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Is a workshop with Kate Matthews and I - over two weekends - 8th & 9th, 15th & 16th June - 11am to 4pm at SIGNAL. Bookings online.

Ever wanted to transform the world around you? Or transport yourself into an alternate reality? In this series of weekend workshops you will use traditional stop motion animation to do just that. You will create an animated version of yourself and transport into a world of your own creation. Will the world be as you see it or the world as you want it to be? You’ll build your background with collage elements and paper cuts using a multi-layered, traditional animation set up. 

Your old school motion graphics will be exhibited on the Signal Screens after dark.

This workshop will be held at SIGNAL, a creative studio for young people aged 13 to 20 years old. 
SIGNAL is located on Flinders Walk, behind Flinders Street Station towards Sandridge Bridge, Northbank.

Fruit Salad Music

Two weeks of Signal workshops were fun and exhausting. These photos from a day recording and playing music, robot drums, plants, fruits and vegetables with Dylan Martorell. This goes down as one of the best work days in my history.

I woke up the day after finishing with a sad summer cold. It has swallowed up my two days off and made work a little harder this week. Can't win em all.

Makers and Shakers

Just a last minute reminder, it's time to register for Signal 37 workshops, by Friday afternoon. Please pass this info to anyone you know who is 13-20 years old and may be interested.

Working alongside artist Dell Stewart, participants will make ad hoc rhythm instruments, flags, banners and costumes, including customised masks, capes, t-shirts, and more.

Playing with these elements in performance, animation and improvisation, participants will film in various locations around the CBD to create a music video work for the SIGNAL screens. 

A couple of things

So many things to tell you about, so little inclination to sit in front of the computer. I'll be brief. I am procrastinating about a drawing for the Platform fundraiser show. They have little to no funding for the moment and need all the support they can get. So many of my favourites contributing, there are sure to be some things I wish to live with – long live Platform!

Adam and I dropped works off for the Mr Kitly plant show. We were asked to make an object with a function related to plants, for the love of plant life. Both of these shows are opening next friday, the 7th of December.

Another thing I am working on is the plan for a workshop as part of SIGNAL 37 : Makers and Shakers. This is a free program for 13-20 year olds and I think it'll be wonderful. Registrations are open now for the 2 week workshop starting January 14th, so please pass it on to anyone who may be interested!

Amazing lightning show tonight. Other activities involve patching favourite jeans, admiring our roses, warming thedesignfiles open house, baking a birthday cake for Adam and picking strawberries and planting cucumbers and bbqing and sweltering through the last few hot nights. Summer is here Southerners.

Top o' the world

I have been hanging out at SIGNAL a bit lately. It's on the river, by the train lines, working with good people, on a good project. Lucky me! A good thing to remember when I feel this tired.

There are some great workshops happening at signal, and this exhibits some of the things made in the Urban Mesh Workhouse series. The works reflect on Melbourne through maps and cartography, re-imagining our city through visual art, video, sound and space. Artists involved in the workshops include Isobel Knowles, Eugenia Lim, Kate Geck, Rachel Jesse Rae O'Connor and me. 

My time-lapse is on the big screens after dark, and we stopped by tonight on our way home from ACCA to have a look. I love the four screens at once thing, though I didn't love editing four videos at once. Isobel's animation is amazing, ours is dinky, have a look if you are walking along Northbank at night. I will post some photos after the opening tomorrow night.

Trainspotters

Some time lapse shot during the workshop at Signal. Possibly only interesting to people who like that sort of thing. Time passing. And trains – the trains are nice if you like trains – I think I must.

Signal – Anyone know some teenagers?

Using the basic t-shirt as a starting point, artists Dell Stewart & Andrea Eckersley demonstrate a range of customising techniques to produce your own unique clothes: from cutting to sewing to printing to drawing to patching to plaiting to dyeing to accessorising. Bring a t-shirt from home or work with what is provided. No previous skills required.

Participants are encouraged to visit the artists' exhibition Triangle in Gallery 2 at Craft Victoria before or after the workshop between 10 and 5pm, 31 Flinders lane, entry is free.

Proudly presented by Craft Victoria in association with SIGNAL.
When: Saturday 15 May
Cost: $10 per person, bookings essential as 10 places only!
Please call SIGNAL on: (03) 96647900
Time: 11am to 2pm
Age: 12 - 19 years

Signal

The Signal projection windows are something I have liked the sound of for longer than they have existed. Now that they exist, they present multimedia work on the facade of the building at night.
As of tomorrow after dark they will project Brand. Identity. Strategy.
Adam Cruickshank ran a workshop at Signal for young people to experiment with and develop their own marketing slogan. From 19 April to 2 May, the results from this workshop will be shown on the Signal Screens, for all of Southbank to see.