Sweet titles by HunterGatherer.

In 2007, Swerve Festival launched as an annual event dedicated to celebrating West Coast creative culture and its community inspired by art, film, music and action sports. It was a collaboration put together by Jonathan & Meg Wells (Flux, Res Festival), Aaron Rose, and Fuel TV.

The Open and all accompanying design and animations were made out of hand-painted, hand-cut wood forms. All animations were stop-motion pieces created in-camera.

See it here.

Just came across this on Selecticism. I’ve been interested in the aesthetic of the High Line project – how cool to envision and repurpose a leftover transportation tract as some green community space. I often wish to see freeways turn into something like a High Line. Imagine all that free space if we didn’t have cars?

Then I noticed the film was made by an old fave mag- Wallpaper* (I stopped reading when Tyler Brûlé left). At the end I realized it featured a soundtrack by Lullatone (previous post).

I thought those tones sounded familiar:)

In light of the past few weeks of hard work, and Marie’s remark that I had gone through a couple of bricks of coffee by myself- I thought this was a good visualization of the effects of such a high intake.
I’m not gonna stop, though! Noononoono.

from smartcanucks

JumpTrumpRumpBump from Molasses Murphy on Vimeo.

By day, Mooney is an over-achieving, six year-old girl living with her Grandparents at their junkyard in the forest. By night, Mooney is a member of a secret jazz band with a group of ex-convict animals.

For more info: movingimages.ca

via Uppercase Magazine. Soo cool.

“A Kiss From Tokyo” Theatrical trailer from Stephane coedel on Vimeo.

Cool, kitschy, Bond-like, and rough around the edges – niiiice.

Read the whole “making of” story on Kevin Dart’s blog

Scott Hansen recently completed his fantastic final thesis project. In light of my recent MakeFive list of “Best Wes Anderson Films”, I thought this was pretty cool. That; and anything Wes Anderson is pretty cool..

Scott writes,

” …the project consisted of a presentation box, DVD set, poster (30″ x 44″), fold out schedule, identity system, catalog book (63 pages), website, soundtrack packaging, tickets, billboards and outdoor signage, iPod/iPhone skins, a trailer, and a few other assorted doodads…”

Check all the material, and the story behind the making of all the pieces on his blog. What an undertaking!

Scott Hansen
Project Trailer
Alex Cornell’s Photos of the project

There aren’t many films I can sit through again and again, and still get excited about – “Bullitt” is one of them. Like “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid“, I saw Bullitt MANY years ago- I must have been 10? 11-12? It was shown on tv as a sunday matinee, and I usually got sucked in to those not-really-for-kids-flicks. With it’s clever use of music and sound, twisty storyline, cool cars, beautiful girlfriend and cool as a cucumber lead role – not to mention the car chase that raised the bar for that mini-genre for decades to come – Bullitt has remained one of my favourites.

My sons nearly got a taste of it today, as we visited friends for dinner- but we left before the car chase. Poor guys.

Could be Sunday Matinees should become a family tradition? That’d be cool.

Finally sat myself down and saw Control. Very good. Sad, but gooood. Fun to have a bit of a flashback hearing all the music again – even though I heard it after Ian Curtis had died… cool stuff though!

Control Site
Control Release Podcast iTunes

Charlie & Lola

Höjdarna

In The Night Garden

Pingu

Miniscule

Shaun The Sheep

Some “new” kid’s tv I found myself captivated by, watching with Tilja. Fun doing it a second time around;)

The horror!=)