Keep it Real
Somewhere between OK Go’s music videos and Sony Bravia’s bouncing balls there’s been a need to make everything for real in promotional videos and advertising. Graphics and animation are just not enough, you have to be able to touch them and, more importantly, watch the ‘making of’ documentary online. Not to mention buy the (obligatory) dreamy folktronica track that accompanies it. TV channel More 4 seem to have embraced this trend wholeheartedly and in quite fine style with a lot of Hard work by ManvsMachine.
Via Creative Review
Photography: In Colour
Looking at this blog (and thank you for doing that by BTW) you might get the idea that I’m slightly obsessed with colour. More specifically I’m obsessed with doing weird things with colour, so here are a few photographers who have recently bought my eye who seem to share the same obsession.
Clockwise from top left:
Streaking Trains by Aaron Durand
Sea life photography by Alexander Semenov
Photographs of explosions by Geoffrey Short
Aqueous Fluoreau by Mark Mawson
Modern Art is Rubbish
So Jeff Koons claims he owns the copyright on Balloon Dogs. Enough has been written about this egomania already but it’s just another example of superstar artist’s obsession with fame and money. So here’s a rant from Hennesy Youngman about why Damian Hurst is a dick. I wonder if you can copywriter a dot?
30 Best Film Posters of 2011
Flavorpill’s pick of the best film posters of 2011
Their comment on this for Cold Weather really hits the mark: “Ah, minimalism. Overused in unofficial movie posters that go viral on the Internet, but sorely underused in official posters that advertise movies.” See all 30 here
The Colour of 2012
'Provides the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward.' Sounds good. More on Pantone's website – which I'm not sure I'm buying... We will see.
Harvey Nichols Christmas Windows 2011
Feeling unusually festive already this year. I guess after everything that's happened in the last 12 months we could all do with a bit of Christmas cheer right now. Maybe that's why I love these dreamlike Christmas window displays for Harvey Nichols. More fantasy! Less reality!! More here
Code Warriors: a decade of processing
onedotzero are celebrating 10 years of creative coding tool Processing at this years Adventures in Motion at London’s BFI. Processing: 10 years of turning geeks into artists and artists in to geeks. Thanks.
London 2012 Olympics Posters
As always, the bile in the comments on Dezeen are always good for a laugh. Put simply by Dimitris – “They all really, REALLY really suck. Really.”
Well, at least it's still getting people talking. That must count for something, right? I mean, when the logo was unveiled, practically the whole country was having a heated conversation about the merits of branding and graphic design! Unheard of before or since!
P.S. I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that, after seeing the interview by Alan Yentob on Imagine, I hate Anish Kapoor. Not his work, I love (much of) his work. Him. Personally. Tosser. And Alan Yentob.
Is There Life on Mars?
I saw Snoop Dogg at the 02 Arena a little while ago, loved it. But the place itself is still perplexing, as it was from day-one back when it was The Millennium Dome. One of Richard Roger’s many masterpieces but still seems like a building that know one knows quite what to do with. Its current incarnation looks like a ‘futuristic’ shopping mall in a big tent, which is sort of what it is, minus the shops. All blue neon lights and palm trees, sort of nearly almost Blade Runner’s vision of LA, but with out any of the glamour or excitement.
This James Ward article puts it really well – ‘…if humans ever colonised Mars, they’d end up building something like the O2 … there was a Harvester too: Why would anyone build a fucking Harvester on Mars? … the woman at the counter asked me if I wanted to “eat in” or “take away”. Where would I take it away too? I’m in a giant dome on Mars. Where would I go?’
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
