Why Music Matters - Sigur Rós

Before Christmas I made a short film at Arthur Cox Ltd, produced by Aardman, for the Why Music Matters campaign. The idea was to pick a musical artist from the big long list of EMI artists and say why music matters. I chose the band Sigur Rós because I had a friend in university who kissed a girl on an A-road over-pass in the rain one night, and he said it was so incredibly emotional he imagined a movie camera spinning around them both while the sparkling rain fell in slow motion and Sigur Rós played. I found that funny and wanted to show how people match their surroundings and experiences with music, and vice versa.

Here it is:

You can join the music matters Facebook page, follow them on Twitter or read more about it on the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, MojoMusic and Rough Trade Records websites.

Keith Reynolds and Francis Cooper back in Lille.

Keith Reynolds and Francis Cooper headed back to Lille for the Lille Fete de l'animation last weekend. Sarah Cox was there as part of a retrospective/screening of Arthur Cox work which included my films and the IRN-BRU commercial I directed last year. Magnifique.

Moved

Hello. A boring post to say I've moved my blog to wordpress. It's still at www.felixmassie.co.uk/ and nothing has changed but it you were following me via Google Friend Connect then you wont get updates anymore. The RSS feed URL is exactly the same still though and you can subscribe to that here:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/felixmasie

As Andrew says; you need to get out of bed

For 2010 I decided to expand on my rigorous weekend routine of getting out of bed with the addition of drawing portraits of people I know. Here is Matthew Walker:

8 Minutes Idle iFeature things.

Sarah Cox, the Cox of Arthur Cox, asked me to do some designs for some animated segments in a feature film she is hopefully producing as part of the iFeatures scheme. It's based on Matt Thornes novel 8 Minutes Idle - "a provactive and daring comedy about work, sex and love in a Bristol call centre". A man feels he has been shy around a woman too long and so decides to make a reproduction of his penis in photocopy form and then show her his generocity by giving her a copy to cherish forever. (If) you'd like to read more, you can do here. Or you can follow the films progress on Twitter.

Here are the pictures...

8 Minutes Idle iFeature things.

Sarah Cox, the Cox of Arthur Cox, asked me to do some designs for some animated segments in a feature film she is hopefully producing as part of the iFeatures scheme. It's based on Matt Thornes novel 8 Minutes Idle - "a provactive and daring comedy about work, sex and love in a Bristol call centre". A man feels he has been shy around a woman too long and so decides to make a reproduction of his penis in photocopy form and then show her his generocity by giving her a copy to cherish forever. (If) you'd like to read more, you can do here. Or you can follow the films progress on Twitter.

Here are the pictures...

On Aardman now

It took me a while but I finally managed to guess the admin password for the Aardman website (m0rph123) and add myself to the commercial directors section. Did my own page and everything:

http://www.aardman.com/commercials/directors/felix-massie/

Look quickly before they take it down.

In another bit of website news: I finished my website for my web series only press some sort of giant reset button to make it all look like the default template again. So I have an exciting evening doing all that again coming up soon.

On Aardman now

It took me a while but I finally managed to guess the admin password for the Aardman website (m0rph123) and add myself to the commercial directors section. Did my own page and everything:

http://www.aardman.com/commercials/directors/felix-massie/

Look quickly before they take it down.

In another bit of website news: I finished my website for my web series only press some sort of giant reset button to make it all look like the default template again. So I have an exciting evening doing all that again coming up soon.

On Aardman now

It took me a while but I finally managed to guess the admin password for the Aardman website (m0rph123) and add myself to the commercial directors section. Did my own page and everything:

http://www.aardman.com/commercials/directors/felix-massie/

Look quickly before they take it down.

In another bit of website news: I finished my website for my web series only press some sort of giant reset button to make it all look like the default template again. So I have an exciting evening doing all that again coming up soon.

Mother of Many wins at BAFTA 2010

Mother of Many won it's BAFTA so a big well done to Emma Lazenby. Watch a little clip below, and also watch this bit on iPlayer and listen to hear the wonderful Candi from Arthur Cox screaming her head off when it was announced it had won.