Treponem Pal
Video for Treponem Pal’s Dirty Dance, from the album Weird Machine. Directed by Olivier Lelong.
I had Olivier’s fetish-based video work in the FEEEL New Media exhibition I co-curated back in 2008.
For more, drop by his website here.
entries Tagged as [design]
Nuit Blanche
‘Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection’
A film by Arev Manoukian. Making of video here.
‘Tower Bawher’
‘The film’s title is an allusion to Tatlin’s Tower. This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.’
Brilliantly done! From 2006.
Tatlin’s ‘Tower of Babel’
‘Tatlin’s Tower or The Monument to the Third International is a grand monumental building envisioned by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, but never built.’
Article here.
Lady Gaga with The Bolshoi Ballet
A trailer (above) for a performance you’ll never see – because it’s already passed.
Some info here. And the trailer was released four months after the event.
So.
Just enjoy.
‘My Cute Booty’
‘They make girls with no ass-at-all look like they have something back there . . . and girls with a little junk in their trunk, look like they have perfect apple bottoms.’
Cute Booty – pants for gals designed by Kelly Nishimoto, sister of musician Meiko.
Fox
Megan Fox, photographed by Craig McDean for Interview Magazine, April 2010. More here.
Found via Ashley Simko
Red and blue: The London Underground ‘bullseye’
One of the first modern icons of the 20th century, The London Underground’s ‘bullseye’ passed the 100 year mark recently – and to celebrate, 100 artists were brought in to interpret the symbol and its legacy. [Read more →]
Vuvuzeliphone Prototype #1
Erik van Blokland’s solution for obsolete iPhones.
Reid Miles, jazzy
‘Every now then, as you stumble through design history, you trip over and fall on your ass.’
Alex Charchar takes a look at the incredible work of Reid Miles. Article here.
(and psst: click on the album covers for MP3 purchasing options.)
Joe Henderson: Jinrikisha
‘Tell No One’
Short video experiment by Erdinç Kalyoncu.
Viewable on Facebook only (login required), click to view/jump.
Found via Reza Abedini
Lily, Mark II
‘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
Creativity decline
‘For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong – and how we can fix it.’
Great article in Newsweek. Read it here.
I have my own take, which has to do with how difficult it actually is to be creative. How society does its best to discourage and strip creativity from us so we can be good worker bees. Sit down, shut up and do your job.
what is creativity
As the article mentions: ‘To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).’
Today, divergent thinking is often discouraged – but if it does take place, it can be so divergent, it can’t be implemented as a convergent – or coherent – plan.
And at the college level, I’m at ground zero teaching this stuff.
Sometimes it creates wonders, sometimes it only goes halfway. Other times, it’s so frightening to attempt something new . . . creativity finds itself at a standstill. The work veers back into mediocrity. Because that’s safe.
Pictured above: The incredible work of Graham Roumieu, visit his portfolio site here. Twas more creative than the trite crayon flag that came with the Newsweek article. Found via swissmiss. Article found via Adam Helweh.
Cano
‘Momento repetido, Intersticio impalpable, Formas sinuosas, Insignias a tus aventuras, Momento contemplativo.’
The work of Alexander Cano.
Depeche Mode: Precious
Found via beauty comma
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a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
dichotomy
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
GoD
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
why work?
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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