Massive Attack - United Snakes

United Snakes from United Visual Artists

Great new video for Massive Attack by the talented guys at UVA. Originally designed for a live show, the animation is now available online. The video was designed using custom 3D software developed by UVA, which allowed the creation of spontaneous, organic forms, simply by “sketching” the outlines.

Bob Peak

Movie fans of a certain age will recognise these classic posters instantly. In a time when there were no teaser campaigns or online trailers, the humble poster hastily stuck up outside the local cinema was the only thing to whet your appetite. And the posters of the late Bob Peak were some of the best.

Exclusive World Premiere Of The Appliance Of Love

You lucky things. Yep, right here on this very post you are witnessing the world premiere of our short film The Appliance Of Love. But don't worry, you don't have to get dressed-up on our account.

We made it earlier this year as an entry for the Straight8 competition - where you have to make a three minute film on a single cartridge of super 8 cine film without editing or post-production.

A big thanks goes to the lovely and talented chaps at Yellow Boat Music for the excellent track they composed for the film, and to Squa for his help in rescuing the terribly over-exposed parts so that you can see them (sort of) here.

We had a great time making it, it was a new challenge and a massive learning curve for as - the first time we pushed the button at the beginning of shooting the film was the first time any of us had shot anything with a Super8 camera. But we'll definitely be doing another for 2010.

Man: Himself

Toaster: 2T15SS

Music: Yellow Boat Music

Sound: Clearcut

Invaluable help: Squa

Direction/Writing/Cinematography/Production: Sell! Sell!

Blu-Ray sleeves

We spotted these really nice imaginary covers for Blu-Ray versions of some well known and much loved films over at Brandon Schaefer's seek&speak site. 

The rationale behind the collection is to 'distill films down to a simple image that in some way reflects the content or overall idea behind the film', and we think he does this rather well. 

You can peruse the full collection on his flickr account here.

via Kitsune Noir

Olympia Le-Tan

If you're looking for a new handbag you could do a lot worse than one of these limited edition, hand embroidered, canvas and silk thread, bags by Olympia Le-Tan. Based on first edition novels there are 21 different designs to choose from and should be available from early next year. As a male I'm not in the habit of carrying around a handbag but these are very tempting.

Fentimans Radiogram Commercials

We've just produced some radio commercials for the delightful Fentimans. I do like radio as a medium, because it's very pure - it exposes everything - tone of voice, writing, etc. You can't hide behind natty art direction or an interesting film technique in radio.

Anyway, this is the first time that Fentimans have been on the radio, so finding their voice and style was a good challenge. We wanted to communicate some good, tangible information about the unique way that the drinks are made and what they taste like, but at the same time, give people a feel for Fentimans. And importantly, we wanted to make something that stood out from the usual anarchy and wall-of-noise that is the radio commercial break. You, our fine reader, can listen to them here first...

Fearless.

News.

Progress.