みやび流押絵 (Oshie Miyabi)

I went to my first Oshie lesson earlier in the month at the Oshie Miyabi School run by Mr Soho Konishi.

Oshie is an old Japanese craft which is kind of like collage made from Kimono fabric.

Konishi-San and his mother and all of the students were very welcoming.  This photo shows the finished product. It’s an image of two Japanese fans. Konishi-San did the prep work on it for me so it was not so difficult to complete.

You can read further about Oshie on the Oshie Miyabi School homepage:

http://oshie-miyabi.com/

I hope to use the craft of Oshie to create a stop motion film using Kimono fabric.

A short animation test based on oshie:

卯年 Year of The Rabbit (Exhibition Preview) Oct 2011

卯年 Year of the Rabbit is an exhibition of original prints by Rowan O’Brien.
Location:
Sole Luna Italian Bar, Shinsaibashi, Osaka, Japan
大阪府大阪市中央区東心斎橋２－１－１４ズームイン　１F

from Oct 2011

Update: photos of exhibition

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stopmotion test

A stopmotion video made of little pieces of cut up wood.

Screened at a.s.e gallery in Osaka

http://twitter.com/#!/ase_gallery

These two short videos were made by myself and Guy in the past few weeks.

We’ve been thinking a lot about stop motion recently inspired by eastern European animators such as Jan Svankmajerand Karel Zemon.

For the first video Guy made all these wooden shapes with his trusty band-saw then passed them over to me for some stopmotion trickery. It was fun playing around with the pieces he gave me.

The second video uses more paper-craft in addition to whatever stuff was at hand in the room. It’s kind of rough but serves as a test run for later projects.

Later we would like to incorporate animation with tactile sculpture in a live setting.

この2つの短いビデオは、最近私とガイが行われた。

我々は最近、そのようなヤンシュヴァンクマイエルやカレルZemonなどの東ヨーロッパのアニメーターに触発されたストップモーションについて多くのことを考えてきた。

最初のビデオの男が彼の信頼度を持つすべてのこれらの木の形をしたためバンドは、見た後、いくつかstopmotionのトリックのために私にそれらを渡す。それは彼が私に与えてくれた作品で遊んで楽しかったです。

二番目のビデオは、部屋で手にあったどんなものに加えて、より多くの紙工芸品を使用しています。それは荒いのようなものだが、その後のプロジェクトのために実行するテストとして機能します。

その後私たちはライブ設定で触覚彫刻でアニメーションを組み込むしたいと思います。

where is the cat?

 

Sculpture in Ice

I made this video last summer when my friend Guy gave me some of his stone sculptures to mess around with.

 

寺BOT

寺BOT is a creative group consisting of sculptor Guy Hirose, music producer T2R and animator, me, Rowan.

We got together this summer and have just been knocking ideas around so far.

Hopefully we’ll be starting a full project together this month.

寺 is the Japanese word for temple, pronounced ‘Terra’, so the name should be read as TerraBot. You could say 寺Bot  is a combination of creative tradition and modernity if that’s the kind of thing you like thinking about.

The video below came from me and Guy just messing around in his studio/house. The music is by T2R.

The next video has some of Guy’s old sculptures in it plus more T2R music.

You can hear more of T2R’s music here http://www.myspace.com/tech2rockers

I’ll post some more 寺Bot stuff here later.

Bakunin

“The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individua”

“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”

ART&MEDIA 2010

I’m showing three of my videos in the Art & Media exhibition in  Soho Art Gallery, Osaka this week. If you are in Osaka please come by and have a look.  It’s an interesting mix of animation, short film and video art.

Info from Soho Art Gallery:

“International Video Exhibition featuring the works of Rowan O’Brien, Omi Chen, Dabiz Molinero, June Pak, Jan-Philippe Thibault, Vinh Truong, Charles Éric Billard and Peter Guindon.

Live Multimedia Performance Saturday July 17th from 7PM featuring:
Charles Éric Billard, Gennaro De Pasquale, s l o n n o n, Akiko Igaki, On Furukawa, dexitalk (did A bib) and sonsen gocha bacco.

SHOWTIMES:
Tuesday July 13th through Saturday July 17th: 4PM and 6PM
Sunday July 18th: 2PM and 4PM.
ADMISSION: Free (donations are GREATLY appreciated)

For more information please call (06) 4394-7456.”

Thanks to Celio from Soho, a great gallery near Nipponbashi in Osaka. Link to his site below.

Soho Art Gallery

Too Many Rowans

I made this quick video in my room this afternoon because I was too tired to go out and do anything today after another night drinking chu hi’s.

Sketch Book

All the recent pages from my sketch book, whether good or bad.

Click on the image for a closer look.