sweeping. He's an long-time Bee that I live with here in Machias. 16 people live in this house in Montreal and 10 of us crashed there for 4 nights. The hospitality was lovely. |
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| I went across the border between the US & Canada 4 times in one weekend. This pic was taken after about 2 hours of sitting in line, switching off and on the car to save gas. Oof. |
When we got back to Machias (after a meandering 12-hour car ride back from Montreal), we ran full speed ahead working on our next Kickstarter campaign. The Beehive needs to fundraise bigtime in order to get $ to print the next run of posters for this MesoAmerica campaign. The kickstarter is going to hopefully do that, as well as feed into a bigger film about the Beehive and its history & where we are going.
My role with the kickstarter this week was to create an animation that is, this very moment, being photographed for a stop-motion animation! I hand drew a seed cracking open and growing into a flower. Never have I ever done an animation before. Now's a great time to start!
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| This is the very beginning of the animation. See the seed at the top left? Each line develops it's growth more and more. In the end, I think I drew about 550 frames, which ends up being between 30 & 50 seconds, depending on how the editing takes place. |
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| Light tables are a wonder. |
This project of creating the drawings ended at 2am this morning so that it could be photographed today. I'm crossing my fingers that it looks good. I'll send out the link to the final once I have it. That should be in less than a month.
So, that's about it for now. I have lots to do, but I'm trying to chill out so that I don't burn out. A slow burn is more useful that a spark if you're trying to boil a stew. ....haha
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