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The Thomas Beale Cipher

Based on a true legend of the famous unsolved code.

There’s a lot of striking moments in Andrew S. Allen‘s “The Thomas Beale Cipher“. I love the re-purposed textures (herringbone fabric and washed-out wood), the grainy whisps of wrapping light, and the clever mix of rotoscoped footage with abstract design.

For more of his work, check out the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival Opener. No collage here, but the high contrast, punchy colors and moody compositions will be familiar.

Found at the excellent Short of the Week as part of their new “Short of the Week Presents” program, which plans to feature short films that have never been online before and help to coordinate their digital launch. Bravo!

Via: http://motionographer.com/

Dirty Deeds - Stupid People

MusicVideo for "Stupid People" by Dirty Deeds.

Ryan Dahle - Shutdown

The Official Music Video for "Shutdown" by Ryan Dahle. From the album "Irrational Anthems".

Paper sculpture

Chiral | Projection & Paper sculpture | Taiwan/Germany 2010

Projection & Paper Sculpture: Robert Seidel
Soundtrack: Richard Eigner

Chirality is a scientific term describing a structure that is not identical to its mirror image. “Chiral” collects cinematic etudes, which develop various conceptual approaches in order to expand the two-dimensional image into space. They are projected onto a sculpture (510 x 260 x 370 cm) and a screen (250 x 200 cm) made from handmade Taiwanese paper and develop very different lives on these configurations of the same material.

The amalgamation of volumetric lights sets ideas from Chinese calligraphy into motion and melts them with influences from European Art Informel as well as impasto painting to an abstract-organic sculpture. The installation is completed by a soundtrack by Austrian composer Richard Eigner (www.ritornell.at). With the premiere in MOCA Taipei the first iteration of the long-term project was presented…

Premiered at Tripolar Exhibition - 3 Positions of German Video Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei, Taiwan)
Date June 15th 2010 - July 18th 2010

Supported by Council of Culture Affairs Taiwan, Taipei Culture Foundation, Goethe-Institute Taipei, Eden Book Store
Sponsored by Optoma, Transcend, Asus

More info
2minds.de/chiral.174.0.html

Images
flickr.com/photos/53551826@N06/sets/72157624731787591/

Clutchy Hopkins - Verbal Headlock (Papercraft Stop Motion Hands)

From the new Clutchy Hopkins album "The Story Teller" on Ubiquity Records. This track already awarded among the year's best on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide show on BBC Radio 1. Directed by: Christian Borstlap Christian Borstlap is an amsterdam based art director and sometimes film director. christianborstlap.com

Dutch filmmaker Christian Borstlap made this papercraft stop-motion animated music video for a Clutchy Hopkins song “Verbal Headlock”. It shows paper-formed hands playing instruments.

A quick Google search suggests that the previously unknown-to-me Clutchy Hopkins is either a folk musician or an Internet hoax, and I’m leaning toward the latter hypothesis.

The Story of Bottled Water (2010) - La historia de las cosas (español)

http://storyofbottledwater.org

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Pacific Institute, and Polaris Institute.

La historia de las cosas



Desde su extracción hasta su venta, uso y disposición, todas las cosas que hay en nuestras vidas afectan a las comunidades, y sin embargo la mayoría de todo esto se oculta. La Historia de las Cosas es un DVD entretenido, dinámico y cargado de datos, que describe en 20 minutos el lado oculto de nuestros patrones de producción y consumo. La Historia de las Cosas expone las conexiones entre una gran cantidad de problemas ambientales y sociales, y hace un llamado a que nos unamos para crear un mundo más sustentable y justo. Les enseñará mucho, les divertirá y puede que cambie para siempre la visión que tienen sobre las cosas.

The Story of Stuff Project: http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries

For more info visit:
rethinkscholarship.com

The Rethink Scholarship is an $18,000 scholarship for aspiring art directors and designers to Langara College's Communication and Ideation Design program. The winner will also receive a 3-month internship with Rethink.