Since I’ve been doing this animation, I’ve really gotten into cut-paper art. I love this album cover by Zach Moosbrugger. I think it’s gorgeous.
also, here’s my sophisticated side… check out my newest project, please and thank you.
in other news… look at this shirt i bought.
nice.
This is an incredible book on advertising. Just got it for my kindle, and I am neither bored nor uninformed. Pretty hilarious, pretty ingenious, pretty awesome. READ IT!
Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot imagine any human relationship more perfectly designed to produce total mayhem.
—John Ward
Get that designer guilt! Video about the theory of intentional product failure to increase company profit of product replacement. It’s a good one- make sure you click CC for closed captioning in English.
“The conspiracy theorists suspect that the primary goal of Phoebus was not to develop international standards but instead, to sink the lifetime of all light bulbs. It was noted that before 1924, said lifetime expectancy was slightly above 2000 hours. To increase the demand and hence, their profit, Phoebus members agreed to halve the life expectancy of all their bulbs by using lower-quality materials and production methods. The life expectancy decline was conducted gradually until the cartel’s dissolution to avoid drawing public attention.
Although Phoebus was disbanded in 1939, say the theorists, its influence is still felt in the West. By comparison, Soviet light bulbs and those produced in socialist countries (which didn’t adhere to Western standards) have been noted to have a twice as long lifetime. Modern Chinese bulbs have a life expectancy of 5000 hours. Moreover, light bulbs produced in Britain during or immediately after World War II, when the patriotic feelings could take over commercial interests, are still found in use to this day. These “ancient” light bulbs are sought after by manufacturers, who remove them from circulation “for study”. The oldest lamp in the world, “Centennial Light”, has been in use for 108 years, as of 2010.
Attempts have been made in Europe to circumvent the standards set by Phoebus. In 1975, German watchmaker Dieter Binninger invented a light bulb with life expectancy of 150,000 hours (in other words, 17 years of continuous use!). However, shortly after finally finding a manufacturer for his bulbs in 1991, Binninger died in a plane crash, which was officially regarded as an accident. His patent has since sunken into obscurity and oblivion”
“I got that lock-jaw like pitbulls in backyards.” Main Attrakionz’s “Swaggin Hard” is my newest musical obsession.
(Source: youtube.com)
(CONTIN.) Ok… so our “VOLUME” program is underway, and Leif and I are in the process of creating a stop-motion animation for it with cut paper. The animation will be a build up of the human body from skeleton, to organs, to muscles, to skin… the additive process is to illustrate the concept “volume”. We are planning on making this animation and attaching our information for the workshops to it, creating a QR code linking it to the animation online, and creating stickers of the QR barcode and placing them around town. It took us about 6 hours to set up, create our concept, and start cutting. We did not start photographing that night, but should be by this Tuesday. I’m excited.
(CONTIN.) Ok… so our “VOLUME” program is underway, and Leif and I are in the process of creating a stop-motion animation for it with cut paper. The animation will be a build up of the human body from skeleton, to organs, to muscles, to skin… the additive process is to illustrate the concept “volume”. We are planning on making this animation and attaching our information for the workshops to it, creating a QR code linking it to the animation online, and creating stickers of the QR barcode and placing them around town. It took us about 6 hours to set up, create our concept, and start cutting. We did not start photographing that night, but should be by this Tuesday. I’m excited.
(CONTIN.) Ok… so our “VOLUME” program is underway, and Leif and I are in the process of creating a stop-motion animation for it with cut paper. The animation will be a build up of the human body from skeleton, to organs, to muscles, to skin… the additive process is to illustrate the concept “volume”. We are planning on making this animation and attaching our information for the workshops to it, creating a QR code linking it to the animation online, and creating stickers of the QR barcode and placing them around town. It took us about 6 hours to set up, create our concept, and start cutting. We did not start photographing that night, but should be by this Tuesday. I’m excited.
(CONTIN.) Ok… so our “VOLUME” program is underway, and Leif and I are in the process of creating a stop-motion animation for it with cut paper. The animation will be a build up of the human body from skeleton, to organs, to muscles, to skin… the additive process is to illustrate the concept “volume”. We are planning on making this animation and attaching our information for the workshops to it, creating a QR code linking it to the animation online, and creating stickers of the QR barcode and placing them around town. It took us about 6 hours to set up, create our concept, and start cutting. We did not start photographing that night, but should be by this Tuesday. I’m excited.
Ok… so our “VOLUME” program is underway, and Leif and I are in the process of creating a stop-motion animation for it with cut paper. The animation will be a build up of the human body from skeleton, to organs, to muscles, to skin… the additive process is to illustrate the concept “volume”. We are planning on making this animation and attaching our information for the workshops to it, creating a QR code linking it to the animation online, and creating stickers of the QR barcode and placing them around town. It took us about 6 hours to set up, create our concept, and start cutting. We did not start photographing that night, but should be by this Tuesday. I’m excited.
From Wikipedia:
Helvetica is an independent feature-length documentary film about typography and graphic design, centered on the typeface of the same name. Directed by Gary Hustwit, it was released in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the typeface’s introduction in 1957 and is considered the first of the Design Trilogy by the director.
Its content consists of a history of the typeface interspersed with candid interviews with leading graphic and type designers. The film aims to show Helvetica’s beauty and ubiquity, and illuminate the personalities that are behind typefaces. It also explores the rift between modernists and postmodernists, with the latter expressing and explaining their criticisms of the famous typeface.
Jonestown
One of my favorite documentaries on Jim Jones and the People’s Temple, and the mass suicide at Jonestown.
