Acclaimed writer and educator Cornel West shares his thoughts of the state of the nation with an open letter to President Obama. It has just been a year since he took office and people have put him under a microscope since day 1. Yes, things could be better—but we would like to ask were people this critical of Bush this early on? Cornel’s poetry as always is critical and respectful, but a bit self-serving.
Rumor is that Bansky will premier his first movie at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah that will be going down soon. For more on the film go here.
Logorama by H5 from Grafik Magazine on Vimeo.
Four years in the making, H5’s animation feature (as seen above) looks intriguing. The film originally debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, earning the Best Short Film honor in the Cannes Critics’ Week Competition.
Logorama is 17 minutes of Hollywood blockbuster action, rife with car chases, natural disasters, and hostage-taking, but created entirely out of real world logotypes and brand characters. In it, you’ll see the Michelin Man, the Haribo kid, Bob’s Big Boy, Mr. Pringle and Ronald McDonald, but in some very unfamiliar roles playing the classic movie archetypes of good guys, bad guys and foils.
Anyone know where it’s screening?
Following British musician Micachu through the aisles of a hardware store and along the streets of NYC, our video on the 23-year-old documents how she builds her experimental instruments. We also learn how her classical training compares to songwriting and get an impromptu performance with a member of her band the Shapes.
Lego, a beloved toy brand has created Lego Click, a website to share ideas of all things Lego. The Lego art craze hasn’t hit our interest much, but the intro video that welcomes you to the site is a must see.
This video visits Nike’s new store in the heart of Tokyo’s Harajuku district, interviewing interior designer Masamichi Katayama about how he came up with a way to suit the brand and its locale. Also check out the original story that we wrote about the store opening in November—all courtesy of Nike.
With a couple trips to Brazil, the first in our word-of-mouth city tours and plenty documented at home in NYC, 2009 marked yet another banner year for our video series.
Grafica Fidalga
Since we aired this at the first 99% conference (a joint production of yours truly and Behance) in April, we go to this portrait of three printmakers in São Paulo as our default favorite and best example of what we do. These kinds of subjects really almost make the video themselves, but our contributor Phuong Cac (who literally wrote the book on cultural São Paulo today) deserves a shout out for making the connection and coming along on the shoot.
Cool Hunting’s Oakland: A Word-of-Mouth Guide
After a little media controversy over our snapshot of Oakland—while we welcome the criticism—it didn’t change the fact that we really like our experimental portrait of the city. Here’s to a 2010 with a lot more videos covering places in the U.S. and abroad this way.
Sergio Rodrigues
We not only had the tremendous opportunity to shoot in Brazil this year, but caught up with one of the nation’s most illustrious designers Sergio Rodrigues when he visited NYC to promote the reissue of his fabulous Cornuto chair. His charm and wit shows not just in his furniture but in his personality too.
Sunpie Barnes
I first met the musician Sunpie Barnes coincidentally when visiting Jean Lafitte National Park where he was a park ranger. When we were looking for musicians to shoot in New Orleans, I remembered his easygoing demeanor and unexpected day job. The resulting video, shot at a benefit concert and burial ground on the banks of the Mississippi, makes a nice little portrait of Sunpie and shows off another side of the Crescent City.
São Paulo Fashion Week Summer 2010: The Bikini
For our second trip to check out São Paulo’s fashion week, we decided to just focus on the definitive item of Brazilian fashion, the bikini. With plenty of runway footage documenting the latest designs, we also get some thoughts on the subject from attendees, models and editors.
Dominoes Everywhere for the holidays from Jared Lyon on Vimeo.
To stay with our annual music inspired theme we would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday. The piece above “Dominoes Everywhere” is by Jared Lyon
For last year’s post click here.
MFA Interaction Design Fall Lectures: Matt Mullenweg from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo.
The MFA Interactive Department at SVA brought in Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automatic to share his insights on design, entrepreneurship, and open source. It runs over an hour, but is worth it.
Gli spagnoli United Fakes di Barcellona hanno animato questo paesaggio di carta per augurare al mondo intero un Joyeux Noël!
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