My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.
Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
We are the intersection of inanimate objects and people. If we don't find ways to invite and engage as many people as possible, then we have failed.