Hand-carved linocut animation

Mark sez, "This printed linomation (hand carved animation using Linoleum prints), was done using 296 individual pieces of carved linoleum which are 10 cm square each. This is a project for The Art of Lost Words. It's all about words in the English language and artists' interpretations of words that are not used so much anymore, and there are some pretty strange ones. I chose the word dehisce from a list of .ost words. 'Dehisce' means 'release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound.' It's made to a loop so it can go on forever! For YouTube I decided to loop it three times to show the gist of the looping. My friend Adam Dedman created the sound for the linomation."

Dehisce Linomation Print - Hand Carved Animation (Thanks, Mark!)

• [urederra]

  Dehisce’ means ‘release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound.

  I wouldn’t call dehisce an English lost word. It comes from latin: dehiscere to split open. And it is widely used in botany, and in other latin based languages.

• [urederra]

  … oh, I forgot. Pretty animation. I liked it.

• [dexter121uk]

  Cheers for the comments!. Yea Blood literally did flow, i cut myself a number of times, ahh.. here is the time lapse of it being carved:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b8XkTdFHlY

  hopefully i will do more, though i have a few other projects that need completing before another one is done. CHEEERS!.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  When your abdominal incision pops open and your guts spill out, it’s called a wound dehiscence.

• [DSMVWL THS]

  Amazing. I’ve wondered before if anyone had ever tried this. Nice to see it done, and done well.

• [HOTDAMN]

  I’d love to see it in higher quality. On youtube it looks like it could have been done with sharpies.

• [Dedalus]

  cheers urself – totally rocks – let me kno if u need any help ;)

• [jfrancis]

  Reminds me of an HBO pilot from the late 90′s

  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22NY+artist+Peter+Kuper%22+%22HBO+pilot%22&btnG=Search

• [andyhavens]

  Crazy beautiful. Mad, mad respect.

• [dexter121uk]

  been over a year but i have been busy, now working on some idea for a new project, i’ve emailed cory,, but very sure he gets many many emails.. but things are worth trying even with a slim chance… its very hard to figure out who to get feedback on the project idea.. as its so big.. big ideas get intimadating to start working on, as they can get out of control and not work if the start up is not done right.. so searching for feedback on if the idea is worth the start up in the first place.. if any of the other boingboing crew manages to read this and could help on this idea.. that is based off this my Linomation above but on a much larger scale i would be much appreciated..

• [Dedalus]

  thank god that the appreciation of art is swinging back towards “the work that went into it” and not the cheap gloss of mass production (does that even need to be said?) artists, get off ur computers – and start bleeding for your work again!!!!!!!
  “we” would like to see more of this (hard work, the blood is nice but optional)

• [SassafrassWinterSolstice]

  I’ve admired this piece of animation since I had first seen it on YouTube about a week or two ago. One of the most impressive facts about this creation is the amount of time and dedication that Mark Andrew Webber had exerted. Can you imagine spending 500 hours gouging small pieces of linoleum to make such a short animation?

  This was truly a labor of love.

  A little further research has revealed that the exhibit “The Art of Lost Words” had used the proceeds from sales of the artwork to benefit the National Literacy Trust. What more can you ask for?: smart conceptualized theme, wonderful execution on Mr. Webber’s part, and such an important charity being supported.

• [technogeek]

  Very pretty work. The sketches would work by themselves, but going through the extra step of making lino cuts out of them and printing the frames gives a nice texture to the image.

  FWIW, the only reason I know this particular word is that, for a while, Peachtree Software was advertising their products with a blushing (as in embarrassed) peach and the catchphrase “We’re positively indehisciant!” (I may have misspelled that, but you get the idea.) Eye-catching and memorable.

• [Frederico Freitas]

  This is an amazing animation! Ten years ago I worked on an similar animation for a brazilian tv channel. Check it out:

  http://www.vimeo.com/3250197

• [urshrew]

  @#1

  Yeah, I wanted to say the exact same thing, print is such a hard medium, to do this and do it well is very admirable.

• [ToddBradley]

  I hear this “lost word” – “dehisce” – more than most, because I have a rare inner ear disorder called superior semi-circular canal dehiscence. In short, part of my inner ear has burst open, releasing material into the brain.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_canal_dehiscence