Sorry, Baron... and Binky... couldn't resist...

response to kyhell's video........please excuse the horrible quality, but it seems as though livecam is fucked up again........
*sigh*

Baron Dixon has made this nice comp. of his cat multiplied and coloured. The cat is beautiful and look so calm and nice.I just had to try to make a sketch study for it.

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My Friend Baron Dixon has Birthday today...so i quickly (2 hours) composed and animated some stuff as a little present. Hope you like it Baron!!
im going to bed, its 4 o´clock in the morning ;)

Ever since I was a kid I have always had a fascination with bones. I don't know what it is. Probably because I find them strangely beautiful, much like seashells. Seashells and Bones are the hard evidence   more...that some organism once shared space with them. Human skeletons are often scary looking, and yet, wrapped around most human skeletons are some fabulously beautiful people. I like that aesthetic contrast. I'm always looking for that duality, the beautiful within the horrific. It makes me stop and take a longer look and try to admire the hidden beauty of something or someone ugly.

As a kid I loved natural history museums (Art museums became a much later love affair) and seeing the reconstructed dinosaur skeletons,and thinking about tht guys who first found them, dug them up, and reassembled them without an instruction manual. My grandparents lived out in the country and I loved finding old cow skulls and such out in the field.I'd pretend they were dinosaurs and that maybe, just maybe, a few live ones might still be around. For me, a box of old bones was a treasure chest!

In the summer before I entered College the movie "Alien" came out. The film features a scene where astronauts stumble across a derelict alien shipwreck on an uncharted planet, and find the very realistic bones of a dead alien inside, with evidence of some kind of internally generated trauma that killed it. That rekindled my fascination with bones, and I started creating my own collection of "Alien skulls"out of kiln-fired stoneware clay, which I would then paint to look like real dessicated bone. I would proudly display them as knick-knacks on my shelves, as ersatz "Specimens" from my travels to other worlds (or some perversely mutated corner of THIS world, since there was an oddly human feel to all of them). Sometimes I would build a display stand for a skull that lookedlike part of the rest of the creature it belonnged to.

I turned a very elaborate one in as my final project in my second semester of Sculpture in college. Its stand actually possessed something of a ribcage,although I took artistic liberties with it to make it more interesting and asymmetrical (That's the tall center piece in the photo in my photos section here!). I was rather amused by the reactions of people who were unfamiliar with me and my work. A biology student criticized the piece for not having the correct rib-count. At first I was offended until I learned that she thought the damn thing was REAL! A similar comment came from one of my fellow students who worked in a different section of the sculpture labs:"Who th' hell brought these old bones in here?" Needless to say I was proud of my inadvertent deception of my viewers. Got an "A" , too. Bonus!

I still make skulls and skeletons now and then. Sometimes I like to put comical fish-bones in my Cat paintings. I've also made 3-D paintings of imaginary prehistoric fish skeleton specimens and flying beasts. I don't do it as often as i used to, but I have a lot of fun just letting my imagination run wild in different media whenever I get my Jones to make Bones!

Just thought I'd share one of the many strange things about me since I ran across this video of my original skull collection the other day. The sound collage in the audio track is all mine.  less

An animated logo tag I designed that will appear at the front or the end of the "Dr. Trimrose" movie. I also composed the "Holiday for Strings"-style jingle that you hear, using   more...audio samples of real violinists, cellists and bassist playing the entire spectrum of individual notes, and a harpist doing some glissandos, and spliced them all together using Audacity. A pain in the ass, yes, but it really gives the authenticity to the 1950's sound that a synthesizr just can't quite muster.  less

In October of 2008, I participated in my first sidewalk art festival, working in chalk/pastels for the first time ever--on very hot blacktop! Those of you who enjoy watching something being created will   more...enjoy this video. The completed piece can be viewed in my Photos section.  less

An original song I wrote back in 1986 when I was part of a shetch/improv comedy troupe called the Playroom Players. I closed one of our shows with this lounge-lizard ballad.

Granny reprimands her daughter for the way she is raising Isabella

My vote

Are you crazy Man!?!

Parody of QPid & Baron Dixon

Song:Y cant I B U

The original title to "American Alien" was "The Disappearance of Baron Dixon". I made this little DVD extra before Jeff Cochran decided to change the title to "Am. Alien",   more...so you'll see and hear references to "Disappearance" throughout my rambling narration. The underscore is excerpts from the actual soundtrack score from the movie, by Ryan Ferguson.

This is a sort of Super-8 "Demo reel" of my scratch on film technique that I've done since I was a teenager and became the inspiration for the "Special effects" in the Super-8 versions of "Am. Alien". Included here are a couple of clips that were made for the movie, but didn't make it in there, but you can see me working on them.

Infotainment, eh?

Included here are excerpted clips from "Kinky Clay" and "No-CAN-Do!", and home-movie footage as far back as 1972, and going up through 1979!

Curiouser? Check out http://www.americanalienmovie.com  less

<b>WARNING!! THIS IS A LONG ONE.</b> Showing you the entire collection of improvised greensuit items, most of which were gleaned from thrift stores or discount outlets..

EDF Theater greenscreen. I am still playing with the lighting.

This is a very quick little test of the green mask stocking portion of the green suit. I'm having problems wit the program dropping frames during video capture, so I've put yellow subtitles where the   more...frame drops distort my speech.  less

Making slight improvements on the greenscreen stage. But I'm not feeling completely myself today for some reason......

A look at the completed (so far) Outdoor Greenscreen Stage. I have rolled out the studio floor and am seeing how it looks on camera. I apologize for the ransom "Speed ramping" which occurs   more...throughout theis video. I don't know what is causing that... but it DOES look kind of interesting and comical!  less

Initial test of my new backyard greenscreen that I have erected with the generous help of my best friend and fellow filmmaker, Larry Lo Presti. I invite you all to enjoy the evolution of this new project   more...and learn right along with me what works and whatdoesn't (Except it's all been pretty much workin'!)

I couldn't quite participate in the official "LiveVideo Offensive", but this is my attempt at it, although I have exceeded the 10-day time limit, but I should at least have ten videos about this project uploaded at some point.

By the way, I wanna see YOUR chroma key studios, too, if you got 'em! (Some of you have already shown us yours, and are included in my LiveVideo Group, "Club Chroma Key" in the DIY section of the groups.)  less

This is an archived LiveShow file. It starts out with a karaoke video from my playlist, and then is followed by a live demo of me painting cats in Adobe Photoshop. Just me by myself for the most part,   more...experimenting with using a webcam to shoot my PS demos. Nothing fancy, but something you can probably just sit back and chill out to for those of you who like to relax by watching other people make stuff.  less

I dug this piece of a project up on my iMac. It's meant as an establishing shot for a larger and more varied scene in rush hour traffic, but sometimes I like a shot enough to just make a continuous loop   more...out of it so I can just enjoy looking at it, like a moving painting, as it were. I list the software I used at the end.  less

Doctor Interact gives you a look at how he makes his greenscreen parts to his videos!!!
Some people had ask what my set up was so I thought I better show you all my Blue Wall.... So why the hell did I   more...call it Green Tips??? Ohhh well  less

Things are gonna get weird in Tyrantulania!...and oh, yes....there will be guest stars. Original music, "UFOphony! (Excerpt)" by Baron Dixon, 1992