Finnish Photographer Jonas Lundqvist has an immaculate portfolio of images captured primarily for the fashion industry. He’s comfortable with a range of lighting and an expert at staging his subjects for a powerful effect.
If you want to see practically all of the fantastic paper cutout silhouette portraits created by pop-culture-enthusiast artist Olly Moss from his solo exhibition at Gallery 1988 in LA, you can do so here.
Edouard Salier brings his skills to the table for the latest video for Justice’s new single titled ‘Civilization’.
Credits:
Artist: Justice
Director: Edouard Salier
Producer: Mourad Belkeddar
Production Company: Caviar Paris
Post producer: David Danesi
Post-production company: Digital District
Why don’t we just get this short week started off correctly (short week for those of us who had Monday off for Memorial Day here in the states anyway). And what better way to do that then with a little video by Barbariön titled ‘My Rock’ that should help you “quench your soul in the river of fortitude” and “fly high above the eagle’s nest.” How can you say no to that or this video?
Credits:
Director: DAVE BUDGE
Cast: CORY DERRICK ROZ HAMMOND GEOFF PAINE
Producer: CAROLYN MASEL
Cinematographer: JOEL BETTS
1st AC: HUGH TURREL
2nd AC: LINUS KOH
3rd AC: DAVE SQUIRES
Gaffer: ANDREW LOCK
Production Design: PAUL STANLEY
Wardrobe: HOLLY PRESTON
Makeup: GEORGIA HARDY & HOLLY WEBBER
Fine Art: GRAHAM HEAD
Unit: JOE LOH
Recording Engineer: CHRIS FATOUROS
Mastering: JAMES BLACK
Sound Design: SELWYN & GIDEON COZENS
Intro Titles: MATT SLATER
Post Production: ACTIVEMOTION
Edit: MATT OSBOURNE
Online Edit & Visual FX: JAMIE SCOTT
Color: FERGUS
Special Thanks: MELANY MASEL GAVIN HERON
Powerhouse motion studio Imaginary Forces has posted a real several weeks back for the spring of 2011. As to be expected there is some jaw-dropping work delivered. As a burgeoning motion studio we are continually inspired by what Imaginary Forces can do. We hope we can one day reach their lofty level of production.
Ghostly Records put up a great interview with artist and designer Michael Cina who is a rare breed of designer artist equally at home with a paint brush as he is with a mouse. Michael has done some truly amazing work for the label over the past few years and the interview digs into his working process and what drives his passion for art and design. He’s still a powerhouse of talent in the industry and has been a source of inspiration to us at Changethethought for several years now.
This amazing spot created for the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International was produced by Eallin Motion Art and Dreamlife Studio under the direction of Carlos Lascano with Music by Academy Award Winner Hans Zimmer and Nominee Lorne Balfe. It’s a gorgeous little piece of animation.
Film on Paper has been called to my attention a couple of times in the past few weeks. It is a new website again dedicated to the art of the movie poster. It offers up a broad spectrum of work produced in that vein over the last several decades and is a pretty great mishmash of both then and now. Movie poster art is back on the rise and definitely in popular demand. Hopefully the studios will get on board and start hiring artists and designers to produce memorable artistic posters once again as opposed to a giant photo of the leading actors face that’s ready to go straight onto the DVD packaging.
German animation/motion studio Polynoid, have launched their short film entry entitled Loom as a part of the Resonance project.
They released through the short film through their website at www.polynoid.tv. The film was originally released in 2010 and has so far been the recipient of numerous film festival awards including ‘Best in Show’ at Siggraph 2010, an ‘Honorary Mention’ at ARS Eletronica 2010, and the 2010 VES Award for ‘Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project.’
It’s stunning piece of work.
Chris Huth is a local Denver artist who has been making some waves lately. He recently completed a poster for the Required Reading show at Gallery 1988 in LA. He also just completed a totally kick ass poster for Mogwai. Chris is a pretty low key guy who never really tells you exactly what he is up to when you run into him in person but he’s always got something good going on behind the scenes. He’s amazingly talented and is one of the rarest breeds of artists who is every bit as good at drawing and illustrating as he is at silkscreening. Keep any eye out for Huth’s work because my guess is he’s got a lot more coming.
Mutto is the work of Argentinian designer/illustrator Guille Muñoz. His website is full of all kinds of strange and interesting things. Something totally different is lurking behind almost every item in his nav. It’s definitely an unusual portfolio that showcases a multifaceted talent.
The song ‘My Dear Body’ is off the album “People Songs” soon to be released by Power Animal on a new charitable label called “Human Kindness Overflowing”. The label is a project developed by Paul North (Sunnybrook) and Keith Hampson of Power Animal.
Apparently this is a teaser for a full length animated feature. It looks pretty amazing and is being released by Blacklight Movies and is being produced by Guillaume Ivernel. Wow.
2FromBox is a duet based out of Boston. They don’t have a lot of work on their site yet but I am really digging their illustration style. They have some tasty fan art posted and I am anxiously awaiting their first full on film poster. Let’s see it guys.
If you are looking for a decent preexisting WordPress theme through which to host your portfolio it can be a pain in the ass tracking one down. Boulder-based BKW&Co put together this seriously excellent set of themes specifically for that purpose and considering the headache saved they are available at a very reasonable price. The set of themes is titled W-Portfolio and we will be utilizing one of them for our updated portfolio (although we will be slightly modifying it) when we relaunch our Changethethought.tv domain that isn’t yet active.
“Partitura is a custom software built in vvvv.org to generate realtime graphics aimed at visualising sound. The term “Partitura” (score) implies a connection with music, and this metaphor is the main focus of the project. Partitura aims to create a new system for translating sound into visual forms. Inspired by the studies of artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, the images generated by Partitura are based on a precise and coherent system of relationships between various types of geometries. The main characteristic of this system is its horizontal linear structure, like that of a musical score. It is along this linear environment that the different classes of abstract elements are created and evolve over time according to the sound. Partitura creates endless ever-evolving abstract landscapes that can respond to musical structures, audio analysis and manual gestural inputs. It is an instrument that visualises sound with both the freedom of spontaneous personal interpretation/improvisation and at the same time maintaining the automations and triggers of mathematical precision.
Partitura defines a coherent language of its own for the creation of new contemporary abstractions. It is within this system that Partitura creates worlds that expand from a single dot to multiple galaxies, from minimalism to complexity, from rigid to elastic, from solid to liquid, from angular to smoothness, from tentative to boldness, from calm to agitation, from slow to fast, from desaturated to saturation, from dark to lightness, from predictable to unpredictability. Literally ‘everything’ and its opposite… just like a musical flow.”
Awesome ongoing collaboration between Abstract Birds and Quayola.
Sid Lee is a phenom of an agency that is cranking out rock solid creative for everything from retail space design, motion, live action, art direction, branding and graphic design. All of it is good. It’s Snoop Dog with a light saber good. Yes you heard me right.
Motion/3D designer Gabriel Pulecio sent word that he recently updated his portfolio. I am really digging his logo sting work that features some bright, glowing and gorgeous particles bursting, spinning and reassembling themselves.
