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I know I haven’t posted any recent work lately, but I’ve had my hands full to say the least.

Not so busy that I missed this gem. I’d seen this footage before from a skate video called ‘Fully Flared’, which featured the track ‘Heaven’ by UNKLE. After seeing the vid, UNKLE and Spike Jonze decided to re-edit the footage and cut a new clip from it. This is the end result.

Amongst the trend of high frame rate footage that’s going around at the moment, this music video really stands above it’s peers. Have a squiz.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

It’s occurred to me lately, that wordpress really is a great blogging platform, with version 2.7 about to be released.

Obviously, this folio is based on wordpress, and I am also currently working on another site for a local academic / artist / poet, and thank god for wordpress as a content management system!

I’m sure many designers will be horrified to hear it involves a horizontal scroll, but with a little CSS and wordpress knowledge, it’s shaping up very nicely. Also, wordpress is simple enough to write and manage posts, that clients can easily manage their own content.

Love it.

Thank you, wordpress team!

I came across this article from GoMediaZine today, discussing some tips to avoid the dreaded ‘Designer’s block’, and it’s definitely worth a look. Being able to switch that ‘creativity’ switch on is a fricking superpower in my mind, so I’m kinda obsessed with tapping into that creativity.

As ’self help’-ish as it sounds, Zen Habits is another good blog to keep an eye on. In their own words, Zen Habits is about “achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits”

Wow, what a feel good thursday. I feel like Oprah, dishing out helpful life tips here.
http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/10-tips-avoid-designers-block/

Stay tuned over the next week, as I try and upload some new work to the Portfolio.

I’ve done a lot more personal work, and even won a national competition about Human Rights, so that’s a plus!

And what’s more, I’m finally going to enable comments on all posts / pages through out the site, and maybe even rework the site’s theme overall…

Sooooon.

Like every blog on the ‘internets’, I couldn’t help but mention Google’s new browser, Chrome. I’m a little pissed it’s not available for Mac just yet – seems kinda lame to me…

Anyway, for more info (albeit slightly geared towards nerdier types) about Chrome, check out the introductory comic, drawn by Scott McCloud.

Without sounding too dramatic, I really hope Google’s effort to shake up the way we access the internet works. Kudos to them.

I’ve only really just started using Chrome, at the moment, but I’ll post my verdict on it later.

It’s awesome to see when people get a simple idea, and make something that just works, visually.

Plus, kudos for choosing MGMT as a soundtrack.

Fireplays from Jon Thomas on Vimeo.

Create a Colourful Abstract Wavy Ribbon at Spoon Graphics

For as long as I’ve been toying around with Illustrator, there’s been one question that no one could ever answer for me – oh, i tried!

Basically, my question is “how can i make a ribbon / rainbow of 2 or more colors, and twist and manipulate it, to give shape and dimension in Illustrator?”

and randomly, tonight, while i was just browsing through design sites, like abduzeedo.com, psdtuts, cult-foo, & iamneato, i stumble across Spoon Graphics and a tutorial to solve my ribbon mystery! of course it was amazingly simple (like all problems that haunt you) and i thought I’d give Chris Spooner some well deserved credit – not only does he have a blog that answers my mysteries, his portfolio is definately worth a check!

Well it’s kinda taken longer than I expected to get the whole site up and running, but it’s almost there. It wasn’t really the sort of job I could do on a weekend in between other paying jobs, so it keeps getting held up. But soon!

I love Gnarls Barkley – I’ll admit that straight up. Part of the reason, though, is because their visual work (film clips, album art, promotional photos etc) is just as good.

The new film clip for ‘Run’ off their new album ‘The Odd Couple’ proves they’re not slowing down, just getting better.

If you haven’t seen the clip for Crazy, you’re missing out… and maybe you were in a coma or something.

Every time they play live, Cee-Lo, Dangermouse & the whole band have a different ‘theme’ of costumes – eg. Star Wars, Navy etc. Check out Chewbacca playing the drums!

On top of all of that, the promotional photos provided to the media, promoters etc, feature Cee-Lo & Dangermouse as famous Duos from the Movies. Any particular reason? Just cos it’s awesome… I’m so impressed that someone is actually pushing the creativity in the music industry which seems to be suffering from the same old shit over and over again. Check out more photos at http://www.starpulse.com/, the new clip ‘Run’ and below, the Star-Wars-tastic Crazy performance.

Amongst all the new music that’s coming out at the moment (particularly Gnarls Barkley’s ‘The Odd Couple’ – super fricking excited), one album that almost passed me by was a compilation called “Beat Studies: Lesson One”, from 2007.

Track it down – it’s worth a lot of hunting. The album harks back to the casual style of Hip Hop similar to groups like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and early Black Eyed Peas. Featuring tracks from People Under the Stairs, Speech Defect, Starving Artists Crew, and many other artists that I hadn’t heard of before.

Not that I’m saying that you shouldn’t chase down ‘The Odd Couple’, just get this while you’re at it!

FINALLY!

Yeah, finally things are coming together in the Portfolio!

Yeah, I know, I know, you’ve already seen this filmclip and you think it’s wicked. BUT, just in case someone hasn’t stumbled across it yet, check it out – it really is that good. Then you can be all like ‘oh my god, I can’t believe you haven’t seen it!’ to other people…