Archive for September, 2008

Music Video Review:
Blink 182 - Always

Song: Always
Artist: Blink 182
Director: Joseph Kahn
Year: 2004
This is a really cool concept for a music video. Very simple effect which works out awesome. Obviously the split frame wouldn’t really work for film but it’s a great idea for a music video and here it works out great. The theme of splitting the frame 3 times, [...]

Music Video Review:
Incubus - Drive

Song: Drive
Artists: Incubus
Director: Phil Harder
Year: 2001
This is one of my favorite music videos. Based on “Drawing Hands” by M.C. Escher, the concept of animations drawing themselves is fantastic, and very well executed here. All the art in the video is actually done by Brandon Boyd, the singer of Incubus, and Jose Pasillas the drummer. They [...]

Short Film: Bridge

Title: Bridge
Year: 2008
Director: Hillman Curtis
I wrote before about Hillman Curtis. He’s like a one man design machine and he pretty much does everything from advertising and branding to directing and editing. And he does it all very well. This is his latest short web film. It has some pretty high production values for something you’d [...]

DVD Review: Amelie

Amelie
Year: 2001
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
IMDB
Before I write anything I should confess that Amelie is my favorite movie. It is a really charming story that makes me laugh and cheers me up every time I see it. I can also relate to the main character in many ways so I think that is why I don’t [...]

Title Sequence: 300

Title Sequence: 300
Year: 2006
Designer: Garson Yu
You know you are a graphics nerd when the first thing you talk about after seeing 300 is the end titles. There are actually two versions of these titles, another version has some instrumental rock. I like this version much better and think the classical music is a good contrast [...]

GTA4 Box Art

Author: Rockstar Games
Year: 2007
I found this cool promo video for GTAIV by Rockstar games. It is a time lapse shot of a handful of people hand painting the new GTAIV box art. I’ll be the first to admit I’m a sucker for time lapse video, so I found this a totally entertaining way to spend [...]