Felix Colgrave

Felix Colgrave

@felixcolgrave.bsky.social

picture mover

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Going to invent one of these apps that people have to delete off their phones in order to get well. Coming at this from an arts background so it won't have any clever financial strategy behind it, it'll be addictive and upsetting for purely creative reasons

I routinely see kids products that come in the 2 options "Dinosaur" or "Unicorn"- which apart from the obvious, annoys me because one gets science and one gets mythology. This could easily be fixed by swapping dinosaurs with dragons, or, hear me out, aggressively marketing Cambrian sea life to girls

"why does nobody remember this" I say, holding up a DVD of a 2006 live action CatDog movie. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson frown at each other in prosthetics that don't quite resemble a cat or a dog. Their lower bodies are connected by a CG tube. A tiny blue Will Ferrell leers at them from a mouse hole

It's hard being a Cartoon Knower (strictly professional) and a parent, when other parents try to bond over how bewildered they are by childrens media. "My kid's always watching that- what is it- Pikachu show?" Haha no I hadn't heard of it either, for I too was grown in a lab already thirty

"real cinema is all about story" "real music is about lyricism" "real game design isn't about graphics" - quotes from the discerning Sensory Information Hater. Loves stories about human experiences but hasn't had one personally. They cannot see paintings and their house is unfurnished

I always see nonpartisan, righteous anger at public art. Everyone loves to hate a concrete blob bought with taxpayer money, what's it even meant to be etc. My hot take: art funding is good and there's no benign policy for keeping out 'bad' art. You really just gotta fund it until a good one happens

I'd like a large scale data visualisation of which different 'creatives' hang out. Do painters and clowns go to the same parties? As an animator I cross paths with game devs and puppeteers, but do they know each other? And most importantly why do I have so many mutual friends with improv comedians

I know exactly how many cats are in my house. I keep it at a consistent value. Moths and spiders, no idea. Mystery number. They come and go through little doors I don't even know about

Aside from the obvious, what's really dumb about the word "content", is that "contents" only exist in relation to a container- so in this context, a literal web container, on a page. Div fillers. Sure mate, your rectangle is the star of the show. What's wrong you haven't eaten your plate toppers

Here is episode 2! I did the sound and music for both of these. I should also mention the "sound" largely consists of me barking like a little dog. If you would enjoy hearing me, impersonating a small dog, then hoo boy! This is for you

youtu.bePlumpin: Hat | Animated Short Film with ‪@FelixColgrave ‬YouTube video by Studio Showoff
Felix Colgrave@felixcolgrave.bsky.social

I did the sound+music for this! youtu.be/-7ZVJgmCF0o?...

Eating a vegetable: This is sensible. This is how plants should taste. This is grass and wood at its most edible Eating a fruit: This is a delicately crafted lure. Flesh engorged with sugar to attract me like a bird, to fill me up with seeds. A sexual organ. This is the reverse of the Jumanji plant

The USA does frightening alchemy to corn, makes it into battery acid or whatever, but at least they have corn. Australia is the USA with no corn. The British just rocked up and ignored every plant like "gee I hope we can make baked beans grow here or we're fucked"

The native plants we DO have are all treated like novelties and (re)named after more familiar plants. This fruit is green, but long? "Finger Lime" (nothing like a lime). This fruit is round, but in Australia? "Kangaroo Apple" (nothing like an apple). Weird that none of them got the corn treatment!

"users quickly bypassed the AI's safeguards by prompting it to roleplay as"- ok so what I'm hearing again and again, is they've built a dumb guy in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. You just gotta run back into frame in a wedding dress and now the AI thinks you're getting married. Robots are now all Elmer Fudd

We thought robot brains would be cold and calculating and laser focused, but no! When the machines come to take you away just stand in the shower with a scrubbing brush and say "Do you MIND?", and they will apologise and leave.

Saw 1 episode of the new Alien show, and whatever, not really for me, BUT it's set 100 years in the future and in one scene some kids watch Ice Age 4?? People watch old movies of course, but not MOST old movies- and that has to be the funniest prediction as to what will stand the test of time

"kids what do you want to watch on Future Netflix?" "The movie about the prehistoric animals who speak in conversational 100-year old parlance, number 4. The one that pastiches even older pirate movies"

Hi these weren't shipping to the US for a while, but now they are again! You might not know it yet but this rat is your new favourite cartoon character. When I finish my rat cartoon you will say "wow I love this rat, I'm glad I had purchased Rat™ merchandise from wombot.studio/shop before seeing it"

wombot.studioshop — WOMBOT.STUDIOcargo.site
Felix Colgrave@felixcolgrave.bsky.social

I'm very deep in the throes of production right now. If you'd like to help me finish it you can support the project on patreon.com/felixcolgrave, OR you can buy one of these limited edition, signed + numbered risograph prints of my little rodent protagonist at wombot.studio/shop

In the 2010s Australian bands were all called "Bear and Fox" and all the street art was wistful paintings of stags and wolves. A celebration of nature, but a different nature, on the computer. Boreal yearning in the stomp clap colony. We didn't have the technology to romanticise emus

I can no longer play from memory any of the Bach or Debussy or whatever that I learnt as a child doing piano recitals, but I can still play the arrangement I transcribed of the music from the snowboard level in Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

Advertisers clamber over each other to quickly make ads in cool new styles while they're still associated with cool new things, and not associated ads. AI generated ads bravely buck that trend, by using the shit new style all consumers hate and associate with spam and propaganda

It doesn't matter if it gets harder to detect, it doesn't matter if you type "cool new style please" in the prompt. Like all mediums it will be better at some things than others, which will inform a visual vocabulary, which will have a "vibe"- that everyone associates with absolutely rancid shit

On Tasmanian souvenirs you will see this motif of people, devils, teddies etc with 2 heads. It's never explicit, but the joke is: we are inbred! It's a cartoon congenital disorder. I have no idea how a tourist is meant to guess this, so I guess it's an in-joke, for Tasmanians to enjoy, in every shop

My best/worst one was years ago when I was high in the Gallery of NSW- so of course in the gift shop I bought one of those kids magic crystal garden growing kits. I put it on the counter and the cashier said "are you Felix Colgrave"

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