The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge is a coffee table book+DVD about the unparalleled work of one of the most original artists-slash-animators currently active on the Web and beyond: Han Hoogerbrugge. The book with DVD covers all aspects of Hoogerbrugge’s work and career: from the early beginnings of the Neurotica web series up to Hotel, Nails and … Continued
“French Fridays” on Watch the Titles updates with another rare nugget of French motion design from the 1970s. The entertaining title sequence by Tito Topin and Jed Falby for Les Gaspards serves as a social-political commentary on the gigantic urban development projects in Paris, which transformed parts of the French capital into a big construction … Continued
Dutch music channel TMF waved the white flag, and MTV continues their love affair with reality soaps (yawn), but we say: Long Live the Music Video! In collaboration with Kriterion Theater in Amsterdam, we’re kicking off the first edition of Submarine Channel Live with a special evening dedicated to the creative medium that just won’t … Continued
French Fridays wouldn’t be complete without the “grandmother of the French New Wave,” Agnès Varda.
Our criminally-talented peeps at Logan made us some simple but mighty elegant new idents for the upcoming, completely revamped Submarine Channel website! As V-I-D-E-O will be the ultra-bright and shining supernova at the center of the new Sub Channel metaverse, and our blog has gone micro (among lots of other changes, big and teensy-weensy), we … Continued
French Fridays, a guest-curated program on Watch the Titles, updates with a title sequence by one of France’s most well-known title designers: Jean Fouchet. He created a fabulous stop-motion title sequence for L’Homme de Rio (That Man From Rio) – Philippe De Broca’s classic spy-adventure movie whose archeological theme was an important inspiration for George … Continued
I have to dig deep, but I think that I’m actually old enough to remember that station idents were once just plain static logos with maybe an added sound effect. This was way before shiny flying 3D logo’s (boring!) became standard practice. The adventurous, art and culture-oriented German-French TV network Arte just rebranded, and in … Continued
Rewind is the somewhat disturbing music video featuring Polish rising superstar Karolina Gruszka, who played “lost girl” in David Lynch‘s Inland Empire. Rewind director Florian Malak saw an amazing performance by Gruska in the theater. Instantly smitten, he decided to just pick up the phone and call the actress. “I told her that I had … Continued
In the third edition of French Fridays on Watch the Titles, guest curator Laure Chapalain provides us with some fascinating insights into the main title of Mon Oncle (My Uncle) – one of the masterpieces of the acclaimed French director Jacques Tati. The title sequence comments on the effects on the architectural modernization of post-war … Continued
Here’s some inspiration for ya. Photo Booth Works‘ mini documentary (6 min.) about street artist, painter, illustrator David Shillinglaw. This man can paint, but he has a way with words too, “I find day-to-day, conversational poetry casts a warm light on an otherwise very calculated, systematic, clinical and scientific world.” Ooh, and did we mention … Continued
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