Dear
Ingrid! It’s nice
that for Valentine’s Day you gave me a parrot that looks as though it was made
by Lada, but if it continues going on like this, we’ll soon be living in a zoo
instead of a house. Just remember how last year you gave me an ostrich and the
year before that two chimpanzees. I won’t even mention the elephant that we’ve
had in our garden for the past three years. Just imagine what could happen if
you gave me a crocodile next time. With my luck, it’s likely he’d bite off all
my fingers...
On 4
February 2010, while shooting a documentary about my life, my film crew and I
visited the premises of Jan Švankmajer’s animation studio “Athanor” in Knovíz,
where we are making an animated video set to Jan Budař’s song “Vydra”, part of
the CD Proměna. The video is being
shot using a combination of paper and animation, and, once again, I’m working
with Kačka Mikulcová (animator and creative collaborator). We shot
the documentary section here, with me walking around the studio and discovering
several...
Hello everyone, it's Lester here. Our trip to Prague was wonderful and the Hotel was lovely. Wesley and I really liked the goulash with dumplings followed by Czech beer and Jagermeister. When we went with Otto and the group to go to The Kino, we were left behind because the tram was full up. But we managed to find our own way to the kino. I think that Marketa is very funny because she talks very direct and I like it when she tells Wesley to stop talking ho ho ho. I found the animation workshop very interesting and it was great to see other people drawing their own monsters and giving them...