Entries Tagged as 'superheroes'

Monday, December 21st, 2009

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

Note: This is actually way better if you’re first seeing it during a Dollhouse commercial break on Hulu, without the spoilers of the youtube video title and static screen (below) giving away what you’re about to see.
In the course of just 30 seconds the ad takes you on a ride of intrigue and suspense that [...]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

building characters

While trying to track down a quote from Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction, I came across a LinkedIn profile for Sean Bateman. In case you’re not acquainted with Sean Bateman, one of the main protagonists of the Rules of Attraction, here’s his LinkedIn profile:

Sean Bateman

Student at Bennington College

Albany, New York Area

Education

Bennington College

Connections
[...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

unobscured

Just came across a great article in Fast Company about Obscura last night. Many of the Do LaB’s collaborators and friends from the El Circo collective work with this San Francisco multimedia design lab that Fast Company likens to “an alternate universe dreamed up by someone who’s been mainlining Pixy Stix.”
[Obscura] create[s] visual spaces and [...]

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

i hope you get shot (by allan amato)

a few weeks ago allan amato opened up his studio to take portraits of all his friends, and this is what i got for stopping by:

which doesn’t even look like a portrait of me, so much as a peice of art that allan made and i just happen to be one of the colors he [...]

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

look at this cool new thing!

get your post-apocalyptic designer dream on…

Illuminated is a new animated series being created by some of the people behind GNN (Guerrilla News Network), Phong.com (Eminem’s “Mosh”), Pod Collective, Broken Saints, and ConceptArt.org.
illuminated.com

and while you’re looking at that you may also want to look at [...]

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

this changed everything

tiffa novoa 1975 – 2007

heavy shit today.
tiffa (née tiffany ann snead) was not just a fashion designer, she invented an entire aesthetic style. she was not just one of the founding members of a notorious performance troupe, she helped to create an entire subculture. she wasn’t just a visionary artist, she was a force [...]

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

the speed of culture

1 2 3
That’s the speed of the seed
A B C
That’s the speed of the need
You can dream a little dream
Or you can live a little dream
I’d rather live it
Cuz dreamers always chase
But never get it

- Aesop Rock: “No Regrets”

there is some kind of undeniable human fascination with child prodigies. is it perhaps because it’s the [...]

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

the current state of superheroes

as much as i love movies about teenagers i love movies about superheroes. i haven’t figured out exactly what the connection is between the two, but there’s definitely something similar about characters that experience everything in extreme.
last night i watched blood and chocolate and realized something that i’d already noticed happening in casino royale: the [...]