Blu – BIG BANG BIG BOOM

I’m a big fan of Blu’s work, here is his new piece, it’s amazing:

Meredith Dittmar

Here’s an artist I came across recently, I love her work.

Here’s her bio from her website:

Meredith Dittmar is an artist living and playing in Portland OR. Born near Boston Mass, she grew up in a world of pet pigs, horses, hay-forts and spy games . Follow this with an education in computer science, a career in interactive design, a compulsive need to create, and a drive to Seek and you get the major elements of her person and work.

Dittmars human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness . Her characters are frequently involved in quiet expressive moments, or lounge facing their audience so they can share their inner space. Dittmar believes it is this space we recognize in ourselves, and through convening in that space, the interconnectedness of all things is revealed. She sees the act of spontaneous artistic creation as part of a larger practice of being present, and a way to better understand herself and reality.

Dittmars work is featured in the books Dot dot Dash and Mascotte 2, along with numerous magazines and online publications. In conjunction with her artwork she works as an independent character designer and maintains her company Corporatepig, through which she continues to create thousands of unique handmade characters called “My Guys”.

for more of her work, check here:

http://www.corporatepig.com/artportfolio/

New Nike advert

Yeah it’s Nike, I don’t really support the company, but I must admit, this is a good advert by Wieden & Kennedy.

Anway, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=idLG6jh23yE

I’ll embed it at a later date, as it will not embed at the moment

The Third and The Seventh by Alex Roman

This piece of work is breathtaking:

As it states, please watch it in fullscreen

Final piece:

http://vimeo.com/7809605

Compositing Break down

http://vimeo.com/8200251

Brief making of showing some process from modelling to final composition and color grading.

http://vimeo.com/8217700

Here’s the website where you can download the full thing from:

http://www.thirdseventh.com/

Mia Doi Todd “Open Your Heart” – directed by Michel Gondry

Directed by Michel Gondy,

simple but brilliant

I’m Here – A short film by Spike Jonze

Here’s a link to the Spike Jonze short I’m Here. It’s a beautiful piece of work.

http://www.imheremovie.com/

I would say that though, being a bit of a Spike Jonze fan.

Aska Matsumiya’s There are Many of Us fits perfectly. The site is nicely done too.

I also just got round to watching Where The Wild Things Are again, which I also loved. I can see why people might not like it, it’s not your usual children’s film, but Jonze is not your usual film maker. I think he captures emotion very well and his films just have a certain charm to them that appeals to me. Maurice Sendak’s WTWTA book was one of my favourite books when I was a child, so this film maybe meant a lot more to me. Even though it was only a short book, I think Spike and Dave Eggers did a really good job of connecting the dots. Also, using Jim Henson’s Creature Shop was a stroke of genius. Lance Acord’s cinematography is as good as ever.

Anyway, I’ll leave you with the words of Maurice Sendak:

“I’ve never seen a movie that looked or felt like this. And it’s [Spike Jonze's] personal ‘this.’ And he’s not afraid of himself. He’s a real artist that lets it come through in the work. So he’s touched me. He’s touched me very much.”

Reza Abedini

Rez Abedini is a Graphic Designer from Tehran, Iran

I really like his typographical style.

Here’s a link to his site:

http://www.rezaabedini.com/

George Tsypin

I absolutely love George Tsypin’s work. If you haven’t heard of him before have a look at his website:

http://georgetsypin.com/

A bit about him:

George Tsypin is a sculptor, architect and designer of opera, film and video. He won an International Competition of “New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theater for Future Generations” some twenty years ago. Since then his opera designs have been seen all over the world, including Salzburg Festival, Opera de Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan and Metropolitan Opera in New York. Mr. Tsypin has worked in all major theaters in America and in the 90-es expanded his work to include design for film, television, concerts as well as exhibitions and installations. The first personal gallery show of his sculpture took place in 1991 at Twining Gallery in New York. He created the Planet Earth Gallery, one of the Millennium Projects in England: a major installation of moving architectural elements, videos and 200 sculptures. George exhibited his work at Venice Biennale in 2002. George studied architecture in Moscow and theater design in New York and won numerous awards. He has worked for many years with renowned directors such as Julie Taymor, Peter Sellars, Pierre Audi, Francesca Zambello, Jurgen Flimm and Andrey Konchalovsky. He has a special creative relationship with the conductor Valery Gergiev. George designed “The Little Mermaid” on Broadway. His book “GEORGE TSYPIN OPERA FACTORY: Building in the Black Void” was published by Princeton Architectural Press in October of 2005 (Golden Pen Award).

Universal Everything

for those that don’t know (and you should) here’s a link to Universal Everything’s site:

http://www.universaleverything.com/

Here’s their most recent showreel:

2010 Showreel

I’ve been a big fan of Matt Pyke since his DR days. Check ‘em out, you have probably seen their work before and just not realized who it was by