The Edge of Imagination

This weekend we took Azlan to the ArtPace annual Kids Day event. They had a bunch of great stations to make cool stuff. Azlan really enjoyed making a dino puppet with me from some random supplies at one of the creative workshop stations.


We had a blast being creative together. One of the workshops they had was put together by a guy named Jonny Villarreal. The station was appropriately called "The Edge of Imagination Station". It was a booth with cameras built into three stations where anyone could use the supplies on hand to create an animation instantly. People had a great time drawing with chalk, using bendy toys and magazine cutouts to create some very original/spontaneous animations.





I enjoyed talking with the creator of this contraption, as I was inspired to animate something. He shared his previous experiences with me and how he created this animation station with a friend of his who is also an artist. I am excited to see how this evolves. Check out a video created from all the animation entries during a festival in Corpus Christi.



I wanted to try my hand at making something there, but Azlan was more interested in the drums and craft table they had. Maybe next time.