Recently I have been working on a short self project in my free time, it gives me a break from my usual commercial projects. It’s going to be an animation about natural beauty, with a relaxed French theme. Here are some screen grabs from After Effects.
Working for Mook I animated a set of adverts for Footlocker from assets. I also integrated the adverts into the Eyeblaster platform.
There was also a set of video banners I rolled out for MTV.
Kana and I just rented a nice flat in Marylebone, so we set about at furnishing the flat. In our quest to find budget designer furniture we stumbled upon this gem, a 1950’s TV stand, which doubles up nicely as a coffee table. If you look on eBay you can find some even more reasonably priced than £35 we paid for ours. On top of the table lies Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics which makes a lovely accompaniment, if only I had time to read it. I can’t wait to be done with Derren Brown’s “Tricks of the mind”.
Last night I won the xchangeteam Freelancer Of The Year award sponsored by Revolution magazine, first prize in the category of “Digital Excellence”. I received a nice trophy, which I will take a photograph of later. It was nice to be recognised for all the hard work I put in last year. Many thanks to all those involved. The event was held at the Design Council in Covent Garden.
I been taking the train to Osaka quite often this last month and thought I would share the view with you. I recreated a Super8 video feel and added the Easy Listening sounds of The Cascading Strings to top it off.
For the super8 feel I used the excellent AE plugin called Misfire and added a few of my own custom effects. The original footage was shot on a Canon G9, a compact still camera.
“The Black Spot is a fictional literary device invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel Treasure Island. In the book, a pirate is presented with a “black spot” to officially pronounce a verdict of guilt or judgment. It consists of a piece of paper or card, with a circular black spot in the middle and placed in the hand of the accused.” Wikipedia
I have just received 300 new matte laminated business cards made up of black, gray and white, with a spot UV finish. The thought process for this began with a reverse black spot, which would be placed in the users hand. When giving to a receiver you press down on the spot and it makes a temporary sensory imprint in their hand. I also made contact details scondary to the graphical elements. This means that the user has to hunt for details and place the card within 5cm from the face. I thought this concept was interesting in that I could perhaps makes a visual stamp on someones brain. The act of doing something different like this sparks a memory imprint. The bloated cross on the front side represents the bloated human consciousness, hungry to expand. Similarly the cross is intercepted with lines representing neurons. The metaphorical neurons can be lined up together to create a network of interconnected cards and crosses.
“One of the most interesting examples of color effects is Baker-Miller Pink – a color that’s close to the bubble gum pink background color of this web page ( R:255, G:145, B:175) . Also known as :drunk tank pink,” this color is used to calm violent prisoners in jails.”
“University of Hawaii associate head coach George Lumkin was a member of the 1991 staff that saw visitor locker rooms at Iowa and Colorado State painted pink in the belief that the color made players passive. Now the WAC has a rule that a visiting team’s locker room can not be painted a different color than the home team’s. In other words, it can be pink, black or any color of the rainbow, as long as both locker rooms are the same color.”
Colour studies found via Color Matters.
