Inspiration
via YouTube – Interpol – Lights directed by Mr. Charlie White (official video).
Download the HD version, for free, here.
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
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.
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…
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.”
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.
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature by Sam O’Hare
Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here: bit.ly/aFmaPZ
Via: origin68
