Edwin's faithful chair

Well, I asked some of my friends if they had a favourite chair they sit on while playing their ukes and Edwin’s is a comfy and well-loved sofa with a happy-looking potted plant beside it. I didn’t draw the plant, nor did I include the cushions on the sofa, but I think I have captured the joy Edwin feels when he plays his ukulele on his sofa. I started out wanting to make a simple pen drawing on paper and colour pencils BUT it turned into this short animation and song. 

Words to the song: 

Edwin is sick and tired of giving lectures after lectures on how to effectively hide your feelings. 

“You don’t want your enemies to know your weaknesses,” the textbook says, 

“Your best weapon is pretence.” 

Edwin’s terrified at the thought of the world run by zombies playing nothing but zombie music. 

So he threw the old textbooks out of the window and said this to the whole assembly:

Sing like no one is listening 

Love like you’ve never been hurt 

Dance like no one is watching 

And live like it is heaven on earth 

Love your ukulele like it’s your best friend 

Spend time with it and let it sing 

Remember to share your songs with everybody 

And don’t forget to thank your faithful chair 

I play a baritone uke and sang. 

Now, if this is something you would like to commission me to produce for a loved one, drop me a message!

shark boy

 I renamed my clothes peg SHARK BOY.

Here is a song to celebrate the essential, multi-talented Shark Boy.

Image-making

an animation made in 2021

I had been listening to public speeches by Krishnamurti on Thought, Relationship, Conflicts and Image-making. When I made this animation I was thinking about some of the things he had said, which made sense to me. 

here is an excerpt on his lecture - 

Why does the mechanism of image-making come into being? 

Public Talk 3 Ojai, California, USA - 08 April 1978 

"So is it possible not to create images about the other? First of all one must realise that we do have images. Then to ask, how do these images come into being? We explained that, that thought in its very nature is a broken-up thing, a fragment. It's like a vase which is a marvellous thing and is broken, and a little piece of that vase thinks that it can put together the totality of life. So thought, which is born of memory, memory being knowledge, experience, thought is in its very essence the past, and so when you observe another through the eyes of the past you are not observing at all."

check out the full speech here https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/why-does-mechanism-image-making-come-being

they are all talking at me

 an animation I made in 2021 or 2022... 

Wil It Overturn?

 A video I made for a song by my friend Kelvin Tan.  You can listen and buy the track here https://open.spotify.com/track/0bJyDvqdeC5Zs2JFEOeVbc

I used some simple animations and monoprints to create this video.

freedom

the moon kisses me, and I kiss the moon

 

freedom

 

blood runs thicker than (2D animation)

 

image

 

lion girl cake

Cherries - 2D animation

a glass of water (2D animation)

i see the see sea (2D animation)

i see the see sea.
but is it the sea,
is it the sea, that I see?


moonbow.
crow cold.
secret-
nobody sees.

don't give up (2D animation)

touch me not - 2D animation

 

an animation in Teochew

self portrait as a picture hanger

A slide show I made with paintings, and an original song.

my face is a picture hanger with no picture my body is a shirt with four buttons my legs are made up of papery tablecloth from the sidewalk cafe I teeter like a yoyo- shoeless, with a little secret around my ankles flapping two saws as arms, that cut no one, but me

self portrait as a picture hanger