Within the present plus we started an intimate series of video portraits of a hand picked selection of imaginative people, telling their personal story in 60 seconds flat. Beautifully shot & edited by DGHNT.
Following the tradition started last year, here is the latest showreel by UNDOG: ‘A guided tour through the UNDOG studio, showing the fruits of labour from 2011′.
“I’ve been alone with you inside my mind. And in my dreams I’ve kissed your lips a thousand times. I sometimes see you pass outside my door. Hello! Is it me you’re looking for? I can see it in your eyes, I can see it in your smile. You’re all I’ve ever wanted and my arms are open wide, ’cause you know just what to say and you know just what to do. And I want to tell you so much…”
This is the second video from Rome, the awesome album from Danger Mouse. It’s directed by Anthony Francisco Schepperd & Chris Milk, who was also responsible for the first video and the Chrome project for The Arcade Fire.
The cocktail-loving filmmakers at Dinosaur Worldwide have finished the 1st series of Danger 5. All five episodes of this World War II espionage YouTube serial are now online. That Hitler is up to no good with his bulletproof She-Nazis and crazy Nazi zombie monkeys. Find out if the elite Danger 5 team can stop him…
Been a very long time since I last heard from MTV, but this animated save sex campaign is actually pretty funny. Made by Grey Germany.
Check how one of the most elite cars in the world becomes a canvas for a cool audio-visual projection mapping event by The Media Merchants
CRCR from France creates truly beautiful, stylistic animations like Junkspace and Red River Bay. For a new campaign for Amnesty International the powerful short video Brisez La Loi Du Silence was created to tell the stories of three individual cases and to ask attention for the Marathon of Signatures.
What started out as an obsession for cute, colourful yoghurt pots became this nice, self-initiated music video from Erik (Jihaa) Hoogendorp (who also made this video for Perquisite.)
I love the internet and I love weird internetty stuff like glitchy art and raps about geeky things. Yung Jake is a rapper who kinda explores the possibilities of data moshing or compression artifacts and raps about exactly that. It’s cool cause it’s nerdy!
The Dutch Justin van der Lek lives in Los Angeles for a couple of years now. Since then he’s worked as a environments and composting artist for movies like the A-Team and GI Joe. He made this showreel to celebrate his four years at Digital Domain.
Always nice to see compilations about creating visual effects. Green screen rules.
Quiz: what’s the difference between visual effects and special effects? The first one with the right answer wins a New Work Shirt.
Pool Worldwide did another great viral video for TomTom’s car navigation voices. Not sure if letting Ernie read maps is such a good idea thoo.
We visited the fascinating region of Panama to get an insight into the country that hosts one of the man made wonders of the world; the Panama Canal. Luckily this country has much more to offer than this intercontinental transport hub. It has an abundance of nature, culture and entertainment.
Soulwax/2Many DJ’s has always done interesting audio/visual projects. This might be the best one yet: a lovely video for Radio Soulwax by Saam Farahmand, capturing Soulwax’s concept in a sexy machine.
Rapper Pop-artist Sef performing Diamanten while Amsterdam’s finest artists Miktor & Molf do all kinds of crazy installations and De Booij sings the hook. De Leven is in stores on November 25th.
No really. Take this lollipop. Great experience. What are you afraid of?
James Curran has created an alternative trailer for the upcoming TinTin movie, based on 24 strip cartoons.
Great new work from SuperHeroes in the form of an interactive journey explaining the history of Yakult. Check out the full-version, the trailer or the entertaining making of video.
Only yesterday we officially released the double-DVD / Blu-ray of Rabat, but already people are pushing it on the famous Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech.
Johan Rijpma and his interpretation of ‘the rhythm of the street’..
Very nice combination of visuals and sound.
Want to see more of his work? Check here.
Victor Vroegindeweij created this documentary / music video for Dutch indie band TIKA. In the video actor Carel Struycken is followed on his voyage from ‘the best that civilisation has to offer’ to the wildest of nature.
A new video showcasing the pure insaneness of Jeb Corliss, the pro base jumper and wingsuit flyer, in another crazy wing-suit flight on the crack in Switzerland.
If you really like driving and you don’t want to end up like this guy you can enjoy the new AMG Driving Academy Performance Series. This will show you how to get the most out of your car – preferably one that has a star on it and is tuned to high performance perfection by AMG.
Thomas Pavitte loves time consuming projects, so he created the most complex dot-to-dot drawing. It took him 9 hours and 15 minutes to connect all the 6.239 dots on the A0 poster.
From their forthcoming album Player Piano comes this gentle and new Memory Tapes video. Fine work by Eric Epstein who directed it and did post production. Pay attention to the birds at the end of the video. More making-of footage can be seen here.
If you are one of the few people that actually checks my posts you’ve seen a lot of this before. Amsterdam’s PostPanic is one of the best motion studios out there and this reel proves it, again.
Ah yes, the Rube Goldberg Machine, we’ve seen it before in advertising, music videos and experiments on YouTube. But whenever done well, it can be quite amazing to watch, like this one by 2D photography, which goes on for over 4 minutes (!).
Just before the weekend kicks I would like to show you my new reel. Hope you like it!