FlyLo Born Day Jam
In honor of Flying Lotus’ birthday, Artdontsleep organized an impromptu jam session at Echo Park. Judging by the photos, it looked like an epic session. The line up included Flying Lotus himself, Exile, Shafiq Husayn (SA-RA), Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner (Erykah Badu, SA-RA), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (Suite for Ma Dukes), Computer Jay (Master Blazter) and many others. Beautiful, soothing instrumentals. Download a snippet of the jam here. Way to go out with a bang, eh? More info on the line up after the jump.
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LAIKA: Interactive Typeface
The typeface that changes according to the inputs surrounding it. Amazing. Video after the jump.
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We Were Once a Fairytale
Kanye West shows off his acting in this Spike Jonze short. Made me feel weird. Sent in by Joey Trisolini.
Designing Obama
One of the things I felt made the Obama campaign special was not only did he use Gotham, the beautiful typeface by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, but he really paid attention to the design of his campaign. I definitely think his utilizing the internet and actually taking the time to design a website, commercials, and an actual identity system for his campaign appealed to and won over a lot of young voters. Not only that, but Obama inspired a lot of art and design outside of his campaign as well. Designing Obama is a project by Scott Thomas in which documents both the official design work by the Obama campaign as well as independent artists. Thomas has joined with KICKSTARTER to raise money to publish the book. He will print as many copies as people who pre-order. Buy the book here. Trailer for the book after the jump.
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Siik
Just heard about Siik from the guys at in4mation. Siik is a freelance motion graphics designer/animator from LA, but he is mostly known for his remixes of various R&B and Hip-Hop tracks. Siik blew up after he released his remix to Amerie’s “One Thing“. Other than remixes, Siik also puts together some pretty dope mixtapes. Siik’s remixes and mixtapes are available to download from his website: siik.org. You can also find him on Facebook, where he posts updates and some classic tracks. If you’re lucky enough to be in Hawaii, you can purchase the only two of his mixtapes to make it to disc at the in4mation Ward shop. The “One Thing Siik Remix” as well as some of his other remixes are available for listening after the jump. (more…)
NEWWORK Magazine No.4
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches are an electronic group out of Melbourne, Australia, and as far as I know they are pretty much unknowns in the US. Their breakout album “Since I left You” came out in 2000 and has so far been the only full album they have released. The stand out tracks for me were, “Since I Left You” and “Frontier Psychiatrist”, but what first brought me to listening to the Avalanches were the music videos. The video that drew me in was the video for “Frontier Psychiatrist”, but after recently re-discovering the “Since I Left You” album, I am liking the video for “Since I Left You” a lot right now. Both of these videos are awesome and I suggest that that you watch both of them. Above is the video for “Since I Left You” and you can find the video for “Frontier Psychiatrist” after the jump. Enjoy! (more…)
Are you a Typophile?
If there’s something I enjoy, it’s letter forms. I love looking at type, I love making outlines and then making my own letters, I love hand crafting type, etc. You can then imagine how excited I was when I saw this article on the Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening sequence! Handcrafted and stop animated by the BYU design students and faculty. This year’s theme was typography based on the five senses. Click the article to view all previous introductions. This year’s introduction after the jump. I think I fell in love when I saw the fried ampersand. Oh god.
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Josh Azzarella: Thrilless “Thriller”
I’m sure everyone has grown up watching Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video on VH1 or MTV right? It’s a classic. I’m also sure that most everyone also danced to it? Watching Michael and his fellow monster-zombie friends get on with the “funk of forty years.” Josh Azzarella has put an entirely new spin on the video! Sort of. He’s actually edited it to be without sound or humans. Azzarella is best known for his controversial photo manipulations. You can take a peak at his video here. It’s so bizarre to see an empty, eerie night without Michael or the zombies…I can’t watch Azzarella’s video without playing the song. No, it’s not just the cuts, it’s the entire video. I want to project this onto a screen and reenact the video. Who’s with me?
Maestro Knows
Meet Levi Maestro, he is a film maker and producer living out of Los Angeles. He has directed and produced for several brands and music artists. Maestro’s latest project is called “Maestro Knows”. In this weekly series Maestro brings us into his everyday life and shows us what and who he knows. From Anthony Hamilton to Lil Jon and from Berlin to Japan. The series is wrapping up its second season with episode 10, Maestro knows the Dream Team. Season 2 maybe over but Maestro is far from being done with this project. To see more work by Levi Maestro check out his website and blog. The rest of the Maestro Knows series can be seen on Vimeo.
Joel Lozano
Joel Lozano makes me see potato stamps and rubber ducks in a completely different way. I never thought such ordinary objects could become so complicated. The thought made me smile as I recall making deformed stars out of various fruit and veggies as a child. (Oh, and I loved rubber duckies.) Lozano is also apart of a design studio in Barcelona called Studio Copywright. Studio Copywright specializes in design, illustration, typography and motion graphics. More work after the jump.
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Cuyler Yogi for Leilow
(Link via ET/AL’s Gary.) Our good friend Cuyler Yogi, sponsored by Snafu BMX, was recently featured on Hypebeast and High Snobiety for Leilow. To accompany the release of their fall line up lookbook, Leilow shot a video with Cuyler Yogi and Aloha Fixed. Stay tuned for our first issue which will feature an interview with Cuyler (PS – Find the ET/AL sticker he’s reppin’ on his bike!). The video featuring the Leilow Fall 09 collection and Cuyler in action can be seen after the jump. (more…)
HIFF
October means only one thing! Well, two. You get to dress up and act a fool on one day and for the rest of the month, watch movies! The Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) will be going on from October 15 to the 25th at various participating theaters. Of course, you probably knew this but the reason I’m posting is because there are some exciting design-related films this year. Art & Copy, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight and my most anticipated, Objectified. There are several dates for each of these films, so be sure to check HIFF’s online schedule for more information.
