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‘a debt to my childhood and other lives i hope i lived. inspired by words of songs that i admire.’

The work of Eran Hilleli. With climate change, the bears are losing.

Found via Monsieur Bandit

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Theatrical trailer for Fuel, ‘The unofficial sequel to ‘An Inconvenient Truth.”

Found via Chelsea Wolfe

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The Sacramento International Film and Music Festival is underway – and this Friday night, my students’ type film (above) will be shown as part of the Art Institute’s Student Showcase, 6 p.m., July 30 at The Crest.

Festival details here.

Official It’s Typography website here.

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Part one

‘Found Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth on Itunes. Renfair geekrock at its finest. Oh yeah! I need a cape & winged boots.’ –CraigyFerg

Progressive Rock pioneer, Minimoog, mellotron, biotron, synth and Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman goes to excess. But that’s what Progressive Rock is all about anyway. [Read more →]

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‘2000 people from around the UK were filmed singing The Fear for this promo for Lily Allen which was part of an Xbox Sing it with Lips game campaign.’

Found via exspiro

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‘the stuff we’re really made of’

King Corn (2007) is a look at the very, very powerful corn industry in the United States. And how corn is in EVERYthing.

Trailer above, watch the entire film via iTunes.

Official site here. And here’s a previous post on the subject.

Found via Shandi Pierzina

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‘Renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and director Luc Besson just released ‘Home’ – a documentary on climate change  . . .’ –Cult of Green

Narrated by Glen Close. Beautiful cinematography, like one of those 365 earth from above books. Shocking statistics, good solutions. Entire film available free on YouTube.

Click the above image to watch/jump.

Official website here. Watch it as a double feature with Avatar and this little ditty.

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‘an excerpt from the poem Ursonate (Sonata in primitive sounds) by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)’

Created by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1986.

Found via Typophile

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‘I can kill catering with a thought’

Eddie Izzard‘s Death Star Canteen (from Circle) as interpreted thru Legos.

Found via Johnny Jnerebel

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Leo the Lion in the restored MGM logo, 2008-present

Below, a visual history of MGM’s Leo the Lion.

Details here and here.

Around the lion’s head: ARS GRATIA ARTIS is a Latin translation of ‘art for art’s sake.’

Slats, the original ‘Leo the Lion’ at Goldwyn Pictures, 1916-24

Slats, in the first official MGM logo, 1924-28

Jackie, the second lion, 1928-56

Tanner, 1934-56

George the Lion, 1956-57

Leo the Lion, 1957-83

Modernist logo used only in two films, Grand Prix (1966) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Leo the Lion in the MGM/UA Entertainment Co. logo, 1982-87

Leo the Lion, 1987-2008

Tom, 1963-67

Found via Big Fun

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‘Baskerville, a bad asskerville’

This spring, my Digital Typography students set out to make a short film about type history.

The class – held at The Art Institute of California Sacramento – was set up like a working design studio – with myself as ‘hands off creative director.’ All students had a role, from art direction to project management, web design, editing and production.

At one point, songsmith John Slingerland threw a party at his home – and invited a few unwitting guests – just to record the background vocals for the film’s gets stuck in your head musical number.

And, featured in the credits, a very early beta version of Jeanne Texte – which I had to prep for them as my homework assignment.

It was a fun quarter; this was a great team to work with, their enthusiasm snagged everyone in their handmade typographic web.

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