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Advertising: Object or Idea
What is more important, the product or the idea of the product. For renowned British car manufacturer Land Rover, the idea is everything. In the release of the 2011 Freelander 2 Land Rover found director Peter Sluszka of Hornet Inc. to create ad spots that didn’t feature the real vehicle at all, only a scaled model
Fit for the Times – Dried Up
Dried Up The short-film is the story of an old man’s seemingly witless daily labour to save his town from drought despite of the disapproval of others. The storytelling, art and photography are compelling. This fictional landscape in the midst of drought is similar to films we may have seen about life in the old [...]
A Public Face – Metal Head
GETXOPHOTO Mentalgassi Berlin street art collective Mentalgassi brought a bit of personality to the streets of Getxo. As part of Getxophoto, a photography festival and exhibition, Mentalgassi executed a few works in public spaces throughout the city. Each work re-imagined the form, identity and purpose of objects existing in the public realm
Pray It’s a Dream – 5:46 am
5:46 am Sound and imagery combine to form a tranquil nightmare, and this nightmare is pleasing to the eyes too. The Parisian cityscape submerged under one meter of water. Paris art studio, ArtefactoryLab’s Olivier Campagne and film director Vivien Balzi bring this hypothetical world to life. The familiar city streets and public spaces of Paris, abandoned and flooded
In the Limelight – Stop Motion Has Its Day In The Sun
Stop-motion animation has grown significantly in popularity in recent years. It has been around for quite a while in clay animation, paper animation, and model animation. It has been used to animate inanimate objects, to create dynamic and textural cartoon worlds that operate under familiar laws of physics and expectations of reality
Big Imagination – Polly A Very Serious Search
Polly – A very serious search – Cut out animation Here’s to big imaginations everywhere. Swedish filmmakers Natalia Figueroa and Isaac Martinsson started up Ofokus, a film production company, in 2009
Watching From Above – SOON, 2011
From London artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Soon is a work that appeared in Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2011. Built in a public courtyard in Toronto’s financial district, the work transported all who entered it. Built employing the towers surrounding the courtyard, searchlights look downwards upon the crowds beneath investigating suspicious persons
Finding Intimacy: Rose Bond – Intra Muros
Intra Muros is a 2007 creation from artist and director Rose Bond. It has appeared, screened in the windows of buildings, in many cities since its conception. Using images projected onto windows from inside buildings, outside viewers are invited to peer through the windows of the existing facades into the life of an artist
Cardboard musicians – Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel
Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel : 200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm, 2011 Exploring structure and sound, Swiss artist Zimoun creates acoustic installations. Zimoun creates intricate structures. Systems of dc motors and surfaces interact to play with sound
Watch Paper Skaters Shred It – Skateboardanimation
Skateboardanimation Pretty cool isn’t it? The animation was created by Tilman Singer, an independent filmmaker from Cologne. This short was created using cutouts of those multiple exposure shots that frequent skateboard magazines. The animation is brilliant. It’s fun to watch skaters shred it across whimsical urban desktop landscapes
More To Tell – Herb & Dorothy 50X50
We look back again to the documentary film Herb & Dorothy about the relentless collectors of American new art from artists who would become some of the country’s most exceptional artists. Megumi Sasaki is the film’s director who was so amazed by Herb and Dorothy Vogel their story, their personalities and their collection. Still obsessed [...]
Perfectly Proportioned – Carl Kleiner
Carl Kleiner is an artist and photographer from Stockholm. Carl has worked with brands like Tiger of Sweden, IKEA and Blend Magazine. Carl created a series of works entitled Golden Ratio & Friends
For The Love – Herb & Dorothy
It’s remarkable to see people who are truly passionate about something. True passion in the world of art it is all the more remarkable. The art world is hung up over super-massive egos, superficial trends, and fierce criticism, all egged on by investors and collectors looking for their highest return on investment. Herb & Dorothy is a film about [...]
Psst! Collaborate to Create: Traps Rebirth The Yolk Dilemma
Traps Rebirth The Yolk Dilemma Collaboration is difficult. It is, it’s really hard. Collaboration involves communication and sharing. The sharing of power, vision, and our ideas is difficult. When collaboration works however, the result is often more than the sum of each person’s contribution
Cartoon Narrative: The Parachute Ending
BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDING London-based creative animation director Steve Scott created a video to The Parachute Ending from DJ Crew Birdy Nam Nam. The video is creative. Not often do music videos tell an engaging narrative perfectly set to the feel and beat of the tracks they present
Moving Words From Years Ago: I Met The Walrus
Using the young Jerry Levitan’s 1969 interview with John Lennon as a soundtrack, Josh Raskin paints a captivating visual narrative. At the age of 14 Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room during John and Yoko’s bed in phase
A Panoramic Worldview
Raghava KK is an artist born in Bangalore who began his working in visual media in 1998. Raghava uses many different methods to explore many different ideas. His subject matter is both introspective and otherwise
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is an award-winning photographer. His work records evidence of human civilization, our physical imprint on the planet. The works, it could be said, deliver an environmental message without being preachy. Viewers simply regard their own impact on the planet
Sachiko Kodama – Morpho Towers
Sachiko Kodama was trained as a physicist at Hokkaido University. She went on to study plastic art and mixed media at the University of Tsukuba.
555 Kubik
I came across a promo event that Parker, the pen company, held last year in New York. It was a ’3D’ video projection onto the Museum of Arts and Design. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I am sure I would have if it were my first time seeing 3D projection, but it wasn’t my first [...]
Eşref Armağan
Esref Armagan is an artist born in Istanbul. Esref Armagan is an artist, born blind to a poor family in Istanbul. He is a painter who taught himself to draw, write and paint.
Michael Najjar – Augmented Realities
Following up on Michael Najjar, check out his 2008 exhibition at the GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hauge: Augmented Realities.
Michael Najjar – High Altitude
Michael Najjar is an artist working in Berlin. His work is fascinating. It captures our association, interaction and manipulation of modern forms information and its impact on society and human perception. Some of his work deals with deception (information and apocalypse and nexus project part I), some of it with the real impact of information on all [...]
Cook + Fox Architects – Water
When a designer gets it right, you can tell. Or, to be more precise, you can’t, you don’t even notice.