I’m contributing writing, images and performance to the Detroit Cantastoria Fest collaborative group show. Full details at the FLYING CARDBOARD THEATER site!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY OCT 14 & 15 • 1-5 pm
Animation workshop to create "Tom's Ghost" with filmmaker Gary Schwartz (participants limited to 15, pre-register here to reserve your spot; attendence for both sessions is advised; others are invited to observe).
Gary Schwartz is a well-known artist, educator and filmmaker who has taught at University of Michigan, College for Creative Studies and internationally.
Palmer Park Animation Workshops will create "TOM'S GHOST: Equal Rights For All, Special Privileges To None,” with original music by Joseph C. Krause
We will produce a hands-on 20 second animated film about Palmer Park and Senator Thomas Palmer. Learn about:
SHADOW PROJECTION: Magic Lantern Shadow Puppets
LIP SYNC: Synchronized Voice & Dialogue Replacement
SYNCHRONIZED CHOREOGRAPHY: Sound & Picture Dance
PAPER CUT-OUT COLLAGE: Alchemy of Performance
There will be supplies for about 15 people, but some space for observers. Attendees are encouraged to participate on both days. Best for teens, adults and serious, mature older children.
Three Gary Schwartz animated animated short films featuring my original sound design will screen at The Bagley Street Film Festival! Both Gary and I will be present to hang out and answer questions. See you there!
“STAIN”
Students at the Flint Institute of Art ART SCHOOL created this film in a three-day intensive hands-on animation workshop on the theme of pandemic infection.
“The Crown Nobody Wanted”
ANIMATING AN EXQUISITE CORPSE
March 2020, a new pandemic comes to town. Animated video made by students at the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia. On-line production taught from 5,876 miles away.
“Ukraine”
Students at the Flint Institute School of Art created this animated filmin solidarity with Ukraine.
YOU BELONG at CHROMA in DETROIT
Featuring STAIN, a film by Gary Schwartz with sound design by JOSEPH C. KRAUSE
NEW SOUND DESIGN! I created the soundtrack for a new forty-second animation by filmmaker Gary Schwartz, which is live on YouTube and will premiere in-real-life in October! The sounds for this film include clips from tapes I recorded as a child, field recordings of real locations including Cedar Point and Dutch barrel organs, a few catalogue sounds and a bunch of custom sounds created at home for this short. It’s amazing how many useful sounds a simple bicycle can make.
’Carny Obscura’ will premiere at Carrington Art in Sandusky, Ohio. The exhibition, DARK CARNIVAL' will open Friday, October 16th, coinciding with the 150th Anniversary of Cedar Point. Time an exhibit duration TBA, please check the gallery site for accurate details.
Author Ray Padgett’s new book about the importance of tribute albums contains a few paragraphs about “Prosthetic Lips,” the “Weird Al” Yankovic tribute album I produced in 1996. Find it on Bloomsbury and Amazon. Available today!
Join the Ferndale library in this zine-making class for kids, at which I will show-and-tell about my personal zine collection, my experience making my own zine for two years, and assist in Mr. Everett’s workshop in which you’ll get to make your own zine. (A zine is a self-published magazine.)
Join me at Detroit’s Senate Theatre for a documentarian “open mic night,” at which I’ll be screening and discussing my 2019 Retrospective film. WFMU’s Stashu, host of “Dance With Me, Stanley,” will also be presenting a radio interview. This is a really fun venue and I can’t wait to meet you there. Hopefully there won’t be a global pandemic to ruin the evening!
OK, you’re on to me. I created this invite after the event was over in order to find out how the Squarespace event page works. You found me out. Oh, well. Here’s a photo of me on stage at the event, as well as the five-minute video I screened!
The “real” version of this film is 10 minutes, but here it is in 5, edited to suit the evening.
