the idea: animate one of the spoken word poems from Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something

As an abstract oil painter, drawing animation is about as far from my artistic comfort zone as you can get.  However, I guess that’s the point of school.  For my final semester, I’m taking a class called Power of the Image in which we have discussed and created our own animations.  For the final project one of the options was to animate a poem and, of course, I thought of the poems that I had written for Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something.

The following video is an animation of the last poem in my book which more or less sums up what the rest of the book is about.  Also, I couldn’t help but put a plug for my extremely exciting book launch on June 1st!