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From Wikipedia:

Ivan Maximov (Russian: Иван Максимов) is an artist, professional animator and director.

Ivan Maximov was born on 19 November 1958 in Moscow.[1] He studied photography at the Biophysical Institute in Moscow till 1976. From 1976 - 1982 Maximov studied at the Physical-Technical Institute in Moscow. He worked as an illustrator for various magazines and from 1982 to 1986 he was an engineer at the Russian Space Research Institute. Between 1986 and 1989 Maximov took advanced studies in Film Directing and Script writing.

Starting 1995 he worked as "virtual studio IVAN MAXIMOV" where he set up his studio at home to work on film, video and computer animation. He worked as a caricaturist for VREMYA mn and in 2000 and 2001 he worked as a caricaturist for VREMYA NOVOSTEY.

In 2003, Maximov created the computer game Full Pipe[2] at PIPE-STUDIO.

In 2003 Maximov began teaching film directing and script writing at school-studio SHAR and VGIK.

In 2007, Mr. Maximov completed his latest work Rain Down from Above.

A bit of personal bragging: DAVID BYRNE CONCERT LAST NIGHT. Those of you who know me in the analog world know my love of the former Talking Heads frontman, so it's no surprise that I would cough up however much I did to sit in the dark and listen to him do his thing. I saw him in '04 in Rome (I think it was the Grown Backwards tour?) and swore I would see him whenever I could. This show was promoting the Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, which I linked to because you can stream the whole album digitally. It's a collaboration with Brian Eno, which meant that they played a selection of old Talking Heads songs which were also a collaboration with Eno. Which means awesomeness. Fantasy-goal of dancing to live performances of Life During Wartime, Houses In Motion, The Great Curve and Once In A Lifetime fulfilled.

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I think I have mentioned my lack of funds on this blog. I've decided to use this time to make a short animation along the lines of the squid animation I did in college (which I perennially lose every time a computer dies and therefor cannot link to). I am going to animate the man in a ditch drawings into a short piece.

I decided this when I woke up this morning. I have my best ideas before noon.