Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/24/13 12:04:29 PM
So Many Dominos Drop--Along with Your Jaw--in This Rube Goldberg Music Video
Joe Berkowitz of Fast Company's Co.Create writes: The history of Rube Goldberg contraptions in pop culture is long and convoluted, like the machines themselves. What it pretty much boils down to, though, is Peewee Herman’s breakfast and that OK Go video--two towering examples of the form. In order to get anywhere near the conversation with these two Hall-of-Famers, you’d better come out guns blazing or risk looking like the board game Mousetrap. A just-released music video manages to avoid being caught in such comparisons.
Joe Berkowitz, Fast Company's Co.Create
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/24/13 11:04:07 AM
An Interactive Journey Through Your Insomnia Is Highlight Of Tribeca's Transmedia Showcase
Neal Ungerleider of Fast Company's Co.Create writes: The future of storytelling according to the Tribeca Film Festival includes robots, crowdsourced films, and interactive self-confessional documentaries. Last week, Tribeca held its Storyscapes program--a collection of five handpicked installations that blur the boundaries between filmmaking, gaming, blogging, and art.
Neal Ungerleider, Fast Company's Co.Create
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/24/13 11:04:58 AM
Amazon's New TV Shows: What's Worth Watching?
Graeme McMillan of Wired writes: Everything about a television pilot is stressful, because the entire future of the program rests on it. The people making them have to introduce the show’s characters, concept and voice without seeming like they’re trying too hard (or forgetting to entertain the audience). Networks have to bet on whether the show will succeed or, at the least, not flop. And viewers have to decide whether they want to actually invest the time to watch the show. For Amazon Studios, this stress is compounded because the company is making its first fourteen pilots available online so viewers can offer feedback that will influence Amazon’s decision on what shows become a full-blown series.
Graeme McMillan, Wired
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/24/13 11:04:58 AM
The Titles of 'Da Vinci's Demons'
Angel Tagudin of Art of the Title writes: After centuries of reflection, the oft studied character of Leonardo da Vinci continues to reign as the genius and archetypal Renaissance Man that we’ve always known him to be. Yet as familiar as the man may seem, the opening to Da Vinci’s Demons illuminates new facets of his feverishly inventive and enigmatic mind. Beginning with Bear McCreary’s driving score, the sequence descends from painterly clouds and a Florentine horizon to reveal reams of hand sketched notes — a collection soon recognized as masterworks from da Vinci’s own hand. Paul McDonnell manipulates the hand-drawn illustrations to remind us of da Vinci’s ambidextrously rendered triumphs and musings while suggesting that there’s more to the prolific artist and polymath than even he may have known. Da Vinci’s demons seem to lurk behind each drop of ink, in each scratch upon the scroll.
Angel Tagudin, Art of the Title
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/24/13 11:04:05 AM
Watch the Full Trailer for 'The Bling Ring'
Watch the full trailer for Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring which features quite a bit of Emma Watson acting like a spoiled brat along with her teen thief cohorts. The Bling Ring comes out in June.
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/23/13 04:04:58 PM
Click 3X Delivers Hijinks with Channing Tatum, Rebel Wilson in Promos for MTV Movie Awards
Postproduction house Click 3X delivered a four-spot campaign promoting this year’s MTV Movie Awards, continuing a long run of successful collaborations with the network. Postproduction master Mark Szumski, who acted as Click 3X creative director, senior VFX artist and colorist on the campaign, teamed up with Backyard director Kim Nguyen and MTV on-air producer Kris Walter to deliver edit, graphic effects, visual effects and color grading on these action spoofs starring 2013 VMA host Rebel Wilson and actor Channing Tatum.
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/23/13 11:04:00 AM
The Future of Opera Is an FX Extravaganza
Photo credit: Carol Rosegg Mark Wilson of Fast Company's Co.Design writes: One moment it’s the Egyptian desert. Another it’s somewhere deep in space, and another an ink drop unfurling in water. Then, the illusion of environments shrinks away completely, framing two people lost within their own emotions. This isn’t a movie. This is the opera.
Mark Wilson, Fast Company's Co.Design
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/23/13 11:04:38 AM
Manipulate Colors and Imagery in Io Echo's Interactive Music Video
Io Echo's interactive music video lets you use your cursor to maniplate the scenes by changing colors, unblurring imagery, adding in band members and more. The video was created by the developers behind Arcade Fire's The Wilderness Downtown. Read more and see the video here on NOISEY.
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/23/13 11:04:11 AM
CocoRosie: After the Afterlife
NOWNESS writes: A furry beast cavorts on the shoreline as Hawaii becomes a psychotropic paradise after being given the CocoRosie treatment in the band's newest video release. Filmed by Mike Basich in the island state, “After the Afterlife” is taken from the forthcoming album Tales of a Grasswidow. “It was exciting to be given so much creative space when working with CocoRosie,” he says. “It was a special project filming it in a place where the girls grew up in their younger years; adventuring through nature, dreaming of other lives in the land of Hawaii.” READ THE FULL STORY HERE.
NOWNESS
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 04/23/13 10:04:53 AM
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig Search for Happiness
Ian Parker of The New Yorker writes: Noah Baumbach, the writer and director, has been more willing than most to think of his films of the past decade—about disappointment, broken families, dying pets—as comedies. When Greenberg opened, in 2010, the spectacle of Ben Stiller as a sour, haunted man—an asshole in a down vest—was so off-putting, to some people, that one cinema posted a sign reading, “We must limit refunds to an hour past the start time.” A few years earlier, during a panel that followed a screening of Margot at the Wedding, an audience member compared Nicole Kidman’s character, a self-involved fiction writer, to Hitler’s mother.
Ian Parker, The New Yorker
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