Brighton, UK based animator Cyriak Harris creates some truly bizarre and surreal animation. Here’s an animation mix featuring of some of his work.

Also make sure to check out his fantastic music video Moo!

via WFMU

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Thanks to everyone who came out to our Last Minute Unholiday Party last night. From all counts our little experiment was a huge success.

Here are some photos that Lori shot with her brand new Canon Digital Rebel XTi.

A special thanks to Chris Messina and Tara Hunt for inviting us to have our event at Citizen Space and being such awesome hosts.

Oh and thanks to Violet for helping convince me to organize a party in 24 hours.

More photos from Violet Blue, Lane Hartwell, Mitch Aidelbaum, Veronica Belmont, Danger Ranger and mlis.

During the party a beautiful two page comic was created exquisite corpse style with a different artist adding each new panel. I have the original art which I’ll scan and post.

I had lunch today with Violet Blue and we were both talking about how there wasn’t much planned this weekend leading up to NYE. I mentioned that I had been thinking about organizing something, so I asked the Twitterverse if people would be up for an event on Saturday night and several people mentioned that they would be interested. Chris Messina and Tara Hunt even graciously offered up their Citizen Space offices.

So, tomorrow night, Saturday, December 29th we will be having Laughing Squid’s Last Minute Unholiday Party starting around 7pm at Citizen Space. Laughing Squid will be providing some beer and buying pizza, but please feel free to bring some more beer, wine, leftover holiday food, etc. and join us for some low-key socializing and geeking out.

This event is also kind of an experiment with social media. I’m not sending out invitations to individual people, but instead just posting the information to the Laughing Squid blog, Twitter, Facebook, Upcoming and Pownce, then letting it spread from there over a 24 hour period.

UPDATE: Here are some photos from the party.