3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Erik Wernquist is a character animator and a Visual Effects and Graphical Artist living in Stockholm, Sweden. His latest short movie entitled Wanderers is simply mind-blowing. Based on real photos and map data, we traveled through space discovering our ambition of humanity expansion. Check out Erik’s work erikwernquist.com. http://vimeo.com/108650530
Magic and Sparkle are out transforming Christmas on behalf of Marks & Spencer. Moving Pictures completed over a hundred visual effects shots in RKCR/Y&R’s 2014 Christmas campaign for M&S, directed by Philippe Andre through Independent Films. A cheeky fairy named ‘Magic’ and her fledgling cohort ‘Sparkle’ take to the skies over Christmas to transform it with the help of M&S, swapping a dull alarm clock for a brassiere, revamping a drab wardrobe into a clothesline of glittering dresses and bringing two lovers together.
Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane, together with Japanese watchmaker CITIZEN, has created an amazing piece of installation art that breathes magic and life into an otherwise mundane object. Their installation, called “LIGHT is TIME,” features 65,000 watch baseplates hung on black thread in a black room, making them look like shimmering golden raindrops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUXDop7k9s
Creative directors Raul Mandru and Mihai Botarel, founders of Raul X Mihai, made the piece as an independent project. For their floating surfboard effect they used a special stand that allowed them to keep the original shadows. After each surfboard image, they shot a second photo of the street and removed the stand for the final cut.
http://vimeo.com/110802755
Just in time of celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The First World War, UK largest retail chain Sainsbury released its beautiful cinematography aimed to remember people about peace. It's totally sick that we still don't have it on Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM
Nicolas Jaar collaborator Valentin Stip creates an ethereal score for director-to-watch Kevin Frilet’s "Under" "For his first foray into making a short film, Kevin Frilet did not plump for the easy road. He shot Under in a pool within the suburbs of Paris, casting friends, family and acquaintances aged seven to 77, most of whom had never dived before"
"The brief was high-concept, low budget. “I wanted to create a liquid universe where time is suspended, space infinite and depth unknown,” says Frilet, whose filmmaking mentorship has included stints as Assistant Director on Christopher Nolan’s Inception and Luc Besson’s Lucy. "Like the white desert in the George Lucas film THX 1138, with no border."
via Nowness
A cool animation of selfportraits done by Joost Jansen http://vimeo.com/87705787
Our friend and a resident of Hellohikimori Paris - legendary illustrator and professional master of grafitti tagging mr. Nairone (Instagram) released his nice collaboration done with London based studio UNIT9. Hoxton Square Bar&Kitchen asked them to decorate a huge street window. Watch it below
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The second Christmas ad is coming from London this week (watch previous). This time the largest retail store John Lewis repeats the success of its previous years and release Christmas Advert telling us about the friendship between a boy and a penguin. Soundtrack directed by Tom Odell
I was happy enough to meet Ilya, Prologue director at that time, at OFFF2009 festival when he was presenting Official Titles inspired by Kin-Dza-Dza soviet sci-fi movie. He was a creative direction of Display Graphics and Holographic Interfaces for Iron Man II, did the opening title sequence for the film Married Life, as well directed live action broadcast packages for the MTV Video Music Awards, Movie Awards and the MTV Station Rebrand. He also collaborated on the opening credits for RocknRolla, Iron Man I and The Incredible Hulk.Today, Ilya presents his personal website full of the top works he did for Prologue and personal researches: www.helloilya.com
http://vimeo.com/107558161
"When it comes to sculpture, Gaspar Battha thinks big. His artworks address concepts including the limitations of the mind (envisioned as a physics-defying robotic bird), and humankind's relationship with tools (realized through custom-made screws and screwdrivers). Patterns of Harmony, his Master-project at UdK Berlin, takes this line of inquiry one step further, using a projection-mapped light box to explore the geometric nature of the universe." via A series of angled two-way mirrors forms the bulk of the lightbox, which Battha calls a "fractal of cubes." He maps and projects graphics into the back of the hexagonal sculpture, where "the light gets 'trapped inside' the object," bouncing off the reflective surfaces to form the 3D geometric shapes that viewers experience. Where the kaleidoscopic patterns are reminiscent of Kit Webster's Hypercube sculpture, Patterns of Harmony's geometry warps the mind in its efforts to communicate the mysteries of quantum physics.
http://vimeo.com/110239274
"How do you make a spot that paints a portrait of the INTERNET? You use every crayon in the box, that's how! Teaming up with POSSIBLE, we also went through a dozen bricks of clay, spray paint, wood, lasers and a sprinkle of LOLcats. Onward Internet!" says animator Alex Mapar
http://vimeo.com/105674153
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , artists Christopher and Marc Bauder and studio Whitevoid, marked fifteen kilometers of the original route of the Wall. They used over 8,000 light balloons filled with helium to recreate that shameful episode of a history. This project entitled “Lichtgrenze”, “Border of Light” will be installed on November 7, balloons will fly the 9th of November at night. Via Fubiz
http://vimeo.com/105754237
"Paris & NY, like many large cities, have a lot in common ; transport, infrastructure, national monuments. I wanted to explore not only these comparisons but also the differences, in order to expose the beauty and individuality of each. What you cannot deny is the vibrancy and explosion of character each city has and I thought split-screen with timelapse would be a good way to help convey this." says director Franck Matellini.
http://vimeo.com/108552265
"This is a tribute film to the amazing Montserrat typeface, recently designed by Julieta Ulanovsky. A tribute, also, to the Montserrat neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, which inspired the font. An finally a tribute to Jorge Luis Borges. The text is an extract from his wonderful poem Break Of Day (Amanecer) from the book Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923)."
Direction, design, animation: Fernando Lazzari http://www.popscience.tv/ Director of Photography: Matías Nicolás Music: Brian Eno / Black Planet Sound Design: Andrea Damiano Plataforma Buenos Aires, Carolina Tobal
http://vimeo.com/79733436
IKEA have taken the famous scene from The Shining where Danny rolls around on his trike and inserted that same ominous fear into their own store. That's kind of an epic homage to Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsonfSQk2I
"My Whale" is a site-specific installation by Tundra for a renovated ship "Brusov", laid up on Moscow river and turned into an art-cluster.
There is an impressive space at the front of the ship, with panoramic windshield and hexagonal pattern on the vaulted ceiling, remained from the 70-s, the time, when “Brusov” was constructed in Austria. Standing there gives you the feeling of floating through the reflections of the Krymsky bridge lights on the river, inside a giant whale head. Looking through its eyes, listening to its songs that flow across the brain made of hexagonal cells by the wires hanging down here and there. With some light and sound we brought this whale to life.
http://vimeo.com/108384374
Visuals by Alexander Letcius, Alexander Sinica and Sergey Lubashin; Sound by Klim Suhanov and Semyon Perevoschikov of D-Pulse; Production by Bulat Sharipov; Shot and edited by Alexander Sinica.
Check this awesome ad created for SONOS by NYC based motion design studio 1stAveMachine. Check their portfolio online - a lot of awesome motion works!
http://vimeo.com/108810132
Last year the Spanish government decided to raise the tax for theatrical shows from 8% to 21%, resulting in a fall in audience attendance of 30% in one year. In response to this, Teatreneu, a comedy club in Barcelona has partnered with advertising agency The Cyranos McCann and came up with an ingenious new way to get people back through the door.
"Pay per Laugh is a new project that charges audience members according to how much they laugh at a show. Using facial-recognition technology installed in iPads attached to the back of seats, a count is made of how often each person laughs. This data is then sent to a server which creates and monitors the statistics. Audience members are offered free admittance but are charged €0.30 per laugh. However, the price for laughter is capped at €24."
via Protein
http://vimeo.com/97708026
