Temporary Passport: An Animated Collaboration via Twitter & Facebook
My twitter friend Penny Goring (@triplecherry) and I have never met. She lives in London, I live in New York. I am not even sure when or how we started following each other. About a year ago, I was scanning my friends’ tweets and happened upon a link she had posted to a story she had written, “Temporary Passport.” I fell in love with her piece (and writing) instantly, and vowed to animate it. A year later, we finished the animation. Our collaboration on it was entirely through twitter and facebook messages, something I found entirely appropriate because that is the space in which we became acquainted with each other.
When people tell me, “social media is just a bunch of people posting pictures of their cats and desperately crying out LOOK AT ME PLEEEZ,” I point to this as an instance where social media can inspire and bring people together… and then i get out my Blackberry to upload a photo of my cat to facebook and beg my twitter followers to tell my I’m pretty.
Temporary Passport was first screened first at the Chaosmos 2010 Exhibition (Independents Liverpool Biennial 2010): View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK. It was also shown at The Oxford in Kentish Town on Beatnic Night: an article about the event on The Spectator’s Arts Blog.
Penny reading Temporary Passport live here. Penny’s writing here.
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haters gonna hate.
the truth remains the same, information is power, the internet makes it easy to be very powerful
Ashleigh, I love this – it was SO cool seeing it on a massive screen at The Oxford. May I have your permission to do the same at a literature, film, art & music night at the O3 Gallery in Oxford (the actual city not the pub :))?
Very best
Dan
Everything I do creatively these days is via Twitter & Facebook. I wouldn’t even be writing if it wasn’t for Twitter. I was a recovering alky who tweeted stories to herself in the early hours of sleepless nights. I didn’t realise anyone was reading my tweets, at first. Sometimes these twit/fb things manifest in the ‘real’ world as readings, books and now, this cool film of Ashleigh’s. I started following @ashleighBot because every 140 she tweets is jam-packed with originality & verve.