A can of PBR? Check. Waxed mustache? Yup. Plaid shirt? Got it. Bow tie? BINGO!
These hilarious Hipster Bingo cards feature wonderful iconography and poke a bit of fun at hipster culture. Bring a pack of these, grab your friends and spend a day in Silver Lake.
Artist Alexandre Farto creates amazingly intricate works of art by blasting away the top layer of plaster off existing walls. This clip of one of his works in progress is positively mesmerizing.
His other works are just as inspiring. I really like the incredible things he does to metals.
I went out for coffee and passed a group of students seemingly staring at a wall. This is what they were looking at:
It’s Banksy! I heard about new artwork popping up around LA attributed to him, but I didn’t know there was one right in my back yard. At first people didn’t know if this was really one of his pieces. Jamie Oliver, who’s doing his TV show up the street, came out to see it. Then there were rumors of Urban Outfitters’ property management company wanting to have the artwork scrubbed off. Not long afterward photos circulated showing that the piece had beentagged and defaced with paint.
Today it looks like most of the malicious vandalism has been cleaned up.
All that happened in just the first week of the mural’s existence.
The Saga of Biorn is one of the graduation projects from class of 2011 at The Animation Workshop school in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this Bachelor Film we follow Biorn, an aged warrior determined to die a glorious death in battle so that he may be granted a place in the afterlife within the Halls of Valhalla.
It’s short and sweet, great payoff in the ending. I love it.
The Saga Of Biorn from The Animation Workshop
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The writer of Wednesday’s issue on Salon really doesn’t like the character designs in the upcoming Gnomeo and Juliet film. He talks to character designer Shannon Tindle to figure out why some character designs work, and others fail.
You want to have a lot of contrast in your lineup, and “Kung Fu Panda,” “How to Train Your Dragon” and “The Incredibles” all have a lot of different, broadly different silhouettes and shapes of characters. Looking at very different shapes is automatically more interesting than characters with the same height and same shape
I don’t particularly care for most of the character designs coming out of DreamWorks (where I, like Tindle, happen to work). The stock human characters in the Shrek franchise are grotesque. I do appreciate their willingness to go with edgier designs, but the more out there your characters appear, the more you limit the mainstream appeal of your films.
You only have a split second to attract the attention of someone who happens to glance up at your billboards or pass by the bus stop. In that brief time that person will have to decide between “Yes, that’s an appealing character that I’d like to connect with” or “Ew, what is that thing, get it away from me.”
Here’s another example, with two recent movies about villains:
Roxanne and Megamind (left) are all about sharp angles, while Gru and the kids from Despicable Me (right) are more rounded and approachable. If you know nothing about the plot of either film and happen to see these two posters next to each other, which one would you choose to see?
Colombian-born Frederico Uribe painstakingly creates his works of art using colored strips of shoelaces.
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