Still dark and cloudy. Loads of snow had been laid down during the night and tons of snow kept coming throughout the day. I went to film some of the swirling snow and fell off the boardwalk outside of the house into a metre of snow - at least it was nice and soft snow so it didn't hurt at all. I hope somebody saw me do it so they could laugh as hard as I did.

 

More experiments with maps, images and animation and story boarding.

   
Storyboard for short animation combining live and animated sequences. Drawings from animation experimentation. Pen line drawings from maps that were wet and painted over and shot frame by frame.

You will need Flash to view the animation.

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Another day of sorting out for schools workshops and filming work. Whilst at KIAC strange lighting descended at about 4 pm as the sun was going down. I tried to take pictures but failed to catch the eery orange light that fell on the streets and buildings. Some of the sky was electric blue but it changed so fast that I failed to catch it.

 

Potluck dinner at Karen's house for Dan, Laurie and Mario who will be leaving early next week. Then to Peggys and The Pit for some music and lots of drunkeness. You will be pleased to know lots of people were drinking shots and cocktails but not me. After last week of excess I decided to take it easy and watch everybody else get wasted this time.

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Christmas Bazaar at the school. Bought some stuff and then quickly ran out of money so had to get some more. Totally random picture taking on the way back from the cash machine but the colour of the dog and buildings really stood out against the cloudy sky and the snow. The Masonic Temple is clad in tin so all the intricate detail is tin moulded facade rather than brick or wood. Like a lot of the buildings in Dawson the tin gives it this strange temporal hollow grandure.

Bought some more Christmas gifts and hot dog for lunch which was a bad move = bad belly for the rest of the day.

Went to the library to find some more books and documents and did some more research on geology. Interested in the way the water seems to be the driving force behind most geological processes, shifting minerals, eroding land mass, building new areas of land, gauging out valleys in mountain ranges. After last week and working with sand and rocks to make animation work I will try out some water on sand for movement. I am not quite sure how yet but I guess I just need to experiment.

The students for the Youth Arts Enrichment Program were having a small exhibition with the work they had been doing throughout the week. Visited the different work at KIAC which was print making with Meshell, carving with Eugene Alfred at the Cultural Centre and mixed media with Val Salez at one of the centres behind Tourist Information. The work was all fantastic. I really liked the work produced by students with Val because it used loads of different materials and styles, mainly montage and collage. It seemed to be a good form for the students because they used magazines and cut outs which young people have an automatic association with.

Quick cup of tea to say goodbye to Eugene who is going home to Pelly on Sunday. He shows work all over the world especially in Switzerland. Because he has been to England he insisted on speaking in an English accent which is pretty funny when you hear somebody trying to do an impression of your accent. I have agreed with a few others that we need to have a vocab list of the different words that are Canadian and English so we can all understand each other a bit more - you would think it was easy speaking the same language but there is a wealth of different meanings for words (dinky being just one of them).