A video for Mates of State that shows once again that stop motion is a dead technique that is very much alive. The director, Arno Salters, and his wife manually cut out about 2,500 images for the video. It’s a cute, quirky video (much like the band).
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Another amazing ad from Psyop
“Psyop takes an imaginative journey with Wieden & Kennedy inside a Coke machine in “Happiness Factory,” a new spot for the soft drink’s latest campaign, “The Coke Side of Life.” The studio designed and animated the spot which begins airing today. Human created the music.”
I really like the character designs.
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I might be a little late for the bus on this, but now that my computer is in a very prominent and viewable spot, and I am looking at the desktop most of the time (if not consciously, then out of the corner of my eye), I decided that it is time to make my [...]
I made this quick “looks like powerpoint” drag thing for my dad, but it happily accomplishes a number of things:
1. the button/post-it graphics and actions are assigned by code thanks to an array
and
2. I am using the DepthManager class to assign a new depth to each post-it as you click it (i.e. the one [...]
Yo homeboys and homegirls, this is my first ever(!!) blog post, so excuse me if I don’t know all the blogging rules and etiquette.So what I’m going to tell you today is going to change your life (If you’re a complete geek that is). I was sent this link yesterday, and thought I’d share it [...]
I’ve just started using this application called Imagewell. It’s really useful for everyday web work and it’s perfect for blogging.
You can just drop an image on it to resize, compress, add text, watermark, rotate, upload to a server and a bunch of other things too.
You can read more about it on their website or [...]
Bob Borges wrote me a note a few months ago with news about his most recent activities in Honduras… He is working on a liberal media outlet, a publication called El Libertador, and is in charge of its transition to the web! Marc got involved with this and I am helping out by putting [...]
It is Brattle Appreciation night on Friday… Steven and I can go for free, and we can anyone else in for half-price!
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DUCK SOUP(1933) dir Leo McCary w/Grouch, Chico, Harpo & Zeppo Marx + Margaret Dumont,Louis Calhern [70 min]
Leave it to the inimitable Marx Brothers to put [...]
Would anyone like to go to this? For all the events I have been to previously, no RSVP was really required…
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Don’t miss this introduction to Bauhaus Design found right here in the Boston area. David Moore of Historic New England will give a slide presentation on [...]
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