I just directed U2‘s latest music video for the song “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. It can be seen below or by clicking on the following link.
The video has been given an exclusive premiere on Youtube.com, taking over the front page in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the US. If you’re not based in those countries it should be viewable very soon!
Credits: Directed & Characters Designed by David OReilly. Art Direction, Production Design, Concept art by Jon Klassen. Animation & Rigging by Chris Hutchison and Daniell Brown, with extra animation by Steve White. The video was produced by Colonel Blimp and made at Lumiere Studios in London.
I am speaking at BUG 14 in London on the 24th July, which is on at the BFI in Southbank, already sold out unfortunately! The show will be presented by Adam Buxton, who is one of the few people who helped me when I was starting out a few years ago. Here he is plugging me on his radio show a few weeks ago: (Adam & Joe BBC 6 Music)
After that I’m off to Thailand with my good friend Sam of Tokyoplastic to speak at Bangkok CG plus 2009. I think its on the 29th July… will check.
Anyone in Berlin: PSS is playing in the outdoor cinema at the Volkspark Friedrichshain on Friday 17th July at 9.30pm. Unfortunately I will miss it, but if you please take a picture and send it my way!
Here is one from the Annecy Ceremony last month sent in by Nobuaki Doi. The award was presented by Adam Elliot. That’s Henry Selick sitting under the tree!
The latest issue of the quarterly Objects – Journal of Applied Arts just got released. It’s a bilingual publication in German and English, you should be able to pick it up in Berlin and various art related bookshops around the world. You know, the one’s where everything is so expensive you end up just getting a postcard.
I contributed an extended article on the aesthetics of Please Say Something for it. It’s mainly adapted from my larger essay on animation aesthetics which I’ve given talks about over the last year or so, which for the moment will probably stay unreleased. Right now I’d rather practice than preach… anyway this might be of interest if you’d like to know more about the theory side of my work.
