If you’re in any field related to art or design, you very likely know who Syd Mead is—the artist primarily responsible for the look and feel of influential movies such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Tron and others. Well, as a volunteer o [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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I own one, you probably own one… Here’s a site that makes me want to seriously doodle in my moleskine. Thanks JK Chan for forwarding this along.
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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Stuffed animals. Explosives. Need I say more?
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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Do you have some vinyl records lying around collecting dust? Well, it’s time to bring them out and join Sleeveface. This widely popular online phenomenon is where people post creative images of themselves with their vinyl sleeves. To [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, April 4th, 2008
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You’ve seen all of these photos before, but have you seen them rendered in Lego? Have you? (via Geekology)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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I could easily just post a link to the MoMA’s online exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind” and say COOL! Actually, yeah, let’s do that. This site is as cool as the exhibit it showcases. [kudos KB for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 1st, 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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This past week Jeff Healey passed away after a long battle with cancer. For those of you new to his name he was one of Canada’s top jazz and blues musicians who achieved critical and commercial success both at home and abroad. Do your [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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 I've been a big fan of his work before I was a designer and when his titling sequences were just a thing I found cool that kept me engaged at the start a movie. There's a great resource over at <a href=)
Saul Bass is pretty happenin. (and yes that is an academic statement) I’ve been a big fan of his work before I was a designer and when his titling sequences were just a thing I found cool that kept me engaged at the start a movie. The [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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Q: What’s the only kind of music a violin is good for? A: Camp Fire Music OK…. I jest. The world has been inundated with solo violin works ranging from every Suzuki student playing Twinkle Twinkle up to stunning performances at [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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Then, as if that weren’t enough, starting February 1st we get Sword of Doom, Kurosawa’s take on Macbeth, Throne of Blood and his samurai comedy, The Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai (the most expensive samurai film ever made, later remade into The Magnificent Seven), Harakiri, the hard-to-find Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Saga and Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron.
If you have it in your head that these films are the Japanese cousin to the swashbuckler or just glorious displays of violence, it’s time for some schoolin’. These are some of the best films made anywhere, worthy enough to win at Venice and Cannes, funny, moving, occasionally deeply romantic and sad (Samurai Rebellion might be the best samurai date movie ever made).
Go. Just go.
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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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As part of the London Design Festival I attended a new opera called “The Corley Conspiracy”. The event was cowritten by a friend and collaborator Sean Starke, who is also part of the MIRROR project that I’m involved with. [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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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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These silkscreened posters by Jason Munn, the man behind ‘The Small Stakes’, make me want to rack up a really big visa bill…
Posted by: Sarah Reid on Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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Next time you see a dirty car and write the ever-so-clever “Wash Me” on the rear windshield, think again. By the way, Sean Wade must know of some great dusty roads.
Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Friday, July 27th, 2007
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