Curated By Part 3: johnny Kelly

Johnny Kelly, a graphic designer from Ireland. I know him as the man who made the procrastination video. To me when I saw this video years ago, was a reassurance that I knew I was in the right path, this was so inspirational to me and has always been something I have looked back on for inspiration, and research. Just one of those things that you show all of your friends even if they aren't in a creative field, and they always love it, who wouldn't. Johnny Kelly Talk about how he was inpired by comics to enter into animation and showed us Radioheads music video for pyramid song made by Shynola. He said this was the reason he went into animation. As soon as he said radiohead, I got excited, 85% of the time when im working im listening to radiohead and they inspire me so much. Kelly describes this as emotional art, which I liked the sound of. Johnny showed us a numerous videos that had inspired him, including a bit of a disturbing piece that involved naked screaming children that were being put into a van, which he introduced by saying "it's properly too early for this" He then went on to telling us about how to apply graphics to story telling and when your animating something, you always have to question why is this being animated? Why does this have to be animated? is this a story that can only be told in animation? And that animation is also a convosational starter. Back to the Start from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

The Back to the start animation is amazing. I also really enjoyed watching the making of it. kelly describes himself as a list monster, he loves making lists and fills his sketchbooks up with them. He also talks about the interactivity in the 80's talking about the storybooks which you can choose your own adventure, and how they interested him.

Back to the Start - Making of from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

"One of the hardest things is to balance between the work you want to make and the work you need to make to make a living"

Nike asked 78 artist to Challange the function of a pair of nike shoes. John began by stripping all function out of the shoes. Buying a pair of clogs from ebay, he painted them as a nike shoe. Removing all function from the shoe.