Want to get weird for a few minutes? Well, get ready to get weird for a few minutes. The animation you see above was created as part of a student project. “My students are currently creating animated stories about small events in their lives, sort of similar to NPR Story Corp stories,” wrote Paul Ferraris, a man whose work you have laid eyes on before. “Here is the animation I worked on as an example. The jam at the end was not part of the student project.”
Ferraris is an interesting guy. Based in San Francisco, he’s in the business of documenting things, whether it’s on still film or moving. He grew up in downtown Los Angeles, then became an educator for inner city kids interested in the arts. It was 1999 when he first started taking photos in a meaningful way. A surfer since the age of twelve, after tearing his ACL, he needed to be involved somehow while he was healing. He picked up an old Pentax K1000, shot a few rolls, then sent a photo into the Surfer’s Journal. They ran it as a two-page spread, and the taste for blood was in his mouth. Now, all these years later, Paul’s work continues to be visually stimulating and full of movement.
whale tail from paul ferraris on Vimeo.
