Here lies the residue of "The Animating Apothecary," a source of obscure ephemera and thought, created fresh(ish), but now reduced to howling into the wind, sketching in sand, and nibbling at the crustier extremes of an overbaked society. Instagram? see - https://www.instagram.com/animating_apothecary/ - content (c) 2006-2024 Jim Middleton
Making some more animated GIFs, this one experimenting with simple stop motion. The fickle flicker of fluorescent light is now supplanted by the consequence of time passing beneath diffused sunlight. More notes, more notes...
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And perhaps it moves faster without the built-in "continuous loop" command - oh that technology!
(c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Int: The Ticket Office
ONE: I can never read these train schedules. The last time I wound up in Duluth.
TWO: I bet it’s hard to unwind after that.
ONE: And the food’s terrible on those cars.
TWO: It’s all in the timing. Look, if you take an express train west, you can cross enough time zones so it hasn’t been cooked yet - that way it stays fresh.
ONE: Is there a train that fast?
TWO: Sure - I’ve missed dozens of them.
ONE: I just need enough time to pack, repack, and still be able to lose my toothbrush.
TWO: Well, you can always floss with some uncooked spaghetti. It’ll be fresh.
ONE: Have you every tried to eat your weight in spaghetti?
TWO: Naah, I end up wearing most of it. But if you move fast enough, who needs clothes?
ONE: I’m sorry, I missed something - is it that kind of a train?
TWO: No, but you can wear yesterday’s clothes and they won’t get dirty until tomorrow.
ONE: And by the time you discover you need something, you’ve already used it.
TWO: That's an idea - hey, everyone can just forget their luggage -- we’ll make a fortune with the lost and found!
ONE: We can even get people back to the station before they know where they're were going.
TWO: Sure - we can collect all that interest on their Daylight Savings.
ONE: Or plan a party for tonight and have the hangover before we leave.
TWO: Just think - we can put off to tomorrow what we put off for today, and still have two days left.
ONE: And you can finally achieve your life’s ambition - become the world’s fastest procrastinator.
(c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Including the "Classics"
You Didn't Hear It From Me, Laura Palmetto McGregory Toon, Thespian, Dual:Duel, The Battle Creek Idea, Graduation Speech, The Place: The Thing, Open Mike, Death of Diddy, and, as a bonus - another "Bedtime Story for Neurotic Children." The mind reels.
In Paperback (124 pages, suitable for bedside or bathroom) and Kindle (suitable for eyestrain and who know what else) at Amazon, where novels vanish like spit on a hot griddle. Not enough pictures, but that'll be the "second edition" ... now to find the masters for the 1907 Battle Creek tour guide...
I think this link will take you there, you poor, poor soul - You Didn't Hear It From Me - at Amazon
Sfumato #1 - Flute Solo in SFUMATOSCOPE with SUBTITLES wiggles its way into the HVAF in State College, Pennsylvania. See what all the muttering is about - Here to Flute Solo
Some random doodlery...
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(c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Designed for elementary schools in Calhoun County, when local history was an actual subject thereon.
I had designed "BC Black Squirrel" in 2008, featured him in a mini-documentary about the area's "Mill Race" the following year, and then did some incidental sketches for this presentation, along with some "historic recreations" of school life of the 19th century.
I am not sure how much use is it currently getting around that area these days, and only recently did I see a copy of this particular handout, ca 2011. I thought the sketches I provided had never been put to use!
