okay. you know rbb loves bikes. we also love soccer. a lot.
and we can’t help but love this awesome film from nike and wieden+kennedy. especially trailer park rooney and “ronal…DOH!”
fantastic.
Billykirk make things with stories.
We live in a world full of things that can be thrown away without regret. Things that don’t have any deep meaning. Perhaps this is ok, but I think we lose something when our things don’t have meaning. Our houses become dumping grounds for meaningless things without stories. That’s why when I hear about people who are bucking the trend of meaningless stuff. People who are creating pieces with stories. I listen and I support them. Because I think if we fill our life with things with stories it will be much richer than if we fill it with empty things.
Chris and Kirk Bray are doing this. They founded Billykirk in 1999 to make handcrafted leather goods that have a story to tell. This video, shot by The Scout gives great insight into them and their philosophy. It’s a bit long (~8 minutes) but it’s beautifully shot and worth every second you spend watching it.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Here’s a fun to watch presentation originally given by Jesse Thomas at an AIGA Baltimore event that shares a sampling of the staggering statistics on the subject of the internet. Coincidentally the Twin City’s own Spunk Design Machine was just over there so something seems to be afoot in Maryland.
Anyway, this presentation is an interesting exercise in info graphics via video. My only complaint would be that each piece is often broken into a two part delivery that, given the pace, left me struggling to keep up at times. Still it’s lot’s of fun to watch and since it is linked right here on your trusty RedBlackBrown blog you don’t need to go to Baltimore and you can watch it twice to make sure you don’t miss anything. Just another public service we provide.
Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.
This is a great visualization of the creative process. love it.
PBS has done it again. An intriguing look at intelligent people doing interesting things. Nothing blows up. There are no scantily clad women. No murders. No esp flashbacks at the scene of a horrific crime. And, there will be no commercials – hallelujah! If you are not used to television of this quality you’ll be delighted to know you have until Summer to work up to it. Start by checking out the trailer at citizenarchitectfilm.com.
The photographs in this series by French photographer Denis Darzacq are arresting enough on their own—untouched images of Parisian hip hop and contemporary dancers frozen mid-jump, mid-spin, and mid-flip in postures that often convey a sense of indifference towards the approaching earth.
And then you find out how the series came about: From French Culture: “It was a carefully crafted response of Darzacq and a group of young French people to the alienation of youths on suburban housing estates after the riots that shook France in 2005 … A depiction of an entire generation in France in free fall, ignored by society, their energy untapped and unused.”
See the entire series and a video of a photoshoot.
This is a pretty good Mad Men parody.