The Filmmaker Says: Compelling and sometimes controversial words from the visionaries behind the camera

The Filmmaker Says


Hot off the Princeton Architectural Press is “The Filmmaker Says,” a collection of quotes from the people who envisioned (and then brought to life) history-making films, from Charlie Chaplin to Kathryn Bigelow to Akira Kurasawa. Their…

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The Making Of Design Fu Mural

YIU Studio, spécialisé dans la communication visuelle, a conçu une vidéo time-lapse qui retrace la production du design mural dans leur locaux, une pièce qui s’inspire d’éléments relatif au « Kung-Fu » et de citations qu’ils affectionnent. Design Fu est une création très graphique à découvrir en images dans la suite.

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Inspiration Station

Any time is a good time for an enlightening message. The following are some of our favorites of From Up North’s Inspiration Gallery. Check this for the complete thought-provoking collection.

Visual Culture is on vacation….

So to mark the occasion, we’d like to leave you with this inspiring Quote of the Week. Acclaimed graffiti artist Mear One discusses his views on art as it relates to facilitating positive social change with VC co-founder and Format Magazine contributor Sky Obercam. In his words:

I don’t think that my thoughts alone are any answer but I do find myself as a frustrated soul experiencing a space where it seems that laws and the concept of what a law is (something that’s put into place that can’t be challenged) is a problem. We don’t allow each other the space to evolve. We try to hold each other in these locked patterns where we uphold ‘normalcy.’

That needs to change, but it’s hard to do that because we don’t have an educational system that understands what I’m even talking about. I think there’s one major thing that all of us artists seem to express and that is this need to be different and go out on a limb to challenge ourselves, and others, to think in new and radical ways. When I say artists I mean everyone from an atomic physicist to a singer/songwriter.

Keep it on lock…We’ll be back in full swing on February 6th.

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via Formatmag

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Jean Luc Godard

“It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to”

Jean Luc Godard

Quote of the Week

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Bruce Nussbaum on Design

Bruce Nussbaum’s recent blog post, attacks “Innovation” and welcomes “Transformation.” I think the key phrase in there is how the future of Design “relies on humanizing technology, not imposing technology on humans.”

Louis Agassiz


"Great in the abstract, but not in the concrete"

The statue of Louis Agassiz, fallen from the Zoology building at Stanford after the earthquake in 1906. Someone was quoted in the papers as saying Louis Agassiz “was great in the abstract, but not in the concrete.”

Tips from a pro



Wow. This little guy is remarkably articulate on the topic of ladies.

Take home message:
“Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil.”

How to Talk to Girls by Alec Greven (thanks, Peter!)