9 piece Soul/R&B Melbourne band Saskwatch have released their new single I Get Lonely on 7″ through Northside Records, the song was recorded and produced by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control), and it is excellent. I was lucky enough to work with the band again (I did the cover art for their 2012 album “Leave It All Behind”) and did the cover art for the single, (layout & design by Carl Breitkreuz). Joe and I also made an animated video for the song (which I’ll do a separate post on next), I love working with this band!
I wasn’t really thinking about anything (other than other work I should have been doing) when I made this yesterday, but the meaning behind it was pretty clear to my boyfriend Joe. Obviously I’m still feeling guilty about throwing away that pigeon egg*. Whoa. Totally.
*I had a couple of problem pigeons trying to roost on my balcony. It all came to a head about two weeks ago when the pigeon hen laid an egg in a really scrappy nest. I immediately swept up and disposed of the egg, the nest and their unholy pigeon mess before the egg had anytime to develop. The pigeons haven’t returned, which is great, but I still feel bad about throwing out that egg.
Here is the music video for Bag of Bones by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion! Directed and animated by Joseph Jensen and yours truly. It premiered on Vice Magazine’s music website Noisey, and has also been featured and received cool write ups on Spin, Papermag, Stereogum,Clash Music, Elmore Magazine, Exclaim and Bust and many others.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Lucy Dyson and Joseph Jensen. Oil projections by Steve Pavlovsky at Liquid Light Lab NYC. 2nd camera (live footage) Anna Steele.
Joe and I have both been big Blues Explosion fans since our early teens, so we were super excited about making this video. We have been lucky to do some work for Gemma Ray and Bronzerat Records since moving to Berlin, so when Andy at Bronzerat (who put out the JSBX’s latest album Meat & Bone) put Jon in touch with us about a video, we leapt at the opportunity. Not only were the Blues Explosion the first band I used my big sister’s ID to go and see play when I was 15 (at The Palace in St Kilda in 1997, since burnt down), but the next day at the crack of dawn, still buzzing from the show, my friends and I went to the ABC TV studios to be part of the under-age live audience for the band’s performance on the Saturday morning tv show Recovery. That Blues Explosion performance ended up making Australian live television history.
You can watch it below and even see me (around the 4:07 mark, wearing a red jacket and sporting ~ a very 90s ~ short bleached hairstyle), with my friend Billy in the “kitchen” area of the television set (we volunteered to do an embarrassing cooking segment on the show). Mid performance, tearing the studio apart, Jon Spencer climbed up on our kitchen bench and kicked cocktail onion juice on us. It was amazing and one of the most exciting performances I saw as a teenager. It also definitely influenced some of the animated bar brawl scene in the Bag Of Bones video.
Some of my recent collages feature in this promo for Paul Kelly. The collages were all originally made for my solo exhibition here in Berlin last July. Not long after I had uploaded the work to my website I received an email from Paul saying how much he liked the pieces, which led to this lovely and simple online music video promo. A big thank you to Nick for putting it together, and PK and One Louder, I’m thrilled to have my work paired with such a beautiful song.
I have a solo exhibition opening at Das Gift this Friday June 29, 19:00 until late. The show only runs until July 5 and can be viewed between 19:00 – 1:00, but Friday night will be the best time to see it!
Man Without Country‘s latest video Closet Addicts Anonymous was released last week. This is the second video that Joseph Jensen and I have directed for the band (the first being Puppets). We experimented with live video feedback for this promo, using an analog video mixer, a video camera and a CRT Broadcast monitor. Joe and I also created the artwork for the band’s recently released debut album Foe, I look forward to doing a post about the album art as soon as I have a 12″ vinyl copy of the album in my hands.
Last week was cool, Joe and I won Best Animation in the SoundKILDA music video competition for this animation!
And The Design Files published this profile and interview with me.
The below piece was featured in the interview, it is one of my new collages and it will be part of my upcoming Berlin solo exhibition at Das Gift June 29.
Tonight “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child” music-video Joe and I made for Kate Miller-Heidke is screening in the SoundKILDA music-video competition along with 16 of the best Australian music-videos from 2011.
Update! The Tiger Inside won the SoundKILDA award for Best Animation!
In other exciting news, the music-video Joe and I made for Gemma Ray’s “Rescue Me” screened on Top Of The Pops 2 last Monday!
And finally, earlier in the week I spoke to The Vine about being a creative Australian based in Berlin, you can read the interview here.
This is the photo that accompanies the interview, Joe took it earlier this year in Prenzlauer Berg. I’m in front of a GDR memorial to Ernst Thälmann.
Here are some mock-ups I recently created for a music video treatment, (sans Joe’s wonderful animated characters). Joe and I are in the process of further developing the treatment, and we might end up moving away from using some of these inital ideas, but I really like them so I thought I would share them here.
