Francis Cooper on a roof in New York

The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother is being shown on a roof in New York tomorrow (Friday). If you live in New York and aren't afraid of heights go and watch it! More details about rooftop films here and you can read a little interview they did with me here.



Where:
Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School
350 Grand St. @ Essex
Lower East Side, Manhattan

When:
8:00 Doors Open
8:30 Live Music
9:00 Films begin
11:30 After Party with FREE Radeberger Pilsner at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St.)

Mother of Many by Emma Lazenby online for a little bit

Mother of Many, Emma Lazenby's BAFTA winning short film I worked on at Arthur Cox last year is online for a little bit for the NFBC Film Festival online competition.

Watch is quick before it's too late (and if you like it click the thumbs up button on the YouTube page here to vote for it to win!)...



Some more reviews ranging from:

Stunning. Beautiful. I love it.

Truly amazing!!

Slightly difficult to watch but so are many great things. Beautiful sound and animation.

to:

Disgusting.

:o

Sigur Ros/Music Matters reviews

The Music Matters thing seemed to go down quite well. Mine got over 35,000 views from the video counts I saw so that's nice. Reviews ranged from,

"you combine the music with awesome vidoe,footage. thks greets from germany =)"

to

"I think we can all agree that this video was a letdown which made little sense."

You can't please everyone! If you missed it click here.

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.