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Platform Snaps
I’ll share my thoughts on the Platform festival in a bit, but first, a few snaps from this past week. As you can probably tell from these few photos, it was quite the star-studded deal. If you want to check out even more photos, FPS magazine has two great sets posted onto Flickr: one by Jason Vanderhill and another by Tamu Townsend. The official Platform photographers also have hundreds of photos posted onto Picasa. Also if you have other photos that really need to be posted up here, you can send them to me.
![Don Hertzfeldt and PES](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_a.jpg)
Indie animation is alive and well in the States thanks to guys like Don Hertzfeldt (l.) and PES.
![Gerben Schermer and George Griffin](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_b.jpg)
Holland Animation Film Festival director Gerben Schermer (l.) and legendary indie animator George Griffin
![JJ Sedelmaier border=](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_c.jpg)
JJ Sedelmaier is startled to see me in person as he reads Cartoon Brew on his laptop.
![Jerry Beck and Basil Wolverton](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_d.jpg)
Jerry Beck moderates a fine panel about Basil Wolverton. Panelists from left to right are Monte Wolverton, Kenny Scharf and Marv Newland.
![Guilherme Marcondes and Miwa Matreyek](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_e.jpg)
Innovators like Guilherme Marcondes and Miwa Matreyek help make the LA animation scene exciting nowadays.
![Smith and Foulkes](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_f.jpg)
The amazing directing duo Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes with PES’s producer Sarah Phelps.
![Eliza Jappinen](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_o.jpg)
Finnish animation artist Eliza Jäppinen was a troublemaker at my Tom Oreb lecture but we made up after she gave me one of her insanely cool business cards.
![Bill Plympton, Dave Levy and John Andrews](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_g.jpg)
I have no idea what Bill Plympton (l.), ASIFA-East prez Dave Levy and commercial producer John Andrews are discussing but judging from Plympton’s hand gesture, it’s pretty important.
![Ward Jenkins, Jerold Howard, Musa Brooker](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_h.jpg)
Laika hand-drawn animation director Ward Jenkins tries to convince stop motion animators Jerold Howard and Musa Brooker that they’re still relevant in today’s CG world.
![Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_i.jpg)
Stop-mo powerhouses Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero of Screen Novelties fame are captured in the middle of a delicate business negotiation.
![Kenny Scharf](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_k.jpg)
It was invigorating to see painter Kenny Scharf and other artists from non-animation disciplines participating in the festival.
![Lisa LaBracio](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_q.jpg)
Plympton collaborator Lisa LaBracio gets her twisted kicks by stealing the hats of important animation historians.
![Biljana Labovic](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_p.jpg)
Installations and performance art were big items at this year’s Platform as evidenced by this balloon installation created in Biljana Labovic’s hair. Jessica Plummer (c.) and Pat Smith don’t know quite what to think.
![Gunnar Strom and Steve Segal](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_l.jpg)
Gunnar Strom (l.) tells Steve Segal about all of the wondrous sights to see in Norway…all three of them.
![Danny Antonucci](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_m.jpg)
Danny Antonucci (right) and A.K.A. co-workers Hyuck (c.) and Dan Sioui admire vintage motorcycles hanging in the air at this fine Portland bar.
![Jennifer Shiman](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_n.jpg)
Jennifer Shiman, creator of the popular Flash series 30 Second Bunnies Theatre and her fiance.
![Paul Harrod, Joanna Priestley and Brooke Keesling](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_j.jpg)
Animators Paul Harrod, Joanna Priestley and Brooke Keesling could have just eaten the most amazing pizza ever but opted to order other items on the menu.
![Peter Dougherty, Ruth Lingford, Susie Wilson](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platform_t.jpg)
CN exec (and former MTV exec) Peter Dougherty, filmmaker and Royal College of Art instructor Ruth Lingford, and Projector Festival director Susie Wilson. Photo by Biljana Labovic.
UPDATES:
*Frederator exec Eric Homan points out that there’s a Flickr set from Frederator’s Drinking & Drawing event. And remember, at the end of the day, we’re all one big happy family in the animation world.
* Filmmaker and historian John Canemaker has sent in a couple pics from his presentation with Marge Champion, the dancer and choreographer who provided the live-action reference for Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
![John Canemaker and Marge Champion](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platformcanemakera.jpg)
In this second pic, Canemaker writes that, “The child in the shot is Ava Jenkins, Ward Jenkins‘s little girl. Marge is telling her that she once worked with a girl at MGM named Ava: Ava Gardner!”
![John Canemaker and Marge Champion](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platformcanemakerb.jpg)
* And here’s a tip: if you’re not feeling well and have a long lecture coming up about Tom Oreb, you probably shouldn’t be doing this right before your presentation. The photo is by Matt Tamaru who’s posting some nice shots on his Flickr, including pics of Joel Trussell, Bill Plympton and Will Vinton.
* Brooke Keesling has sent in a couple terrific photos. This first one has from left to right: Brooke, Jerry Beck, Nick exec Eric Coleman and PBS exec Linda Simensky.
![Brooke Keesling photo](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platformbrooke_a.jpg)
And this one is Brooke, myself, John Canemaker and Ward Jenkins.
![Brooke Keesling photo](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/platformbrooke_b.jpg)
* Ward Jenkins has posted his festival photoset onto Flickr.
* A nice Platform photo set by Eric Urban