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The Boy's Got Skills

He’s called Felix Zenger, he comes from Finland and he can do both this:

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Categories Sport Music Tags beatbox creativity Music Sport

By on 13/3/08

Capturing Banksy

You could write a thesis on the influence and significance of street art. But why not use film to tell the story. Better than that, documentary film in its purest form - a locked-off camera edited into a time-lapse piece. For over an hour, Jeremy Gibbs stood across the street from fresh work by Banksy on Essex Road, London, and filmed people who stopped to look and take photos.

The great thing about the film is that it captures the diversity of the audience. This isn’t about grubby kids vandalising for its own sake. It's about a blank canvas, and an artist with the determination to make his voice heard. The not so great thing about the film - the music. Sorry about that.

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Categories Art Film Tags Art banksy creativity determination Graffiti Street Art

By on 12/3/08

Bye Bye Buzz

Woody and Buzz set the tone. They kicked it all off. We fell to our knees so we might touch the cloak of this magnificent new thing: the Lord of animation; images of the mind rendered in three dimensions.

Oh the possibilities. Oh the brilliance of it. But like any regime, we grew tired.The great paradigm shift was forgotten, and then the improvements became smaller and smaller, and we ceased to care quite so much. Okay, so it’s not quite as black and white as that, but new advances in CGI animation aren’t enough anymore. We are human beings. We crave stories, meaning, emotion, not technological advance, and these are the things that even the simplest animations can support.

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Categories Film Tags Animation Film Imagination

By on 12/3/08

Cog In The Making

I'd never seen this video (below). It's the making of Honda's 'Cog' ad.

When determination comes good. Eventually.

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Categories Media Tags Advertising creativity determination

By on 6/3/08

Design For Life

I really enjoyed the BBC documentary last night focusing on the life and work of Australian designer Marc Newson. If you missed it, bad luck. He has a captivating manner and, in spite of his astonishing creativity, was able to explain his motivations and passions in layman’s terms. He wasn’t dumbing down, but rather letting us all into his own little secret - that simplicity and function constitute the key to great design:

“People ask me where creativity happens. For me it’s about aspiring to something functional and then joining the dots. Creativity is the space between the dots."

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Categories Design Tags creativity Design Imagination

By on 5/3/08

When Good Pets Go Bad

So a nod of the cap to those beasts that see a threat and react with interest: dive-bombing owls targeting early-bird joggers, wildebeest herds turning on lioness hunters, cougars defending their cubs from fearsome brown bears. There is a lot to be learnt from the determined underdog that rises up against its aggressor and sends him back from whence he came.

The finest example of animal determination must be this video, dubbed the greatest ever wildlife sequence to be caught on film. Enjoy.

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Categories Endeavour Tags animal determination fight suso wild

By on 3/3/08