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Daron

animators do it 24 times a second

About Me

hi! I'm Daron Nefcy. I'm an artist/ film maker currently attending school at CalArts for character animation. If you have the time please check out my art/films on my blog: http://darbobot.blogspot.com/and my website www.daronart.comMy 2nd year film, "Death by Blonde"

My Interests

painting, drawing, animation, cats, vegan food, cooking, writing, eating, listening to this american life

I'd like to meet:

unicorns, dinosaurs and nerds

Music:

The Fiery Furnaces, UnderWaterCityPeople, Radiohead, Bjork, DavidBowie, Smiths, YeahYeahYeahs, Beatles, Beck, Tenacious D,Velvet Underground, Pixies, Superargo, B-52s, Aqua Bats, The Unicorns, Decemberists, Gorillaz, Kinks, mount sims, Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart, Air, Cat Stevens,Clap your hands say yeah, Oingo Boingo, Doors, the microphones, the greenhornes, Guided by voices, IBOPA, Jimi Hendrix, Joanna Newsom, Johney Chsh, Led Zeppelin, Lifeguards, Mirah, Mice Parade, The New Pornographers (over and over again), Rasputina, Spoon, Devotchka img src="http://www.daronart.com/images/WebSite%20Fall%202006/gi rltowerSS.jpg"

Movies:

The Thief and The Cobbler (Richard Williams original unfinished version), Adaptation, HedWig and the Angry Inch, Amelie, Princess Mononoke, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums,South Park Movie, Spirted Away, Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure, Labyrinth, Saved, Donnie Darko, I 3 Huckabees, Baraka, Unico 1 & 2, being john malkovich, Heathers, Orrrgazmo, Pan's Labyrinth, Rear Window, El topo, holy mountain, Ratatouille, Harold and Maude

Television:

South Park, PeeWee's Play House, Wonder Showzen, Sailor Moon, Boondocks, Big Love, CLONE HIGH!!!!

Books:

anything written by Phoebe Glockner, Street of Crocodiles and Harry Potter

Heroes:

Captain Planet!

My Blog

out of body experience

hello. Winona and myself are making a short animated documentary. We're looking for people to interview, so if you've had an out of body experience and would like to share please contact one of us. ...
Posted by Daron on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:32:00 PST

Death By Blonde now online

hey! I just posted my 3rd year film "Death by Blonde" on myspace, youtube etc. check it out. ...
Posted by Daron on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:41:00 PST

Girly Comics

I was bored so I made some short comics...you can find these on my blog to!http://darbobot.blogspot.com/ ...
Posted by Daron on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST

blog

hey!  so I've decided to start keeping up with my blogspot blog: http://darbobot.blogspot.com/ here you'll find new art work... hopefully often. and in other news I've been working a lot at...
Posted by Daron on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:40:00 PST

June

we're French, can't you tell?So summer's been getting busy. I started interning for Mike Young Productions which has been fun. Lots of nice people. Been doing some hiking, reading, a little painti...
Posted by Daron on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:36:00 PST

installation

the Hive opening last saturday was super! I took some pictures of the installation I did... the 1st one is kind of a messy photo collage, trying to capture all sides of the walls. I had so much fun d...
Posted by Daron on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:32:00 PST

come visit me at the Hive this saturday!

I have a new installation at the Hive, this month only! In my opinion the Hive is the best gallery in town, come by and say hello this saturday :)!!!Featured Artist 1: LD Grant www.gutterfresh.comFea...
Posted by Daron on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:08:00 PST

DeVotchKa at the walt disney concert hall

DeVotchKa just about made my brain explode (heh heh heh) with there greatness. I really haven't seen a more talented band. Saul Williams, Timur Bekbosunov and everyone else who preformed with them w...
Posted by Daron on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:00:00 PST

Death by Blonde in the 14th annual Shorttakes film festival

My 2nd year film "Death by Blonde" will be playing in UCLA's Shortrakes film festival.Thursday May 24th at UCLAShorttakes is a festival of student film which was established by the UCLA Campus Events ...
Posted by Daron on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:21:00 PST

The 2007 Producers Show

"Death By Blonde" was chosen for the 2007 Producers show! yay! the show takes place this Thursday, May 10Film and Video Showcase 2007: Character Animation Producers ShowThe School of Film/Video pres...
Posted by Daron on Tue, 08 May 2007 05:08:00 PST