They aren’t the easiest to read, but it was bound to happen eventually as product placement in films has become more and more prominent in today’s culture. Almost annoyingly actually and seeing as the James Bond films are almost a two-hour commercial for Sony Vio and Audi oops, I mean Aston Martin, I’m almost not […]
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Facebook: The Movie

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has agreed to make a film about the founders of social networking site Facebook. Sorkin, who created US TV drama The West Wing and wrote the Tom Hanks movie Charlie Wilson’s War, has even opened a Facebook account to aid his research. What?! I use facebook. I am even one of the […]
Darcie tv & film 1 facebook, films, movies, opinion, opinions
A Kindred Spirit in a world full of Normals

Tony Kaye, director “I was excited about the idea of human life existing within a tiny pieceof technology,” he says. “As a kid, I believed that inanimate objectswere alive and reincarnated from a human being. For instance, now I’mlooking at my hat and thinking it was a human being that clearly didn’tdo so well in […]
Darcie Advertising, art, people, tv & film 0 brand republic, campaign, campaign brief, director, film director, Kronenbourg, movies, Tony Kaye, tv, tv commercials
Still Alive and Kicking

I blame my absence on jet lag and full time distant employment. Taking my computer to work with me is fruitless and by the time I get home I’m worthless. So I finally saw Juno whilst relaxing in Texas at my parents and I must say, apart from it being a good film, I really […]
Darcie Life, music 0 Juno, Kimya Dawson, life, movies, music, opinion
Putting Family First

Before this, I gave the guy the benefit of the doubt. I’m all for suffering for your art, but putting your family in this kind of danger?! The man has really, actually lost it now. Mel Gibson Ignores Kidnap Warnings Hollywood star Mel Gibson has ignored safety warnings from the US government and is going […]
Darcie Uncategorized 0 actors, celebrity gossip, IMDB, movies, stupidity
Perfect People Make Perfect Design

This is a brilliant tongue in cheek website, photoshoot, video and push about the design world and it’s people. It’s interactive, well made and makes you laugh. Put together by the creative folks at Digital Kitchen who also just won an Emmy for their fabulous design work on the hit tele show Dexter. So Double […]
Darcie Uncategorized 0 clever, design, designer, Digital Kitchen, fun, funny, humor, humour, impressive, laugh, movies, roles, spoof
Pulp Fiction in Typography
The power of typography. Pretty cleverly done. From the choice of font to the editing, I think it’s done really well. Along with the weaker characters colour change and splatter effect to show their part after the gun shot. Impressed. Thanks to Jim Gaffney @ Union for this.
Darcie Uncategorized 0 clever, creative, movies, quotes, speech, type, typography, Union Advertising Agency, youtube
Aardman: Bigger & Better Future?

I shouldn’t be so excited, but I feel that I can see where they’re coming from, and I am glad they want to keep claymation alive! Animators Aardman end movie deal Still from Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Aardman favourites Wallace and Gromit have won three Oscars Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman […]
Darcie art, Cool, tv & film, UK 0 aardman, animation, claymation, companies, films, mergers, movies
And here we go…
Where to begin… There are so many things I’ve been wanting to put down to share with the world that, well, others have put down to share with the world. I’m going to begin with this website I was led to by a blog I read called Quipsologies where people link you to other bad […]
Darcie Uncategorized 0 blogs, creating, films, introductions, intros, movies