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The Beard Of Love

I Used To Be A Superhero

About Me

My name is Mark Bell.
I make stuff.
I play bass in a band called Dogtanion .
I occasionally make noise.
I'm mostly quite quiet.
One time when I was in nursery a boy soaked me with his water pistol, so I spat on him.

A Word From Our Sponsor:This video put me hospital for three days:
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
This is a selection of my still work:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/13/2005
Band Website: thebeardoflove.co.uk
Band Members: Mark Bell and a rather fetching beard
Influences: Norman McLaren, Len Lye, Jan Svankmajer, Stan Brakhage, Chris Cunningham, David Shrigley, Michel Gondry... everything, nothing, this, and that.
Sounds Like: A man trying to escape a box by building a box around himself...
Record Label: Ha!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Songs & Stuff

I've decided to upload some bits and pieces I've had lying about on my computer for a bit, as well as something I just recently finished (Ode To A German Tourist), hopefully they'll give some of you a...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:59:00 PST

Glastonbury

Okay, so this is a little late, what with Glastonbury now being over, and it feeling like somewhat of a personal success (warm up gig excluded!), but Dogtanion received a little bit of press (woohoo!)...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:58:00 PST

Bleubird - Street Talk 2 EP (Free Download)

Bleubird has a new (free, might I add!) EP available to download at www.hiphopcore.net.The artwork features some scribbles by myself, and was arranged by Mr Scott Da Ros.For more information about Ble...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Sun, 11 May 2008 03:58:00 PST

Glastonbury

This time last week we (Dogtanion) were travelling down to Pilton Working Men’s club to perform in front of Michael and Emily Eavis, a selection of the Glastonbury Festival staff, and other indu...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:31:00 PST

Skin Cell Lives On...

Skin Cell will be screened in Roma, Eindhoven and Bucharest as part of Optronica's cinema programme touring a selection of AV festivals.If only I could fit myself in a DVD case...Mark...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:31:00 PST

Animex Audience Award 2007

Today I found out that Skin Cell won the Animex Audience Award, so a big thank you goes out to everybody who voted online and posted so many positive comments about it, it's nice to know there's an au...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:02:00 PST

Glastonbury

Ok, so aside from me failing to play a single song properly or well(!) Glastonbury was pretty good, luckily for me the rest of the band were on form, and consequently we got a lot of positive feedback...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:30:00 PST

Website

Ok so i've finally put together a website, it's nothing spectacular but it'll be a lot easier to update than the old thing i had (or at least i hope it will be) anyway it's up at www.thebeardoflove.co...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:04:00 PST

Regional RTS Awards

So Skin Cell won the Regional Royal Television Society Student Animation Award last night, which was nice, so I may be making an appearance at the national awards in London whenever they may be.I shou...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:39:00 PST

Skin Cell

I should probably explain that "Skin Cell" was produced using a flatbed scanner, there are no special effects applied to the images and every frame has been crafted through manipulating the scanning p...
Posted by The Beard Of Love on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:53:00 PST