So worth the short post. The fun, typographic opening to the Danish Music Awards. Who knew the Danes even cared about music awards? Make the post jump to see the credits.
Danish Music Awards 2009 – DMA09 from Stupid Studio on Vimeo. read more…
Photo via Caruba
‘Art’ or ‘crime’? That’s the debate going on in art galleries, communities and city governments about graffiti. With artists selling ever more popular work in galleries and some major players such as RISD grad Shepard Fairey even creating iconic pieces of art inescapable to the public eye. However, even with the positive perception of graffiti and street art growing, city governments continue to mishandle the issue as it stands in the streets. San Fransisco, a major hotbed in the United States of street art, still spends $22 million dollars annually to clean up graffiti. That’s $22M with a capitol ‘M’. A huge chunk of change by any measure. read more…
Here is a fun little short I found on-line tonight involving stop motion animation techniques and Legos. This is the kind of imagination that makes me try to reactivate my own. Hopefully we will see more from this person in the near future and perhaps they will take their stuff and put it up somewhere else instead of YouTube, but until then we got this.
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So, a slight reorganization to how I post information which my Facebook and Twitter people might be interested in. Recently, with the addition of my Twitter account (which completes my social network trifecta of Facebook, Twitter and Flickr) I’ve been more prolific with posting small thoughts and statements than I was with Facebook. The 140 character limit, though, doesn’t give me enough leeway with what I want to opine on. read more…
So we are past the holidays and we are all alive until 2012 or until all the “Avatar” fans go out and do something even more stupid than seeing the flick for the 12th time. Time for my first post of 2010 and this one will be about the recent release via This One Is On Us titled: This One Is On Us presents “Another Version Of The Truth : The Gift” (or rather the show that was captured on this DVD release). read more…
With the year drawing to a close it’s important to go over the things you want to do. So make your resolutions and (hopefully) stick to them. However, in the shuffle to figure out the future it’s a good idea to remember the past. Inspired by Stephan Sagmeister, here are the Things I Have Learned: 2009 Edition. read more…
I’m not usually someone who likes to do small posts or linkcycling from other sites, but this is worth seeing.
Aron Jancso is a Hungarian student and designer that produces typography that melds Modernism and Graffiti together. Becuase those are two of my favorite things, I say go and look at his work either on his Flickr photostream or his Behance portfolio.
It’s funny, but I can see his work fitting well both on the street or on a poster. You could really classify it as a modern form of Modernism (horrible coined phrase aside). The designs are well thought out compositionally but also have enough play to make them rough.
Lately I’ve been seeing much more street art work along these kinds of lines, where Modernism and graffiti seem to intersect. Hopefully we’ll see a lot more of this trend.
Had not heard of Behance before, but it’s a step up from many other similar portfolio sites as well. I’ll have to sift around that site a little more as well. [via TypeGoodness]
We all know what a music video’s purpose initially was to do: promote the band. And we all know and have seen the music video pretty much become nonexistent thanks to one bad video after another (see the glam rock of the late ‘80s and most rap videos) and channels like MTV going reality, which is ironically the same place that gave music videos their purpose and forum so to speak. What is pretty much in my opinion the one thing that everyone has overlooked is the art form that music videos had/have become when done right. read more…
Contrary to what the title of this post might suggest, I’m not picking a best photo I’ve found or come across on Flickr. Instead, the whole point of Flickr’s Photo of the Year pool is for you to pick out your own best photo of the year. Something that I find appealing as an amateur photographer. I’ve had my Nikon D40 for about a year now and the more and more I use it, the more and more I just love using it. And, even though I’m far from what I consider a skilled photographer, I think that doing something as introspective as picking your best photo out yourself is a good exercise to see how far you’ve come. Looking at a year’s worth of photos – nine in all – I can see how markedly better I’ve gotten in such a short time. read more…
