That Hand Film has been hot lately!

That Hand Film is all over the internet now and only recently did it get a ton of hits that over a year of my own hosting couldn't do.

Thank you Shira Abel and Aniboom


Thank you Laurence Asseraf and Dimitris Athos; directors of The BeFilm Underground Film Festival
That Hand Film on Babelgum

Thank you Casey Safron; director of the Animation Block Party
Taxi Guy: Jelly Beans & That Hand Film on ABP's MyDamn Channel

To Amber Boardman and the Shirley Gallery's Give Me a Minute exhibition in Williamsburg, NY!

Thank You Signe Baumane for helping me connect with Animayo and to both you and Bill Plympton for the Kodak Screening room for the Animals and Animators screening!

After over a year since I made the film, That Hand Film has been receiving some nice 1ups late in the game. I need to recalibrate a lot of things before I can jump into production of my next animated short film which I have in pre-production phases only. More will happen and sooner rather than later. Before I time out for a bit, I wanted to thank everyone who helped make That Hand Film in particular because it's the first film that's gotten more response than about 10 years of other shorts combined.

A huge thanks to my family and my awesome crew that helped make That Hand Film a real high five!: Daniel Kokoszka - Multimedia Consultant, Gigi Chen- background painter, David Perry-background painter, David Cooper-sound engineer, Tim Sharbaugh-drums, and Elliot Cowan-creative consultant.

Ass kickery one and all:) Thanks so much for all of your support which was supertastical. Till next time around....

BeFilm 2010 winners and thoughts

This is the list of festival awards for 2010 BeFilm which again in the few days I did go was awessssOME:D

I only had the chance to go Friday 4/30 & Saturday 5/1. Of those two nights I have to pick a couple of favorites:

Friday 4/30:











FOUR: DIR Erin White

HBO "DEAL BREAKER": DIR Kelly Anne Burns
WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON: DIR Delcan Cassidy
LABYRINTH: DIR Patrick Jenkins


Saturday 5/1:
TOSHI: DIR Jon Gilbert
The INCIDENT AT TOWER 37: DIR Chris Perry

WINNERS IN THE NARRATIVE CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: Transit, Dir. Chris Roche (UK)

Second Place: The Six Dollar Fifty Man, Dir. Louis Sutherland /Mark Albiston (New Zealand)

Third Place: Freud’s Magic Powder, Dir. Edouard Getaz (Switzlerland)
Adelaide, Dir. Lilliana Greenfield-Sanders (USA)

WINNERS IN THE ANIMATION CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: The Cow That Wanted To Be A Hamburger, Dir. Bill Plympton (USA)

Second Place: The Incident At Tower 37, Dir. Chris Perry (USA)

Third Place: Labyrinth, Dir. Patrick Jenkins (Canada)

Honorable Mention: Variete, Dir. Roelof Van Den Bergh (Netherlands)

WINNERS IN THE SPEC CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: HBO “Deal Breaker”, Dir. Kelly Anne Burns (USA)
Second Place: Levi’s True Love, Dir. Ezra Stanley (USA)

WINNERS IN THE 3D CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: Train of Thought, Dir. Jeanne Guillot
Second Place: Plasticity, Dir. Ryan Suits

SPECIAL AUDIENCE AWARDS FOR BEST SEXY FILMS 2010

First Place: Lost Paradise, Dir. Oder Binnun/Mihal Brezi (France/Israel
Second Place: Las Pelotas, Dir.Chris Niemeyer (Argentina/Switzerland)
Four, Dir. Erin White (Australia)


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A very special thanks to Laurence Asseraf & Dimitris Athos, the festival curators and programmers, for bringing together another wonderful year of shorts that rock!!
I'll be there next year for sure:D

dry erase inspiration

I don't have the story to go with it, but I've been playing around with a spec-op project. It's been some time since I animated full-body human beings. I've been deliberately avoiding it because it's difficult for me to justify animation as the medium for behavior that everyday people can do. On that same note, my feeling is that many people still respond the most to the stories of people.

This may all be crazy talk, but I know that the silliness of design is not my goal with this idea. I would like to have something more real this time around. We'll see...

Dry Erase turns 100

Though I've done more than that many, tomorrow will mark my 98th, 99th, and 100th postings of dry erase comics. This felt like a good time to say that as flexible as making the comics are, coming up with 3 ideas a day / 15 a week is a bit difficult considering nobody is paying me for them yet. I like doing them and it's been so very nice to receive all of the comments on Facebook over the last few months! Thanks everyone!!!

I still plan to make the comics, but I have to slow down on the rate of postings. After tomorrow, on the morning of June 3rd I will be posting one comic per day instead of three. I have to slow down the idea factory a bit and focus on other things. I hope the people that have checked them out understand. Sorry:(

The comic seen above is neither on Facebook or my Dry Erase site. The format of this panel is a bit of a black sheep to the others I've done, so I thought this would be as good a place as any to post it.

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