Nicolai Howalt’s portrait series of child pugilists before and after a match is oddly compelling.
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The narrative construct of Andy Bruntel’s music video for The Liars track, Scissor plays like something of a train wreck. This one definitely appeals to my more cynical half. And speaking of cynicism and train wrecks, Lars Von Trier has been tapped to direct a new tourism advertising campaign for Denmark.
The Ritual Project documents the creation of a Stella Artois ad that covers the side of a Manhattan building.
UK Channel 4 commissioned Lenka Clayton and James Price to create People In Order, a series of short portrait films that reveal something about life by arranging people in scales:
Age / Human beings from age 1-100.
Birth / 34 women arranged by length of pregnancy (weeks 4 - 41).
Love / 48 couples arranged by length of relationship (in descending order).
Home / 73 households arranged by income (400,000 - 3,240 pounds).
Videographer, Khalid Mohtaseb captured some remarkable footage of the aftermath from the earthquake that struck Haiti. The footage which was captured on a Canon 5D Mark II was shot just a week later.
Alison Malone’s photo series, The Daughter’s of Job portrays a secret society of girls ranging in age from 10 to 20 years old that are the daughters and granddaughters of Freemasons.
Here is a beautiful journey through Thailand and Cambodia that was captured on the Canon 5D MarkII.
Making creative content that utilizes the help of crowd-sourced strangers seems to be something of a curious trend at the moment. The music video for More is Less is definitely the most impressive and most intriguing approach I’ve seen yet. Currently, almost 13,000 people have uploaded a posed photo to a site that incorporates the video into a newer version of the video every hour - clever, clever, clever.
Author, Mary Roach gave a wonderfully humorous TED talk on Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasms.
Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns. Organisers of a British circus recently put on a workshop to help young audiences to gradually overcome their phobia.
I still have yet to see a single episode of True Blood; however; I adore the title sequence. Here you can see the Digital Kitchen designed title-open, as well as the making of.
Founder of Prologue, Kyle Cooper’s film title sequences have certainly influenced most motion designer’s of my generation; his work on Se7en is truly one of my favorite credit open’s made. Here he discusses how he is inspired by process.
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Nick Jakubiak is something of a bohemian type artist. He use to live on my block, where he spent a lot of time outside. Often he was to be seen smoking and painting pictures of his favorite places in the city, or people he had met. We’d shoot the shit from time to time. A few years ago, he made the move back to his home state of Michigan. I just had a look at his portfolio site and thought I’d share his work.
Killings provoked by Sinatra’s My Way???
I was barely out of my diapers when MTV launched. It was mesmerizing and afforded me an education in the music of the time. This playlist of music videos is an attempt to recount what an afternoon in front of the tube felt like.
Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Madness - Our House
Adam And The Ants - Goody Two Shoes
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Men At Work - Down Under
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
The Police - Don’t Stand So Close To Me
Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Uncensored Full Version)
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Genesis - Land Of Confusion
Tom Petty And The Heart Breakers - Don’t Come Around Here No More
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
The Human League - Don’t You Want Me
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
The Cars - You Might Think
Van Halen / Jump
Here are two wonderful music videos that I recently came across. Both tracks are fantastic. The first is When They Come by The Deportees. The second is Karibu Ya Bintou by Baloji.
Here is a nice little video from a new record pressing company that explains how vinyl records are made.
Homunculus is a very amusing short film made by some friends at Humble that deals with a number of rambunctious moldy spore characters with veracious appetites. The film combines time-lapse photography of a decaying feast with darling little 3D characters.
Good enough for Kubrick is good enough me. I just happened upon the title design reel of Pablo Ferro, the creator for opening film credits of such classics as A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strange Love: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.