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via YouTube – Interpol – Lights directed by Mr. Charlie White (official video).
Download the HD version, for free, here.
The good people at Iconfinder have put together some free Football (soccer) icon collections. Get ‘em while they are hot.
A few frames shot in Reunion Island with a 7D.
Main Characters : Charly Chapelet, Lucas Vergnes, Sylvain Langlet & Guillaume Kapfer.
Directing : Gregory Marguerie
Sound : Flying Lotus – Sketchbook
Loving these cool looking Soccer (football) World Cup 2010 Illustrations.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa is the 19th time the tournament will be played, and the first time on African soil. To celebrate this historic event, ESPN, Wieden+Kennedy and Cape Town-based AM I Collective created 33 original pieces of artwork: one for every participating country and one overarching World Cup piece. Each painting brings to life the story of that nation. The look of the artwork is inspired by hand-painted African art found in the streets and townships across South Africa, and the entire African continent. MORE INFO HERE
This one is a long time coming… Sixty40 Issue 11 just went off to print. Sorry for the long wait you ravenous dogs!
During December last year (2009) a bunch of music bloggers and journalists got links to iamamiwhoami’s Youtube videos sent to them. Who he/she/them are is a complete mystery. Incredible visuals, high production value and eerily beautiful. Go have a look for yourself > iamamiwhoami youtube channel
My guess: Goldfrap, Fever Ray or… Lady Gaga
THE CASE
To date, iamamiwhoami has released nine videos, varying from short to quite long; the first six videos featuring a provocative slime-covered girl and, as Montgomery says, “a dendrophiliac’s wet dream, loaded with images of a mud-smeared woman licking a tree and some strangely sexualized sap.”The music is a compelling mix of electronic, alternative rock and experimental music though the woman’s voice is distorted and or muted at points in each video. They are believed to be part of a viral marketing campaign. The seventh video features a woman covered in plastic from head to toe playing the electric organ, the eighth shows a woman in a greenhouse singing with an Elizabethan collar around her neck, while the ninth shows a man with a singing puppet.
THE CLUES
The first six videos are titled with a series of numbers. When indexed into the alphabet, these spell out words such as “educational”, “I am”, “its me”, “mandragora”, “officinarum” and “welcome home”. Mandragora officinarum is the mandrake root, particularly when used for psychedelic purposes.Each of the first six clips closes with a drawing of an animal– a goat, an owl, a whale, a bee, a llama, and a monkey. After previously blogging about the anonymous clips MTV writer James Montgomery received a package by messenger with a lock of blond hair, a piece of bark, and a pictogram of the six animals with the question “says what?”, it is however, still unproven that the sender of the package is the same as the person behind the clips.
Furthering the mystery; the sixth clip ends with the woman in the video whispering “Why” or “Y”.
The seventh clip was posted without the mysterious coded numbers as previous clips were and is instead simply titled “b”. This video features a woman wrapped in plastic, watched over by three men. Unlike the others, it does not include an animal illustration at the end or a numeric code though there is a cat, or possibly six cats, in the video.
The eighth video, at 6:52, is the longest video to date, and is the video for the single “o”. It features (presumably) the same woman as in “b” who this time has slightly shorter white eyelashes and is singing in what appears to be a greenhouse with an Elizabethan collar around her neck. This video follows the trend from “b” and does not have a numeric code or animal illustration, but seems to take place in the same style of house as the last video and has 6 cats, strawberries and what looks like 6 black faces.
The ninth video, entitled “u-1″, shows a man running through a forest towards a cardboard-like fort, and a man (presumably the same one) with a puppet in the same cabin as “b” and “o”; in the beginning she says “a quién le corresponda”, Spanish for “to whom it may concern” which has been part of the artwork of all single downloads.
This morning I attended the first ever Plett Geek Breakfast organized by Simon Botes (@simonbotes). Not many attended (4 of us to be exact). Could be due to the fact that Plett is a very small village (not exactly a town) or that some of the hermits decided to stay in and see how the first one goes. For me it was great speaking with a bunch of like minded people which pretty much never happens considering we are so isolated (social media and IM does not count + excluding the SoPlett crew).
If you are interested in attending the next one, visit the event page for more info > Plett Geek Breakfast
Broken Bells = Danger Mouse (possibly the coolest person on the planet), artist and producer (Aka Brian Burton) + James Mercer (an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Spacey), lead vocalist and guitarist for The Shins. Enough said. Get the Album.
Top Tracks: Mongrel Heart, The Ghost Inside
Listen to “The High Road” on The Spinner
Artist’s description:
5d, 5dmkII, Anamorphic 35mm
Shot over the past year while I was traveling. I had never really done any time-lapse before this, so it was fun to learn.
Numerous locations include: Prague, Japan, Banff, Utah, Oregon, California, and more…
I am in the process of doing a client illustration that will be used on some of their marketing material including their vehicle signage. This got me thinking about a vehicle wrap I was commissioned to do a bunch of years back and how successful that “campaign” has been to this day (I see that car around all time, you cant’ miss it). If done properly, vehicle signage is a remarkably effective marketing tool.
Coincidently I was recently forwarded some info concerning vehicle signage.
The Power of Portable Propaganda via SitePoint > Excerpt:
How often have you driven alongside a car or truck bearing company signage? Just about every day, right? Well, there’s a reason for it: brand signage is a great mobile advertisement. Never contemplated putting a decal on your car before? I recommend you reconsider. How often have you looked up a web address spotted on a car in front of you at the traffic lights, or recalled a company because you’ve seen their vehicles on the road? I have plenty of times.
But first, consider the image your car sends out. If you own an old clapper of a car, or a very sporty, new luxury car, think about your market. A bomb on the road may send the message that your services are cheap and nasty, or that you’re unsuccessful at what you do; similarly, if you drive a very fancy car, you may be construed as being too expensive or over the top.
If, however, your vehicle is somewhere in between, you may have just the right mobile billboard for your business.
So what should you put on your car? Well, I’ve seen plenty of examples featuring just the URL, but these don’t relay what the business does, unless your web address lists your main service. I’ve also seen a lot of vehicles with a business name only, so I’ve had no idea of what they do or how to contact them.
Here’s the minimum you should have: your business name, logo, product or service, and website address. Remember, though, that most drivers don’t want to read a novel on the back of your car — so keep it succinct.
The New York Times Style Magazine’s article on why Google’s corporate iconography is a 21st-century masterpiece.
…The same can be said of Google’s doodles, most of which are in the cutesy style of illustration that design purists loathe. That’s its strength. How can someone be trying to con you by commemorating the birthday of Isaac Newton with an animated apple falling off a tree, or Jackson Pollock’s with “Google” scrawled in a “drip painting”? It’s so gauche that it must be guileless. “Sometimes those doodles are downright corny,” said Michael Bierut, a partner in the Pentagram design group. “But they’re also surprising, charming and memorable. Like any holiday gift, it’s the thought that counts.”
As of last week MWEB ushered in their uncapped ADSL packages for South Africa… this caused the rest of SA’s ISP’s to come running. Great news and a definite nod in the right direction.
I have gone with Afrihost, in part because they have been my ISP since last year sometime and I have found them to be totally reliable with great customer service.
For more info have a look at this POST on IMOD
10 out of 10. A compelling science-fiction film (great cinematography + love the poster).
Synopsis: It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.
The fine people at Hoefler & Frere-Jones have compiled this very handy post (was originally sent out as an email) on how to combine fonts > excerpt to follow:
Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.
