How to Win Friends and Influence People
[ animation | books | dale carnegie | drawing | narrative | props | sculpture | self-help | translation | video ]
Animation & Sculpture Series, 2010 – In Progress
I fall into Dale Carnegie’s 1937 book How to Win Friends and Influence People and am mentored by the author, who gives me advice and some tools to help me deal with people. I consider every part of the book How to Win Friends and Influence People as material for the animation: The words. The author. The style. The physical object. I also see myself – the reader – as a material. The project plays with the self-help genre by acting out Dale Carnegie’s book. Is it ok to not be ok?
Funded (in part) by a director's grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT and the Peter de Florez Fund for Humor
The animation playing inside of Dale's book How to Win Friends and Influence People. 
Use Jess's ears to help you listen better. The ears have speakers in them that play audio from the animation. 
Fishing for friends at the MIT Media Lab Complex (part of the show Something Like a Proposition).
Cheeseburger detail.