I’m trying to work on animations for my installation for Dispersal/Return, but I just can’t concentrate.

Rhizome fairly recently posted a Vincent Collins animation, Fantasy, which I finally got around to watching tonite.

It’s an extremely mesmerizing video, and it’s similar in structure (objects melting into one another) to what I’m working on, so I decided to scour the internet for more about Vincent Collins. I found his myspace, he’s doing CGI animations now. His about me is incredible, here’s a quote:

Computers were available, but they cost a million dollars and you need a roomful of scientists to operate them. I swear to God.
I went to a demonstration of one of these machines, but they knew I couldn’t afford to buy their crummy system, so they kind of ignored me.
There were a couple of guys there that were phony as hell. Both of them had “Calvin Klein” embroidered on their shirts, as if it was their own goddam name, or something. One guy was the kind of a phony that has to give himself room when he talks. He kept saying he would buy two or three of these systems right away. What a goddam phony.

I also came across It Depends on your Perspective from Sesame Street, which was also animated by Vincent Collins.

I hadn’t thought about that animation in years but when I saw it again I instantly remembered how much I’d loved it when I was a kid.