Thank you to David and weloveyouso for putting me onto this fantastic short film by Ray Tintori. The 24 year old recently made a name for himself helming the spectacular video for MGMT’s Time to Pretend but before that he was making awesome short films in college! ENJOY.
View the film below!
Helena Brooks emailed me about a project she was working on for Adidas so I went poking around her website. I’m glad I did because I came across this great short film she directed called Nothing Special. I can see why it was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
A short story by Joe Meno. Illustrations by Raquel Aparicio (whose work I love). Published in Annalemma Issue #4.
Read the story below!
Annalemma is the latest magazine to magically appear on my doorstep. Actually “magazine” kind of gives you the wrong impression, it’s a literary publication filled with short stories, photographs, and other artwork. In short, it’s fantastic. The photos below may be a little misleading, Annalemma is filled with a lot more writing than what I’ve shown here. What I was thinking was, I’d show you some of the images first and then dedicate another whole post to one of the short stories for you to read! How does that sound?
Sydney-based film makers Jason van Genderen (director), Shane Emmett (producer), and John Roy (music composer) created an amazing short that just won $20,000 and Best Film at Tropfest NY 2008 (which I believe is the world’s largest short film festival). The best part is that it was shot on a total budget of $57, and captured using cellphones, nothing else!
Jan Schoenwiesner shot Visual Music, his graduate film, with a DV camera and a homemade 35mm lens adapter! This is what I’m talkin about! So what you don’t have Canon 5D MKII! You might not even have a DV camera! My friend Ryan made a fisheye lens for his point & shoot using a peephole from Home Depot! Quit moping around because you don’t have the latest equipment – just go out and make it happen – get creative with what you got!
I was busy all morning doing a bunch of stuff, at least I thought I was. After stumbling upon this masterpiece by Johnny Kelly I realised I hadn’t done anything and had just spent my entire morning procrastinating. Kelly created Procrastination for his MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art. This is the sort of thing you bookmark for later when you are having a creative block. If you are already wasting your day you have nothing to lose watching this little short, but I’d recommend watching it even if you have no time to spare.
I snagged a few examples of Kelly’s superb design work for you all as well!
Rafael Sommerhalder’s animated short Flowerpots, was the Winner of the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Award. Great stuff.
