In no particular order I sometimes stumble upon unusual, interesting and honest people.
David Borrull an animator based in Barcelona making good use of animation.
Ian W Gouldstone. A fine man and the creative juice in the brand new Alaskan Military School
Lovely Productions. Lorchan and Brunella used to live here in London now they are busting out original ideas in hometown Dublin. Funniest, imaginative duo I've had the pleasure to meet. I love showing their showreel to people and hope that they make real comedy programmes one day.
Simon Green. I was lucky enough to go to Royal College where I met Simon, he's got some great short films and is trying to make feature films.
Juan Fontanive. Juan has worked with me before on animation, now he is a sculptor living in Brooklyn represented by a large London Gallery. I am very jealous. I want to be a sculptor when my hair is white.
Shaun O Connor. I met Shaun at a Cybersonica Residency we have recently begun collaborating on some projects.
Kate Atkin. Kate is a proper artist, lives the life of a wandering shamanic nomad and shares a lot of similar interests in science and materials and the cosmos and climbing walls.
E:vent Gallery. E:vent Gallery has helped me out loads over the past few years giving me space and time to realise projects.
Digital Funfair. I met Gavin Morris through Nesta. Gav is a one of a kind nutty professor with a mind that sizzles like a frying egg. You may encounter him at music festivals throughout the summer with his travelling attractions.
Fergal Brennan. I went to school with this weird looking beardy man it was an interesting experience.
Tourist with a typewriter. These guys will make a difference. Everyone knows animation is the most useless misappropriated form of creativity we can produce, but Tourist make films about real people and their struggles, they have yet to make an animation but if they do, hopefully they'll hire me to help realise it.
Samuel Stevens. Samuel Stevens is a video artist I have worked with. Sam shared our studio for a couple of very informative years.
Jonny Voss. Jonny has racked up more line miles than any living person. If you put Jonny's lines end to end they would travel to the sun, wrap around it twice and still come back to earth with some left over to draw an intricate plate of spaghetti for Sainsbury's. Jonny shares a studio with me and lives the line.
Ahh. I have recently encountered the creative world of Simon Elliot and together we are creating a world of form for dancer supremo Carlos Acosta.
Dawn Jackson. Dawn transforms the lives of disadvantaged young people in Norwich, a very inspiring use of time.
James Connolly. I met James the painter through the Royal College of Art. I don't know what to say about him except I've bought two of his paintings and love them very much.
John Smith. A brilliant original filmmaker. I first encountered John's films at a retrospective during Cork Film Festival in 2001 when showing a student film. A juror drunkenly opined that none of the films in competition were as interesting as one of John's so I went to a screening. Slow Glass is my favourite all time film.
Kyle McDonald. A recently discovered creative coder artist type, who is developing some very interesting and useful tools.
Cybersonica.Cool Nerds.