We found this wonderful animation made on a simple white board without redo or undo functions~ just like our Animation Station:

Attention audiophiles and sound artists! PLAY is launching a new project with Michigan Radio called the Sonic Haiku Project. Think 30 second ’sound portraits’ that punctuate the NPR listening landscape. We’re looking for contributors. Find our more HERE.

We’ve got lots of buzz at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, so we figured we should answer some questions about the Animation Station. This is the second iteration of the Animation Station, after its launch at the 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival. We’re currently in the beta stages of this project, testing out the station in different locations and venues. Keep your eye out for PLAYNATION, as we develop it into a television project for Michigan Television and a web gallery. And, contact us if you have questions!

Come down to the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair to make a stop-motion animation at the PLAYNATION Animation Station. We’re on North University between Thayer and Fletcher in the New Art New Artists Tent. Stay tuned for movie posts from the fair!

Wow, PLAY won an EMMY award at the 2007 Awards Gala of the Michigan Chapter National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In a top ten market, poised against some serious professional motion graphic suites with the latest technologies and big budgets, it is a huge honor that one of our promos took home the prize! Thanks to the super talented Jeff Christy for making the first year of PLAY an EMMY-award winning one.

PLAY is seeking video work for Edibles, the first show on next year’s exhibit schedule at the School of Art & Design, which will explore the intersections between food and art. For more info, click HERE.
So, we thought we’d see what was cooking on YouTube on this subject. We found an orchestra whose primary instruments are vegetables, a Thai artist who bakes bread in the shape of body parts, and a beautifully rendered movie about the relationship between the Chocolate Easter Bunny and… heat. Bon Appetit!