Pictoplasma... This is going to be a LONG post.

PictoPlasma 2011, it was held in Berlin as per usual and it wasn't bad, there was a vast selection of spokes people some of whom I preferred more than other's and Berlin, as a whole, ended up being much different than I imagined. The Pictoplasma festival ran from Wednesday, April 6th till Saturday, April 9th, within that time me and my comrades ventured around both Berlin's very own Alexanderplatz, it's shop's, the Pictoplasma workshops and finally the festival itself.

Incase you missed out, here's a list of all the artist's who spoke about their work, the same artist's also had  galleries scattered around Berlin... Sounds good, the trek around Berlin wasn't, my feet are still f**ked.

1) Jeremyville  2) Matt Jones  3) Rilla Alexander  4) Roman Klonek  5) Juliana Pedemonte  6) Pic Pic Andre  7) Mcbess  8) Nomint  9) Christoph Niemann  10) Ryan Quincy  11) Motomichi Nakamura  12) Sfa-Zentrale  13) Matias Vigliano  14) Amandine Urruty  15) Mark Jenkins  16) Blackheart Gang  17) Nick Cave  18) Doppeldenk  19) El Senor  20) Mark Michalowski  21) 3753% Tordal  22) Siggi Eggertsson  23) Jeremy Dower  24) Ben & Julia 25) Keita Takahashi

I didn't attend every lecture, truth be told I find it hard to tolerate lectures, especially when the hostess is asking the most STUPID questions and also when the artist's themselves aren't very enthusiastic about their own work. It was disappointing to see that even though David O'reilly was there, he didn't give a lecture, in fact I much preferred the morning programmes to the actual lectures, bar one or two, it's not that they were bad... Okay well a few were, but the programmes were more appealing to me, it was an hours reel of animation each morning for 3 days and something I thoroughly enjoyed though the experience of seeing these animations in a theatre is something which quite frankly, can't be mimicked through online viewing.

Programme 1 was the only reel I missed and that was due to a late night, that said, what I caught a glimpse of was a sure sign that what was to come, wouldn't be bad, in fact, quite the opposite, for those interested, if anyone, these are the animation's which played through Programme 1...

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, The Silhouettes, Look 4U, Pixels, How Your Money Works, The Time Travellers, Between Bears, Giant, Rubika, All That Cats, Gluko & Lennon, Sky High, Balloons, Birdboy and Wisdom Teeth.

Now I only caught the end part of Birdboy and it was a deep plot as far as I'm aware, if you can watch it,  Wisdom Teeth on the other hand is a straight up comedy. Gluko & Lennon I've seen before and again it's good, but it showed that the festival didn't focus primarily on one genre it was mixed and set the scene as to what was to be expected, though spoiler, it was mostly comedy.