We Have Band – You Came Out

Posted: June 9th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Design, Fashion, Photography, Work, art, music | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

We Have Band -You Came Out – official music video. Created by W+K creative team Ida Gronblom & Fabian Berglund and Blinkink director David Wilson. The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members lying still for two consecutive days in a studio.

In order to animate the singing bit, lip movement was created by animating a painted mouth on the singer Dede. This involved breaking the lyrics into phonetics and giving each sound a specific mouth shape. To make this as realistic as possible all the mouth shapes were painted on Dedes face individually and then shot. All 4,816 frames of the music video can be found on Flickr.

Check out all the photos here


Get your basketball on with Leroy Smith

Posted: June 1st, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Design, Photography, Work, gaming, mobility, social media | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Ever wanted to know how Michael Jordan came to be the best player in the world? Or rather WHO made Jordan into the player he is today? It’s all about motivization.

Leroy Smith invites everyone to learn about that secret ingredient with a new mini series documentary, training drills, video game and even an iphone app.

Props to W+K New York, Blast Radius and Marcus Eriksson for the stellar work, Charlie Murphy will never be the same.

Get motivated here


Crowdsourcing at its finest

Posted: May 19th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Photography, Technology, Work, mobility, social media | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »

Thanks @webponce for the brilliant piece of journalism.

more stories here


Aerial view of New York

Posted: May 6th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Design, Innovation, Photography, Technology, Work | Tags: , , | 3 Comments »

aerial

Beautiful.

Makes me nostalgic as well – what a great city. Via Rubbishcorp.

Link over here


American Apparel and Woody Allen in lawsuit

Posted: April 16th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Advertising, Design, Photography, Uncategorized, Work | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Thanks @noallegiances for the post – this is too funny. Get this…American Apparel finds an image of Woody Allen from the movie Annie Hall to use on a billboard on Allen st in NYC. Woody Allen fights back and says that the company has used his image without consent and sues American Apparel.

So how do they respond you may ask?

“American Apparel says that it can’t have damaged Allen’s reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined it himself. The company plans to make Allen’s relationships to actress Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn the focus of a May 18 trial , according to the company’s lawyer, Stuart Slotnick. “Our belief is that after the various sex scandals that Woody Allen has been associated with, corporate America’s desire to have Woody Allen endorse their product is not what he may believe it is.”

That’s just a big slap in the face, it also takes quite a bit of courage as well. I guess it’s all just to get a bit of word of mouth and free publicity out there anyway – good or bad, but you have to admit that it’s pretty funny. To quote from the source of this story:

“Much as I hate everything about American Apparel and their ugly, annoying, boring, overpriced hipster clothes, even I have to admit the “Yeah? Well you’re a child molester” defense is pretty effin gangster.”

via filmdrunk


Scanwiches – scans of…well sandwiches

Posted: March 9th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Design, Photography, Uncategorized, Work | Tags: , , | No Comments »

From my good friend Laura – who  unfortunately does not have a blog, or website…so no cred given for this one (get with it Laura), but thank you for this lovely find.  Yes, its a website dedicated to scans of sandwiches…enough said.

more scans over here