SubmarineChannel has the Pretty Cool People Interviews, Hillman Curtis has The Artist Series. Actually his artists are pretty cool as well. To be honest, Curtis has interviewed some of our own personal heroes. People like conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, award winning music video director Mark Romanek and the brilliant Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. What’s … Continued
We loved Four H‘s 3D animated Lego fashion film for Jean-Charles de Castelbajac so much (see our top 5 favorite online fashion films), we just had to add it to our collection of Chunks. We had an email chat with Four H’s charming creative director, Nicolas Cornet, to see if we could get to the … Continued
An online premiere at SubmarineChannel: The short films of Sietske Tjallingii (that’s Miss T to you – you’re welcome) celebrate home-made glue-and-sticky tape special effects, combining a sharp wit with subversive commentary on everything from religious fundamentalism to military supremacy to female stereotyping (in a vampy catsuit, no less). Since graduating from the audiovisual department … Continued
This 13-and-a-half minutes animated labor of love by Norwegian-Italian cross-media artist Niko Stumpo, is a sinister yet spell-binding voyage laced with death, failure, and monsters… It’s a hoot, honestly! We had a little chat with Mr. Stumpo (a.k.a Abnormal Behaviour Child) to see if his mind is as twisted as this masterpiece would have you … Continued
Alexandre Brachet is a Paris-based e-producer and director of experimental, cross-media production studio Upian. A luminary in the world multi-platform documentaries, he merges cutting-edge technology and traditional techniques to break new ground in made-for-broadband story-telling. We managed to corner him after an inspirational presentation at the very first edition of the International Documentary Film Festival‘s … Continued
About 3 weeks ago we wrote about the 2008 Mackie Winners – the Machimima Filmfests’ awards for the best Machinima films of the year. We loved the winning video – a beautiful, moving, surreal short film The Ship – so we got in touch with the guy who made it: Egils Mednis. The Latvian machinimaker … Continued
Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit montages thousands of tilt-shift photos and throws in some time-lapse trickery to create short films featuring Sydney Harbor and its environs, which confuse your brain into seeing souvenir-size miniatures of the Made-in-Taiwan-snow-dome school. His work follows on from a technique coined by Olivo Barbieri, the Pioneer of Pocket-size, who creates photos … Continued
Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant has an ongoing project called ‘Oog’ (Eye), in which they invite visual artists and designers to comment on current news affairs. Here’s Hoogerbrugge‘s response to the crisis in the financial markets…
It’s clear that we at SubmarineChannel like title sequences a lot. Why we like them so much? Well, because title sequences are an excellent opportunity to show what a designer is capable of. It’s mixed media, it’s sound, text, often animation, (motion) graphics, special effects… It all comes together in those few minutes before the … Continued
An interview to read, this time. Piet Parra is one of the hippest illustrators in Holland. He’s also in a band called Lele (of Lele’s “Breakfast” by Parra and Sandder). His hand-drawn art work has graced many a flyer and poster, as well as big brand campaigns, CD covers and the T’s of his Rockwell … Continued
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