Here is a new character created for a future time when the whole world will be covered in water and humans are but a silicon chip memory, where sea-life has evolved and adapted to billions of tonnes of rubbish left behind by mankind. It's a Sony Lightfoot...
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| Sony Lightfoot |
...which has become a dominant crustacean with an indestructible aluminium walkman housing protecting it from most of the food-chain. And it's well disguised amongst the 2000 metre deep layer of plastic and metallic rubbish that makes up the seafloor.
This is a companion character to the Crabboombox also created for this dystopian future.
As Kuki Koori shows are live-drawn the characters don't get used for performances but their spirit definitely influences the more frantic scribbles that occur onstage. The crabboombox even talked itself into a starring role on the panel of my custom midi controller so it's now present at all gigs.
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| Crabboombox |
But hopefully our world is not heading this way. It's easy to think that a million years is a long time away but it looks the next 12 years could be the turning point for our climate if we don't make some big changes to emissions. I'm thinking that my best chance to make a difference is focussing my film and animation work on renewable energy - but that's another blog post.
Time to catch up on some sleep after an allnighter capturing birrung pics, specifically of the stars of Orion and the Barnards Loop nebula.
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