I love when “research” time comes around at the office. It gives me a valid excuse to do what I clandestinely do the rest of the week: Surf the Internet. We’re deep into work on an architectural firm and researching all th [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 15th, 2009
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I am so excited, one of my favorite programs of all time is coming to Vancouver, well Richmond actually. For those that don’t know, This American Life hosted by Ira Glass, is a one hour radio program (and also 30 minute tv show) on NP [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival Needs Our Help Graphic designers don’t often participate in documentary filmmaking, which is a shame. Just as our craft helps shape culture, documentaries are powerful storytelling vehicles, often reveal [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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There is so much nonsense on Youtube, so when I was surfing around at the weekend I was delighted to find this short movie. Take 15 minutes out of your day to watch this movie about parking validation, relationships and our human basic need [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, January 19th, 2009
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Our old friend Ze Frank has been a little harder to find since The Show went off air (or I guess offline) two years ago. A project he was recently involved with came online, a short 12 minute film called “The Remnants“. Well wor [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, January 16th, 2009
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Of recent I have been watching shows that I watched when I was younger, they are all dated but are quite wonderful to watch again. Here is a rundown, check them out: The new Statesman: The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
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Our old friend Gary Hustwit, who brought us the feature-length film Helvetica about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, is putting the final touches on his newest documentary project, Objectified—this time a fascinating [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 5th, 2009
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Filminute is billed as The International One-Minute Film Festival and now the 2008 finalists are all online and awaiting your vote! You do the math: 25, one-minute films won’t take that long to watch. Screen them all for the shortest [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 15th, 2008
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This came in today via LiquidTreat. It’s a documentary called Died Young, Stayed Pretty which is billed as a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. These artists dig deep into the culture of our times, and pas [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 15th, 2008
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Let’s face it: Gary Hustuit’s documentary Helvetica was a runaway hit. I certainly didn’t expect so many designers and non-designers alike to get so goofy about a film about a typeface. Building on his success and reputati [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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It was almost a year ago when I posted this cool video from Japan, but it was brought to my attention just yesterday that there is a slightly better rendition of Tetris that also uses people as pixels. I do believe that this series of video [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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With cameras in computers, cell phones and who knows where else, we seem to take for granted that cameras can go anywhere. In the early development of the movie camera, they were much more stable and harder to move around. When this new tec [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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Not sure how this escaped our blog until now. For the last while many of us here have been afflicted with sleep deprivation as a result of having access to complete seasons of the best episodic television has to offer. Case in point: Life o [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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The first time I watched the title sequence for Showtime's "Dexter" I liked it, after I started watching the show, I fell in love with it.
Posted by: Ivan Cruz on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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Okay so I might not be the first to tell you that Indiana is back and so what if you already knew this last year – it’s new to me! So let me revel for a moment in the glory of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The [...]
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Monday, February 25th, 2008
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This blog has sure gone stale, hasn’t it? I wonder if we have any readers left? We sort of suck, you’re right. Anyway, I’m still blogging, which is ironic as I used to be the lame infrequent blogger at IBC. Here’s a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Categories: Design, Film, Fun, Pop Culture, Typography | 1 Comment »
My passion for samurai films is really unreasonable. Well, for that and Yakuza films. And the films of Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, anything Takeshi Kitano was ever in (especially Brother), Japanese serials like Lone Wolf and [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, January 7th, 2008
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For the past 3 years I’ve been working on a project called MIRROR with my good friend Thomas Anselmi. Our collaboration began with a breakfast meeting about a website and quickly evolved into us writing music and visually refining the [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, September 16th, 2007
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Hot on the heels of SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego, the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is coming to Vancouver, September 19 & 20, 2007! You don’t want to miss this extraordinary collection of animated shorts, digital films, comm [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 16th, 2007
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You’ve seen the film Helvetica. Now you want to own it for yourself and see all the other stuff said by those designers that didn’t make the cut. Now you can pre-order your own copy of Helvetica on DVD.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
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We’re currently working on a brand evolution project for a client that found me spending a couple of hours the other morning rooting through YouTube for title animations of film companies. Ironically the one particular ID that I had i [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 10th, 2007
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As noted over at Coudal: “It’s a bad week for heroes.” Michelangelo Antonioni, (September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
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, you probably already know about the 7-11 stores across the US that have been temporarily converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie. What you may not know is that we have one in the GVR, specifically in Coquitlam. This is particularly special when you consider that it is the only Kwik-E-Mart in Canada, and one of only 12 in North America.
The store is full of Simpsons products like Buzz Cola and Squishies (Slurpee machines re-skinned), and apparently in the US stores you can even buy Duff Beer. To see some pictures of our local store, check out this <a href=)
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or without your daily internets (heaven forbid!), you probably already know about the 7-11 stores across the US that have been temporarily converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
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This is good stuff for a Friday, and just in time for the weekend theatre bingers: The Hollywood Reporter announced the nominees for The 36th Annual Key Art Awards. In their words: This year there are 34 award categories, covering film post [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 22nd, 2007
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.. of Mark Coleran.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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Recently while in France I did a double take when I saw an ad for Nespresso featuring George Clooney. Stars selling their image (souls) out for big bucks in markets other than North America is nothing new, but I thought this one was so very [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she r [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 11th, 2007
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Our talented friends at VFS have teamed up with Adobe and Intel to create a terrific new website for the Real Idea Studio, an online community that extends the reach of Adobe’s Student Filmmaker program at Cannes. The site, based on the V [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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Having been involved in the Digital Design and Digital Design Programs at VFS for a number of years now, it’s a source of pride when our design students really “get it”. Check out this impressive motion graphics project do [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 4th, 2007
Categories: Design, Education, Film, Typography, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
David Lynch’s new movie INLAND EMPIRE looks very…er…Lynch-like. Which is never a bad thing. Rolling Stone describes it as “three hours of mesmerizing (often infuriating) incoherence, a puzzle whose pieces you’l [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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Blu Dot, US-based maker of decent designer furniture has some cool content on their site. Specifically, they are collaborating with independent filmmakers to create weird short little films. It’s an interesting brand extension for sur [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
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New to iTunes, the Sundance Film Festival 07 Short Films podcast series includes features on Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”, Stuart Copeland and many more. New content will continue to be added until [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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I came to the office today with the US Mid Term elections on my mind and wanted to blog something with these events in mind. During my morning website visit I checked a new website to my list and found this video about the new vote counting [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
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Our friends over at Generation Printing have been buying news toys lately as they expand their high tech pressroom in Vancouver, BC. Check out this time-lapse video which compresses the 26 day installation of a six colour Heidelberg press i [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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It’s Halloween tomorrow. I don’t like halloween and this time of the year makes me feel ostracized from society simply because I don’t like to dress up. (although a bar in town is having a Dirty Pirate Hooker HalloweenR [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, October 30th, 2006
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In keeping with the spirit of the season, Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water in 10 parts on YouTube.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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It’s Monday morning and I had a bunch of cool blog postings I thought of over the weekend (stay tuned for a good game of bus chicken) and some cool ones I found this morning, but this one is HELLA-cool! (and I don’t use that wor [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Categories: Design, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Learning, Photography, Technology | No Comments »
I guess Viking is the UK equivalent to our Staples or Office Depot. Anyway, they’re running an inventive online promotion right now called Stationery Movies. There are 20 scenes made entirely of office supplies and you have to guess t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 20th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Film, Pop Culture, Websites | 2 Comments »
The potential pitfall of education about the female body in the media can sometimes fall on deaf ears because overexposure of the message. The kind folks at Ogilvy produced this ad for the Dove Real Beauty Workshop for Girls. Puts things in [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
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I don’t know what it is these days, but I can’t pick a good movie for the life of me. Enter “The Last Kiss” the latest offering from Canadian director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby(screenplay writer)), let [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Monday, October 16th, 2006
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When it comes to today’s television offerings, even 300 channels can’t deliver very much good programming. After a recent move to our new home we decided not to get cable. Yes, I miss a few good shows and of course the Food Netw [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, October 16th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Websites | 2 Comments »
I’ve heard quite a bit of buzz surrounding this movie, which is getting glowing reviews from every direction. I’ve never fallen in love with any of Guillermo del Toro’s earlier work (Blade II, Hellboy), but the visual styl [...]
Posted by: Mike Withers on Friday, October 13th, 2006
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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Categories: Design, Film | 1 Comment »
Jacque Fresco designs the civilizations of the future; and in the process, he defines how the human race will need to change in order to get there.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Film, Technology | 1 Comment »
Hillman Curtis does a lot of electronic design (web, movies, motion) including some wicked short movies for Rollingstone, Adobe and MTV. Of particiular interest are the shorts on Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister, David Carson,
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Categories: Design, Film, Guest, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
Check out Patrick Rebisz’s award-winning Between You and Me, a short film composed entirely of digital still photos.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, July 7th, 2006
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Intriguing and bizarre trailer for the film Brothers of the Head.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 6th, 2006
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Don’t know much about Director Reuben Sutherland or Joyrider Films in London, UK, but check out this innovative music video for New Zealand’s The Phoenix Foundation. Also worth check are Reuben’s Eurostar Da Vinci Code spo [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 26th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »
Here’s a good one for Friday afternoon surfing: A site featuring 30 second versions of classic movies re-enacted by cartoon bunnies. It’s surprisngly hip. Thanks to our friend Ryan for this one.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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NSFW (unless you work where I work) This was shown in MAC stores! David LaChappelle is bizarre.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 16th, 2006
Categories: Film | 1 Comment »
That was the message that the CBC delivered on the closing of the second day of Vidfest. Indeed, after a long hiatus last year by CBC Radio 3, during which time terms like blogging and podcasting became household words, it has returned stro [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 16th, 2006
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It’s been a long but intersting day today at Vidfest. We’ll tell you more about Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and creator of Pong and the session with Joshua Davis later. Early this afternoon I found myself in a little white [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Categories: Events, Film, Technology | No Comments »
For the next two days, we will be at Vidfest 2006 covering the event for the TAXI Design Network out of Singapore. Our review should be posted on their site later next week but in the meantime, we’ll be posting a few photos and featur [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
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For a long time Partick O’Brien (aka Transfatty) has been one of my favorite makers of weird films and other strange things. If you don’t know who he is check out some of his work here + here. Patrick was diagnosed with ALS on M [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
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There is much anticipation for Richard Linklaters upcoming rotoscope adaptation of Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. It looks incredible. As part of the marketing package, Res Magazine is hosting a contest to remix the A Scanner Darkl [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Categories: Film | 1 Comment »
There was a smaller version of this film going around a couple of weeks back, so we were pretty psyched to find that this larger version had been made available. Codehunters, a sweet anime-style short from MTV Asia.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Categories: Film | 3 Comments »
We were down at the Vancouver International Film Centre last night for the Siggraph presentation of “Vancouver Does Visual FX!” featuring a brilliant presentation by Marc Roth of The Embassy. I won a copy of the Can Con DVD from [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Categories: Film, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
Check out these amazing promo spots Psyop created for MTV HD.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, May 8th, 2006
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The Writers Guild of America has published a list of their 101 Greatest Screenplays. Few surprises in the Top Ten but it is nice to see people like Charlie Kaufmann and the Coen Brothers getting the nod. I thought that Patrick Marber’ [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Categories: Film | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently stumbled across a television series which originated out of Vancouver and has made it’s way to broadcasting in 44 countries. Oasis International (televsion and film distribution company) says “fat blue sky [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Categories: Art, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Travel | 3 Comments »
I love teenage crime shows as much as the next person, and maybe I just expect any Focus Features film to be amazing, but this film, Brick, about a So-Cal loser and his girlffriend who vanshes looks really cool.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Categories: Film | 2 Comments »
What happens when the Beastie Boys hand out 50 video cameras to their fans at a concert at Madison Square Garden? Always pushing the limits, Awesome..I F**ckin’ Shot That looks…well…f**kin’ awesome. Another brilliant [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Categories: Film, Music, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
Even if you’ve only recently started reading our blog you might have picked up on the fact that we like Michel Gondry. His latest feature film project, called The Science of Sleep, looks well, Gondryesque. It’s about an artist w [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, March 20th, 2006
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“Editing is crucial, maybe even more creative than the actual shooting. Every time you juxtapose two images, you say something. Editing is how you transmit your message, even if the message is that there is no message. You can make so [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 9th, 2006
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Watch the first video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album Show Your Bones, Gold Lion.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
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90 Degrees is an amazing student film by Jules Janaud and Francois Roisin created while they were attending the Supinfocom college in France. They have since been hired by The Mill. View the Flash or Quicktime version.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Film | 1 Comment »
In Chris Oakley’s video “The Catalogue”, human beings are reduced to little more than the sum of their spending habits and future needs. A disturbingly believable depiction of the not-too-distant future.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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The Vancouver International FIlm Centre is quickly becoming one of my favourite hideouts in this city. Following up last month’s viewing of the brilliant documentary
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 10th, 2006
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This little movie tells you why sharing is good, and not sharing can make people gang-up against you… Watch the rest of these cute and funny ad’s for Skype here.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Categories: Film, Fun, Marketing, Technology | 1 Comment »
I think friendly monsters would be a great addition to Los Angeles’ population. Who knows, maybe they could be the new tiny-dog + celebrity phenomenon. Inspired by Jeff Soto’s work, who wouldn’t want to be friends with hap [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Categories: Design, Film | No Comments »
Some days there is just too much good stuff floating to the cyber-surface and you want to blog it all but you also have the bills to pay. So here is the best of it: Trailer for tortured soul musical genius documentary.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 27th, 2006
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Touch the Sound is a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a world class international solo percussionist, composer, and teacher. She is also almost completely deaf. The film is centred around an improvised recording session with her and Fred F [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
I can’t believe I’ve never posted about this before. I’m so ashamed. One of my favourite movies and soundtracks ever is the double Grammy nominated film 1 Giant Leap. Everyone should see this film. Amazingly shot by musici [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 13th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Music, We love | No Comments »
Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to announce its first presentation on motion graphics with Mike Goedecke, writer and director of the short film UNTITLED:003-EMBRYO which will makes it’s Canadian debut at the January 18th event. Follow [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Film, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
“This is what War of the Worlds should have been like” is how Spy Films plugs “Alive in Joburg”, the latest effort by Neill Blomkamp. CG expert turned director, Blomkamp has created some memorable spots with the team [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Categories: Film, Technology | 1 Comment »
We’ve been big fans of what Coudal Partners and Veer have been doing for a long time, so when the two teamed up this summer to make a short feature in their spare time around the studio…wait a second, they have spare time? Who h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
Everything’s gone green is the first story from Douglas Coupland written specifically for the screen. Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. The film is in post-pr [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, November 18th, 2005
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A short film by Spike Jonze about how those miscellaneous shoes end up on the street.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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Check it out.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
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Weirdness. That’s about all I can say about
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 4th, 2005
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Nadsat lexicon is a combination of Russian-based slang and rhyming slang found in the book by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange. Grab a moloko, mix in some synthemesc and read on. [via Coudal]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Categories: Film, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Coudal.com’s usual Friday Drink Links was superseded today by a string of links about their “patron saint” Stanley Kubrick, including this brilliant essay on William Gibson and the Garage Kubrick. The inspiration for this [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, October 14th, 2005
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If some movies require a suspension of disbelief to be enjoyed, what I experienced at a recent Vancouver International Film Festival screening is downright unbelievable…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Categories: Film | 3 Comments »
The new 2006 Passat has “120 not-so-standard” features. To highlight this they commissioned 120 15-second films from different artists, one for each feature. Of note is Chrome Front Grill Frame.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Film, Marketing | 7 Comments »
For those of you who like M.I.A., you might be interested to know (I just heard this yesterday) that she was originally into film and directed an Elastica video, which is actually who gave her a Roland 505 and encouraged her to start making [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Categories: Film, Music | No Comments »
Founded in 2002 by Nicole Steen, Marcus Rogers and Frank Yahr, the two night Indie Music Video Festival premiered at Vancouver's Railway [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 10th, 2005
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CORPSE BRIDE, website for the newest release from Tim Burton. Try and find the hidden content.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
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How did a low-budget film with a convoluted plot about time travel, arson, young love and a giant, imaginary rabbit go from box-office flop to indie film classic? As an outdoor screening becomes one of the summer’s hottest tickets, Ed [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, August 5th, 2005
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Now this is a unique and rather creepy way to promote a movie Trailer Crashers
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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Some time ago we posted a link to Belief‘s inspirational presentation Pollinate: Chain Reaction. The Santa Monica based broadcast design and live action studio recently profiled on Apple.com for their use of technology in design, has [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 15th, 2005
Categories: Branding, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Marketing | No Comments »
I’ve never heard of “cinepainting” before, but Quebecer Simon Goulet’s prize-winning short film OIO uses 540 litres of paint, 56 colours, 7,000 metres of film and 33,000 digitized images at 360 frames per second to c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 11th, 2005
Categories: Art, Film | No Comments »
Our filmmaker friend (and Ben’s brother) Nathan first introduced us to the Directors Label DVD series. The first three discs are highlights from the works of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, notable superstars in music [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
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Performance art is cool. It’s even more cool when it screws wth people. Czech Dream is a documentary (mockumentary?) about two guys who create a ficticious supermarket in an empty field. They hire an advertising agency to create and p [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
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Here is one very good reason why you shouldn’t bother buying that “advanced copy” of Revenge of the Sith from the streets of Shanghai.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 17th, 2005
Categories: Film, Fun | No Comments »
Stripper dancing, clown dancing and krumping: David LaChapelle focuses his lens on the new rhythms rizing out of South Central LA.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Categories: Film | 1 Comment »
With all this hype and craze surrounding the upcoming final installment of the Star Wars series, fans have been keeping themselves quite busy creating innovative films showing their love and passion for this unforgettable saga. Here is just [...]
Posted by: Charlie on Monday, May 16th, 2005
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This is a nice short film about what you can achieve when you focus your energy. In a way, it kind of reminds me of Peter Lynch’s Project Grizzly, though with a less sardonic lens. There’s still humour in the eccentricity depict [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, April 29th, 2005
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Spike Jonze dreams up an incredible ad for Adidas. I can’t get enough of the song in the background. It was a wise choice putting Karen O. (from the YeahYeahYeahs) on vocals. Pre-order the worlds first intelligent shoe here.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, March 11th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Film | No Comments »
OVER TIME is a student film, a tribute of sorts to Muppet creator Jim Henson. It was directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie as a graduation project at the French animation/media school Supinfocom. It is a haunting but bea [...]
Posted by: Charlie on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
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Kirstan Horton has watched Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 730 times in the last two years. This has led him to build replicate stills from the film using everyday objects around [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
Categories: Art, Film | No Comments »
This is the trailer for UNLEASHED. It seems to combine the gritty style of fight club with a kong-fu movie. This is the story of Danny (Li), a slave who has lived his whole life without any sort of normal human education, with the mind and [...]
Posted by: Charlie on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
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Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez have a new star-studded, comic-book-come-to-life film coming out in April. And let’s face it, we all love Jessica Alba – she can do no wrong. I’d never have guessed that was Mickey Rour [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
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This is a cool video directed by Olivier Gondry (with help from his older brother Michel) for the new French electro-pop artist Laquer. It was shot at one frame per second of driving (one frame per 10 seconds at night) and is Oliviers’ [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, January 20th, 2005
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Mamoru Oshii’s follow-up to the 1995 epic and genre defining animated feature, Ghost in the Shell comes out on DVD in North America today. I have been in possession of a early release from Tokyo for a couple of weeks now but the trans [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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