Wonderful ad for Hornbach, a German building supply company, tells the story of how one guy’s home improvement projects can bring strangers together.
Link on Vimeo
Jan 312011
The Thomas Beale Cipher from Andrew S Allen on Vimeo.
I’m not a huge fan of animation that uses static textures within the outline of a character, but the unified but limited color palette of The Thomas Beale Cipher above, helps to hold this piece together and keep the textures from distracting too much. This is a lot less garish and so much easier to watch than Gankutsuou.
Jan 282011
I recently had the pleasure of shooting Rodolfo, a Cuban-born professional interpretive dancer in LA.
This first image was one of my favorites. It shows him relaxed and at ease. It’s unfortunate that his leg is cut off, but oh well, nothing I can do about it now. I wanted to accentuate and harden the curves on his arms and cheekbones, as well as remove the distracting conduit behind him.
This second image is closeup of his face and hands. Not too much digital fakery here, just a few tweaks to up-contrast and add punch to the image, balance his face relative to his hands, and adding some highlights to his wonderful shock of hair.
Jan 272011
Flashback!
One of my local PBS TV stations in the Bay Area used to show short films back in the mid-late 80s, to fill the gap between Doctor Who and their evening block of British sitcoms, if I recall correctly. One of my favorites… no, make that my absolute favorite, was Sheila Graber’s short piece on the works of Leonardo da Vinci. She brought his sketches to life the old-fashioned, painstaking way–one drawing at a time. The beauty of this piece made a deep impression on me even to this day. I can’t listen to Vivaldi’s L’Iverno without one of da Vinci’s sketches popping into my mind, and I can’t look at a da Vinci drawing without a temporary flashback to this animation.
Link: Sheila Graber’s YouTube channel
Jan 202011
I really enjoy videos documenting other photographers at work. This goes double when the subject is a talented street photographer such as The Sartorialist
Link via Chase Jarvis
Jan 182011
Turkish artists deliver a beautiful antiwar message in this animation consisting of 294 paper silhouette cutouts, which they pasted around 4 different cities in Turkey.
[via Fubiz]
Jan 142011
Taken in Los Angeles downtown arts district, where there’s a whole street of colorful graffiti/murals.
I asked the model Rodolfo, who is also a dancer and choreographer, to leap into the air with his arms outstretched. Took me several takes to catch him in midair, in a classic rapture/alien abduction kind of pose.
I wanted to see what his form would look like against the busy background of the graffiti wall. I think it’s only moderately successful. The right half of the wall has a lot of warm tones that blend too closely to the model’s skin. Lesson learned for the next time. Find complementary colors for a background!
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