old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time

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“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is one of five animated short films that will be considered for outstanding film achievements of 2011 in the 84th Academy Awards ®.

Even the animation is digital, everything what is said, shown in the animation is more ” analog” because in my eyes the story is about the beauty of books and how they are born, raised and what happens to people who do not read and so much more…

well done by the animation studio Moonbot and a production by William Joyce and director Brandon Oldenburg

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. “Morris Lessmore” is old-fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

I wish the team all the best and I have to look for the other four animation to make myself a broader overview.

dadaistic beautiful drawing

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Monja Gentschow was born in 1986 in Berlin. She is influenced by oddity, insomnia, perfectionism, tune and humour. Her working process is neurosis versus chaos in a spontaneously planned incident with a happy end. Throughout her studies of Visual Communication at the ‘Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee’ and the ‘Universität der Künste’ in Berlin, she deepened her interest and skills for both sides, art and design.

I stumbled across her work already for several times at one of my absolute appreciate blog iGNANT and totally love the limited playing cards and her rough “unclean” style to assimilate old paper, thick pencil stroke, spots of water color and add dadaisitc words to her drawings.

the power of couleur

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After weeks not wanting to write and look up stuff, I got from my dear friend B from Prague a link which totally hits my interest and I think with this input, I am finally again willing to write and share my interests with you guys.

 

The documentary is an unprecedented global journey to explore the frontiers of how we view couleur, make couleur and use the power of couleur to communicate meaning.

 Colour is a fundamental part of our world. Landscapes, animals, fashion, painting, movies, food – everything around us resonates with the language of colour. All our waking lives – and even in our dreams – we navigate our way through a world of colour. Yet, whoever we are, colour has the power to stop us in our tracks – and to make us wonder.

Part 1:

Why is the sky blue? Why do leaves turn yellow in autumn? And why does red play so powerful a role in so many cultures? Is colour real or is it just a construct of our brains?

Drawing on the latest scientific findings and technology, Cracking the Colour Code is a series for people who are seeking answers to many of the questions that relate to colour and who, at the same time, wish to enjoy the incredible diversity and sensation that colour has to offer in our world. While colour is a child of science and physics, it triggers within us a host of emotional, intuitive and intellectual responses – deeply rooted within ourselves and our culture.

Part 2:

The series is both food for the intellect and the senses – delivered as a carefully arranged and orchestrated feast, yet one that is playful and provocative.

Based on three years of extensive research, Cracking the Colour Code draws on a range of disciplines and leading experts – including physicists, neurologists, artists, ethnologists, colour consultants, historians, artisans and marketing executives – each in some way intimately concerned with the nature and power of colour. Each offers insights – even new discoveries – that will challenge our understanding of colour.

Part 3:

Thanks B., thanks a lot!

 

Everything is here to make short films!

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PES (born Adam Pesapane) is a director and animator of numerous short films and commercials. I love his storytelling  and his use of everyday objects and stop-motion animation to create original material.

He won several film prizes after his first short film “Roof Sex” (2002), which you can see below :-) more background information can you find here! Have fun on your saturday!

sneak great preview

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The editorial shooting above showing the creative potential of the artistic director/stylist  Harald Erath, who will graduate soon from Kunsthochschule Weissensee, and is working now as a stylist with a huge knowledge of costume, art & and scenery history. With the photographer and also art director Robert Bartholot, who loves to shoot in strong colors and minimalistic sets,they both shoot the great contemporary homage to pop qualities of religious iconography, entitled MARIÄ and the images are a sneak preview of the magazine.

Tomorrow, the second edition of the Œ Magazine will be published. The magazine shows the wide range of Berlin fashion labels and once it is shown it in a great professional way. Good styling, interesting photography and cool fashion. It is initiated by Arne Eberle, who runs the agency Æ, and stylist Rainer Metz and the magazine is published twice a year, with also a nice range of different paper qualities. ( seen at sleek-mag.com)

Can’t wait to have an example at home!

BIRTHDAY!

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Today is my second birthday with this blog and I just want to share things and information that happened in this year:

1. I still like to search and explore things and write about them, even it got less frequently.

2. I am proud to have not lost interest, and I will not because I learn everyday new stuff and understand much more relationships between styles, trends and influences.

3. Two weeks ago I was selected for a day to the best blogs from about 400,000 blogs, which brought me lots of visitors.

4. A couple of days ago I reached an amazing goal: 100,000 visitors. Also something which I thought is quiet impossible at the beginning

5. At the moment I have between 8-10.000 views a months.

6. A great Berlin-based graphic designer put me on his site… amazing!

7. I met many interesting people and got to see lots of design stuff over the year

and now I just going to continue it and do it next to my last year’s study.

Thanks for looking at the site, following it, liking articles, sharing and learning from it.

I will keep it up, till…. the end!

Felix aka Couleurblind

wooden mosaic

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Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, and is still a passionate skater at present.

To Haroshi, his art pieces are equal to his skateboards, and that means they are his life itself. They’re his communication tool with both himself, and the outside world.

Playful – couleurful

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into time .org is a new piece by Rafaël Rozendaal. When you click on his site, you can play around with the screen, which is diving in a 45° direction every time you click. Wonderful couleurful work!  (via today and tomorrow)

skeletons which are able to walk on the wind

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Theo Janssen  is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals, that are able to walk using wind power on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering.

“He has been creating wind-walking examples of artificial life since 1990. What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation of machines that are able to react to their environment: “over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water, and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.”

In the below video Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.


sing with your hands

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Such a nice video… not lots of words today, just look.

The song and video “We’re Going To Be Friends“ is made by the White Stripes and is produced by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Arts Network. D-Pan is a nice website with lots of video of an area, me and most of the people would not come across that often.

play to stay creative

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German visual artist  Sarah Illenberger  chooses familiar motifs and objects, and recreates them using fruits and vegetables and everything that seems to be practical in her eyes. The result is a visually couleurful display of images that’s creative and fun to look at. Transforming a watermelon into a cloud raining seeds and others examples you can see are her simplistic approach that truly says that less is more.

“Sarah Illenberger’s visual language is extremely effective at translating content, data, and ideas into vivid, often humorous images. Whether big or small, abstract or complex, the subjects and problems of our times are pointedly depicted by this renowned illustrator and designer in concise visual forms.”


Power in Public Space

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Power in Public Space is a lecture series hosts by the master program ” Space Strategies” from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee at DAZ, Berlin.

“History of humankind can be described as the history of inclusion, exclusions, centralization, marginality, legibility and difference; in general human history is the history of conflict in different spaces. Generally art has been the most truthful witness of history, and how actual situation can be reflected from different points of views is what these lecture is all about.”

I want to recommend you to see it on the 9th November when there is a lecture from on urban artist Brad Downey. He uses film, sculpture, painting and drawing to reflect on concepts about the Establishment versus the audience. Never sure if his art is vandalism or can be called art.

There are also other lectures from Aram Bartholl, Julius von Bismarck and Le van Bo. To see when and where, click power in public space.

Actually I didn’t know the other artist and now after the short research I correct myself and recommend you every lecture, unlucky first one was already yesterday… but then Wednesday next week, the week after and the week after next next week you can go there.

dotted porcelain

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Singaporean design studio hans tan studio has developed ‘spotted nyonya‘, an industrial re-interpretation of the nyonya porcelain vessels which are traditional domestic wares native to chinese-peranakans in south asia. Produced in collaboration with Singaporean creative agency FARM, this contemporary take on the traditional objects transforms the original multicolored surface treatment into a new dotted pattern. the limited edition series of vessels utilizes the resist-dyeing technique that is often applied to dye fabric patterns. hans tan masks the porcelain pieces  with the new dotted motif, which is then sandblasted, so that the areas protected are preserved, while the original glazed sections of the exposed areas are erased, revealing the white porcelain which lies beneath. ( via designboom)

Cool new invention and innovation. So if you get bored of old ceramics , you can recreated them now by sandblasting.


subconscious effect of daylight

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It looks like a room where daylight is falling on the walls, but it is not!

Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken’s intention was with this project to take elements of his work and theories concerning daylight and incorporate them directly into architecture. The installation is located in the entrance of an office building in Stockholm. As both the entrance and staircase have no natural light, it was important for him, to replicate the positive sensation of sunlight. The installation consists of over 6000 LEDs.

“ When you have daylight in a room you get information of something outside. This creates a feeling of an expanded perceived space. A sensation of freedom” a phrase by Daniel Rybakken.

His work seems and is so quiet, because at first sight everything looks normal and only after a second look you see the optical illusion. LOVE IT! His earlier work has also a wonderful name ” subconscious effect of daylight”. For sure his idea is going to be useful for underground stations, cellar apartments and every other dark room and especially for the grey Berlin times which starts now.