THINGS I FIND ON THE WEB
In addition to Arcade Fire‘s The Suburbs, they have released an interactive film,
The Wilderness Downtown.
It’s an experiment using Google Chrome (download here) and HTML 5. You enter the address to where you grew up. “We Used to Wait.” starts playing with a young boy running down the street, multiple windows with video start popping up, moving around with the music, and you’re transported back to your childhood home. It’s a truly amazing interactive experience.
Try it here.
Jonas Bergstrand is a Swedish born, London based designer and illustrator.
Check out more of his stuff here.
Day & Night is the short film that will be shown before Toy Story 3.
These characters remind me of Herb Gardner’s great writer and wrote a book called, ‘A Piece of the Action,’ which I read last summer. Anyhow, back to the short:
Day & Night was directed by storyboard artist & character designer Teddy Newton, who you’ll see in this video (and who voices the Chatter Telephone in Toy Story 3).
The official Day & Night plot synopsis: “When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other’s unique qualities — and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world — the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.” (via)
(credit: FirstShowing)
Ricky Montalvo has created a mini documentry of the people behind 48HR Magazine
(who might have to change their name) during the whole process.
48HR is the magazine that took submissions by crowdsourcing the internet to create a magazine in 48 hours.
Issue Zero: 48HR Hustle is already out and for sale.
48 Hour Magazine – a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media’s old limits. Can you write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days? This pocket documentary follows the experiment and the people behind it.
48HR Magazine – a pocket documentary from ricky montalvo on Vimeo.
(credit: Laughing Squid)
Brian McMullen of McSweeney’s is putting together a book of self-portrait doodles by
people who are in literary, film, comedy and more.
McMullen got the idea from Burt Britton’s “Self-portrait”, which was a collection of self portraits from the 1970′s featuring over 500 writers of the time. Honestly I had to look up some of these names on this list, but the self-portraits are really neat. See them all here.
When I met the author Jonathan Ames in his office at Indiana University in late 2000, the only objects on his desk were a telephone and a stack of portrait doodles — some of them self-portraits…
– I asked about the doodles. Did he think of himself an artist? Not really. He compared the doodles to boogers. It can be fun to extract and admire a good one, he said (I paraphrase), before discarding it. (via)
Davey Rothbart
Jon Langford
Siri Hustvedt
Ramin Bahrani
A documentary on the history and culture of graffiti by Ink & Instinct.
A 30 minute video documentary on the history and culture of graffiti, featuring many of its major players talking about their motivations, styles, conflicts, and what the art form ultimately represents. Video courtesy of Atari and Ecko. (via)
Getting Up – A Graffiti Documentary from Ink & Instinct on Vimeo.
(credit: Pain Tranche)
Press Pause Play is a documentary about now, what is going on right now, what is going on in the future; with creating, consuming and more.
I cannot find out who created this (except that the production company is called House of Radon from Stockholm), even through their well designed site. But the site does have many interview clips if you want to see more. The teaser is below.
**EDIT: The documentary is now online**
The creative landscape is changing. Some talk about a revolution, others about a natural evolution. These changes affects everything. From creation to distribution, from artist to consumer.
A new generation of global creators and artists are emerging, equipped with other points of reference and other tools. The teachers arenʼt certified schools anymore – itʼs web sites, discussion forums and a “learn by doing”-mentality. We see the children of a digital age, unspoiled or uneducated depending on who you ask. Collaboration over hierarchy, digital over analog – a change in the way we produce, distribute and consume creative works.
PressPausePlay is the first film to capture this new ecosystem. We meet the creatives at the frontier of production, the technical enablers of collaboration and distribution, the artists, the pop stars, the film makers, the business men, the visionaries and the ones left behind. Itʼs a story from the smallest molecule to the largest corporation. Itʼs a snapshot of today, but at the same time predictions of a near future.
Weʼre not creating a documentary in the classical sense of shaky cameras, bad lighting and unbearable sound. Although we have a small budget, we got big aspirations. The film will in itself be a proof of the evolution story weʼre telling, shot in digital 4K and finished at the end of 2010. Ready for both the big (cinema) and the small (mobile) screen. We will release rough edits and interviews as well as the final film free for anyone to use, broadcast and distribute.
PressPausePlay will be an observation, a testimony and a tribute.
(credit: Luke Sullivan)
Francois Robert (a photographer) found himself with lots of extra time on his hands, due to the recession, and decided to make the best of it with a subject he had been fascinated with for many years; bones.
I’ve met Francois Robert at Creative Summit many years ago while I was in college. He has a unique way of seeing things in a different light and making something new with it. He was promoting his book, Faces. The photographs were of common objects, but humanizing them to show their face.
Bones are something Francois Robert has been collecting for some time.
YouTube member, chrspck took photos of every painting on display at the MoMA,
then put it a 2 minute video. Enjoy.
The photos are pretty recent as they were taken April 10th, 2010.
(credit: Flavorwire)
Dave Kinsey :: Paris I & II
I love it when his style evolves, which happens frequently. Check out his past work for comparison.
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