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Take-Away Shows : Andrew Bird
Produced by La Blogotheque out of Paris, The Take-Away Shows are a series of super low-fi music videos filmed in some of the most awesomest places, featuring some of today’s best and brightest. The artist role includes people like The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Beurit, Man Man, David Bazan, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone,...
Illustration: Aesthetic Apparatus
Aesthetic Apparatus is a design due out of Minneapolis curning out great pieces in identity, printed posters, mostly of the band persuasion, including Cake, Spoon, the Hold Steady, and more. Awesome work. Check it out! PS: There will not be a “HOW TO Friday” this week. I am going out-o-town beginning at 3EST today, and...
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Illustration Thursday:
“I Can Read Movies” Book Series
Mitch over at SpaceSick has created a whole series of AWESOME “novelizations” of movies in vintage book cover style, and they are just great. Everything from Space Jam to Mean Girls to Temple of Doom, these book covers convey the film and a certain quality that you only though you’d find on an old Penguin...
FallingWater Amimated Short
Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo. Ok, I’m not, in the general sense, a huge fan of 3D animation or videos featuring a lot of it, but this one is definately note worthy. I took at 3D animation class in college and had to do a short animated commercial, like 30sc long. It took me...
Movie Titles by Saul Bass
In the grand, accidental tradition of postings, here’s another one about Movie Title Sequences that is one of the best. Saul Bass created the classy titles for some of America’s greatest films–West Side Story, Anatomy of a Murder, Vertigo, Pyscho, Goodfellas–and the people over at Not Coming to a Theatre Near You has put them...
Olly Moss: Film Poster Remakes
Utilizing the strong themese already present, Olly Moss recreates the posters of some classic films, and the result is very stunning. Very simple and classic design, the posters are much like the mid-century posters of movies or book covers. You can see more of his work over at /Films or at his website, which has...
At the Plaza: Photographs from Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair, known for its great photographs and classy content, has a huge collection of their photos online to view, including this collection of stars and thespians at the Plaza Hotel in NYC. Above is a very young Michael Caine from 1966. He is a very pretty man…
Classy Sam Bassett Photography
Fantastic work by Sam Bassett. Great protrait work, plus trailers for a series of films that are just as visually stunning. Cheers.
Collection of Classic “The End” Titles
Over on flickr, there is a whole collection of the end titles that are just classy. It’s kind of a pity they don’t really do this anymore in films…cheers!