My Stupid Life

Hi, I'm Annie Wong. I'm an artist specializing in stop motion animation. I'm a bunch of other stuff too, but all you need to know is that here I shall post works in progress, ramblings, and stuff I like. var sc_project=4581113; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="19bfb810"; var scJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://secure." : "http://www."); document.write("");

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One of the things I love about working in this medium is the hands on approach to problem solving. Every artist will have their own unique bag of tricks to making the stop motion magic happen, and I think that's really cool as an expression of that person's brain and style. ⠀ 🧠⠀ In the case of this shot, my bag of tricks included monofilament, a variety of knives, pre-shredded cheese, a few slivers of fake cheese I cut and painted from wood, and a couple of hours of patience animating while The Smiths kept my ears company late at night. ⠀ 🧀⠀ The final results are always playful but part of the fun is in what never gets seen - the problem solving! Joy + problem solving = stop motion magic. ⠀ 〰️ TLDR: WATCH ME CUT THE CHEESE, YAY 🧀💨! 〰️ BTS work for the "86'd" episode of Chef Slang by @chefsfeed #chefsfeed (at Oakland, California)

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Who cut the cheese? ME!!! I'm not ashamed. I cut A LOT of it. Process shot of the block of colby jack cheese I animated for the 86'd episode of Chef Slang from @chefsfeed. ⠀ 〰⠀ If you look real close you can see that I painted some highlight and shadow tint onto the cheese. It's a little trick I learned in school - sometimes if I can't get my lighting exactly the way I want, I can fake it by painting directly onto the props 🎨🧀! ⠀ #chefsfeed (at San Francisco, California)

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Time for some food animation! This was a fun project I did for @chefsfeed a while back. I love stopmo food projects...for the obvious perk of being able to eat the leftovers, heheh! This was for season 2 of their webseries, Chef Slang, where they explain in animations different terms professional chefs use. ⠀ 🥣 This first episode is about the term, "86'd". Any guesses as to what that means? #chefsfeed (at San Francisco, California)

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🍩🙏🍩 Happy National Donut Day! Not just a day to get free donuts, it began as a way to celebrate the female volunteers for the Salvation Army who were serving doughnuts to soldiers in World War I (aka The Doughnut Lassies). 🍩 Also, if you're experiencing PMS, then today is your day! One of the funniest illustrations I've ever encountered is what I call, "sad donut woman," which you will find if you do a google search for "PMS." Swipe left to see what I'm talking about 🤦‍♀️😂. #nationaldonutday (at Oakland, California)

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Midterm elections are happening!!! I made this GIF sticker sharable on Instagram Stories so you can post your excitement about voting. Type "Headexplodie" in the GIF search menu and slap an animated sticker on yourself.⠀ 🇺🇸⠀ Swipe left to see how even the park creatures are exercising their civic duties ⬅️🐿🦆 #election2018 (at Oakland, California)

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"Popular music has always been a vehicle for talking openly about sex, but often that's happened in very exaggerated terms," says NPR' Music's pop critic Ann Powers, who wrote an essay about the album for the box set. "The brilliant thing Liz Phair did was to talk about sex in a normal tone, as if it were a part of her normal life."⠀ _⠀ Another clip from my fan-made claymation video for @lizphairofficial's song, "Glory."⠀ 👅👄🐍⠀ (at Oakland, California)

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"He's got a really big...tongue..." Clip from my fan-made claymation video for @lizphairofficial's song, "Glory." 👄 👅 “Girly Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set” is out today and can be streamed on online (For those of us that can't afford the full box set, heheh). I'm genuinely excited that I can finally hear the Girly Sound Tapes in remastered form and without the awful whoosh-whooshiness of tape to mp3 audio degradation which was the only way to hear it for years! Right there is how you know you're old - you actually give a 💩 about audio quality 😂, right? #lizphair #notstarwars (at Oakland, California)

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of @lizphairofficial's album, Exile in Guyville. I'm pretty psyched about this because 4 years ago I was listening to her song "Glory" on repeat. I was learning to animate with clay at the time and made it a personal project to do a claymation music video for the song. I grew up on 90s MTV so it was kind of like doing a tribute to the art and music that I loved. ⠀ ❤️🎶⠀ I'll share some clips of the animation over the next few days. For now, you can enjoy this GIF I made of Liz wearing the outfit from her "Never Said" video (swipe left to see the reference). I've uploaded it to @giphy so feel free to search it on your messaging apps whenever you want to share a GIF of a badass female singer/songwriter/composer!⠀ #LizPhair (at Oakland, California)

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Ahhh...so much satisfying red slime ❤️❤️❤️. I've learned a lot from working on this project and will be building the next round of #OvaryActions GIFs soon. I'm a little bit in re-charge and feedback mode and am interested in hearing from you all. If you have a sec:⠀ _⠀ 🎈What are menstrual euphemisms that you and your friends use? I'm especially interested in ones used outside of the United States!⠀ ⠀ 🗣 Let me know what your favorite aspects of this project has been.⠀ ⠀ 🕴🏻What's the most useless but awesome emoji? I mean, I really like this floating Rude Boy but wtf am I supposed to use it for? ⠀ _⠀ 👩‍💻 Comment below or DM me your thoughts! (at Oakland, California)

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"Surfing the Crimson Wave"⠀ 🔴⠀ This is one of my favorite menstrual euphemisms 🏄‍♀️❣️⠀ A few years ago I bought my first menstrual cup, a Lily Cup Compact, from @intimina. Because it was collapsable and came in a hot pink container, I imagined it popping out, bouncing around, and introducing itself to the world. This was definitely inspired by the fact that I was listening to @tacocatband's delightful song "Surfing the Crimson Wave" at the same time. It's a song filled with lyrics like:⠀ _⠀ "Call my girls see if they wanna go ⠀ take their minds off dumb aunt flo⠀ Sew a scarlet letter on my bathing suit ⠀ ‘cause I’ve got sharks in hot pursuit."⠀ _⠀ SO GOOD! I know periods can feel gross and downright awful a lot of the time, but this song really made me laugh about "that time of the month" and it's nice to have something to sing along to when "all I wanna do is cry, ask mother nature why why why!" ⠀ ⬅️ swipe left to listen to a clip of this super fun song!⠀ _⠀ This is one of the GIFs in my #OvaryActions series. More at OvaryActions.com. (at Santa Cruz, California)

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Posted the process for how I made the "Panty Painting" GIF to my IG stories today. Tap along to see how giant underwear and a tiny easel come together to make a work of animated art! Also, I spent way too much time trying to make a clothesline to show all the potential panties to be painted on...worth it, I guess? 😬 (at Oakland, California)

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"Panty Painting" 🔴 It would be comforting to think that whenever I experience a period leak that I haven’t “ruined” my panties, I’ve just coated a canvas in crimson! Painted a portrait in pink! Drawn a sketch in scarlet. We’re all just creating works of art down there 😌 _ One of my favorite outcomes from this project is having menstruators share their stories with me. Yesterday someone told me about how "you've got your 'period panties' (already bled on panties) and your 'regular panties' (pristine!)." Before starting this project, I got pretty mad at myself and my period for ruining "regular panties." Now I've lightened up about this...why get so upset/feel shame for a natural function of my body? Like, who is gonna care that much about my panties, really? _ This is one of the GIFs in my #OvaryActions series. More at OvaryActions.com. (at Oakland, California)

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Looks like Myrtle is ready to rumble! I'll be posting the process for how I built and animated this puppet on my IG stories today and tomorrow. Do you all like the behind the scenes stuff 📹? It's something I usually forget to document, but I usually find it pretty interesting when other creatives share their process. #ovaryactions (at Oakland, California)

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"Ovary Actions" 🔴 Meet my friend, Myrtle. She's a pretty chill uterus. Generally, she doesn’t make herself known, but when it’s that time of the month…she might have an ovary-action! _ The last time I had intense PMS mood swings, I stomped around and made angry faces at my boyfriend, then locked myself in the bathroom. The shame and stigma surrounding PMS kept me from just being open and honest about what I was experiencing. After a few minutes, I took a deep breath, pulled out my phone, and texted him (still in the bathroom): _ "Just a heads up, today is a hard day for me because my PMS is real bad," and sent him this GIF. I felt super relieved to get the feelings off my chest. Thankfully, he is the most awesome partner on the planet and responded with compassion (and SNACKS!). Plus, having this ridiculous GIF to share made me laugh. _ TLDR: So, can we just lighten up a bit on the PMS shaming? I’m not overreacting…I’m just ovary-acting! _ This is one of the GIFs in my #OvaryActions series. More at OvaryActions.com (at Oakland, California)

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Do you have any fun plans for April Fools tomorrow? Will you be making a batch of Poop Cookies to share with your loved ones (and maybe not-so-loved ones, too?) 🤔 WAIT, HOW DO I MAKE POOP COOKIES?! 🤗Don't worry, I got you covered: _ 💩 Poop Cookie Recipe 💩: • 1 package of chocolate cake mix • 1⁄4 cup butter • 3 oz cream cheese, softened • 1 egg • White Sparkle Gel • Candy Eyes _ Mix the ingredients and roll into logs. Coil into poop shapes and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Bake poops for 10-15 minutes in a 350*F preheated oven. After cooling, brush on white sparkle gel (for maximum poop effect) and add eyes and mouth. Enjoy! _ Animated 💩 lettering by @emilyras. 💩 Sound FX by Michael V. Flores. 🎵: "Valse Moderne" composed by George Fenton and John Leach. (at Oakland, California)

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Do you have any fun plans for April Fools tomorrow? Will you be making a batch of Poop Cookies to share with your loved ones (and maybe the not-so-loved ones, too)? 🤔 WAIT, HOW DO I MAKE POOP COOKIES?! 🤗 Don't worry, I got you covered: _ 💩 Poop Cookie Recipe 💩: • 1 package of chocolate cake mix • 1⁄4 cup butter • 3 oz cream cheese, softened • 1 egg • White Sparkle Gel • Candy Eyes _ Mix the ingredients and roll into logs. Coil into poop shapes and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Bake poops for 10-15 minutes in a 350*F preheated oven. After cooling, brush on white sparkle gel (for maximum poop effect) and add eyes and mouth. Enjoy! _ Animated 💩 lettering by @emilyras. 💩 Sound FX by Michael V. Flores. 🎵: "Valse Moderne" composed by George Fenton and John Leach. (at Oakland, California)

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Take a peek behind the scenes of how the Mother Nature's Gift animation was made today on my IG stories, all while being serenaded by the lovely Charlotte Austin as Barbie 🎙💁🏼‍♀️🎶 (at Oakland, California)