Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/21/13 12:05:02 PM
Street Artist JR Crowdsources 'Inside Out' Art Project
HBO documentary Inside Out profiles the work of street artist JR, whose large scale portraiture has been gracing city walls for years. Recently, JR launched a user-generated initiative that allows for others to create and display their own portaits.
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/20/13 04:05:27 PM
Kanye West Debuts New Single with Projections Across the Globe
Kanye West debuted his new single "New Slaves" this past weekend by projecting a video of him singing it on building walls in 66 different locations across three continents. Nine of the locations were in New York, including the Prada Store on 5th Avenue, video of which can be found below...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/20/13 03:05:54 PM
Google Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil Stars in Steve Aoki Music Video
Technologist, author and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil stars in electronic musician Steve Aoki's music video for "Singularity." The narrative part of the video illustrates some of Kurzweil's philosophies which state that in the future, "we'll be a hybrid of...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/17/13 04:05:34 PM
Sarah Polley Explains How She Came to Tell 'Stories We Tell'
Sarah Polley talks to The Credits about her intimate new family documentary Stories We Tell. She says about getting her start, "I really just had a vague idea of where it was going. I wanted to look at storytelling and why we look for the truth in the past, but I didn’t know how to...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/17/13 12:05:41 PM
National Geographic Goes Back to the '80s with Colorful, Animated Promos
Illustrator Ana Benaroya provides the colorful characters for National Geographic's out-of-character promos for their latest minisieries The 80s: The Decade That Made Us. Says Joe Burrascano, ECD for agency Nathan Love, to Digital Arts, "This is a completely different look for the network...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/17/13 10:05:34 AM
Watch a Scene from 'Frances Ha' with Director's Commentary
Director Noah Baumbach narrates a scene from his latest film, Frances Ha. Baumbach reveals that it took 30 takes to get the scene, filmed in one long take, right. Watch here on The New York Times.
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 05:05:28 PM
Adorable New Spot Shows Oreos Giving the Big Bad Wolf a New Reputation
The adorable new animated spot for Oreos wonders if the iconic cookie would change the villainous fates of the Big Bad Wolf, vampires and great white sharks. The spot is set to a jaunty tune sung by Owl City. Says Janda Lukin, director of Oreo at Mondelez International to Fast Company's Co....
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 04:05:36 PM
Ad Agency Turns Nesting Falcons Into a Viral Campaign
Ad agency Campbell Ewald has decided to leverage a couple of nesting falcons on their office building's roof into a full-fledged and buzzworthy "campaign" -- one without a product to sell. Explains Christine Champagne of Fast Company's Co.Create, "When the folks at Campbell...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 04:05:34 PM
Watch 'Arrested Development''s Tobias Funke Audition for James Cameron
Arrested Development's resident aspiring actor Tobias Funke auditions over greenscreen so that directors like James Cameron can simply cut out his performance and plop it wherever they choose (payment terms can be discussed at a later time). Explains Advertising Age, "Turns out the site [...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 11:05:25 AM
Alex Gibney's 'Riveting' WikiLeaks Documentary to Be Released on May 24th
VisualNews calls Alex Gibney's new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks "riveting," saying, "The most compelling themes in the documentary are disclosure, truth, privacy and secrecy, which set up a show down of juxtaposed ideologies between the U.S. government and...




