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		<title>Hello</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=173</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, This is Will, logging in as Ian, after a long hiatus. I have been working on my site, and would welcome your visit. Wrongboy.com HOORAY! thanks very much for your kind attention. Yours sincerely, Will Bishop Stephens aka wrongboy theprodigalfrog billy no mates billy the kid the third best animator in britian (2006)]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation Show 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our graduation show will be open at the Royal College of Art between 23 June and 2 July, from 12pm to 9pm each day. Animation promises to be the fastest moving, most flickery medium on display and can be found underground in the lower gallery. Just ask a steward where the good stuff is.]]></description>
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		<title>You want beef?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been to Ronald McDonald&#8217;s house in Ahmedabad. He wasn&#8217;t in. His helpers did provide me with a McSashi Chicken, though. And fries, obviously.]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, handsome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been to Gandhi&#8217;s house. He wasn&#8217;t in. As I was walking down the path that leads past the house to a prayer garden, a young Gujurati man waved at me and said, &#8220;Hello, handsome.&#8221; Had ol&#8217; Gandhiji been around he would probably have had to hunger-strike for a fortnight in protest of such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I braved the streets and managed, with the help of two generous students, to accomplish one of my Indian shopping goals: tailored suit. We pulled up outside this plush looking glass building on a supremely dusty street. The sign read &#8220;Raymond&#8217;s Seconds&#8221;, which seems a bizarre for a bespoke tailor. Inside, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tall Tails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began teaching today. My students turned up at 2pm and require regular tea breaks, so this is probably the most comfortable job I ever had. So I&#8217;m planning to spend a little recreation time while I&#8217;m here. &#8220;What shall I do? Ah! The internet. The internet will know!&#8221;, I thought (utilising the popular philosophical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namaste!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the efforts of the local auto-rickshaw drivers I have arrived in NID unhurt. There was some incredible scenery during the journey, including crazy buildings, enormous rivers, giant wildlife, and three old men riding a rickety vehicle of their own construction the wrong way along the adjacent railway tracks. Most of my students are away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad a$$ kit</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the cinematographers I may be working with recommended I hire one of these gizmos. It allows you to use 35mm film lenses on a Sony HDV camera, so you get film-look focus, depth of field, and film-quality images. I&#8217;m too scared to find out how much it costs.]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs is an odd cheese</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumours that Disney may buy Pixar prompted poor metaphors in the Independent today. Who would have thought a cartoon factory might be worth $7,000,000,000? Animation is so hot right now.]]></description>
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		<title>&#2350;&#2375;&#2352;&#2366; &#2344;&#2366;&#2350; &#2352;&#2366;&#2350; &#2361;&#2376;, &#2350;&#2375;&#2352;&#2366; &#2328;&#2352; &#2348;&#2396;&#2366; &#2361;&#2376;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have begun learning Hindi. It is a lot like being on the phone to someone a bit boring and squiggling about aimlessly with a biro on a notepad. So far, my book has taught me to give a false identity and lie about the size of my house. What deception these clever squiggles can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hindi Beginning&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two weeks I will travel to India to teach young, gifted traditional animators how to weild 3D animation software, so they can usurp me when the international job market is a fairer place. I&#8217;m not exactly sure what I&#8217;ll be teaching, as I haven&#8217;t been told what resources the school has. However, at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Our Shorts</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=37</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of our films were screened at the National Film Theatre this morning as part of the Eat Our Shorts festival. It was good. I would have posted this information while the screening was still part of the future, but since this is the first ever &#8216;news&#8217; posting I thought it safest to ease in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=35</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The site now supports image uploading. I can&#8217;t take credit for this as I copied the code from someone else and haven&#8217;t even read it yet. It does work though. See this spiffy photo of my window at 07.00 this morning and wonder at the age of technological miracles.]]></description>
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		<title>Sofa so good</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been thinking I should leave the house more often. This afternoon I got cabin fever and had a good script-writing-frustration stomp around my room. I ended up slumping in the armchair that I never usually sit in, which turned out to be very useful. Right now I&#8217;m in the process of banging out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actors wanted: Obsessive-compulsive male and angry-beautiful female required for part-animated structuralist romantic comedy tragedy. Can pay expenses only. Must supply own lighting rig. So I finished the script. There&#8217;s now a plot. It even made sense to three out of four people that read it. On Saturday I showed my script to an actual, living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INT. REALITY &#8211; DAY</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=24</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh! Scriptwriting is so hard. My fixed-width font turned out to be nothing but a FRAGILE CRUTCH. Only two meagre pages of tap-tap-tapping revealed that I need to GET MY STORY STRAIGHT. Now where is my PAPER and HB PENCIL?]]></description>
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		<title>FADE IN:</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am about to begin writing the SCREENPLAY for my main graduation film, ADJUSTMENT. Script writing is easy; all you have to do is select a FIXED-WIDTH SERIF FONT and start typing all important nouns in capital letters. It'll be a breeze. I'm going to begin straight away. Right after publishing THIS MESSAGE, it's the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supper at Emmaus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<title>Transatlantic Doo-Wap-O-Mation</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a mysterious package in the post yesterday. Smelling the unmistakable musk of foreign promise, I tore into it and discovered a CD from The Diskettes, a three piece bossa nova/doo-wap band from across the pond. I saw them back in May when they played a couple of gigs in Shoreditch and, being a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposal deadline day! Time to add a little flesh to the fragile frame of my initial ideas&#8230; Film 1 – Adjustment: It is Sokurov&#8217;s Russian Ark crossed with a Sesame Street trip to a frankfurter factory. It is one quarter of Mike Figgis&#8217;s Timecode meets that bit in Baraka where they burn the beaks off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha and Oh, Meghana!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the historic first post of my graduation film production diary. When historians of the future finally e-unearth it they will point their slender cyber-fingers and exclaim excitedly, &#8220;Here! Here is where it all started to go wrong.&#8221; And then they will say, &#8220;Oooh, look! There&#8217;s a bit about us.&#8221; So. The state of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commission x10</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=7</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a repository for bad pun-based TV show ideas. With luck, some cretin from Channel 5 will offer me an obnoxious sum of money to produce one of them, allowing me to indulge once more in my true vocation, which I call &#8220;Ten-Ming-Vase Bowling&#8221;. Please add shows of your own invention as comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve forgotten the key, and now you&#8217;ll have to go all the way back down to reception for it</title>
		<link>http://www.animocity.co.uk/?p=2</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A convivial welcome to the revived Animocity website. Consider this an abstract, digital, parallel space to the scruffy animation studio on the fourth floor of the Royal College of Art Darwin Building. Please make yourself as comfortable as you can on one of the office chairs with lumbar-region defects of varying severity. Take some tea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squawking Heads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canaries 1Mb 3MbCatflap 1Mb 3Mb Here are two films that Meg and I made for MTV this summer. They were begun in June in a cloud of infectious naïveté, and finished in August on a tube train between Embankment and Westminster. Will kindly came on board for Canaries, delivering his début acting role. I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ianmackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copy 3Mb 8Mb Winner of several international awards, including Least Continuity and Most Visible Passers By, Copy premiered at the RCA ArtBar in Summer 2005. Based on an original concept by Julie Aveline (Nominated: Worst Walk Cycle in a European Picture) and directed by Ian Mackinnon (Winner: Least Artistic Integrity 2002, 2004), it was commissioned [...]]]></description>
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