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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Life David Nixon's Surprising, Confessional, Must-Watch Animations

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:54 PM

Seattle artist/performer/musician/philosopher David Nixon is impossible to categorize. His talent knows no boundaries. His brain is a bag of fireworks. He's a storyteller who's always thinking of new ways to tell stories, and the stories he tells about his family in particular are surprising, heartbreaking, funny, and full of grace. Here's a story he told last year about his brother, which anyone who's ever had a sibling should watch right now:

Now he's working on a longer piece about his father—an LSD-taker, a mental-institution inhabitant, and the "powerful and charismatic leader in a sect of Japanese Buddhism in Seattle in the 1970s, with over 1,000 members taking guidance from him," Nixon writes. "And behind the scenes he's doing a lot of drugs and sleeping with a lot of the female members."

In order to finish this film, Nixon needs to raise some money. I know, I know, some people in this office get cranky about Kickstarter, but if you care at all about filmmaking, animation, storytelling, or human beings, this project has all the signs of being a worthy one. Watch:

If you want to pitch in, give here.

(I'm thinking I'm gonna do the $50 get-your-name-animated-in-the-credits option. Now I just need to come up with a title for myself. "Receding Hairline Haver"? "Gaylord Wrangler"? "Under-Producer"?)

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Awesome!! He taught my philosophy class at UW when he was in grad school, I had no idea this was happening. The class was one of my favorites!

Posted by FauxfauxAlex on June 26, 2012 at 6:38 PM

Just watched all 25 minutes or so of The Shelf. Worth every second. A true artist at work.

Posted by Gospodean on June 26, 2012 at 11:09 PM

I once fell under your,e fathers spell. I,m so glad I got out. I have a lot more respect for you. He sometimes gave me evasive answers. Everyone kept telling me what a far out guy he was. I had a feeling something just was not right. You are a very talented person. I heard Tina Turner and Suzannie Vega have gone titan.

Posted by proudtitan on July 22, 2012 at 1:08 AM