Quentin VS Coen - A Tribute to Tarantino & the Brothers

Spoke Art is proud to present Quentin vs. Coen, a tribute to Tarantino & the Brothers. This video documents the art show that was curated by Ken Harman on April 7th, 8th and 9th at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City.

Small Black - "Photojournalist"

Small Black - "Photojournalist"

The PEN Story

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)

Some of the comments we have read here suggest that we should mention the creator of "A wolf loves pork", Mr Taijin Takeuchi.

While we were looking for a way to realise a story describing "a journey through time" based on printed images, we were inspired by Mr Takeuchi's brilliant work. For this reason we intentionally quoted his work in our little movie while showing full respect to his original idea. We didnt mention his name because we did not want to do so without his prior agreement.

However after considering some of the comments posted here we have decided to add credits to him and his work, which we obviously absolutely love.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

CANON Commercial - Freeze Tag

CANON Commercial - Freeze Tag from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.

---- 2010 EMMY Winner ----
---- 2010 CLIO Winnner ----
---- 2010 Gold Addy Winner ----
---- 2010 YDA Winner ---

An all out game of war using Canon cameras. CANON Cameras were handed out to various people and many of their shots made it in the commercial.

Check out the behind the scenes here: vimeo.com/8882119

Music:
Huddle Formation by The GO! Team

Product: Canon Digital Cameras
Director: Saman Keshavarz
Producers: Romson Niega, Tom Lee
Associate Producers: Francis Pollara, Nate Eggert
Cinematographer: Don Burton
Editor: Nate Tam
Production Design: Julie Chen
Sound Editor: Dan Bartolucci
Assistant Director: Johnny Ngo
Titles: Andrew Johnson
Visual Effects: John Carey
Colorist: Santiago Padilla
Stunt Coordinator: Ken Arata
Coreographer: Steven Butler
© 2009

"Despair" starring Bryce Dallas Howard

Photographer Alex Prager Turns Director With This 50s Chiller.

The setting: 1960s Los Angeles. Inside a phone booth stands a beautiful woman wearing the portentous femme fatale uniform of red lipstick and high heels. Bright and eerie, it's picture-perfection. In her first short film, LA-based photographer Alex Prager is going for pure, cinematic melodrama, hoping to catch just one emotion—despair—through her chilling juxtaposition of dreamy Americana aesthetics and back-story brimming with overstated tragedy. Set to a score by composer Ali Helnwein and starring model and actress Bryce Dallas Howard, the film takes its cues from the opening of Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter (1955), and the Hans Christian Andersen-inspired 1948 ballet The Red Shoes. According to Prager, Despair was conceived as a living, full-sensory version of her photographic work, which has previously been exhibited at M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, Yancey Richardson in New York and Michael Hoppen in London. "I'd like to show the before, now and after of one of my images----that's really the concept of the film," she says. Accustomed to running a one-woman show on her shoots, where she usually plays photographer, stylist, set-designer and everything in between, Prager was ensnared by the collaborative nature of creating a film. "It's like taking every art medium and melding it into one," she says. "It's incredible!" As for working with Howard, a fast-rising talent (and the daughter of director Ron Howard) best known for her performances in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village and Lady in the Water, Prager credits fate for bringing them together. She knew it could be no one but the fair-skinned beauty after deciding the role called for a redhead with serious acting chops. Howard's graceful, porcelain-like look seems to embody one of Prager's defining characteristics as an artist—her unabashed love for, and understanding of, color. As for suspense: one of the stills from the four-minute film is headed to the prestiguous MoMA this September for the group show New Photography 2010, where Prager is exhibiting alongside Elad Lassry, Roe Ethridge and Amanda Ross-Ho. Film stills from Despair are currently being exhibited and sold exclusively by Michael Hoppen Contemporary in London.