NO MORE

I'd just like to say that I don't want to see any more of this 'light painting' photography. Unless it's as good as this:

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

URBANIZED

Gary Hustwit, the man that gave us the thoroughly brilliant documentaries Helvetica and Objectified, has put a video on kickstarter to help finish off funding his new film Urbanized.
This time looking at the design of cities, Urbanized will be a
fine edition to Hustwit's design series. Head on over to watch the video, and if you have a few spare bucks, donote a little
bit towards the budget, and get some nice little goodies for doing so.

LINE O' TYPE

The new trailer for the Linotype film looks rather nice. Should be an interesting watch - looking forward to it. They've raised more than their target via kickstart. Good for them.


"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

It's horrible to think about all those machines being thrown out and destroyed.

UP THERE

Nice little video on the dying art of hand painted adverstising and signage. Kudos to these guys.

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

PHOTOSHOP RAP

When I first saw this link on geeks are sexy, it didn't fill me with much hope, but it's actually pretty pretty pretty good.

MAKE AN IMPRESSION

I heart letterpress. Everything about it. The sounds and smells of a print room, the tactile hands-on nature of composing movable type, the texture and warmth you get from a print compared to an offset digital print. Lovely... This guy seems to like it too. What a rewarding work process, I shall have to keep an eye out for Studio on Fire's work.

Video found on one of my favourite website, Gestalten. Their videos are available free from itunes, or watch them all here.

POWERPOINT SUCKS

Sweet little presentation made with google docs. Thought it was worth sharing. Slideshows don't have to be boring.

DOT

The worlds smallest stop motion animation. Follow Dot through her teeny tiny troubled world. Shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.



This was simply a joy to watch.

NOW WE'RE TALKING

I played one of those Guitar Hero / Rock Band games the other day, and I've gotta say, it was pretty lame. Beating the drums to an inch of their plastic lives was the only fun part. Now, I used to play the drums when I was younger, so it felt vaguely natural to pick up the sticks and hit the pads to the beat of a song... But when I had a go on the "guitar", I was lost. I'm pretty sure playing the guitar is nothing like that. And where was the bass? Something needs to be done. And whoever made this video has the right idea!



Sorry for the cut-off screen. Youtube doesn't seem to embed on here since they went widescreen. Video here.

A TO B

Was just checking on Anthony Burrill's website - I really like his simple typographic style - and I found myself hypnotised for 3 minutes 58 seconds by this:



Pretty cool. Snake by Acid Washed. In collaboration with Jack Featherstone and Paul Plowman. (I'm sure a few of you will recognise the latter name)

NINJA TUBE

On a a bit of a music video kick at the moment. So here is a new single and video from the masterful record label, Ninja Tune. Blockhead's The Music Scene has some pretty imaginative animation going on. Must have taken a fair amount of time. Kudos to Anthony Schepperd. Check out some of this previous work here.

BOXES

Purely stop motion animation, no special effects wizardry (apprently). Pretty impressive.

AGAIN & AGAIN

Got sent this from typejunky.com ... Pretty impressive, I think.

AMEN BROTHER

A short film about the most famous break of all.

NEW COLDPLAY VIDEO

I hadn't seen this until just now. I love it when a lot of effort goes into the music video. Especially at three and a half minutes in and the dad mouthes an obsenity


One of my all time favourite's is this flash version of creep

HEINEY

1947

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WIIMOTE BEAT CHOPPER

Anyone interested in music production, software, hardware, etc - should find this fairly awesome. A friend of mine used his geeky-tech knowledge and a small amount of fairy dust to create this monster.



If anyone has any more awesome examples of the wii potential, let us know.And if anyone's interested in this type of music, check out his myspace here.

SCRUFFY BASTARD

I like Mr.Scruff... He's a really talented dj, a pretty good producer, and has a decent sense of humour. Check out his new(ish) music video. It's got fruit with faces drawn on! oh yes.

INTRO

There's a common law with films that if there are no boobies within five minutes - then the film is not worth watching... Although.
I'd forgotten how cool the intro to 'Helvetica' was and so thought i'd post it here as it breaks this rule. The clip is only 1m28 (and there is no boobies in the next 3m32 just so you know)