The Tale of How

Directors: Jannes Hendrikz, Ree Treweek and Markus Smit from The Blackheart Gang. Check out the behind the scenes look, I especially love the breakdown of one of the many 300+ layered scenes (4:50)!

This is Japan!

Be sure to watch this in HD, it's way better.

Låt den rätte komma in ("Let The Right One In")

I was quite surprised after watching Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson's "Let The Right One In" tonight. All I can say is GO SEE IT NOW! It's quite simply a masterpiece, the cinematography reminded me of the Sigur Rós documentary Heima, another must see.

+/- {Plus/Minus} "Unsung"

Design Loves A Depression?

Michael Cannell recently wrote an article in the The New York Times "Week in Review" a couple of weeks ago titled "Design Loves a Depression". A couple of days later, the Design Observer released an objectionable response. Great reading, but where do you stand on the subject?

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show

Check out the article too! Thanks for the link Leigh :)

2008 Albums of the Year

Instead of blabbing on about the obvious choices for the best albums of 2008 (ex. Fleet Foxes, MGMT, Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend, etc..) I present my alternative choices... DRUMROLL!!!!


Album of the Year:



Runner-Up Album of the Year:


Most Playtime Album:


Happy-Go-Lucky Album (1/2 Islands+Unicorns!):



Biggest Surprise (no vocals?) Album:


Best Soundtrack:

Feist

Above is the trailer for Feist, the winner of best overall game made with UNITY. Very impressive!

The Kingdom Series

Stunning print series from Christopher Hewitt, self taught Director, Designer, Photographer and occasional Writer located in East London. He's also the man behind the short experimental film I posted awhile ago "Things Fall Apart"...

COCONUT NIGHT - We Are Wolves

Amazing work from my Behance pal Jeremie Saindon

Galactic Mail

This high-energy piece was created by Asterokid and Motraboy and produced by The Mill. They used XSI Softimage as a main tool. Very nice work.

Processing x1000

Check out these killer bumps created by Nervo for Fox Japan. Collaborating with Processing artist Robert Hodgin to create a complex flock of birds entangled in strings. He utilized a single bird cycle that Nervo used to create an application that allowed them to control and generate animations of the flock in an intricate flight dance. After some compositing and styling these animations became the identity of the channel's horror segment. The music and sound design were created by Darrin Wiener aka Plastiq Phantom.

For more info on Processing, details on it's release from beta this week and new features check out this blog entry.

What Else Is There?

What Else Is There? from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

...from Vancouver

Damien Jurado, "Caskets"

Wow, very haunting video - be sure to play this video full-screen in HD!!!

BLU in Berlin - Nov '08

You've been...

From Behance comes "Served", 5 portal sites representing the best in Photography, Motion, Typography, Industrial Design, and Fashion.

The feeling is mutual

Solid work from Roanne Adams, great site too.

Order Out of Chaos

The Grid System (.org) is quite the good read and touts that they are the ultimate resource in grid systems. As a side note, they also have a Flickr photo pool which you can contribute your work to.

The A's To Our Q's

Great interview with Jordan Seiler over at Wooster Collective!