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Emily

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About Me

Emily Nelson has graduated from uni (with a Bachelor of Animation). She is currently working as a freelance animator/illustrator/compositor/artist/graphic designer. Emily also works as an art model and is trying to save up to travel this year! She will be travelling to Japan and Europe in June.
Emily loves: Bjork, playing trumpet, animating, painting, being creative, Japan, dancing to live music, jazz, Japanese and Moroccan food, Pomeranian’s (aka my pet doggy Pommy), music videos, hoola-hooping, the circus, jellyfish, lions mane, snorkelling, the rainforest/beach/waterholes, bike riding, drawing, contemplating, dreaming etc…
(Very New) YOU MUST CHECK OUT - This fantastic new composition 'Vacuum' by Thomas Green! Click here to go listen It also features some beautiful trumpet playing by Clint Allen AND the voice is someone...you may recognise. The piece is for an animation I worked on this year... so turn your sound up and listen to the music!
Keep an eye on my blog for all of my stories!
NEW NOTE: I have alot of my art up on http://emyawards.blogspot.com/ so go check it out if you want newer updates etc...
You can also EMAIL me at: [email protected] for more informatiON!

My Interests

I love watching and making quirky animations and art!!
I have animated for live concerts of 2 bands in Brisbane (Seventh Chapter and Collusion), so am interested in doing a bit more of that! I am very interested in music videos! and creative commercials.

Trumpet, animations, art!, painting, crazy music, dancing, pomeranians, travelling, japan, tea, japanese food, cakes, bike rides, drawing, my funny animation friends, hot musicians, pomeranians, snorkelling, daggy beach time, my computer, Moroccan food, little shoes, buttons, scarves, pockets, erotic fiction, james jean, fishing, Russia, hoola-hooping, lions, owls, jellyfish, the circus, escaping reality...

I'd like to meet:

Id love to meet anyone who is interested in music or art and exploring and experimenting and telling interesting stories!

Music:

I LOVE BJORK! Lately I’m listening to:
Múm, Michael Jackson - Off the Wall, Soundtracks – Virgin Suicides, Darjeeling Limited and Life Aquatic.
Also enjoy: Acoustic Ladyland, Air, Midnight Juggernauts, Architecture in Helsinki, TV on the Radio, Bob Marley, Sting and the Police, Debussy, Branford Marsalis, Chic Corea, Collectif Cinestezic, Coltrane, Debussy, Every man and his Llama, Fat Mama, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock, Hoodangers, Jamiroquai, Jimi Hendrix, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Mr Bungle, Roy Hargrove, Russle Gunn, Soweto Kinch, Wynton Marsalis…
experimental, jazz, brass ensembles, trumpet, reggae, impressionist… something fresh etc… etc…

Movies:

Amelie, The Science of Sleep!, The Darjeeling Limited, Spanish Apartment, Russian Dolls, Thumbsucker, Juno, Marie Antoinette, Virgin Suicides, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Romeo and Juliet, Catch me if you Can, The Departed, Garden State, Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, Requiem for a Dream, Frida, Kill Bill, The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Miyazki Films (especially Totoro), The Nightmare before Christmas, transformers ...

Television:

Cartoons I watch: Family guy, American dad, Simpsons, Futurama, Daria, Mission hill, Harvey birdman, Fairly Odd Parents, Corniel and Bernie, untalkative bunny, Southpark, Moral Orel, Home Movies, Aqua teen hunger force, Sealab, etc...
Fave TV: Scrubs, The Office, Trading Spouses.

Books:

"I have a bed made of Buttermilk Pancakes" by Jaclyn Moriarty...
"Kafka on the Shore" Haruki Murakami
Harry Potter

Heroes:

Partizan Lab
Motion Theory
Picture Drift
James Jean
Tiffany Bozic
Si Scott
Frida, Chagall, Klimt, Magritte,
Lucinda and Pommy!!!
Me and my bestest pal Pommy hanging out!

My Blog

blog transfer

Hello to my faithfull readers! hahahahaha   haha  Well anyway... if anyone ever checks this thing and is sad that I dont have any new blogs... I have been writing a few blogs on my Blog...
Posted by Emily on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:29:00 PST

almost done, its closing time

Chapter: LastThis is the last chapter of my university blog. *contemplates life*  excuse me if my writing is socially retarded... as I have spent 6 months in solitary confinement, or as some may ...
Posted by Emily on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:10:00 PST

work experience

I've been having a weird time getting through this last semester& This week I have had a lot of life modelling jobs around the place&Tuesday night: at ..:South Brisbane and one of the drawers gave me ...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:25:00 PST

Current Fantasies

Playing in my mind:Retiring EarlyLiving fairly humbly and painting and gardening for the rest of my life. Spring/summer afternoon... flowers, herbs, vegetables, shady trees, soft green grass... a...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:40:00 PST

Thrush-bird

I havent written any blogs in a while... Mainly because I have been very tired and busy working on my animated film! Only a few more months of uni left... and then I'm free! ... to do something or oth...
Posted by Emily on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:18:00 PST

Ferry ride to Kangaroo point

It was a grey morning, a puddle filled the corridor, she watched the clock tick by. Cold rain splattered and streaked through the day.She traipsed across the soggy grass.The smell of mud, earthy.Waiti...
Posted by Emily on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:01:00 PST

vulture men

A skinny man in black track pants, a black jersey jacket with racing stripes down the sleeves and a black beanie... seems to be following me tonight. He walks passed me in the street. The same perso...
Posted by Emily on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:43:00 PST

Melbourne and home

I Just got home from Melbourne and ate a big bowl of spaghetti. There are a few good things about being home...  but I always feel like the plane landing in Brisbane is me entering a bi...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:32:00 PST

Melbs

Hello... its so LOVELY  ... to be in Melbourneum just a brief note jotting session... a slightly drunken one... dairy allergy, forgot my camera, freeezing cold, nice vibe, wandering, pondering, d...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:31:00 PST

pommy my love

My dog is turning my hair grey...I'm pretty sure that saying about pets making you live longer... is not true... infact I think that they must shorten your life span. Today has been a hectic day ...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:42:00 PST