OK-GO — The Writing's On The Wall
Brilliant music video for OK-GO featuring 4 minutes of mind bending visual conundrums. Each scene is performed live in camera, one after another. I can only imagine the planning that went into that.
Times New Roman
Our good friend Squa has just completed this lovely short documentary piece about the often overlooked typeface Times New Roman for The Times. With interviews with some well known and respected designers, typographers and artists, where they reveal their thoughts on the famous font.
Edited by Gavin Burridge, produced by Sacha Evans at Betsy Works, DOP Joel Devlin.
Learning By Doing
Well then. Kanye West, Jared Leto, Patrick Stewart and Sarah-Jessica Parker are all at Cannes imparting words of wisdom about creativity and all that.
You know what? I really couldn't give even the tiniest of shits.
Might as well be the Chuckle Brothers, Mr Tumble and Mr Blobby as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not remotely interested in what those celebrity speakers have to say. They represent a starfucking culture which values superficial buzz and hype above craft, expertise and substance.
The whole conference circuit has now turned into an industry in its own right. One that is becoming further and further removed from the reality of what it is like to create and produce great advertising that can help businesses grow.
At the other end of the spectrum we have influential, egg-headed theorists attempting to turn advertising into some kind of pseudo-science with book after book advocating this new trend or that new trend.
The creative gene pool has been polluted with the opinions of nonsense-spouting, bandwagon-jumping, nest-feathering snake oil salesmen.
There's so much poppycock and gobbledygook flying around filling peoples heads with shit by telling them what to think and how to do things, that we've almost forgotten the fine art of thinking for ourselves.
Most importantly of all though, I think we've forgotten that advertising isn't about theory. It's about practice. It's not about hypothesis. It's about doing.
Action not words.
Yes, it's vital to absorb outside influences and a wide range of inspiration like a sponge.
But when it comes down to it, a creative person has to get their thoughts down and put an idea on a piece of a paper.
Attending all the conferences in the world and reading all the Gladwell, Godin and Shirky in the world will never be a substitute for the cold, hard act of sitting down and having an idea yourself.
And it will be mainly by doing that over and over again, practising, practising, crafting, re-writing, crafting again that better ads will emerge.
Not because Kanye West, Sarah-Jessica Parker or some mouthy advertising blog gave you an invaluable nugget of wisdom that made you see the world differently.
As that bloke Aristotle, star of the Greek philosophy conference circuit, once said;
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
You know what? I really couldn't give even the tiniest of shits.
Might as well be the Chuckle Brothers, Mr Tumble and Mr Blobby as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not remotely interested in what those celebrity speakers have to say. They represent a starfucking culture which values superficial buzz and hype above craft, expertise and substance.
The whole conference circuit has now turned into an industry in its own right. One that is becoming further and further removed from the reality of what it is like to create and produce great advertising that can help businesses grow.
At the other end of the spectrum we have influential, egg-headed theorists attempting to turn advertising into some kind of pseudo-science with book after book advocating this new trend or that new trend.
The creative gene pool has been polluted with the opinions of nonsense-spouting, bandwagon-jumping, nest-feathering snake oil salesmen.
There's so much poppycock and gobbledygook flying around filling peoples heads with shit by telling them what to think and how to do things, that we've almost forgotten the fine art of thinking for ourselves.
Most importantly of all though, I think we've forgotten that advertising isn't about theory. It's about practice. It's not about hypothesis. It's about doing.
Action not words.
Yes, it's vital to absorb outside influences and a wide range of inspiration like a sponge.
But when it comes down to it, a creative person has to get their thoughts down and put an idea on a piece of a paper.
Attending all the conferences in the world and reading all the Gladwell, Godin and Shirky in the world will never be a substitute for the cold, hard act of sitting down and having an idea yourself.
And it will be mainly by doing that over and over again, practising, practising, crafting, re-writing, crafting again that better ads will emerge.
Not because Kanye West, Sarah-Jessica Parker or some mouthy advertising blog gave you an invaluable nugget of wisdom that made you see the world differently.
As that bloke Aristotle, star of the Greek philosophy conference circuit, once said;
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Moviebarcode
Moviebarcode does what it says on the tin ... apart from it doesn't make barcodes and they do it for more than just movies.
They produce these compressed image strips visually averaging out everything from the opening sequence of 'True Detective' to 'Marley and Me'.
For all I know - like iTunes visualisations - it might all be bollocks. Who knows if it's as objective a reductive process as it seems...there's not a lot of background on their site. In the spirit of the Free West, innocent until proven guilt - ergo bravo.
They produce these compressed image strips visually averaging out everything from the opening sequence of 'True Detective' to 'Marley and Me'.
For all I know - like iTunes visualisations - it might all be bollocks. Who knows if it's as objective a reductive process as it seems...there's not a lot of background on their site. In the spirit of the Free West, innocent until proven guilt - ergo bravo.
Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Aladin (1992)
Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
Toy Story (1995)
Wolfgang Tillmans
Phaidon have just re-released an updated and expanded book documenting work of Wolfgang Tillmans. Despite occasionally photographing men's dangly bits (and including them in books when you least expect them whilst showing people some of your 'favourite photographers' work') - he's undoubtably one of the most influential Photographers of his generation.
I was gutted I couldn't make it down to Koenig Books on Charing Cross Road last Friday for a book signing. Unfortunately I was busy sending out Press Ad adapts; a situation which happy-carefree-19-year-old-1st-year-Photography-student-me would have bitch slapped me for whilst screaming "SELL OUT", but one which I'm fine with as I can now afford to have £40 haircuts and eat quinoa salads for lunch ... who's winning now eh!
Anyway, if you'd like to buy a copy of the new edition 'Wolfgang Tillmans' - makes sense to give Koenig your money, fair play to them for stocking really good work and arranging cool signings.
I was gutted I couldn't make it down to Koenig Books on Charing Cross Road last Friday for a book signing. Unfortunately I was busy sending out Press Ad adapts; a situation which happy-carefree-19-year-old-1st-year-Photography-student-me would have bitch slapped me for whilst screaming "SELL OUT", but one which I'm fine with as I can now afford to have £40 haircuts and eat quinoa salads for lunch ... who's winning now eh!
Anyway, if you'd like to buy a copy of the new edition 'Wolfgang Tillmans' - makes sense to give Koenig your money, fair play to them for stocking really good work and arranging cool signings.
Putting Music Into Words
If you found yourself idly leafing through your Global Issue of Campaign Mag this week, you may have stumbled upon this impertinent advertisement we did for our friends at Yellow Boat Music (to read the copy, click on the picture to enlarge it). I suggest you give them a call to enliven your next commercial.
Fives: Iconic World Cup moments
You might not have noticed but the World Cup starts today. There's loads of interesting digital bits & pieces flying around the web in the build up to it but these iconic World Cup moments reimagined as five second films are particularly good.
Here's some of the other World Cup related goodies:
All the fixtures on a downloadable iCal for your iDevice.
All the fixtures, match by match.
Every goal in previous World Cups, minute by minute.
Snazzy interactive planner
Another snazzy interactive planner
All the kits through the ages.
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