Hearts - a Fractions short story video

I made a little video about the internet. It's a very short story, or rather, a short story fragment that's maybe been chipped off something bigger. Something unseen. Something very weird.

Fractions is an old video series that I'm rebooting for 2017, because goodness-to-heckery we need creative distractions these days. The new format will feature my cartoons - the kind of scrawly nonsense I've been posting on Instagram.

Click here to watch Hearts, and any of the previous Fractions videos posted over the years. Or by the magic of embedding, viddy the vid below.

Fractions 12: Clouds

Every now and then, I make little videos for a series of fictional fragments called Fractions. Here's the latest one. This edition is 'Clouds' and it's about clouds.

The text is taken from the Jusbin Bebber Twitter account (something I also write as a kind of sandbox for stupid ideas). See those tweets below the video.

 

theres a cloud above my bed the cloud knows my name and im like hey cloud and the clouds like shut up im trying to remember your name

— Jusbin Bebber (@JusbinBebber) April 21, 2015

one day the clouds will fall on us and we will die tickled and laughing

— Jusbin Bebber (@JusbinBebber) April 20, 2015

Attaching a camera to a cat: in pictures

I attached a camera to a cat. Here are the pictures it took.

This is the return of Fractions, the video series that had its first run last winter. CatCam is an edit of a piece I did at Mother's Bloomers last week. Sorry for the popping: I probably need to get a decent recording device.

Click here for the rest of my video vomit. Meanwhile, happy viewing...

Two writers talk about pens, get reduced to Fractions

Hurray! Fractions is 10!

I mean, it's not like a proper birthday or anything. I've just made my 10th Fractions video. It's not worthy of cake, although now that I'm thinking about cake, I kind of want to lick your skin off like icing. Not in a weird way. In a cake way.

Fractions is a series of short videos featuring simply animated and soundtracked abstracts of stories and ideas. It can be as weird as hell, which is how I like it. I had been writing a story for the 10th video, but idiot-inspiration (idiotspiration?) struck me when listening to internet radio.

Manchester writers Anna Percy and Daniel Carpenter were banging on about literature on Fab Radio. I shoved a microphone at my computer speakers and, in my mind, dared them to say something silly. And then they started talking about pens.

Within two hours, I had edited their voices and written music for it. See this alongside the rest of the Fractions videos here. And give Fab Radio your time: they're lovely people.

Things that are easy and things that are hard (new Fractions video)

I recorded a new Fractions video. Watch it above or see it on the Fractions page. Either way, viewing is recommended with human eyes and not with, say, a fence or a heel or a country. Eyes. They're usually best for looking.

This video is about things that are easy and things that are hard.

TEN THINGS I FIND EASY.

1. Being silly.
2. Making people laugh.
3. Understanding maths.
4. Listening to music.
5. Empathy.
6. Simple punctuation.
7. Reading stories and books.
8. Eating too much food.
9. Typing.
10. Lists.

TEN THINGS I FIND HARD.

1. Window licking.
2. Winning and/or presenting Going For Gold.
3. Going back in time and un-inventing the cigarette.
4. Playing professional football for India.
5. Alchemy.
6. Giving birth to a kestrel.
7. Becoming NASCAR champion with a Meccano car.
8. Reciting the entire track listing of Now That's What I Call Music.
9. Shouting Swedish at Lego ponies.
10. This particular list.

I feel, on this new-look website, that we're really getting to know each other.

Further Fats: Fractions 6 ("Interestag")

Fractions 6: "Interestag"

I do this thing called Fractions. Small fragments of video. Not a lot of sense. I'll probably get locked up. Nurse, pass the lotion.

Here is the latest one. It's getting a bit frivolous, so the next one I do is bound to be deep and meaningful.

See the rest of the Fractions videos on the Fractions page of this site or on my Vimeo site.