For all the friends, family, kind strangers, creatives, surfers, the loved and the lost that have entered my thoughts this year, have a fun and Merry Christmas!
Be safe, God Bless and Have A Good One!
A Very Gilliam Xmas [animation]
•December 25, 2011 • Leave a CommentIs Christmas just not weird enough for you to find enjoyment amongst the guise of Santa and CLEAROUT SALES!? Well black-sheep, the awesome Terry Gilliam may have your cure.
This director’s warped sensibilities translate well on film and animation to which he has his own trademark collage animation style – from 1968 here is Terry’s Christmas Card to the world a wrong address:
Chinchin Mr Gilliam for bringing joy to the world!
David Attenborough – Wonderful World
•December 23, 2011 • Leave a CommentThis is an amazing video courtesy of an amazing BBC series, brought to us by an amazing human being indeed. There are many covers of Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World, but these words never sounded more true coming from Sir David Attenborough himself, the world’s most prolific natural history film-maker ever known:
To honor the 85-year-old national treasure who just concluded narrating his final series on the BBC; David Attenborough’s spoken-word recording of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”
I love watching the mating rituals of birds, especially the diverse birds of paradise from home, Papua New Guinea:
So special, the bird of paradise even represents our country on our national flag. But my most recent Attenborough adventure further acquainted me with one of my favorite creatures on the planet — The Komodo Dragon:
Thanks David Attenborough.
“Sketchi” by Lily Sun [animation]
•December 21, 2011 • Leave a CommentA little girl’s beloved old dog passes away, but the girl won’t give up on him just yet. A bittersweet tale by Lily Sun reminding us that those we lost can live on in our minds. RIP Sketchi.
Yesterday when I came to work at 10AM, there was a suicide on the train tracks outside Middlemore Hospital. Every time I heard someone elses eye-witness account today of how they saw the woman standing then laying on the tracks and waiting for a good minute to get hit, all I could think to myself was, why didn’t they help? Tragic. Long day.
•December 20, 2011 • 3 CommentsMovie Poster Templates
•December 17, 2011 • Leave a CommentPrepare to have your mind blown! Movie posters have to convey a lot in a small space, so designers rely on certain themes, layouts and designs. Here are a few tried and tested ones, collected by Christophe Courtois:
Crazy huh? If it makes money though.
Prometheus [first look]
•December 16, 2011 • Leave a CommentHere’s the first official Prometheus poster which also reveals the film’s tagline. The trailer shouldn’t be too far behind!
Also, here are some exclusive pictures from the film that should be sweeping the web soon. Sweet casting. And no, I don’t think these are considered spoilers… I think…
AMALGAMATION
•December 15, 2011 • Leave a CommentFrom what I’ve gathered; this mesmerizing face morphing experiment is composed of photos taken in 1983 from “Summer Weather,” a portrait series of would-be weather reporters, unearthed just this year.
I love how unique and stand-alone a piece of work this is; French animator and photographer Micaël Reynaud (check-out his Go-Bots collection) has given these forgotten stills movement and life again:
Photographer Micaël Reynaud took a large number of black & white head shots by photographer Michael Jang and turned them into this super trippy video showing the faces morph through a ripple effect.
The Taekwondo Shuffle
•December 6, 2011 • Leave a CommentThese adept kids bring coolness to shuffling. Not only can they dance, they can also kick butt while doing it:
You Look Like You Could Use A Hug!
•December 4, 2011 • Leave a CommentVisit ‘The Nicest Place On the Internet’ to receive as many as you want; virtual love, infectious smiles and close-up chins aplenty! I’ve left my screen droning on this site for a few minutes now; I’m not sure how niceness is quantified but for now this is certainly the most interesting place on the internet. I like the idea and I feel slightly warmer too:
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