Manly friday

The air force design a car (more on it here) and a song about cool guy's don't look at explosions. 

Oh yeah!

Joker vs Batman BBoy battle

The amount of effort that has gone into this is outstanding. Great use of stop motion. Great use of music and great use of Youtube. 

It's a shame it couldn't have piggy backed on The Dark Knight publicity wagon. Probably would have gone massively viral. 

Don't re-use, re-interpret.

One of the problems we find ourselves in now and again is that we re-use the same technology for different ideas. Or we don’t look at using the technology again once we’ve found a good idea for it. Either way it’s a waste of that technology. 

We are now more conscience of trying to re-interpret how we could use tech. Twist it, mould it to create something digitally unique. Everyone is using Augmented Reality, webcams and interactive and seeded video now. So everyone, including us will have to start thinking a little bit more about how we implement our chosen format. 

This example here called B flat is the evidence to my point. 

Youtube. Everyone knows it, everyone’s used it. 

But this idea is a great way of using what is now a standard digital format in a completely fresh way.

Using music instrument instruction youtube videos this site creates a layered music track. Brilliant! 

It’s a whole new way to kick start some new thinking about how to use videos on youtube. 

No more just linear playout. 

It gives digital technology a fresh spin. 

THE DRAMA BUTTON!

For all of life's unnecessary drama's. Time this right with your speakers up and it's very funny.  

http://www.dramabutton.com/

JJ Abrams talks mystery

Following on from our "What's in the box?" post  this is the talk by JJ Abrams. Motionographer pointed out that this is what could have inspired the short film.

JJ Abrams himself, is very engaging and has a nice take on the idea of mystery. He talks about why he loves this particular theme, and how he makes it work in his projects. 

He seems to really get popular culture and cinema audiences. All his work has this pace which keeps you firmly gripped to your seat. He understands the audience today get bored very quickly, which is why Lost, Alias, Mission Impossible 3 and Cloverfield feel like they never let off the accelerator. 

We haven't seen the new Star Trek yet, but if the trailer is anything to go by it will be one hell of a cinematic ride!

Lights, camera....LEGO!

Movie posters out of lego. Brilliant! When's the lego film version? 

More here.

What's in the box?

A very JJ Abrams inspired short film by Tim Smit and Thibaut Niels. Hints of Cloverfield and Lost all the way through this. It's good though considering it is an amateur film!

Via Motionographer 

Are you a Mother lover?

Here's the follow up to Dick in a box by Justin Timberblake and Andy Samburg. Could this be better than their holiday present frolics? As it happens, we actually think it is. The deadpan delivery, music, casting and costumes all make this one of the best SNL shorts we've seen.

Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone seem to be taking behind the scenes roles in directing and writing respectively and letting Andy Samberg do most of the work in front of camera. Timberblake is also proving that he can do comedy as well as music and acting. Is there nothing this guy can't do? 

So The Lonely Island plough on and continue to make some of the best comic skits in the USA!

True friendship

Changing Mobile Forever

The spoken word (cool sort of poetry) technique is used in the new 3 mobile TV advert. It features Jason who sings with the group Bugz in the Attic. 

Film the blanks

Here are some great graphical pieces based on well know and not so well known films. Film the blanks is one man's abstract experiment with a variety of film posters. His website is here.  

Found via Hello Kinsella

Some of the best Facebook groups

This cropped up in conversation today with our CD. We had to quickly go on the hunt for some of the weirder and funnier Facebook groups. 

Some of them were so good we thought we'd share. 

I use my cellphone to see in the dark.

I flip my pillow to get the cold side.

Enough of poking, let's just have sex.

People who always have to spell their names for other people.

For those who have ever pushed a "pull" door.

Join this group, invite all your friends, and then leave.

If 100,000 people join my wife will let me call my son Spider-pig.