Another couple of great mini docs. Now go out into the sun and don’t forget to wear some sunscreen.

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Might just have to dig up the old Lego bricks. Also diggin’ the whole transformer table cloth/bed spread theme that’s going on. Memories straight out of the childhood years.

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What is this clip you might be wondering? Well, its a naked-eye 3D Display using an iPad and a projector. Cool stuff one must admit Out.

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Summer kicked in which means festival season for some amongst you. One of the most anticipated ones every single year is Glastonburry. Never had the luck to go to it and probably never will as it seems to sell out long before the first names on the line-up have been released.

This year Glastonburry was one of the lucky few to put Gorillaz on their bill. A band I have been longin’ to see for a while. Up untill a couple of hours ago I had a link where you could stream the entire gig, but as usual with such semi-legal stuff it has been taken down. No worries though as I’ve been able to find 2 of the better bits in their set for you pleasure. Look out for it, as Snoop might just drop by Out.

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As promised, part 2 offf what we saw the passed days in Paris. You can read all about the first day overhere.

Friday – Big beamers keep on beaming

An experienced person is just someone that’s made a lot of mistakes. Hoss is very experienced. This is your opportunity to listen to Hoss do his first ever ‘acoustic set’ ? An intimate sharing of lessons learned, punctuated by the odd bit of work, including his latest collaboration with Rob Chiu, and a very simple explanation of how to be profitable on Apple’s App Store. . That’s what the description stated and I regret that we only caught Hoss Gifford‘s presentation halfway true.

Pity as his Things I have learned was really interesting. Not a shocking keynote but a collection of insights & stories that anyone who’s good in what he does should already have experienced but it was nice as I considered it a little fresh-up course.

“Don’t do anything for free and do not give discounts to new clients as you will never taste the same afterwards” is the one that stuck to me the most. An ongoing discussion I have had with a couple of people lately and his comparison was great. “Its like going to the supermarket, buying 6 yoghurts for the price of 4 and afterwards not finding the same deal.” A wise & bold statement. One to ponder upon amongst others!

Hilarious was also the fact he made an iphone app which has paid his lunch every day. An app that gives you the time, more or less

“Unicorns farting glitter metal band names”

He was soon followed by Tara Mcpherson. I bet you have seen work by her already! A great artist besides being a hot girl with tats (something you do not see a lot on stage at #offf) I am all for more girl designers, … taking the stage next time around

Tara is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. She exhibits her paintings and serigraphs in fine art galleries all over the world. Named the crown princess of poster art by ELLE Magazine, she has created numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Beck, Modest Mouse, and Melvins. Her array of art also includes creating toys with companies like Kidrobot, Dark Horse, and Toy2R, painted comics and covers for DC Vertigo, advertising and editorial illustrations for companies such as Wyden+Kennedy and Spin Magazine, and teaching a class at Parsons in NYC. A lot of stuff you can know her from and worth a look at

The program states that Firstborn came after her? Can not really remember from the top of my head what they showed us, so I will just refer to their website

Knife Party I do remember vividly. It was the point were a little voice inside my head yelled “finally” as our visual appetite had grown more hungry. ‘Coalition of the Willing‘ is an animated film about an online war against global warming in a post-Copenhagen world. It was written by Tim Rayner, who is the brains behind the campaign in this digital struggle against global warming following the failed summit. Bare in mind that the following animation is a collaboration between lots and lots of people who ech took upon themselves a part of the film.

Universal Everything continued to nurture our longing for great stuff. These are the guys who did the international MTV rebrand which means that all you guys have seen their stuff passby. I will let the following clip speak for itself but google them!

MTV / International Rebrand Overview from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

They also did some short reveal films for AOL’s relaunch for instance. These got used in web video, mobile, digital campaigns and outdoor LED displays. Nice stuff to say the least

You can find more stuff on their Vimeo which is worth going through.

Goodby & Silverstein are the big boys who took the stage. They are the agency who brought us the awesome HP ads with Jigga, Gwen Stefani, Jerry Seinfeld, … But they also did this campaign/viral for Häagen-Dazs in order to draw attention on their bee program. Hilarious Homebees

Then something totally different followed: SoSo Limited. These guys take word clouds to a master level as they are specialised in interactive installation and audiovisual performance. They create immersive works that play on the immediacy of live media by creating word art by the analysis of what is said. I can not describe it all that well bt the following clips will emlighten you I guess. The first one for instance is a four minute edit remixing the ministerial debates from the UK.

Sosolimited – Prime Numerics (Taster) from FutureEverything on Vimeo.

Prime Numerics (3 of 10) from Sosolimited on Vimeo.

We ended our Friday at the Wooster Collective meet-up near de Quai de Jemappe by the way. Great to meet Marc & Sara amongst others IRL. We we’re amongst great company to say the least

Saturday – The return

We had to skip the festival Saturday. Other stuff called. Pity as I heard it was the best day. Crowd seemed enthusiastic and some of the previous organisational problems belonged to the past.

That being said, it is a great festival with a good vibe, but we have some liner notes for the band

• communicate better, it is clear that this is not the organisations cup of tea
• queues ain’t good, if you say you can pick up passes earlier stick to it (we travelled a day earlier to the venue for nothing!)
• good WiFi = a must have
• more sanitary provisions
• venues? how about signposting these or at least getting your organization to know where what is
• check peoples tickets, we met a couple of people who got in for free where we paid full price #sad

Btw, its 2010 and we’re in a post-digital time as you all know. Organising means to get all digital communication streamlined can be great. Tell people what tags to use for their pictures, … and give them the tools at the venue in order to share their experiences.

Do not want to end negative though as I had a great time and will recommend the conference to anyone who’s interested in this kind of stuff. Maybe we should finish with the end titles for the sponsors. Yet another great piece of work! See you next year so Out.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Thanks to On Point & Eckelwood for the company and great talks/laughs thoughout the days.

You can still check part one of our report overhere.

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Captain’s log, Saturday 26th June. Returning from Offf 2010 in Paris. Thalys is on time. Mission accomplished.

Wednesday – Check-in for a day in the Sun

Travelled a day earlier to Paris as I had some spots & shops I had been meaning to visit for a while. This meant an early wake-up call in order to catch the Thalys. The call of sneaker, book, … stores & great street art was loud. I could smell it in the air

Arriving in Paris we first headed to our shelter: Hidden Hotel. One of the people behind this concept lodging was so kind to invite us for a stay in their great little hotel while in Paris. Its located in the heart of Paris, a small side street, just 800m or so from the Arc de Triomphe. I can only recommend a stay as its something I had never seen before. I recon I might right a more indepth review on it one of these days

Once we dropped of our lugage and put on some better clothing (hot as hell in Paris passed days) we were offf for some sightseeing and urban discoveries. You can find some pictures overhere and yes, I took way to little pics this time

Thursday – Queuing for beginners

Two hours! Deux heures! Dos whatever! Yes, the amount of time we spent queuing in the shade/sun that Thursday morning. Boring as hell by the way and the reason we missed the opening note But no worries as we were in!

In order to kick offf in style I suggest you have a look at the great opening credits. It gives you an overview of who we saw come by.

OFFF Paris 2010 Titles from OFFF on Vimeo.

Media Temple Animation from (HKI)™ HelloHikimori™ on Vimeo.

HELLOHIKIMORI was the first to really kick off the cool stuff for us. Warming up I guess as we had to get into the right set of mind for the next few days.

I was also looking forward to seeing the guys from H5, mentioned their Oscar winning Logorama before, but heard they chickened out I think they might just have got stuck in Cannes with the train strike which was going on or something else. Too bad they couldn’t continue. Early lunch so!

Craig Ward drew our attention right from the start after a long break in the sun. I was intrigued by his bizarre and beautiful typeface experiments. Check out his site Words Are Pictures to see and learn more, including some really impressive letterpress illustrations.

In his presentation, Craig demonstrated his continuing education in typography while tracing his evolution from designer to typographer to story teller. Fancy words to state he does cool stuff with lettering

Dixon Baxi followed in what I call a promo talk. Hey lets show another showreel and then will show another one. Followed by ooohs & aaahs! Or not. Mainly different idents they did for some television stations, … But nice work to say the least and great entertainment.

DixonBaxi | Five ‘Food Chain’ from DixonBaxi on Vimeo.

DixonBaxi | Five USA ‘Eye Contact’ from DixonBaxi on Vimeo.

We Walk from Christopher Hewitt on Vimeo.

The guys did end with We Walk, which is a short film that stumbles into the journey of a young girl desperate to leave the city in search of isolation and in turn, sleep. Shot in LA and Palm Springs, the film is based on a new poem by Writer, Brett Darling.

Later on we got to see Marc & Sara from Wooster Collective take the stage. Great talk for a fascinated crowd. A crowd that does not follow their blog/site as I had seen everyting they showed us previously I bet they got a new following after this.

They followed what I like to call one prick & 3 French guys (Neville Brody, the British graphic designer together with the people from Bazooka). Some old school fellas who were going to set us young kids straight. They taught they could shock us with ‘pornoghraphic images’ … #fail & out of luck guys. You all get the figurative ball sack as you sucked monkey balls.

Just headed on out from there so. Enough is enough

Stay tuned though as tomorrow morning part II with some stuff that’s really worth a view & read. My sincere apologies if its all a bit chaotic but there really is too much stuff to share Out.

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Hilarious short clip! What happens if you where to make a Super Mario & PacMan mash-up? See for yourself. Out.

(through the legendary Boing Boing)

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It reminded me of Slinkachu, who/which once every so often crosses the online paths I dwell and every time I am surprised by the creativity it brings.

The Little People Project, which name you might also know it by, started back in 2006. It was one of the projects Londen-based street artist Slinkachu found himself entangled in. It involves the creation of very small street-based installations of which he then takes pictures from up-close and further away.

In order to do so miniature train set figurines get remodelled and painted over before they are carefully placed and left behind in the most unexpected spots, in real urban situations, capturing them sight-seeing, camping, grocery shopping, fighting and dying. It is therefore both a street art installation project and a photography project.

“The scenes I set up and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works.”

“In contrast to the propaganda posters of Shepard Fairey or the subversive stencils of Banksy, Slinkachu’s approach to street art is more subtle, more sensitive. You could easily have walk right past one of Slinkachu’s installations and not know it was there. His photographs are key: the close-ups make you feel like a participant, while the far-away shots leave you feeling like a spectator.”

I made a quick selection below, but you can find more overhere and should also definitely keep an eye out of the little people blog. Out.

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What can I say, OOTB loves Star Wars (and with Star Wars we mean episodes 4-6 ).What follows is the original Star Wars saga as told by a kid with one heck of a LEGO collection. try and beat this when it comes to stop motion clips. Out.

(through Nerdcore)

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I ain’t got that much to say as the following ad speaks for itself. Advertising used to be so much cooler back then Why don’t ad men make such cool ads anymore? Out.

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Sometimes I really wonder what it must be like to grow up or live in Japan or another Asian country. The following ad just reminded me af that. Its an anime themed commercial for Nike which features a futuristic sneaker wearer battling skyscraper size robots.

What’s not to love about the whole anime & manga culture. Out.

(through PSFK)

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Now I am definitely not a Google hater and i don’t fear them either. I’m actually a huge fan of their services (although the search side of it all it starting to suck monkey balls). Gmail? Check. Google docs? Use it regularly. Google Wave? Been fiddling around with it. Blogger? Was the first platform I ever used to share my thoughts and stuff. YouTube? Has become a way of life for me really. Their calendar runs my life lately and I won’t get places without their maps.

I can continue this list endlessly. Google is here and its here to stay if you ask me. A company that has always tried to push itself forward innovation-wise (although lately some strange choices have been made and some stuff does not really deserve their stamp). Why this love letter about Google? Well, I came across this nice clip which in a couple of minutes time situates what Google is all about. The description is also great: Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world’s favorite search engine, and the company whose motto is “Don’t be evil…”. Out.

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Growing up as a kid I was relatively interested in art. There was the art class, which failed to uncover my artistic talent, with its semi-history education program. Picasso, Ensor, Dali, that Dutch dude which cut of his ear, … all pretty nice I guess but none which could inspire me. It was Keith Haring though who grabbed my attention. His art was different and appealed to a kid like me. It simplicity. Its social critic with a smile. Judge for yourself.

I used to spend hours drawing his stuff on roughs, tracing, coloring in, … Thinking about it, I guess my love for street art started with Haring. No Banksy, Obey, Toykyo, … for me without Haring. And then I read that its been 10 20 years already since he passed away. A great loss. Out.

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Team William‘s You look familiar is without any doubt one of the coolest vids I’ve seen in a while, I kid you not. I have not even started about the track itself. It looks so familiar to a cartoon I once saw, but I just can not seem to place it. Seems these local cats made it on to Boing Boing with the vid. They describe it as “animation with a Fleischer Bros’ bounce” whatever that may be. All I know is that some parts are NSFW. Reminds me of the following Flairs clip we once mentioned. Out.

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X-mas and the New Year is nearing so time for me to get my serious shopping done. Now as I’m rather lazy I decided to try and buy everything online this year. One of the gifts I often like to get for close friends are great T-shirts. Coincidentally a couple of months ago I discovered Ghent based Aaitski which brings us a collection of great Tee’s. Their story grabs your attention and I was sold right of the start.

ONCE UPON A TIME…

On a bright and illustrious day, a young lad who went by the name of Kingseys, took to designing in a most naïve and child like manner. And he saw that it was good. One sleepless night, a little dark prince known throughout as The Knight Writer, e-magined kitties and cows, girlies and miaouws. And he smelled that it was good. And when night turned into day, these two coolios took to bathing, but the water was burning hot and both screamed: “AAITSKI!”

A BROTHERHOOD WAS BORN

Soon enough, The Aaitski! Bros. grew into early manhood. And so, with the dawning of peach fuzz on the horizons of upper lips, it was decided to launch a coolafied brand of T-shirts through that great, big, world wide web. Little blighters could wear them and old tossers too! And rockers, and rollers, and people happy or blue! All could choose from three categories: ‘Boy Meets Girl’, ‘Animals’ and ‘Vehicles’. It remains to be said: the sweat hit the fan… so you might want to get one, while you still can.

With such a story these shirts just have to be bangin’.  Latest addition to their endeavour is their own sweatshop by the way. Great name

Want to sport your own Bulldowzah or Submaweenah? Well, for the BE cats up in here, there are several shops in Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels & Leuven that carry the shirts. Others can always order them through the site. Support your local scene never the less. Out.

Connect with Aaitski on faceski, myski, netski or twitski

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