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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 looking forward to the new film…

These are definitely worth a look at, especially to see if your opinions match what the posters say.

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source Quipsologies images Antrepo

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 very few ad/marketing/media/socialmedia people that will admit I LIKE Facebook. But a MOVIE?! How dull and utterly boring would that be. Although I suppose politics can be dull and boring and it’s made interesting and watchable over and over again – but there’s always a good bit of drama: affairs, assassinations and/or attempts, theft, bribery etc… but FACEBOOK? Unless they do some Alien Autopsy type thing with it, I’m not sure I see where this is going.

Next we’ll be watching Bill Gates: From the Begining Correction: we won’t be watching it, they’ll have just spent loads of money that could have been donated to a good cause.

Read the whole story here.
source bbc

Tony Kaye, director

“I was excited about the idea of human life existing within a tiny piece
of technology,” he says. “As a kid, I believed that inanimate objects
were alive and reincarnated from a human being. For instance, now I’m
looking at my hat and thinking it was a human being that clearly didn’t
do so well in its last life.”

- Tony Kaye, interview with Campaign 13-Jun-08

An amazing read for an amazing man. What I got from this article was he gets paid to be his wacky, weird, unbarable-at-times self.

Now, call me self-absorbed, but those of you who actually know me, know that I rarely toot my own horn, but I feel like I could really have something in common with this man. We are a like in many ways, my hidden talents just have yet to be unearthed.

I definitely recommend a read of the entire piece here and I look forward not only to the new Kronenbourg ad coming out, but his films that are on the horizon as well.

He did American History X. A phenomenal film. I own it on VHS!

story via brandrepublic/campaign
image via campaignbrief.com

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 fell for Kimya Dawson‘s songs. She’s sings hefty chunk of the soundtrack. A combination of her unique voice and clever lyrics, makes it hard not to jam along.

Kimya Dawson

Try these on for size:

shysters live from scheme to scheme and my 4th quarter pipe dreams
are seeming more and more worth fighting for
so i’ll curate some situations, make my job a big vacation
and i’ll say FUCK BUSH AND FUCK THIS WAR
my war paint is sharpie ink and i’ll show you how much my shit stinks
and ask you what you think because your thoughts and words are powerful
they think we’re disposable, well both my thumbs opposable
are spelled out on a double word and triple letter score and

- excerpt from “loose lips” by Kimya Dawson

Download it, buy it, listen to it, share it, enjoy it.

via quipsologies

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.

Hollywood star Mel Gibson has ignored safety warnings from the US government and is going ahead with his move to an isolated part of Costa Rica. The Mad Max actor, 51, plans to move his wife Robyn and seven children 3,000 miles away from their home in California to a $26 million ranch in a rural area that is known as “bandit territory”. Ignoring official US government warnings, Gibson has put two properties in California and Connecticut on the market to finance his move to the densely wooded estate in the Guanacaste province on Costa Rica’s northern Pacific coast. A State Department briefing warns that all American visitors there are “potential targets for criminals and kidnappers” and should never travel alone. It adds, “Local law enforcement agencies have limited capabilities and do not operate according to US standards.”

source: IMDB movie & tv news

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 kudos to them. What else can I say except, thanks for keeping my eyes entertained.

Go to the site, watch the video (totally, like, worth it) and have a play around.

www.designerslashmodel.com

Thanks to Alan Ainsley at the Leith Agency for this.

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 Animations and US studio Dreamworks have ended a five-film deal early…

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 let to by a blog I read called Quipsologies where people link you to other bad ass places on the web. As being and avid design enthusiast, I very much enjoy the intros into a film as much as or sometimes more than the film itself. Not having done a lot in the editing field, but would have liked to, I sit there in awe and wonder “how’d they do that?!” “that’s amazing” or am completely dumbstruck and silent. We are all overly familiar with the intro the the 007 films and wish that we had a project and/or job that looked half as much fun – although they were probably glad when it was over.

Here is a grat example of the credits of Nanny McPhee Enjoy!