“Walk” is an experiment using images from photographs I’ve taken over the years, animated on photo backgrounds. Photoshop and Premiere Pro were used, no After Effects and the like, which accounts for the rawness. My original idea was to have a live action character interact with a character animated in clay. Maybe next time.
In Taiwan
In some ways Taiwan was the Asian experience I’ve been waiting for. For a greater metropolitan size of nearly 7 million, there’s a relief in its order and its kindness. I was approached four times in as many days, twice for conversation and twice more with offers of help. Rachel then was a Taiwanese mother…
Tokyo Mem’ries
My first and only trip came and went in 2014, maybe a year earlier. That detail matters less and less, than the memories. Tokyo is a city I’m sure I wanted to live up to the fantasy, mine built mostly on recycled images: bird’s-eye views of pedestrian rivers, billboard neon and noodle bars, punk hair…
Cottage Life
Is something of its own. Is something to try if you think you might need it. Steeped in swipes and newsfeeds, it might take visits plural to fully enter into its lull and gear down. It is an escape though, when you’ve accepted its terms, that puzzling on the coffee table and following the arc…
The House of Usher (2007)
A Day in North America’s Oldest Theatre The pants come first. It makes sense. Once the street slacks are off and the pressed blacks are on, you can see yourself in the role. The shirt is pleated vertically, seven folds on either side like pairs of cloth ribs. White plastic buttons run the middle though…
YouTube Projects
I’ve recently created a YouTube channel with a few pieces, some assignments from my time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), some not. More to come. Addresses to individual videos and the channel itself below. Loco Emotive Pika Old Mill Stream Thumbdrive Donut’s Dream Cat Commute X-mas Hand My YouTube channel…
Cambodia
Cambodia is unforgettable for what it has and what’s been taken away. There are miles of the most vibrant pairings of earth and sky you might ever see. There are jungle licked temples that, more than any skyscraper, have the power to stun. There is horrifying education in the Killing Fields Memorial and Tuol Sleng,…
Hearts in Daejeon
The South Korean city of Daejeon, over a million and a half citizens comfortably and hopefully comfortable. Big number. With that many hearts there’s bound to be affection, for friends, for the magpie (the city bird), for tofu stew, for the streams that run north, for a sister city near you (Calgary, Brisbane & Uppsala),…
Halifax
What can I say about the hometown? It’s not really. I’m from Dartmouth, the undermentioned sibling across the harbour, the one that didn’t make the honor roll or the football team, I don’t know which. After the amalgamation in 1996, the municipalities of Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and Halifax County were dropped into a name-blender and…
The Two Towers
From the top you’ll see what’s in every brochure worthy of the name Busan: the world’s fifth largest container port, the country’s second largest fish market, and the layer cake of nature’s simplest ingredients of land, sea and sky. You’re in Busan Tower. Since 1973 it’s been here, guarding the southeastern tip of Korea’s Gyeongsangnam…
Colin Moore 