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Good ad - this is the long version

Panique au Village

You'll recognise this style of animation from the Cravendale adverts. I've always been a fan of them, but never known who did them. Now thanks to It's Nice That (not for the first time) my knowledge has grown.
This is the Trailer for a feature length film...if you can believe that. quite a jump from 15second shorts.

http://www.atowncalledpanic.com/

Chinese Swan Lake

Probably the most mental balancing act I've ever seen

iPad light painting - Making Future Magic

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

This is awesome...I can just about grasp making the words, but as far as making the abstract shapes spin, change and move in all directions, my head just can't bend that way.
This is waiting to be raped by a massive ad agency.

The Reluctant Father

Phillip Toledano's photographic diary of the first month he was a father. Genius funny. Here's the caption that accompanies the picture above:

Some men deal with their baby rage by drinking, or playing video games.

I made plates.

I thought this was high comedy, but Carla was not so amused.

For the longest time, when people asked to see a picture of Loulou, this was what I'd show them.

I liked not showing the usual cherubic photo. An adorable shot of Loulou poking her head out of a casserole pot, or something similarly bilious.

Does every baby picture have to be sweet and beautiful?

Crying is as much a part of it, if not most of it, at the beginning.


Read the whole thing, it's very good
found at: http://www.itsnicethat.com/
Phillip Toledano: http://theanthropologist.net/#/PhillipToledano/TheReluctantFather/

nendo: thin black line

A collection of black wire furniture by Japanese studio Nendo will be shown at the Saatchi gallery in London later this month.
The collection also includes a clothes rack and all are intended to look like sketches.....mission accomplished. The chair (above) certainly achieves this and I love the boundary it crosses between practical furniture and sculpture/art. I wonder how comfy the chair is?? but also in a wider context, does the fact that it's going to be presented at the Saatchi gallery make it more art than furniture? If they let you sit on the chair then maybe its furniture, if not....then art? Or if the chair isn't comfy, then does it become art by default as no-one will sit on it anyway? Or is it a case of what the intention was when it was originally designed/made; I guess it's still furniture if it was intended to be uncomfortable from the idea's conception.

http://www.nendo.jp/en/
taken from: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/07/thin-black-lines-by-nendo/

Antidote

I'm currently on a month long internship at Anitdote. Just started my second week, and enjoying the challenges so far.

http://www.antidote.co.uk/
http://antidotelikes.blogspot.com/

Brew Dog

This is Brew Dog an experimental beer company and "A beacon of non-conformity in a increasingly monotone corporate desert" in beer world. Whoever got the job for branding this company must have had a lot of fun, not that I really like it that much. But its besides the point.
Above is their new brew, 'The End of History' in taxidermy packaging and is a head thumping 55% ABV and costs about £490 a bottle.

Found on DesignPorn
http://www.brewdog.com/

Everynone: Words

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.

I was told about this last week during an interview, and didnt think i'd seen it. Now I realise I had, but I wasnt paying attention. It's already been dong the rounds on various blogs, but i'm still posting it because this would have been the perfect place to take my dingbat typeface.....

Drugs Law Review

I've not actually written about my feelings towards the advantages drug legalisation would have on people, but I have had deep conversations with friends and family about the matter. Most of the time I have been shot down (especially within the family), but more and more we are reading about more high profile people than myself lobbying for at the very least, the laws to be reviewed. I also think you'll find Daniel Craig will back me up (as in Layer Cake) and Ben Elton puts forward a good case in High Society. Now the outgoing president of the Royal College of Physicians Sir Ian Gilmore also seems to have an opinion. There are also the documentries on Channel 4 at the moment by Angus Macqueen entitled Our Drugs War.
This fire is starting to get a bit more fuel...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10990921
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/our-drugs-war/episode-guide

Women are Heroes - JR

full trailer for 'Women are Heroes' by JR

Alexa Meade

These images blow my mind!....human canvases. I love them
http://www.alexameade.com/

found at http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/

worth holding on to? Kingston 2010

worth holding on to? from Rob Bowes on Vimeo.

The real talking point

If you look at design blogs regularly then you've probably seen this photo before, or at least one of the other two in the series. The project was a comment on the confusing and somewhat farcical laws that surround the issues of photographing children. I probably didn't need to tell you that, it's a very good project very well executed, and therefore it communicates.
This was done by two of my good friends Samantha Harvey and Anna Brooks this year at uni. Now i don't know whether it's because I've seen this project develop over a long period of time, but the point that the image is trying to raise is a serious one. It does have underlying connotations about paedophilia, but ultimately it's an observation about the big brother society ours is slowly mutating into.
Of all the blogs this has been on, including It's Nice That and Creative Review, no one has commented on the actual message this photo sends out very well. It's being overlooked due the the technical accomplishments of the photography. All 3 are rather beautiful images in their own right, bold colours, the composition is spot on, as well as the little bit of nostalgia you feel when you see that the background looks something like your very own primary school; these things, and others, all contribute to the message becoming blurred. It is not Sam and Anna's fault at all and ironically the fact that this Orwellian tinged message is mostly overlooked, actually makes it communicate and comment on precisely that problem simultaneously.
We are not very good at viewing our own society from a neutral position, we are far too involved, moaning about tax rises, pensions and the state of youth today. What we are missing is messages from designers, artists, directors and authors that our world is changing right before our eyes in ways much more subtle than a few polar bears struggling to find solid ice and a slightly higher water mark on the white cliffs of Dover. We overlook them because of the masterful way in which these messages are woven into the fabric of context.
A film's message may be lost despite the fact it could (and probably is) shouting you in the face. We don't believe it because it comes in a box stamped "Hollywood", full of special effects, millions of pounds and beautiful people we would love to fuck...it's far fetched and nothing brewed in Hollywood could ever really happen, could it? Fundamentally though this film was once, just an idea, that most of the time is thought of by an intelligent person needing a medium for the message, but during its transformation from idea to blockbuster, the message becomes transparent. Invisible but so obviously there.
The message of a book is probably the most effective, as it's a much more tangible object than a film. We can imagine the intelligent person writing the lyrical prose, that we could never articulate even if we tried. You respect the author more than the director, you're ready to listen. The problem here is...the message doesn't reach most people, most novels never make it into the heady heights of popular culture, something that a film falls into without even trying to. It's a bit like a free loading, reality tv celebrity getting many more column inches than a scientist who just cured cancer.
The photograph above is much more in the book category, the frustrating thing here is, lots of intelligent people do see it...but once again the real grit behind the final object is passed over.
It's the same mentality which causes us to overlook changes in our own society, and move us a couple of pigeon steps closer to 1984.
Point in case: the smoking ban
It was the first law change for a very long time that actually reduced our freedom of choice. "you will not smoke because we say it's bad for you". Of course smoking is bad for us, the people around us, and it puts a big strain on the NHS and and and...easy justification for the government and ourselves to agree it should be banned in public. No protest, (or pretty inaudible anyway) done. What it tells the government though is, ban the things people feel bad about protesting about, even if it causes them to lose freedom, and it'll be fine. Do it over a long enough period of time and people will have forgotten they could even do the banned thing in the first place, also forgetting they lost freedom each time too; it will just creep up. Next on the list...alcohol and fatty foods.

This is the debate that photograph should provoke, not one about composition and how "lovely" the idea is.

www.samantha-harvey.co.uk/
www.anna-brooks.com/

Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole

I've just found something new to try and achieve in my life

found at
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net