Hasta La Ideas

“Gracht” is an animated short film created in six months by Joost de Jong, Nick Groeneveld, Jeroen Hoolmans andMichael Koning, students at Utrecht School of the Arts in Hilversum, Netherlands. It follows a father and son, who run a moving company, and lead a normal day to day life. That is, until they help a young lady move her belonging to a different apartment. Their day quickly turns into a crazy adventure. The music and sound design for “Gracht” was created by the SoundBreeders collective.

UK creative group HangFire were given access to an out of use Boeing 737 airliner, and turned loose graffiti artists Sat One and Roids to work their spray paint magic on the plane.

“She was the first beautiful thing I ever got stuck on.”

At the recent 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin, Neil Hilborn –a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder– knocks it out of the park with “OCD,” a touching poem about his true love.

Before a child’s hands, the bright, attractive packaging, or even mass-production, every toy has its roots in the mind of a designer. There’s something innately imaginative about a toy, from its use case to the people who think them up. This is attested to by the new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Anthony Ladesich – The Secret Story of Toys. In this deeply human feature, Ladesich speaks to various designers who describe their creative process, taking an in-depth look at the meticulous attention to detail, deep frustration, and passion that goes into these small icons of joy.