Interstella 5555 - Daft Punk

I am probably a few years late when it comes to saying this. This thing is amazing! Maybe I am a late adopter or maybe I didn't understand the point of the music. Yet, when I watched this movie I understood the hype that Daft Punk gets.

As a film Interstella is arguably just as good as a film made by Hayao Miyazaki. However the music from the Daft Punk album "Discovery" adds something to the mix that makes this film almost perfect.

Real Life Pac Man

This feel similar to the Guitar Hero ad I saw online a few months ago. If it isn't an Ad it should be, this is hilarious.

Film Noir 2008

Here is a collection of pictures I found online from artist named Timothy Lim that remixes a lot of the current movie blockbusters through the lens of 1930's Film Noir movie Flyers. In some ways the artistic aspects of these poster have fallen to the wayside over the years. More movie advertising is based on cardboard displays.

However the pictures below make me want to see these movies a lot more than the cardboard displays that normally litter movie theate entrances.

via DeviantArt

Fashion Week

I have been paying attention to Fashion Week this year more than ever before as a way to avoid paying attention to all the bad news coming out of Wall Street (its the Economy Stupid!!!). So here is a favorite of mine Carlos Miele.




I love fashion shows that take advantage of music to further their displaying of clothes. A friend of mines use to put on fashion show "events" in college. The theme the clothes was shown in would make the runway into live action display that would make the appreciation for the product palpable. The music becomes just as much a show piece of the collection as any other item made specifically to be used solely on the runway.

Here is another example of the atmosphere making the clothes better (this is of course done with million dollar budgets) Yves Saint Laurent.

Crappy Cat - The Game

This game is great. This game to me feels like what Hello Kitty would look like if it was created by Genndy Tartakovsky and Mike "Hellboy" Mignola.

via - Crappy Cat

Quantum of Solace meet Coke Zero / Renaissance

I can't wait for the new James Bond film so here is a commercial for Coke Zero which uses the instrumental track the New Film.

This instrumental track from the film score is a preview of White's anticipated duet with Keys, "Another Way To Die," which we're eager to hear after the White Stripes frontman broke down the collaboration this way through a statement:

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Also because I think this movie is genius in its design here is a small clip of the film Renaissance. A lot of people don't know about this film but I feel its a classic waiting for mainstream recognition.



LINK

Panos 2013: Fake Street Signs

I saw this today and was very impressed by it. I wonder would NYC be willing to sponser something like this similar to the way the city has sponsered other outdoor art events like the waterfalls and the gates in Central Park.

Another benefit of a project like Panos would be the decentralization of the artwork. I know many people who are New Yorker's who never saw the Gates in Central Park and have no plans to go see the waterfalls up close. A project like this would spread the creativity around the city and might inspire the truly die hard art fans to travel around the city searching for the many seperate art projects in order to witness them for themselves.

a collaborative project that takes the work of artists from around the world, in the form of fake road signs, and turns the streets of Lyon, France into an enormous gallery without walls.

The round red and white signs look enough like real European traffic signs that you might take them for granted, but weird enough if you notice them to make you stop and think.

This project has a delightful sense of humor, lots playful absurdity and a wonderful scale.

Panos 2013 is the second edition of this project. You can have a look at the first edition in the Panos 2004 section.

via - Panos

The only difference I would make on the whole project is the coloring of the Ad's by coloring it something like light green or purple the chance of it being mistaken as anything other than Art would be significantly lower. The idea of a commuter trying to decipher the art as a road sign would have to be a concern to the who would have to plan it.

More Examples of the Art From This Years Exhibition

Animator vs Animation

Here is a Cartoon on the Internet I have always liked.

Brazilian Dreams of the Twins

DIY Bullet Time

This is something that has been on the internet for about a year or so. However, age is nothing but a number in relation to my appreciation for good idea's. For those readers who remember how impressive the bullet time affect was in the Matrix too here is a way to create your own version of time altering video

The following is a tutorial on how to build your own cheap, portable and hood-style bullet time camera rig on the cheap and the fly. This rig was designed by the Graffiti Research Lab and director Dan the Man to use in a hip-hop music video for underground rappers Styles P, AZ and the legendary Large Professor (spinning below). Just another chapter in the GRL's continuing mission to make open source the sixth element of hip-hop.

via - www.instructables.com

Here is a picture of the affect by itself.




To sum up this entire post technology like this is in many ways destined to be the fate of video

Movie Typography

I came accross this while surfing and I have to say this is a dynamic use of words at the very least

here is the wikipedia definition

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), letter-spacing (tracking) and kerning.

V for Vendetta



Patton



Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrel's



The Prestige



Wedding Crashers

Walt Disney's Sin City...

Here are some funny pictures I saw Online.

-via The Art of Curt Rapala

Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?"

Beautiful Song that really grabs my heart (pun intended)

She and her Cat

This is Poetry in Motion!

21st Century Art

The truth is this is not completely an original idea from the 21st century. However, the Use of magnets to create art that is remincent of something H.R. Giger would paint should still be noteworthy.

"science, technology and art rises like an eccentric thorny botanical form within the world of most peculiar botanical forms housed in the Cactus Conservatory. Employing electromagnets and magnetically-charged microfine particles suspended in oil set in motion through a computer controller, Kodama, who is associate professor at Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications, explores an entirely new territory where the seductive glossy black liquid seems to turn into rows of solid spikes impeccably organized around a spiraling cone, only to dissolve abruptly into obvious liquidity once again –a rhythmic flow and ebb, an alchemic dance where the artist playfully communicates basic principles of physics without elucidating them."

via- SculptureSite

*UPDATE: Talking about H. R. Giger just reminded me that the Playstation 3 has an Ad on television created by a production company called Superfad that appears to have been very strongly influenced by H. R. Giger.

Art without borders

I first saw the video below months ago but it left such a strong impression that I had to post it here. The project called MOTU was created by a artist called Blu. At first glance I orginally thought it was just a simple graffiti stop motion cartoon. It soon became apparent to me after a few minutes of watching this video that MOTU is as much a border breaking cartoon as anything else.



Did you see the paper eating desk jockey..... however long it took to create this, it was worth it. I am a little miffed thought that other artist (or companies) haven't tried to emulate and improve upon this in some way or form. Its an original technique to stop motion animation and as a perk whoever is doing can claim they are actually cleaning up "graffiti" (though I have to wonder. What did the people whose tag's he crossed out do once they saw that they were tagged out? )

- via BluBlu

Laser Street Art

For a while now I have been interested in GRL and their use of laser's and lights as a viable alternative to using spray paint in creating street art. In theory it allows the artist to create art without the danger of being arrested by the vandal squad. So, I figured I would post some interesting examples of what I feel the future holds for street art (and if done well street marketing)

Laser Graffiti (Graffiti Reasearch Lab, GRL)




*Bonus

Air Based 3D Graffiti (Jung von Matt/next)