Ink Tank Animation – Chinese Culture
Here’s a remarkable piece done for CCTV — Chinese Television – using ink tank animation and live video. Beautifully scored and artfully executred. It was created by MMIA, Bejing.
Read PostJohnny Hallyday 2009 allumer le feu
Nice concert footage. Great stage moving through a ‘bigass’ audience. Great rock and roll – a fun watch, good backup singers.
Read PostFashion + Video Can Mean Big Time Creativity
Zoetrope has been dropping some coin on some highly creative work for fashion line launches recently. Here are two pieces that set a high bar. This one’s fresh out of the box from the fall fashion shows in NYC. Some great shooting and production design and stellar post work from Lost Planet. Zoetrope Temperley
Read PostWill Ferrell + Friends on Insurance
Will Ferrell and his team have a field day trouncing on the ‘unjust lambasting’ that insurance execs are receiving in the media today. This spot is a great sendup of activist ads although it too seems to be sponsored by MoveOn.org Politics aside, it’s amusing and well done. Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
Read PostUSMC: Marines Drill Team
Great stuff. Here’s a link to the extended version of the USMC drill team, shot in the shadows of hallmark US icons like Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the St. Louis Arch, The Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. Nice simple idea, music driven with classic images sure to appeal to the heart […]
Read PostBored to Death: Bad Detective Work Makes Good Comedy
Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis helm BORED TO DEATH, a new detective half hour comedy show which premieres this coming Sunday on HBO. It’s a silly sendup of detective shows, with bumbling tales of inept detective work. The stars of Funny People and The Hangover are joined by Ted Danson in this quirky, elegantly shot […]
Read PostSand Drawing
Here’s an interesting video of artist Kseniya Simonova creating sand drawings. A native of the Ukraine, the sand artist won the Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, an overhead camera, dramatic music, imagination and her art to interpret the German occupation of Ukraine during WWII. The quality of the […]
Read PostZulu Alpha Kilo’s Agency in a Box Project
This is the clever and wonderfully innovative story of how a Canadian ad agency put it creative problem-solving skills on the line. It’s a great idea and a nice little film encapsulating the story in Creativity. Agency in a Box
Read Post“One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur” – A Rocking Trippy Documentary
How do you make a movie about Jack Kerouac’s writing appeal to a whole new generation? Take some of the best rock and rollers from this generation and have them create a music track for the film. That’s what has kept this two year old film from being released, but the wait is well worth […]
Read PostNO Impact Man + woman. A no impact documentary.
Is it possible to live in the city of bright lights and late nights (NYC) while having no environmental impact on the planet? This year-long experiment is what the new documentary No Impact Man is all about. This is the story of the Beaven family’s odyssey. Michele Conlin was my classmate at Columbia Journalism School […]
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