Animation 'loosely based' on "The Owl in Daylight"
Canadian musician Chad VanGaalen's next big project is a full-length animation “loosely based” on The Owl in Daylight, an unfinished novel by science fiction icon Philip K. Dick. It’s a full-time commitment, and VanGaalen has to submit a finished product to the Canada Council, which is helping fund it, by early 2009 for final approval. That is, he says, assuming his funding isn’t cut off, as happened to his friends Holy Fuck in the wake of Prime Minister Harper’s drive against publicly funded lewd content. But Dick is about as mainstream a genre writer as there is — so what is there to worry about in VanGaalen’s interpretation? “There’s a lot of masturbation,” he says, “and people ejaculating pieces of marijuana. It’s turned into an abstract dreamscape — psychedelic insanity. I’m writing the dialogue, but I don’t think I’ll be delivering the dialogue. I’ll get some old British man to do it so it sounds all legit.” Source: http://www.seemagazine.com/article/music/music-previews/chad-vangaalen-1358/
Canadian musician Chad VanGaalen's next big project is a full-length animation “loosely based” on The Owl in Daylight, an unfinished novel by science fiction icon Philip K. Dick. It’s a full-time commitment, and VanGaalen has to submit a finished product to the Canada Council, which is helping fund it, by early 2009 for final approval. That is, he says, assuming his funding isn’t cut off, as happened to his friends Holy Fuck in the wake of Prime Minister Harper’s drive against publicly funded lewd content. But Dick is about as mainstream a genre writer as there is — so what is there to worry about in VanGaalen’s interpretation? “There’s a lot of masturbation,” he says, “and people ejaculating pieces of marijuana. It’s turned into an abstract dreamscape — psychedelic insanity. I’m writing the dialogue, but I don’t think I’ll be delivering the dialogue. I’ll get some old British man to do it so it sounds all legit.” Source: http://www.seemagazine.com/article/music/music-previews/chad-vangaalen-1358/