I have to say I just love the True Blood series on HBO. Even more than that, the intro to the show is probably the best thing I have seen on TV in ages, if ever! The song (I wanna do bad things with you by Jace Everett), imagery (feels like scenes taken with lomos) and edit are creepy and amazing. I can just watch it over and over again.
This week’s most viewed clip on YouTube is a fun, entertaining and well-crafted show with… sheep! I guess even Welsh farmers can be creative or just have a lot of time on their hands. Watch it below:
I watched Tokyo! yesterday, a movie composed of three short films by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho. All offer mysterious artistic semi-supernatural outsiders’ perceptions of the city: surreal interpretations of a slightly surreal place. A girl turns into a chair. A creature in a green suit climbs out from the sewers and inflicts mayhem and disorder. A man finds love after more than a decade of isolation amidst towering pizza boxes, books and toilet paper rolls.
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My mom grabbed my hand and explained that it was time to go down to the secret room again. My father followed us closely carrying my younger sister and brother, one child in each arm. We took the stairs from the fourth floor but did not stop on the ground, joining a flock migration of neighbors. Faintly in the background was a random un-orchestrated resonance of bangs accompanied by close-ups of explosions creating a habitual symphony of chaotic sounds that marked my war-torn city. We kept on going down for another two levels until we reached a hallway with a door that led to one room – the secret underground space.
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It is! Why has no one thought of this before? Cardboard is clearly better than plastic for the environment. We buy juice and milk in cardboard, why not water? For all those who do not feel comfortable with tap water, then this is a more sustainable solution - Boxed water is better!
Today, anyone will do anything to stand out. Oh and stand out and be “green” is even better. So basically a new agency has opened up in Amsterdam, and its whole office from the cubicles to the ceilings, is built entirely out of cardboard. And they are called Nothing. I just hope they won’t spill coffee on their desks!
“If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today - provided I started with a hundred million dollars.” Jon Stewart
One of my favorites from The Daily Show a couple of weeks back. I had to post it!
Familiar logos seem to exist perpetually. They don’t. We tend to assume that the start and beginning of a brand icon is limited by our interaction or short-term memory. It isn’t. The Best Ad website puts together a visual historical snapshot of recognizable logos – what they looked like from the beginning until today. Who knew the first Nokia logo was a fish? Firefox, as we identify it today, sprouted from a phoenix and a firebird.
It is similar to looking through old pictures of your grandma and realizing she was a teenager once - you knew she was, but until you see it you don’t really make it real. Or finding out that your neighbor, Steve, was previously Stephanie. Logos, like people, may or may not have aged well - facelifts or total transformations on brands that accompany us through our lifetime. Graphic identities, like the brands they represent, change, grow older and may eventually die even. It is a healthy reminder that nothing really lasts forever.
I visited the Photographer’s Gallery, a new three floor public space off Oxford Street in London. The photos on exhibit were those of Paul Graham, Emily Jacir, Tod Papageorge and Taryn Simon, the finalists of the Deutsche Borse Prize 2009. Each of the photographers, in their own style and fashion, approached the medium in a completely different way and shared their vision of seeing and understanding the world through their lens. The winner is to be announced on March 25, 2009. (more…)
