intro monster, 2004.

Jr F04 Intro Monster from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Old thing.

dreaming thomas

seeking like-footed musicians.

dreamingthomas.com

dreams tonight.

Dreams Tonight_2016_03_17_720 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Demo of original song.

a few more images...

...thanks to Bob Lee for documenting this year's Philadelphia Independents screening:

Plastic Club President Cynthia Arkin makes introductory remarks...

The audience...a mix of animators, Plastic Clubbers, and friends.

Q & A after the screening, with the animators fielding questions from the curious.

Philadelphia Independents 2016 recap

Hey, great show! There's always a good feeling coming out of the screening, with welcoming and knowledgeable Plastic Clubbers, a new cast of animators, and folks from outside either of those two worlds. A lot of variety in tonight's playlist, ranging from experimental collage music videos to humorous cartoons, and several new faces in the mix.

Here's a list of the artists, in the order of the evening, with links to their online presences:

Day Job, Etc. (Sean Dooley & Hugo Marmugi): UArts alum working the night shift with their personality-driven animated shorts.

Tulipomania (Cheryl Gelover, Mitch Smith, Tom Murray): experimental animators and band combined into one.

Ross Bollinger : a veteran of the screening now, master of comic timing and character exaggeration.

Ellen Marcus, assisted by Janelle Smith: two of my former teammates, professional painter, illustrator, and animator, and UArts alum, animator and multimedia fine artist, with an animated sequence for a live-action film project, and also pitching her (Ellen's) new adult coloring book.

Chris Ferrantello: illustrator-turned-animator, UArts (PCA) alum, mixing collage animation with found soundtracks.

Runaku Salhi: an original and compelling take on Nietzsche's "The Madman".

Christopher Magee: wandering musician, UArts professor, and independent animator.

Sarah Schwartz, Claire Fouquet, Patty Smith: excellent "making of" film documenting the collaboration between French animator and professor and UArts printmaker and professor for a dance/music/visual art performance piece. Film by UArts alumna.

Chris De Pew: UArts alum with an elegantly minimalist, experimental thesis film.

 John Serpentelli, assisted by Ben Howell: UArts professor and independent animator and alumnus animator telling a serious story through the sound and images of children.

Annelise Williams: UArts alum with a wonderfully heartfelt thesis film that gets you "right here".

Karl Staven: UArts professor and independent animator with a surreal stop-motion tale of music composition and its side-effects.

And here is the program.

animation 101, spring 2016: object choreography

Animation 101, S16: Object Choreography from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

freshman animation, music by yours truly.

3rd year in a row!

Philadelphia Independents, screening of local animators' work at the Plastic Club, 247 S. Camac St, Philadelphia, on Saturday, February 27th, 6:30pm. *limited seating, so e-mail me in advance for one of the 10 spots I have available!

nowhere man.

Harmonizing again after more than 30 years. A rough-around-the-edges but exciting stab at "Nowhere Man" with two of my high school, MPG music-mates. We played under the direction of our no-holds-barred music instructor and Perpetual Seeker and Asker of Unanswerable Questions Mark, covers and his originals. Our school didn't have enough students for a regular band, so we had a modern music ensemble instead, lucky us. Challenging time signatures, chord progressions, and harmonies. One perk I always got a kick out of was getting to skip religion class because we played at chapel once a week. I don't think Jesus is mandatory there anymore.



It was great to play with people you played with as a teenager: no time like high school to be into music - the best time to be in a band.



It was a good challenge to play with these two, having to keep up, musically. After our first get-together we got together one more time and ran through more Beatles than I knew the chords to. Such fun.

As we were:

island frequencies.

a trip to the green mountains.