Tim Burtons original short film Frankenwennie from 1984

The animated 2012 Frankenwennie film is a remake of Tim Burtons own shortfilm from 1984. Both movies are great and beautiful. The story, a homage to the old Frankenstein story, is about a boy trying, and succeeding, in waking his dead pet dog alive. As in the old story the dog is not an evil monster though people he encouters in the story threatens to make him one. There is a beautiful little ending in this one though that make me smile all the way up to my ears.

Christmas present?

Saw this version of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein with some clay included so you can sculpt your own monster. I don't know, but there should be a version with clay included of Meyrinks Golem also. He/she/it is at least made of clay while Frankenstein is made of human bodyparts. Hmmm, they didn't want to include bodyparts - a bit to messy I guess, and probably against the law.

Golem and the princess bowl

This is where the beautiful white princess is molested the by the red Golem clay, almost falling over but still on her feet because she has three strong supports holding her up. Still raw and unfired and there will be a glaze on the bowl, hopefully a crystal glaze, but with ceramics you never know how it will come out after firing. It can, or will probably crack and the glaze may be a total failure so the story of this one is still to be continued. 

Just another bowl

Another studio image of a bowl I made. Handbuilt, still unfired, thumbed, about 15 cm high, but this time I've worked on the finish of it in a I way usually don't. Scraping, polishing and removing all the fingerprints I usually leave as a signum of my work. I call it a princess bowl, but in this picture it's not finished yet! Right now it's just another bowl - but I have plans for it! 

To be continued... 

Pot, cup and plate

Some studio images. Maybe unusual for me handbuilding (sculpting) pots and cups again. Both are still raw and unfired, The pot on is ready as it is but kind of frozen in the process of coiling without smoothing out the last attached coil.

Normal person by Arcade Fire

From the new record by Arcade fire the song Normal person. The text appealed tom me since I've been thinking a lot about what's considered normal with a person - in social behaviour, identity, likes and dislikes, style and whatever. There are some beautiful text lines in there such as "Waiting after school for you, they want to know if you, if you're normal too!" and "You dream in english now, in proper english look how!". I like the whole record though and hope they will come to to play in Sweden again soon.

Or on the other hand...

replying the Zizek post before this one

...maybe not that perfect after all. Just because of the fact that the Golem figure is an empty persona it becomes more apparent that the actions and stances the player chooses are in fact the players choices. If you choose to kill the cat in the beginning of the game, instead of of cuddling with her, to get the key to the next level, you choose evil before good. If you want to play the evil identity as en ease for your true self, it's less obvious to yoursellf and others if you choose a game where the charachter is evil from start and where there are no possible choices of being good at all. In a fps-game you kill people and charchters, mostly in the guise of a hero protecting the world, but still - you kill, and you think you're doing it for righteous reasons.