This ice cream Ad. has everything! I can’t understand why this didn’t happen sooner.
Familiar Faces: Oil Paintings by Laurie Masters
Get ready for yet another artist’s Bio poised to have us believe that anything is possible if you have enough love for it. Born in 1976, American artist Laurie Masters focused on Music throughout her formative school years before moving on to complete an honours degree in Mathematics at Trent University. In 2001, Laurie picked up a paint brush, and today she’s creating top quality oil paintings for the love of it. With a passion for film and especially music, Laurie paints portraits of familiar pop icons in a slick, saturated style that is all her own.
To see more oil paintings by Masters, featuring a host of other familiar faces, visit her website at theartoflam.com
Santigold, Spankrock, Wang & Still No Album
Santigold’s album is still not out. However, in other less important news, she’s recently been featured in a promotional video for clothes-I-can’t-afford by Alexander Wang.
Dancing up a storm with Spankrock to a Switch Remix of her most recent single “Go” ft. Karen O, Spank and Santi are the newest pair of faces to grace a T by Alexander Wang campaign, following Diplo and Ashley Smith.
It’s all only mildly interesting, I know, but until we get an actual album from Santi, it will have to do.
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Nature Misses You
WE MISS YOU from fireapple films on Vimeo.
You see or hear something and your initial reaction to it is hysterical laughing. You later realise that what you had previously laughed at was actually not supposed to be funny. Now you feel like a bad person (or complete lunatic) for laughing to begin with. Sound familiar? Happens to me all the time, and so it did with this short.
About a minute into watching the video, I thought I knew exactly what was going on (I did), and though I started doubting those initial thoughts a few seconds later, by the end of it, all I could do was laugh. I thought it was hilarious. Not because of anything particularly comedic (and animals whisper, so there is some comedy) but because I didn’t know what else to do with what I had processed.
I mean, here is a film with equal parts seriousness, cliché, suspense and transparency–by the end of it I knew what was going to happen, but didn’t know that I knew. It felt almost like a carefully orchestrated trick– albeit one with beautiful grading and expert direction.
According to wemissyou.de, this short film is meant as a non-humorous social message. It is stated on the site that:
“We Miss You is a social campaign that deals with our relationship to earth [sic]. Our aim is to get people back in touch with nature.”
An aim that is clearly not a laughing matter. So stop reading this blog post and go outside–or take this blog post with you and read it outside. Either works.
The shooting technique, grading and artistic direction is incredibly professional coming from three film students of the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsberg, Germany. The film, created by Hanna Maria Heidrich, Cornell Adams and Benjamin Entrup has already received 3 awards from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Yea, who’s laughing now, right?
Let me know what you think of the film, and whether or not I am an idiot for finding it funny.
