Funny rip off of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys ‘Empire State of Mind’ - ‘Newport’!
Handlettering artist Alison Carmichael has applied her considerable skills to a new medium in an ad for charity The White Ribbon AllianceCarmichael’s tummy text
Brilliant ad for DieHard batteries, which sees Gary Numan revisit his classic hit, Cars. The spot, directed by James Frost, sees Numan playing a ‘car piano’ to demonstrate the power of a DieHard battery. Agency: Y&R Chicago; Creatives: Ken Erke, Todd Taber, Jamie Overkamp; Production company: Zoo Films.
Julien Vallée for OFFF Paris - Post Digital Production Culture
Beardyman and Dolby proudly present: DOLBYMAN (Stereo Version)… Brilliant!
A prototype of the new TRON film, pretty cool!
Clever ad for Miller beer - an oldie but goldie
The dominoes effect is no trick - it’s just 150 stunt people falling down, over and over (changing outfits between takes), to create a city full of human dominoes. It’s perfectly done, in large part because the stunt people are so good. (One of them is a gymnastics champ; another is a judo champ.)
Watch this new video for Breakbot’s track Baby I’m Yours on Ed Banger records - for which director Irina Dakeva painted over 2000 frames in watercolours - created from rushes and 2D animations. The paintings were then rotoscoped at Parisian production company Wizz. Each picture was then reintegrated on Flame animated backgrounds. Et voila:
Nexus director Johnny Kelly has directed a new film to promote YouTube Play – a collaborative project between YouTube and the Guggenheim Foundation that seeks to showcase the very best creative videos from around the world…
The idea behind YouTube Play is that any non-commercial films posted on YouTube in the last two years can be considered - and new submissions can be posted on YouTube and then submitted to youtube.com/play. A jury of film buffs will decide which works will be presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in a special exhibition in October this year. Simultaneous presentations of the work will also take place at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin, Bilbao and Venice. Submissions close July 31.
“My brief was to create something that would reference the variety of different worlds created by youtube users,” explains Kelly, “and also drum up some excitement. With all these different worlds in the animation, I wanted to get across that idea of clicking on something without knowing exactly what you are going to see - just like on YouTube. It could be the greatest thing you’ve seen in your life, or it could be a sneezing panda - or one and the same!
“I collaborated with a production designer Graham Staughton who, along with his team, built literally everything you see in the whole film,” Kelly continues. “On a very tight time and budget, everything was made from scratch except for the fake foliage in the forest sequence, which was stolen from a pot plant.”
As is the way these days, there is making-of film seen here
adidas originals invites you to join David Beckham, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, for an intergalactic 2010 FIFA World Cup™ viewing party that you’ll never forget.
12 Things to Photograph Before You Die
You’ll photograph lots of subjects and reel off tens or even hundreds of thousands of images before you lay down your camera for the last time. Some of those pictures will be memorable; a few will serve as milestones in your life. One or two might even change it.
Here are twelve subjects we think you should photograph before you die.
Nando’s steal Nike’s crown for the best World Cup 2010 Ad
Amazing!
Created for communications company Alcatel-Lucent’s appearance at the world mobile congress in April, the film shows the colourful results of some multiple LED projectors mapping a series of animations upon a stack of innocuous-looking white boxes.
Spotted on the blog of digitalbuzz.com, the projection (titled ‘Step into the sensory box’) also appears to work across a range of surface depths, which only adds to the entrancing quality of the piece.
Pantone Plus Series launches
Pantone, the company that sets the world’s standards on colour, has relaunched its Pantone Matching System as The Plus Series. As part of the launch of The Plus Series, the company has released this mini documentary giving an insight into the way it works…
Edens Garden graffiti STRIDE creative’s wall…
Bored with a 5 metre x 5 metre plain wall in reception, we set upon a brainstorming session with an open brief of anything is possible!! It wasn’t long before Mal our creative director hit on the idea of a massive graffiti. Four weeks later and hours of searching the underground world of graffiti artists, Stride Creative found East London artists/designers Mister Batlow and Amar Stewart.
The guys have developed a unique style, using vibrant colours, combining black and white imagery. It is a combination that has already earned them a reputation as ones to watch.
The piece that they commissioned for us, used a blend of both their talents, implementing stunning black and white portraits, surrounded by eye catching, swirling and vibrant colours. The centerpiece is a clever use of symbolic imagery associated with both city and country landscapes, encapsulating our link to the South East and London.
We probably have the largest indoor wall art in any reception area!!
Music: ‘Chicken Shake’ by ‘Sterio MCs’.
