Following my meeting with Sylvia, she said that my project really reminded her of the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho".

I thought it was a really interesting to thing to research because of the silhouette on the shower curtain that ties in with my photography work.

Additionally, I think the soundtrack is really fear inducing, and resembles a stabbing, high pitched noise. As I continue to edit my animation, I might look into including or creating a similar audio track.

Curious Archive does really good video essays about video games and films. Dead gods are also near and dear to my heart.

I have a project that I'm doing research for, and I'd love it if you could help me. My topic for the project is representation in media and how it affects children's mental health and perception of the world. I was wondering if anyone had any stories about how representation in general or in a specific show/movie affected them that they'd like to share with me so I can talk about it in my presentation? I need stories from real people showcasing why representation in media is a good thing and helps people.

Please try to stick to family-friendly tv shows/movies as I'll be talking about this in front of a bunch of people.

Thank you!

Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer, and writer who is best known for directing the stop-motion animation films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Coraline (2009). Selick studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts and later worked for Walt Disney as an animator trainee. Until he became a full-fledged animator while working on The Fox and the Hound. During his time at Disney, he met and worked around the likes of Tim Burton. Selick's first feature with LAIKA was Coraline, based on the novel Coraline by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, and released in 2009. It was the first stereoscopic stop-motion animated film. Selick left Laika in 2009 after the production of Coraline. He returned to Pixar and Walt Disney in a long-term contract to exclusively produce stop-motion films returning to his roots. He now works in a new studio called Cinderbiter Productions with many promises to come.

Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas have been some of my favourite films since I was a child. So of course working with this project which investigates cartoons and movies (Stories) and their influences on children, I wanted to look back at films from my past and create ceramic pieces and items that were influenced by these films. Here art the pieces I made :

Oogie Boogie children mask

Other mother hand of wire

Other mother cup

Coraline cup

Here is a Video of The Making Of-The Nightmare Before Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLw-Fo8uhis

Here is also another excellent video of LAIKA | Coraline | Behind the Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXqqd0ZBEMA

A couple of you may already know that when I’m not working hard in my office job I’m working towards my illustration career. I was recently approached by a friend of a friend to work on a book project about badass women in history, which is something I am extremely excited about. At the moment I’m in the process of gathering stories and names and would like some assistance.

 Beksiński is an artist I’ve studied for this project and has given so much inspiration on the theme biophilia. Beksiński was a famous polish painter, photographer and sculptor, who specialized in dystopian surrealism. His painting were often made in a Gothic or baroque manner, and he materialized dreams and nightmares onto canvas and tried to obscure the normal pure or straight type of photography. Beksiński  was born in 1929 in Sanok, a highly populated Jewish area in Poland. His artworks were highly influenced by World war 2 and the world he saw from it would change his whole mindset. He was not formally trained in art, but in 1955 he studied architecture, which helped to train his hand in art as well as taught him the symbolism and history of architecture. Apart from architecture he was also a part time photographer in Sanok where he experimented with construction sites in his photographs. In 1957 though he managed to disrupt the art world with some of his early work photography, and this is what made his work stand out to me. Beksiński stood away from pure photography and because of that his work was so obscure for the time. he rejected the normal standards as a surrealist photographer as the photos captured never accurately captured the subject as it was always obscuring the original form in some way. Beksiński wanted his work to have artistic expression in its own way. Years later once Beksiński tired of that art form he began to paint roughly from 1960s until he passed, but personally i believe his best period was from 1960′s to the 1980′s were he touched on architecture, spiritualism, eroticism, war,and dream logic. As a closing note he also hated to title his work because he didn't want to create a meaning to his work as only possible explanation nor did he want it to be analysed just only to be observed as it is.