“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.

From the moment we open our eyes it fuels our existence. We are on a mission to remind everyone to never lose your sense of curiosity or wonder. Long live learning!

SO STAY CURIOUS!

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 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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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)

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.