Here is Patrick doing what he does best. Also, if you want to learn more about him, read this great aol article.
Category: Things We Like… A Lot
Patrick Boivin and At-At
“When I was a kid, there were two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.” (Patrick Boivin)
Patrick Boivin Does it Again!
Jon Favreau himself twitted this… “You need to see this if you like Iron Man or babies.”
Patrick Boivin in Numbers
This is Patrick Boivin’s latest short. As you can see, he had fun with weapons this time around. Especially their going off in the midst of a lovers’ quarrel.
Also, we wanted to give you some of Boivin’s traffic numbers on his Youtube Channel :
Youtube Street Fighter, 7,298,301 views
Iron Man vs Bruce Lee, 5,880,880 views
Ninja’s Unboxing, 1,113,400 views
Happy Meal, 1,979,430 views
Transformers-Jazz with a General Problem, 2,411,137 views
Total Upload Views: 62,004,231
Patrick has something quite big in store. Sit tight ’cause it’s gonna be awesome!
Here’s Kaveh Nabatian’s Reel
Director’s Reel from Kaveh Nabatian on Vimeo.
Méduses from Numéro#
It’s the new Numéro# clip. Bonzai Studio did the VFX. They of course put a lot of stuff that wasn’t there in the first place. At any rate, the clip is cholk full of atmosphere as are Numéro#’s songs.
Bonzai’s new web site is in the works, but here’s a sneak peek.
Woolf + Lapin in Cali.
It’s always a good time to come to California. If you look hard enough you can feel the remnants of Bukowski, of Carver, of Dogtown, heck even Mr. Hubble if you go high enough into the hills.
LA is always special because it’s about the pinnacle of sacrifice and achievement. It’s about high how high you can go and stay there. Doing it your own way. Getting noticed. Breaking out.
It’s not such a stretch to say that’s why astronomers came here and perfected the art of star gazing. Because those who came here say California offers a unique view to the universe. Unlike any other, in fact.
Like Hubble and his study of the stars, we look to the movie-making machine that makes stars all the way down here. And at the end of the day when the sun goes down all over this city, there’s something unavoidably dreamy and magic about it.
But what if there’s another dream out there? Another kind of magic? A whole new universe to play with? That’s why Woolf + Lapin is in California.
Accompanied by Patrick Boivin, Woolf + Lapin went through the usual rounds of meetings with LA’s top producers. But also visited San Francisco to meet up with Google and Youtube. We can’t say what they’re brewing up, but it’s gonna blow the socks right off every one.
Here’s Monsieur Monsieur Boivin at Google posing with the emblems of the different development phases of the Nexus One phone.
For his part, Patrick has a few more things in the works. We can’t say what quite yet. But it’s that magic we’re talking about.
Yeah, it’s always a good time to come to Cali.
Dancer Bernard Martin in Danièle Desnoyers’ Dévorer le Ciel
After more than eight years of touring and dancing for Edouard Lock’s La La La Human Steps, dance star Bernard Martin collaborates with choreographer Danièle Desnoyers. She was given carte blanche by Danse Danse to create this new piece, which is apparently a huge departure from the more multidisciplinary approach of her earlier work. Her new piece for six dancers is among the most anticipated events of the season.
Favorite quote lifted from Danse Danse website: “…raw, urgent, invigorating, mid-way between strangulation and freedom, restriction and escape.”
(Starting today thru 16th, Salle Pierre-Mercure)
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre Jury Member @ Ottawa International Animation Festival
We are proud to introduce Woolf + Lapin’s new talent—trailblazing filmmaker Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. She’s been invited to be part of the jury for the 09 edition of the Ottawa International Film Festival, the biggest fest of its kind in North America.
Joined on the phone this morning, she said she was anxious to get together with her fellow jurors and see the buzz and talent in the animation world right now. She’s also presenting her very personal Passages in the Québec My Love series, right along Patrick Boivin’s Indochine videoclip Playboy.
Marie-Josée exploded on the scene a few years back with her remarkable film, McLaren’s Negatives (2006), combining documentary, drama and animation like few filmmakers before her.
The film got noticed fast and established her as an emerging talent, some even comparing her to Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi. McLaren’s Negatives has won more than twenty awards the world over. And one award she cherishes and keeps on her desk is the Jutra she won for the film.
She has since directed the non-animated film Post-Partum, a very personal film about womanhood and birth, both are recurring themes in her growing body of work. She cites experimental filmmakers Leighton Pierce and Stan Brakhage as inspirations, and these of course are second only to, Mr Experiment himself, Norman McLaren.
Among her upcoming projects, Marie-Josée is writing a feature-length animation film on Claude Jutra and is in pre-production on Femelles, a very inventive take on working moms using her signature style as always.
Woolf + Lapin’s Drop-In at Tony Hawk’s 900 Films
Woolf + Lapin was recently in Southern California and had the pleasure of hanging out at Tony Hawk’s installation in Vista, north of San Diego. Though we didn’t get the pleasure of meeting Tony in person we were given a tour of the place by head of production Irene Navarro and Angela Rhodehamel. We visited the offices, (Hawk has a #23 signed Bulls jersey of Mr. Air himself behind his desk) as well as the warehouse area where ramps take up most of the space where employees get to go for a skate and test the merch…
Incidentally, it is this very warehouse space that director Patrick Boivin will use to film a spot for an upcoming Tony Hawk product.
Hawk has been a skate icon since he was fourteen. And he has branded his pro skater name prolifically : video games, decks, shirts, vitamins, websites (check out shredordie.com), his own skateboard team Birdhouse, his production company 900 films to his own radio show. But what’s most impressive is his Foundation, which promotes and finances public skateparks in low-income areas across the United States.
Volunteers of the Tony Hawk Foundation like in the image below are responsible for the building of over 450 skateparks in the US.
“If it’s done right, a skatepark project can teach young people a lifelong lesson in the power of perseverance, and remind adults that kids with funny haircuts and pierced lips not only can be good people, but also can get things done.”
Ride on!
