Copy Shop

"Copy Shop was made with printed out paper - the whole film was animated like a flip book. Every film was filmed with a digital video camera then printed out and reanimated. We did this to save shooting on 35mm or 16mm and it turned out to be a nice way to make the film look the way it does." -Virgil Widrich on Copyshop

I found this film while browsing through my copy of the european cinema 16 (which I managed to find in a charity shop for £1.99 BARGAIN!) and it blew me away. Such an ingenious idea done in such a creative way. It's films like this that make want to be a filmmaker so much.

Gastrotypographicalassemblage: The Designs of Lou Dorfsman at Kemistry Gallery

This exhibition focusing on the work of the prolific Lou Dorfsman at Kemisty is definitely the best thing I've seen at the festival by a long shot. I went in not knowing that much about Dorfsman and came out completely in love with is work and desperate to see more. The centrer piece of the show is a scale reproduction of the infamous Gastrotypographicalassemblage wall from the CBS cafeteria but what impressed me most were his print adds for the company. Their so sophisticated and smart and beautiful and I want them on my wall!

Anti Design Festival

I'm kind of not really sure to make of the anti design festival which is going on as part of this years London Design Festival, it is organised by Neville Brody and all the work in their main show is anonymously submitted by famous and non famous graphic designers. While I'm in complete agreement with their sentiments and reading through the book they're giving out was extremely inspiring the work actually on show kind of isn't that great. Yes there are some brilliant pieces and I did really enjoy the films that are on show in their microplex, but a lot of the work felt kind of confrontational for the point of being confrontational. But overall I did find the whole experience of it a lot of more fun and challenging that most of the exhibitions going on for the festival.

Outrace

After quite a few attempts I've finally got one of my messages written by the outrace robots. Tomorrow is my last shift at trafalgar square with them and I'll kind of miss them to be honest. I'm planning to do a full set of posts later on in the week chronicling all the event's I actually manage to get to for the festival, which hopefully should be a lot.

Special Relativity Batman

This is a quick experiment I did for a little project I'm working on about Time Travel. I found a graph that try to show how you would see shapes and colours distorted if you were traveling near to the speed of light and used the angles to distort an image of the detective comics issue 27 (the first batman comic) to see what it would look like close the speed of light. I am no physicist, so the likelihood I have completely misunderstood this complex is quite high, but still it's made a pretty lovely image

London Design Festival 2010

The London Design Festival kicked off yesterday which is really exciting as this year I am a volunteer. I've already helped out a little round the offices and during the festival I will mainly be stationed at the Outrace installation in Trafalgar Sq. which is really exciting. If you don't know what that is then you have to check out the website, http://www.outrace.org/ and send a message it's unbelievably cool. I'll probably post some more about all events and stuff i manage to get to, there's some really exciting stuff i can't wait to get to see.

Vintage Japanese Posters

I love these japanese subway posters from the 70's & 80's. To find out what they mean head over to pink tentacle.

Save The Arts Video by David Shrigley

This animation by David Shrigley kind of speaks for itself.

you can sign the petition here.

Squash

I made this short animation with Kathryn last night. We spent probably about an hour filming and it was really fun. The editings a bit sloppy because I decided to use iMovie 08 for the first time in my life which is a terrible excuse for a piece of software, but other than that I'm pretty pleased with it. The music we used is The Edwardians Begin To Enjoy Themselves by Moon Wiring Club.

Mad Men On Set photographs

I'm catching up with season 3 of the brilliant drama Mad Men at the moment and I just found these really brilliant on set photographs from the show, There's something really surreal about seeing Don with an iPhone or Cambell larking around with a macbook. Also the last photo of all the "On Camera Luck Strikes" is priceless. The whole set photographed by James Minchin over on rolling stone is well worth a look, if purely for the lovely photography.

Comic Diary Entry Coloured

I posted these autobiographical comics a couple of weeks ago and since I've been experimenting with colouring them in photoshop. I'm quite pleased with how this turned out and I'm definitely going to be using this method in the future.

Up North

I've been up north for the last week meeting the ladys family. I had a lovely time in the peace and quite of the countryside and got to experiment and play around with my camera a lot. unfortunately I managed to lose about two thirds of the photos I took because of a corrupted memory stick :( but these are my favourites from the ones I took.