Animation by Dave Fischer

Black Pus - Flower Devour (5:44)
black-pus-flower-devour.mpg - 173 meg

Black Pus
Cameraman: Mikey Knives

A Tribute to Mondrian (5:00)
mondrian-tribute.mpg - 143 meg

A tribute to Piet Mondrian.
(No audio.)

Crawling Colors (5:00)
crawling-colors.mpg - 149 meg

This was first shown at the 2009 Floating World Animation Fest in Portland OR.
Soundtrack by the United Space Rock Coalition (David Lifrieri, Frank Difficult, Alec Redfearn, Matt McLaren, Jason McGill, Josh Kretzman)

Plants (1:40)
plants.mpg - 27 meg

Plants. It had to be plants.
Audio is a Knights of Timbre remix of "Mao Zi Xi Fa" by Rainie Yang.
(RAINIE YANG!!!!)

Monkey Man (1:54)
monkey-man-large.mpg - 88 meg

Animation for Melt-Banana's cover version of the ska standard "Monkey Man" originally by Toots and the Maytals. (7" available from Fork In Hand Records)

Work/Death (5:00)
work-death.mpg - 167 meg

Work/Death performance.
Also appears on the Everything I Own is Broken or Bent compilation DVD from Corleone Records.

Mudboybeats (3:43)
mudboybeats.mpg - 123 meg

Music by Mudboy.

Mudmantra: For Conquering Death (4:00)
mudmantra-large.mpg - 95 meg

Music by Mudboy.

Othern Lights (5:10)
othern-large.mpg - 82 meg

Music by Mudboy.
The foreground spikey black coral thing is a bunch of overlapping spirals that are spreading at different rates, done in postscript. The background started out as an experiment in simulating a choppy water surface, done in C.

The Thin Wax Line (7:49)
wax-line-large.mpg - 247 meg

The legendary piece of Bee propoganda. The original Bee title is "Education on Humans (and examples from camera)" but it is more widely known as "The Thin Wax Line".
Soundtrack by Irene Moon with assistance from Christopher Cprek, Katy Wizard, and Yellow Crystal Star.

DMBQ in Providence (5:16)
dmbq-pvd-large.mpg - 87 meg

DMBQ perform "Magical Relation" live in Providence on October 31, 2005. This is probably what it looked like to half the audience...
(Video footage is live, audio is from the studio.)
Cameraman: Mikey Knives.

Like A White Bat in a Box, Dead Matters Go On (3:32)
white-bat-large.mpg - 33 meg

Spastic, sparse typographic animation for the Melt-Banana song of the same name.

Inner Sea (3:29)
inner-sea-large.mpg - 58 meg

A series of microphotographs of one drop of my blood.
The audio is algorithmic.

Contact: dave@cca.org
Home: www.cca.org

Everything here was done in C and hand-coded postscript. No interactive software was used except vi and bash. All processing was done on "obsolete" gear various companies & universities had thrown away.

Black Pus - Flower Devour (5:44) black-pus-flower-devour.mpg - 173 meg Black Pus Cameraman: Mikey Knives
A Tribute to Mondrian (5:00) mondrian-tribute.mpg - 143 meg A tribute to Piet Mondrian. (No audio.)
Crawling Colors (5:00) crawling-colors.mpg - 149 meg This was first shown at the 2009 Floating World Animation Fest in Portland OR. Soundtrack by the United Space Rock Coalition (David Lifrieri, Frank Difficult, Alec Redfearn, Matt McLaren, Jason McGill, Josh Kretzman)
Plants (1:40) plants.mpg - 27 meg Plants. It had to be plants. Audio is a Knights of Timbre remix of "Mao Zi Xi Fa" by Rainie Yang. (RAINIE YANG!!!!)
Monkey Man (1:54) monkey-man-large.mpg - 88 meg Animation for Melt-Banana's cover version of the ska standard "Monkey Man" originally by Toots and the Maytals. (7" available from Fork In Hand Records)
Work/Death (5:00) work-death.mpg - 167 meg Work/Death performance. Also appears on the Everything I Own is Broken or Bent compilation DVD from Corleone Records.
Mudboybeats (3:43) mudboybeats.mpg - 123 meg Music by Mudboy.
Mudmantra: For Conquering Death (4:00) mudmantra-large.mpg - 95 meg Music by Mudboy.
Othern Lights (5:10) othern-large.mpg - 82 meg Music by Mudboy. The foreground spikey black coral thing is a bunch of overlapping spirals that are spreading at different rates, done in postscript. The background started out as an experiment in simulating a choppy water surface, done in C.
The Thin Wax Line (7:49) wax-line-large.mpg - 247 meg The legendary piece of Bee propoganda. The original Bee title is "Education on Humans (and examples from camera)" but it is more widely known as "The Thin Wax Line". Soundtrack by Irene Moon with assistance from Christopher Cprek, Katy Wizard, and Yellow Crystal Star.
DMBQ in Providence (5:16) dmbq-pvd-large.mpg - 87 meg DMBQ perform "Magical Relation" live in Providence on October 31, 2005. This is probably what it looked like to half the audience... (Video footage is live, audio is from the studio.) Cameraman: Mikey Knives.
Like A White Bat in a Box, Dead Matters Go On (3:32) white-bat-large.mpg - 33 meg Spastic, sparse typographic animation for the Melt-Banana song of the same name.
Inner Sea (3:29) inner-sea-large.mpg - 58 meg A series of microphotographs of one drop of my blood. The audio is algorithmic.
Contact: dave@cca.org Home: www.cca.org Everything here was done in C and hand-coded postscript. No interactive software was used except vi and bash. All processing was done on "obsolete" gear various companies & universities had thrown away.