Art and Copy

I watched this documentary the other day. All the kids in advertising class have probably seen it, but it's basically a bunch of interviews with famous ad people talking about their careers. My favorite part was about Nike's "Just Do It" campaign. Apparently the inspiration for it came from an article about a death row prisoner who said to the firing squad "lets do it!". They were talking about the response to the campaign, and how they were getting letters from all these people about how they decided to get divorces after seeing "Just Do It". I found it funny that people needed a Nike ad to realize their marriages were bad. Thanks Nike! The extremely cheesy ads for Ronald Reagan's election campaign were pretty funny too. An interesting watch.

Books

I've spent many hours at Chapters in the past weeks, looking for inspiration and an excuse to use my 20% off coupon. Wish I had it when I bought that brand identity book though. $54. Aside from that there's some pretty interesting stuff in the bargain bin...

Listen to this.

Genius. A new era in music has dawned.

Tru Dat.

 

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Glass sign maker

Makes you wonder what's so great about Swiss design.


David A Smith - Sign Artist from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

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iPad stop motion animation

Pretty coo. Saw this on Defgrip


Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Breast Tooth (Mastodon)

In lieu of photos or schoolwork, I bring you music videos. "Masto-don" comes from the Greek words for breast and tooth, and this video comes from the band Mastodon. In case you weren't into dinosaurs and stuff as a kid and are wondering why a band would call themselves "breast tooth" in Greek... mastodons were elephants that lived in north America a long time ago.


Mastodon "Oblivion" music video from Symphony 19 on Vimeo.

BACK TO SCHOOL

The song was "a mistake" made to please the record company... but I like it for some reason, lyrics and video aside.

Russia 100 years ago in color

Some of you might know about boston.com's photo blog "The Big Picture". It's updated regularly with photos from around the world, focusing on current events. It's pretty amazing. The newest entry contains photographs taken in Russia between 1909 and 1912.

These pictures are amazing. They look like they were taken 5 minutes ago with a digital camera and someone has just uploaded them onto the internet. 100 years doesn't seem like a very long time when you see these.

Check out The Big Picture 

Another day

Another roll of film.

After reading how the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson would walk around back in the day with his camera set to 125 on the shutter and just adjust the aperture to get the right exposure, I tried shooting most of the pictures the same way.

Downtown, crashed fighter jet, garden, 5 AM hike... and a burnt down house we found in front of a lake after being lost in the forest for a few hours on said hike.