And after much Pain:
An Animation for Donald Johnson’s song Pain. I made over 2,000 individual images iin Photoshop in an attempt to make something like a handmade digital animation. I call the characters cogs. They aren’t cats and they aren’t dogs and they aren’t people. They are part of a narrative machine.
Song written and sung by Donald Johnson
Music arranged, played, and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares
Art and Animation by Alex Itin
A rolling stone, gathers no grapes.
I think this might be a small ode to Hemmingway’s Snows of Killimangaro? Anyway the gag seems to be working and the moral is keep your eyes ahead of you.
That was a lot of petals to move. Now to master flight.
She says, “What’s that ugly thing? Are you making cherries?” And I think, “No I’m destroying the world.” But I say, “Well yeah, I guess it could be a cherry tree. Do you suppose I could draw Donyo as a bird? A little thing with wings and a human head?” “That sounds ugly,” She says. “I think it will be funny,” I say. So tune in later this week to see the flying cog.
Check Mate now King me.
This clock is happy and noon and midnight.
This accidental detail from the Wonder Wheel I’m animating sort of reminded me of the work my dad was making when I was quite young. 
I saw a singing god eat the world and then suddenly I couldn’t see him, or hear him, or anything until I see a singing god…
