About this project
For as long as I can remember I have been wanting my sculptures to really come to life. I have made two short stop-motion animations in the past and I would like to create many others that will, with the proper equipment and materials, become more sophisticated every time.
For my KickStarter project I would like to raise $2800 or more to create the next Future Islands music video for the song, "Walking Through That Door," from their new album, "In Evening Air," in which I also created the cover artwork for. I have known Future Islands for 7 years now. We started a band together in college called Art Lord And The Self-Portraits, and the guys went on to become Future Islands thereafter. They are truly amazing. I have been doing artwork for their albums ever since they started, and it would be an honor to create their next music video!
I will use stop-motion animation techniques and I will solely create the puppets, sets and props. Upon receiving sufficient funding for the video I plan on purchasing professional armatures for the skeletal infrastructures, and making a visit to the store, The Complete Sculptor, to purchase mold making and casting supplies for the puppets to ultimately have complete movement and flexibility created. I will also need to purchase lumber and various nick knacks for the set design I have planned for the characters to interact within.
I received a video camera for my birthday last year so a big cost has been taken care of, but there is still a lot to purchase to make this as beautiful and poetic as the song is and for what I have in mind. I will create and shoot the whole video in my apartment and would like to have the project completed by early September. The sooner I receive the funds, the sooner I can conceive this fantastic song's visual component and share it with the fans of Future Islands, Art Lord and The Self-Portraits and Kymia Nawabi.
Lets get together and make this happen!
To visit the art of Kymia Nawabi please visit:
www.kymianawabi.com
To visit the Future Islands website please visit:
http://www.myspace.com/futureislands
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 16, 2010.
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On the inside cover of the "Walking Through That Door" DVD there will be a special thanks portion where your name will appear!
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A signed copy of the music video on DVD in which your name will appear on this inside cover in the special thanks portion. Please add $13 for over seas shipping.
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A signed copy of the music video on DVD in which your name will appear on this inside cover in the special thanks portion. Plus! I will draw your portrait on a 3" x 3" piece of bristol board (you will send me a hard copy, not a jpg, photo of your face to draw from please). Please add $13 for over seas shipping.
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A signed copy of the music video on DVD in which your name will appear on this inside cover in the special thanks portion. Plus! A small figurine sculpture from one of the characters (to be decided) taken from the original mother mold. Please add $13 for over seas shipping.
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A signed copy of the music video on DVD in which your name will appear on this inside cover in the special thanks portion. Plus! A signed 8" x 8" drawing on paper from the conceptualization of the video. Unframed, sorry folks, but I have no money to frame the drawings, hence, this KickStarter project. Please add $13 for over seas shipping.
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A signed copy of the music video on DVD in which your name will appear on this inside cover in the special thanks portion. Plus! A 10" x 10" drawing on paper mounted to a wooden panel box-frame. There will be a selection to choose from. First pledge, first serve. Please add $13 for over seas shipping.
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Kymia Nawabi, a first-generation Iranian-American was born in San Diego, CA and raised in Durham, NC. Nawabi is a multi-disciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, sculpture and short stop-motion animation. She received her MFA (2006) in drawing and painting from the University of Florida, and her BFA (2003) in drawing and painting from East Carolina University. Kymia currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Nawabi was recently invited as a visiting artist in support of her work in the group show, Tragic Sense of Life, at The Fine Arts Gallery of Westchester Community College, in Valhalla, NY. In 2009, her work was also exhibited at the Queens Museum, International Biennial, as well as at Aljira during her Emerge Residency in Newark, NJ. Kymia also received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant for drawing and was awarded her second Swing Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council last year. A selection of Nawabi’s drawings can be seen at the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program in NYC. For more information on Kymia Nawabi's work please visit www.kymianawabi.com.
