Stunned By The Silence

Yes, I know: it’s been months since my last post. You’d think there’d be no good reason for such a lapse, barring some near-fatal disease, a honeymoon overseas, or tax season. None of these suffice.

The one thing that makes sense of this entire mess (aside from my just being incredibly busy) is that I’ve been saving all my postworthy blogs for something truly THAT good. Today I found it.

Daniel Danger, a name only a 40s gumshoe detective could love: he walked into my office like a thug pandering blow in back alley corners, and hit like a former middleweight remembering his pre-success junior high acne. That’s how I felt (kinda) when I first saw this poster at OMG Posters. I just sat there for a moment taking in the strokes, the colors, the mood and feel of this scene. It really stopped me in my swivel, high-back faux-leather office chair.

It’s put me on a hunt of other Daniel Danger prints, and there are a good number, each with this distinctly similar feel. Dark. Moody. High contrast, with some light providing a patina for the scene’s raw emotion. I believe one can only get a print for this by going to one of the Why? concerts where they’re sold. I need to find a friend willing to go, just so I can pay their ticket, pay their gas, pay their overnight binge just to get me one of these prints.

Yes, I’m that desperate.

This is freakin’ amazing. You’re lucky I care enough to even tell you about it (that’s how I feel).

More Daniel Danger at Tiny Media Empire.

Environmental Design

I know this is old hat and has been thru all the interwebs a bazillion times. Still, really really cool.

Check out this amazing way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne. The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards and is the brainchild of Axel Peemoeller. Brilliant!

Updated ‘Best’ List

Heyall. Doubt anyone is following (still) after my lapse of like, oh, 3+ months. However, to reinvigorate the dwindling cares of all 4 of you, I’ve invested a bit of time into a Page I’ll be updating regularly, as I add new categories and find better content. Best thing is, the page is static. You can always find it here:

The Best List.

Thanks!

Post-It Note Stop Motion Video

This is artist Bang-Yao Liu’s senior project from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). It’s a stop motion video that uses different colored Post-It notes as pixels.

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Brilliant Ad Campaigns

So, I just re-visited the Frederik Samuel AdGoodness blog again today and saw a number of brilliant campaigns. The kind I desperately wish I had thought of. The kind I groan to even work on.

Anyway…

Make sure you head over to check out more of his site, but for now here are some recent highlights.

1. Lungs

2. Stihl

This Is The Thing

This Is The Thing that is rocking my world right now (the song, not the video). I can’t explain it—just is: over and over and over.

Until I saw the last episode of Lie To Me, I’d never heard of Fink before (glad I watch tv!).

Dreams of Flying

Reading a Chase Jarvis blog entry this morning I came across this video made from a camera strapped onto an eagle’s head. More info about the idea and story there. In Chase’s words:

Can I please watch this bird hunt?

Why is it that we dream of flying? Watch the video and you’ll remember

more about “Dreams of Flying“, posted with vodpod

Into The Night

I just came across a band called The Motorhomes that’s no longer together. If my legacy was as good as this, I’d be okay with that. I’m in love with this song right now…added to fav list.

Into The Night by The Motorhomes

Unknown Illustrator

Found these images on FFFFound. Loved ‘em. Wish they weren’t anonymous!!

Living in an Upside-Down World

How is it that the world is so full of beauty and evil—all at once? Even the understanding one gets from religion doesn’t smooth the discrepancy one feels when such extremes commingle. All the world is a blending of these.

It’s rare that something so perfectly captures this complexity in such a simple way. Maybe it’s even more than rare…but the experience is high art, even when depicting rubbish, refuse, and rubber tires swimming in open sky and water. Lights reflect off discarded bags, cigarette butts and wavy tree limbs. It’s just beautiful. To cap it all off (more than just the co-mingling) everything is upside down, posing the reflected world as real.

I haven’t seen inside his other galleries (they weren’t working for me), but Robin Soulier’s Ephemerals gallery (#1) still has me awestruck. Enjoy!