Had a nice afternoon yesterday talking at the Apple Store at an event called ‘The Future of Animation’ (link might die at some point) which was part of the Rushes/Soho shorts Film Festival here in London.
Chaired by Mark Buchanan from ShortsTV, there was Matthew Walker, whose latest film is the extraordinarily charming ‘Little Face’ with Adam Buxton, Corin Hardy, an old-schooler who has just finished the excellent new promo for the Prodigy and Jonathan Privett who is head of 3D at the post production house Rushes.
I’m not sure if we got any further to defining what the Future of Animation is or might be apart from saying ‘cool things rock’ and ‘the future of animation is the past and the present too’.
And thanks to Alice and Chris at Nexus for putting me forward too.
Well, almost a week later but just an update on the Oxfam Trailwalk. WE DID IT! I say ‘we’ but the entire crew were Maddy (who got me into this mess), JP (Giovanna’s brother), Stuart and the Chad (JP’s mates), Phillippe (Giovanna’s husband), and Mike and Richard (Phillippe’s work mates). On support crew and who had to go through an equally torturous journey being awake for the entire ordeal and filling us with food, bandages and support were Giovanna, Siobahn and after stage 5 my brother Jerry who was a star to all.
It was very very long indeed, in fact you can see a rather undetailed map of where we went here but hopefully it’ll give you an idea of how far 100 KILOMETRES really is
The two teams split up early into the uber fit (Mike, Richard and Phillippe) and the mixed-bag (Maddy, JP, Stuart, Chad and me) and although Stuart had to drop out utterly exhausted at checkpoint 7 after abut 20 hours of walking and a hideous stage at night and Chad’s knee totally gave way between checkpoint 8 and 9 (and after about 25 hours of walking), Maddy, JP and I finished in 30 hours and 39 minutes (according to the official records here).
We were utter gibbering wrecks at the end and I haven’t slept so deeply for years.
Next year anyone?
This weekend is the 100 kilometre madness that is the Oxfam Trailwalk, the weather is expected to be like this…
…which is actually not that bad although the black cloud with two raindrops and a sun on Sunday looks a bit annoying to say the least.
If you still wanted to you can donate here but to be honest a simple kind thought on Saturday and a raised glass on sunday morning might be enough and MANY MANY THANKS to everyone who has donated already, you’ve been very generous and I am humbled by your support.
x
me