Virgin Media - Bunny's Easter Egg Hunt

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Worked on a great job for Virgin Media this Easter, produced by 12foot6, beautifully designed by Åsa Lucander & animated by Åsa, Anna Fyda, Julia Bartl & myself.

Vintage Children's Classics

A fantastic job for Vintage Classics, an imprint of The Random House Group, this video was screened at the London book launch last week announcing the list of books included in the Vintage Children’s Classics series to be published in August 2012 aimed at and shaped by 8 to 12 year olds and the adults in their lives.

Thanks to the brilliant team of animators who worked on this with me, Natasha Tonkin, Setareh Erfan, Sam Watterson, Chris Wilder & Jon Clarke, for all their incredible hard work, and thanks too to my co-director Tamara Lesniewska for her invaluable input.

Exciting to be included on the Vintage website
www.vintage-books.co.uk/

artSprint: SILENT AUCTION!

As the follow up to our successful live auction last friday Åsa and I have now opened our online Silent Auction where you can continue to bid for art pieces until the day of the marathon on the 22nd April. All funds raised will go to support the wonderful work that the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign does with educational and environmental projects.

All you have to do to register your bid is choose an art piece & in the comments section below the artist on the artSprint blog write: "your name" bids £ amount on "title of art piece". If you are unsure whether we have your contact details and are happy for them to be public also leave them in the comments, or email them to: kimunkey@hotmail.com

Remember to keep an eye on your competition as other bidders add their offers against yours - you may want to up the stakes as we get nearer to the 22nd!

Thanks & happy bidding!

You can sponsor me directly & securely here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KimAlexander

artSprint

Thanks to everyone who helped to make last Friday night an amazing success, we raised a whopping £2000+ for the wonderful charity the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, which supports education and environmental projects in Nicaragua.

Thanks to Andrew Kelleher for writing us this review:

Nicaragua is a word that conjures up images of civil war, poverty and gun running.

WELL… 12foot6’s very own Asa and Kim are addressing those problems one by one.

Swap gun running for fun running (even though I’m only calling it a ‘fun run’ because gun and fun rhyme) and swap civil war and poverty for ‘art auction.’ Not just any art auction though - this was ArtSprint 2012.

In need of sponsorship money for their impending marathon, the girls wracked their brains for a way to extract money from the public, and actually came up with a method that was surprisingly unpainful for everyone involved.

Kim and Asa gathered 70 art works – all very kindly donated by much-loved established artists and those on the way up. The gathering was achieved through a mixture of the universally loved methods of cold-calling and spam email (and knowing lots of talented people.)

The venue was The Miller pub near London Bridge. But don’t think just because this pub was south of the river it didn’t have major pulling power…

Turning the air musical was John Twinn and his excellent band The Invisible Gentry (available at all good iTunes.)

And playing everything that needed to be played was Fu&Spig, on the record players.

The Mighty Booth brought their strangely addictive photo booth and props down as well.

Auctioneering on the night was handled more than ably by Tom Mortimer - sitting there like Dave Allen on his stool, controlling the cash flow and keeping order with charm and brutishness.

The money poured in, and everyone from keen art buyers to drunken lunatics were swept away by the atmosphere. Targets were reached, and friendships were made and lost in the struggle to outbid strangers and associates.

Everyone agreed it was a really really good night. That might change when bank statements come through the post, but for the time being, very well done to Asa and Kim for the months of work leading up to a very excellent night.

Good luck to both ladies in their quest to win the marathon on April 22^nd. Only one of you can actually win it – but you’ll both be winners, in a way.

(Let’s just hope the money doesn’t get siphoned off into child armies and all that stuff. Which we have no reason to believe it will. Fingers crossed.)

Cinema & the City Presents....Hanoi '68

Brilliant film from Cuban director Santiago Álvarez Roman, a montage of images of life in Vietnam all shot on one day during the war with the USA. December 13th, 1968.

"Filmed in Hanoi on December 13, 1966, this documentary records the lives of people in the Vietnam capital and surrounding countryside at the height of U.S. bombing. Their daily activities are presented in a collage of images: building irrigation ditches, planting rice , fishing, weaving...life continued despite the shower of U.S. bombs. During these air raids, the people formed armed self-defense units so efficient that the life of the nation was not interrupted." - Third World Newsreel

I designed the poster to look like a revolutionary Cuban poster, whilst the illustration shows some of the daily activities in Vietnam shown in the film as the coffins draped in US flags fall as bombs.

Film night organized by my good friend Doug Brennan and hosted by the restaurant Trangallán, 61 Newington Green London N16 9PX. Bar & food from 6pm, film from 8pm.

What's the Use of a Book Without Pictures, Paragraph 357

Paragraph 357
`And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.
`Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.

My fourth contribution to the global illustrated Alice in Wonderland project. Anyone can join in, find out how here.

Showreel January 2012

A new year, an up to date show reel...