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<div class="article_body entry-content"><p>Most recently, President Obama last week repeated the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack a background check, even though the , and the had pointed out the figure was unreliable. (The president did not, however, repeat the statistic in his most recent speech on gun violence this week.)</p><p>Here, as a reader service, is a summary of our ratings on gun statistics, with links to the original columns in the headlines. We will continue to examine gun claims made on both sides, and welcome suggestions from readers,Hillary Clinton leads Bush, Rubio in Florida poll,lululemon. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Here, we looked at a claim that “every time guns have been allowed, concealed-carry has been allowed, the crime rate has gone down.” The actual evidence is much murkier — and in dispute,lululemon canada. Certainly,karen millen dresses, it appears such laws have not increased the crime rate, as opponents had feared, but it is equally a stretch to say such laws are a slam-dunk reason for why crimes have decreased. We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios, and ultimately settled on Three.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>Former president Bill Clinton made this striking claim, but he was way off base. There are definitional issues, such as how one defines a mass shooting, but we found that just over 20 percent of all mass public shootings had taken place since the ban expired on Sept. 13, 2004, which is much less than Clinton’s 50 percent. He earned Three Pinocchios.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p><p class="h5"><p><p class="h5"></p></p></p></p><p>This National Rifle Association ad highlighted what the pro-gun organization saw as “elitist&rdquo,karen millen outlet; hypocrisy by President Obama because his children are “protected by armed guards at their school.” But this claim, which originated in the blogosphere, was false. Sidwell Friends school security officers do not carry guns. The NRA earned Four Pinocchios. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_4.jpg?uuid=zmHlfEniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The target of this Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ad was Rep. John Barrow of Georgia — the last white Democratic member of Congress from the Deep South. The CSGV video intercut scenes from a campaign ad that Barrow ran in 2012, talking about his family’s guns, with television footage of the massacre of school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But the group removed all of the language that Barrow used to explain why his family had such weapons — to deter crime and for protection. It also removed a reference to the Second Amendment, which President Obama has said he supports,Cheap karen millen. The group earned Three Pinocchios.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>We examined this claim in . The main issue is that this claim is based on a relatively small survey nearly two decades old, with some of the answers predating the enactment of the Brady law that mandated background checks. Moreover, the analysis concerned all gun transactions, not just sales, so when adjusted for just purchases, the percentage without checks dropped in half. Earlier this week, we downgraded the claim to Three Pinocchios. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>This number has come under attack from gun-industry supporters as a bogus figure. There are certainly gaps in the information — and a lack of prosecutorial follow-up, which has further muddied the picture. Moreover, there are significant percentages of appeals and overturned referrals for prosecution. But the claims of an overwhelming number of &ldquo,Turkish airline, wary of unruly passengers, may ban alcohol on flights from Russ;false positives” did not add up either. In lieu of more evidence showing this was an inaccurate fact, we concluded this figure rated a rare Geppetto Checkmark.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/GeppettoCheckmark.gif?uuid=o_Rf7EnlEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>This is a common claim by pro-gun advocates, and we examined in particular an assertion by the campaign manager for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky). But current law specifically prohibits using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to create a federal firearms registry — a law which McConnell helped to enact. This claim earned Four Pinocchios.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_4.jpg?uuid=zmHlfEniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p></p><p>It turns out a version of this claim has been made repeatedly by pro-gun advocates for five decades. But, by any reasonable measure, this is a suspicious figure. Its origin is murky, and it is inconceivable that the same number of gun laws would exist now as some five decades ago. Moreover, even experts who favor the NRA’s agenda have their doubts about the figure or its relevance,lululemon outlet. We concluded the 20,000 figure appears to be an ancient guesstimate that has hardened over the decades into a constantly repeated, never-questioned talking point. It earned Three Pinocchios,karen millen sale. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>Readers had questioned whether the NRA could have gained 500,000 members in just six months,D.C. Sports Bog - By The Washington Posts Dan Steinber. Using NRA magazine subscriptions as a guide,lululemon, we were inclined to conclude that the NRA is overestimating the size of its membership, and it appears possible that the membership rolls are below 4 million. We said we would tentatively award this claim One Pinocchio, but would revisit this ruling if more data emerge or if the magazine subscriber base demonstrates a steep jump in the next report.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_1.jpg?uuid=w2hzjkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p><p class="h5"><p></p></p></p><p>We examined an ad underwritten by an anti-gun organization funded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which attacked former Rep. Debbie Halvorson of Illinois for her gun positions. We found the ad mischaracterized her current positions, and it earned Two Pinocchios, but she lost her effort to win the Democratic nod in a House special election.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_2.jpg?uuid=shYSCEniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>The NRA poked fun at the vice president for urging women to fire a shotgun in the air to ward off a potential intruder, saying that would be illegal. The NRA made a compelling case that Biden’s advice, if taken,lululemon outlet canada, would violate a number of Delaware laws. But the state prosecutor — appointed by Biden’s son — disagreed and said no action would be taken. Given the maze of conflicting interpretations, we issued no ruling. </p><p></p><p></p><p>This claim by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) gave us another opportunity to look at the data concerning prosecutorial follow-up on failed background check applications. While there is no nationwide survey, the available evidence showed that at least some fugitives are identified through the background system and subsequently pursued at the state level for prosecution. His sweeping claim of “none” earned Three Pinocchios,lululemon outlet canada. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p>()</p><p><strong>Check out our candidate </strong></p><p><strong>Follow The Fact Checker on and friend us on </strong></p><p><strong>Get the app</strong></p><p></p></article></div> | <div class="article_body entry-content"><p>Most recently, President Obama last week repeated the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack a background check, even though the , and the had pointed out the figure was unreliable. (The president did not, however, repeat the statistic in his most recent speech on gun violence this week.)</p><p>Here, as a reader service, is a summary of our ratings on gun statistics, with links to the original columns in the headlines. We will continue to examine gun claims made on both sides, and welcome suggestions from readers,Hillary Clinton leads Bush, Rubio in Florida poll,lululemon. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Here, we looked at a claim that “every time guns have been allowed, concealed-carry has been allowed, the crime rate has gone down.” The actual evidence is much murkier — and in dispute,lululemon canada. Certainly,karen millen dresses, it appears such laws have not increased the crime rate, as opponents had feared, but it is equally a stretch to say such laws are a slam-dunk reason for why crimes have decreased. We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios, and ultimately settled on Three.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>Former president Bill Clinton made this striking claim, but he was way off base. There are definitional issues, such as how one defines a mass shooting, but we found that just over 20 percent of all mass public shootings had taken place since the ban expired on Sept. 13, 2004, which is much less than Clinton’s 50 percent. He earned Three Pinocchios.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p><p class="h5"><p><p class="h5"></p></p></p></p><p>This National Rifle Association ad highlighted what the pro-gun organization saw as “elitist&rdquo,karen millen outlet; hypocrisy by President Obama because his children are “protected by armed guards at their school.” But this claim, which originated in the blogosphere, was false. Sidwell Friends school security officers do not carry guns. The NRA earned Four Pinocchios. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_4.jpg?uuid=zmHlfEniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The target of this Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ad was Rep. John Barrow of Georgia — the last white Democratic member of Congress from the Deep South. The CSGV video intercut scenes from a campaign ad that Barrow ran in 2012, talking about his family’s guns, with television footage of the massacre of school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But the group removed all of the language that Barrow used to explain why his family had such weapons — to deter crime and for protection. It also removed a reference to the Second Amendment, which President Obama has said he supports,Cheap karen millen. The group earned Three Pinocchios.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>We examined this claim in . The main issue is that this claim is based on a relatively small survey nearly two decades old, with some of the answers predating the enactment of the Brady law that mandated background checks. Moreover, the analysis concerned all gun transactions, not just sales, so when adjusted for just purchases, the percentage without checks dropped in half. Earlier this week, we downgraded the claim to Three Pinocchios. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>This number has come under attack from gun-industry supporters as a bogus figure. There are certainly gaps in the information — and a lack of prosecutorial follow-up, which has further muddied the picture. Moreover, there are significant percentages of appeals and overturned referrals for prosecution. But the claims of an overwhelming number of &ldquo,Turkish airline, wary of unruly passengers, may ban alcohol on flights from Russ;false positives” did not add up either. In lieu of more evidence showing this was an inaccurate fact, we concluded this figure rated a rare Geppetto Checkmark.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/GeppettoCheckmark.gif?uuid=o_Rf7EnlEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>This is a common claim by pro-gun advocates, and we examined in particular an assertion by the campaign manager for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky). But current law specifically prohibits using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to create a federal firearms registry — a law which McConnell helped to enact. This claim earned Four Pinocchios.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_4.jpg?uuid=zmHlfEniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p></p><p>It turns out a version of this claim has been made repeatedly by pro-gun advocates for five decades. But, by any reasonable measure, this is a suspicious figure. Its origin is murky, and it is inconceivable that the same number of gun laws would exist now as some five decades ago. Moreover, even experts who favor the NRA’s agenda have their doubts about the figure or its relevance,lululemon outlet. We concluded the 20,000 figure appears to be an ancient guesstimate that has hardened over the decades into a constantly repeated, never-questioned talking point. It earned Three Pinocchios,karen millen sale. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>Readers had questioned whether the NRA could have gained 500,000 members in just six months,D.C. Sports Bog - By The Washington Posts Dan Steinber. Using NRA magazine subscriptions as a guide,lululemon, we were inclined to conclude that the NRA is overestimating the size of its membership, and it appears possible that the membership rolls are below 4 million. We said we would tentatively award this claim One Pinocchio, but would revisit this ruling if more data emerge or if the magazine subscriber base demonstrates a steep jump in the next report.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_1.jpg?uuid=w2hzjkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p><p class="h5"><p></p></p></p><p>We examined an ad underwritten by an anti-gun organization funded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which attacked former Rep. Debbie Halvorson of Illinois for her gun positions. We found the ad mischaracterized her current positions, and it earned Two Pinocchios, but she lost her effort to win the Democratic nod in a House special election.</p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_2.jpg?uuid=shYSCEniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p></p><p>The NRA poked fun at the vice president for urging women to fire a shotgun in the air to ward off a potential intruder, saying that would be illegal. The NRA made a compelling case that Biden’s advice, if taken,lululemon outlet canada, would violate a number of Delaware laws. But the state prosecutor — appointed by Biden’s son — disagreed and said no action would be taken. Given the maze of conflicting interpretations, we issued no ruling. </p><p></p><p></p><p>This claim by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) gave us another opportunity to look at the data concerning prosecutorial follow-up on failed background check applications. While there is no nationwide survey, the available evidence showed that at least some fugitives are identified through the background system and subsequently pursued at the state level for prosecution. His sweeping claim of “none” earned Three Pinocchios,lululemon outlet canada. </p><p><span class="imgleft"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/fact-checker/StandingArt/pinocchio_3.jpg?uuid=uLasnkniEeCn1tWe_T6KGA"></span><br><br><br><br><br></p><p>()</p><p><strong>Check out our candidate </strong></p><p><strong>Follow The Fact Checker on and friend us on </strong></p><p><strong>Get the app</strong></p><p></p></article></div> | ||
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| + | <div id="entrytext" class="entry-content"><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/HEARTGardenWheelchair.jpg?uuid=edGJ5jX4EeK7myiKMQhJ7g" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">A still from “I Have Your Heart.” (courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p><b>1.</b></p><p><b>KIM BOEKBINDER</b> remembers precisely when she fell in “like.”</p><p>It was March of 2010, and Boekbinder — the Canadian-native musician who also goes by “the Impossible Girl” (after her first solo album) — was working on a project in New York with noted American illustrator/entrepreneur <b>Molly Crabapple</b>. They had decided to make a short stop-motion film set to Boekbinder’s jaunty,karen millen dresses, accordion-propelled song and they needed someone to animate their Victorian tale of poor, pretty Cora, a young organ recipient.</p><p>Through Twitter, Crabapple (aka Jennifer Caban — co-founder of the Brooklyn-sprung cabaret/drawing show Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School ) — discovered Australian animator <b>Jim Batt</b>. As so, on that March day in 2010, through the borderless power of Skype, Boekbinder first set eyes on Batt. Two talented artists, both then in their early 30s. It was almost love at first Skype.</p><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/mollycrabapple.jpg?uuid=i3__znZdEeKPhD5LUTsaEw" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">Crabapple.(courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p>“I knew I liked Jim Batt from the first Skype meeting,” the pink-and-blond-coiffed Boekbinder says of the scruffy Melbourne-based illustrator and puppeteer. “He was so smart and cute and cool. Mostly, it was the smarts that got my attention. But look how cute he is!” </p><p>(Don’t believe <i>us?</i> Boekbinder offers . “Every time I see this,” the musician says, “I notice how cute he is, and how much I’m smiling.”)</p><iframe width="440" height="285" src="/embed/QoEle4PGHVY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><p></p><p>Thing is, it’s not as if they were just going to jump into a cross-global fling,karen millen sale. Getting to know each other gradually, online, at first suited both of them just fine.</p><p>&ldquo,karen millen dresses;Jim and I would chat on gmail, since both of us worked online a lot,” Boekbinder recalls to Comic Riffs,Ron Pauls claims that U.S. is blockading Iran in act of war - The Washington Post. “We probably spent more time together in chats than if we’d been in the same city and not online. We got to know each other really well, in a very relaxed way. And we would Skype, [at] first about the animation, but then about other things: creative projects, life goals, philosophy, art, film, music. </p><p>“We were both single at the time,” Boekbinder continues. “And I was very happy to be focusing on the writing and recording of my first solo album, without the distraction of a relationship. So even though I liked him, it was also nice that he was far away -- and at first it was just a great crush that wouldn’t go anywhere because of the distance.”</p><p></p><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/kimpress.jpg?uuid=UhTXqnZdEeKPhD5LUTsaEw" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">Boekbinder.(courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p>“There was a definite spark for me right from the start,” Batt remembers,karen millen outlet, “but basically, our Skype meetings just got longer and longer, and less and less about the actual project. Because we both spend a lot of our time working on laptops, we’d kind of just be chatting together all day, alongside whatever else we were doing. In those first few months, it was a bit like having an imaginary friend -- this person who I talked to all the time, but that none of my friends could see or really understand.”</p><p></p><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/Jim%20Profile%20Pic%20-%20Banner.jpg?uuid=cDrh1HZdEeKPhD5LUTsaEw" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">Batt.(courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p></p><p>Some weeks later, though, the digital relationship reached a fork in a road. </p><p>“One day,” Boekbinder recounts, “I said over Skype: ‘I like you as more than just an animator.’ “ </p><p>“And then, as we talked more and more, we started to finish each other’s sentences and realized we had this really deep, creative connection that needed to be acted on.”</p><p>Batt waxes philosophic about that turning point.</p><p>“There was a key point -- the night of my birthday, actually -- when it became clear that if we didn’t at least try to see how we got along in person, then we’d probably regret not finding out for the rest of our lives,” Batt tells us.</p><p>“It’s not often the universe puts these kinds of moments in your path -- our meeting from opposite sides of the world was such a rare and unlikely occurrence — and if you want to live an interesting life, you’ve just got to grab it.”</p><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/bwroom.jpg?uuid=rNGOuHZdEeKPhD5LUTsaEw" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">Stop-motion figures from “I Have Your Heart.”(courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p></p><p><b>2. </b></p><p><b>IF BOEKBINDER AND BATT</b> were going to discover what they really had, exactly, someone was going to need to take the leap and travel.</p><p>“About four months after our first Skype meeting, I decided to fly to Australia so we could make more music videos for my album,” Boekbinder tells Comic Riffs. “We’d spoken about how we had romantic feelings for each other, but that once we met in person, those might go away. But we knew that we would at least be really great friends. And we wanted to collaborate.” </p><p>And so on July 4, the American transplant boarded a plane to head Down Under. She knew it’d be a long flight — she just didn’t know how incredibly long, or frightening..</p><p>“It was an epic journey -- like a mythical quest, really,” Boekbinder recalls. “Seven hours sitting ... inside a plane on a runway, while a massive thunderstorm raged around us with lightning striking the plane . The most terrifying flight of my life. A 24-hour delay. Sleeping on airport floors. ... It really was like an epic quest to get him.”</p><p>Fifty-two hours later, on July 6, they finally met in person for the first time.</p><p>“When I finally arrived, we were both so excited and nervous,” Boekbinder says. “And it was fantastically life-changing. I felt in those first few weeks that layers of me were being peeled away to reveal new things that I didn’t even know about myself. </p><p>“That loving and being loved so wholeheartedly and without fear was making a new ‘me’ possible.”</p><p>The couple spent a month together in Melbourne, then Batt came to visit Boekbinder in New York. “We’ve gone back and forth like that since then,” she says. “Talking online everyday, of course.”</p><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/studio3.jpg?uuid=xekhGHZdEeKPhD5LUTsaEw" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">Batt in the studio.(courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p></p><p><b>3,Q&A with the Rev. Jeffrey Haggray, new senior pastor of First Baptist Church. </b></p><p><b>THE PROJECT </b>had brought a couple together. Now all three artists needed to bring a film together.</p><p>The animated short would be titled, and would feature Crabapple’s Victorian-parlor aesthetic — from hemlines to bow lines to roguish felines — as curly-headed Cora’s sometime-tragic tale unfurled. </p><p>They knew they needed financial support, and decided that crowdfunding would be the best way. They sought $7,000; in April of 2011, their Kickstarter campaign exceeded their goal, raising more than $17,000 from more than 400 backers.</p><p>The “Have Your Heart” braintrust also knew they wanted the look and feel of hand-crafted stop-motion.</p><p>“The story we wanted to tell was so much about the physical world,karen millen uk,” Boekbinder says. “About hearts beating, and feeling real things, that it just made so much more sense to make the animation outside of the computer as much as possible.” </p><p>“Animation on a project like this takes incredible patience -- focusing on putting one frame in front of another, without looking up at the seemingly endless task that lies ahead ... ,” Batt tells Comic Riffs. </p><p>“I genuinely enjoy every aspect of making a stop-motion film,” says Batt, who used Dragon Stop Motion software and a Canon 7D camera., “crafting the entire world piece by piece, solving the challenges in each shot, learning the animation quirks that give each puppet their own personality, cleaning up the frames in post-production. </p><p>“But what I’ve always loved about stop-motion is the constant shimmer of life that lurks in everything -- a subtle shiver that makes it feel like anything could spring into action at any point. It’s especially apparent in the works of the Bolex Brothers and the Brothers Quay. And you get this for free in stop-motion, just by the way light interacts with physical objects, in subtle and unexpected movements -- whereas in a computer, you have to work hard to create the illusion of the same. </p><p>&ldquo,lululemon outlet;A sort of digital CPR, to keep everything looking alive.”</p><p>“Jim is a wonderful visual storyteller,karen millen outlet,” the art genre-leaping Boekbinder says, “and the way the light hits the paper -- the way everything moves and folds and bends in real space -- is something that just can’t be simulated. All those little ‘mistakes’ or limitations that arise because you are working in the physical world become the strength of the piece.” </p><p>In stitching together their film, Batt and Boekbinder found that the artmaking continued to strengthen their bonds -- like rendering heartstrings that somehow fuse into a sailor’s ever-looping knot.</p><p>“It was clear from the beginning, writing the script for ‘I Have Your Heart,’ that we both really like the same kind of ideas, the same kind of story patterns and aesthetics,” Batt tells us. “It was a constant process of sparking off each other, a feedback loop of creativity.</p><p>“We also tend to have very ambitious concepts,” he continues, “and both [of us] will always happily escalate an idea, make it bigger, even more epic and ambitious. Which is bound to get us in trouble one day...”</p><p>.</p><p><span class="imgfull"><img border="0" align="bottom" src="/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/HEARTBoekbinderAndBatt.jpg?uuid=KqX1qDXwEeK7myiKMQhJ7g" width="454"><br><span class="blog_caption">Boekbinder and Batt. (courtesy of BATT/BOEKBINDER/CRABAPPLE - .)</span></span></p><p><b>4. </b></p><p><b>LAST NOVEMBER,</b> the three artists released their darkly whimsical love story to the masses. The masterful “I Have Your Heart” quickly found a passionate fandom, racking up praise and hundreds of thousands of views.</p><p>For the couple, the act of presenting their brainchild to the world summoned mostly joyful emotions.</p><p>“While I have certainly felt that particular bittersweet emotion when releasing other works, this one has been so long in the making that all I am feeling now is the thrill,” Boekbinder told us in November. “I’m so proud of all the work and patience and paper cuts.” </p><p>“Watching this film, it&rsquo,lululemon outlet canada;s almost like looking at two years of time distilled down to four minutes of animated essence,” Batt told us shortly after the film’s release. “While it was a bit sad to pack down all the sets after living in that world for so long, being able to finally share this with all of our wonderful Kickstarter backers who have waited so patiently is a wonderful feeling.”</p><p>Looking back on the film now, do they see elements of their relationship reflected in their “Heart”?</p><p>“I’m not sure that anything about us directly informed the animation,karen millen outlet,” Boekbinder says,” audiences would be. “The story was written in the very early stages of our meetings, but I suppose the story reflects how we both feel that love is worth taking every chance for. Love is the greatest adventure.” </p><p>“I hadn’t really thought about it until it now,” Batt tells us, “but one of the main ideas in the film is that of finding the energy and drive to do the unexpected -- deciding not to be held back by tradition or the usual way of doing things, to saying yes to adventure and romance. Which certainly resonates with how our relationship began, and continues to grow.</p><p>“The script was actually written [early on], but art does tend to have a sneaky way of creeping into real life.”</p><p>As they’ve moved on to new projects, the couple profoundly appreciates what this project brought them.</p><p>“It is so rare that two people get to meet at the right time in their lives,” Boekbinder says, “when both are single and open and not afraid and willing to just be completely in love. It’s crazy, scary and overwhelming. And so very unlikely. I only had to fly across the world!”</p><p>And maintaining their relationship means continuing to fly across the world.</p><p>“I’d have to date an astronaut to get a longer distance relationship.” says Boekbindfer, who recently recorded her second solo album. “So we spend a lot of time apart. I have my career here in the U.S., and he has an amazing life in Melbourne, but we travel to be with each other when we can. And even when it’s been months apart and I miss him terribly, I’m so happy knowing that he exists -- that across this planet is the best person I’ve ever met, and that he knows me and he loves me.&rdquo,karen millen sale;</p><p>Chimes Boekbinder: “He has my heart, he has my heart, he has my heart.”</p><p></p><p><b>“I HAVE YOUR HEART”: THE FILM.</b></p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="/embed/06dAqSFn1lk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><p></p><p></p></div> | ||
