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toy town

‘astonishing’ is perhaps, a bit of an overstatement but then again, internet seems to be the medium of choice these days to use terms like amazing, genius and yep astonishing…. all the same they are quite interesting: a collection of ’tilt shift’ videos made with regular (digital) SLR cameras and painstaking stop-motion

(link via my mate, tip-meister ‘ian’ back in the UK

m / 18-05-2010 00:22 - tags: ,  

handiedan

i just spotted this unusual and meticulous work from amsterdam-based collage artist, photographer & more: hanneke treffers a.k.a. ‘handiedan… very nice, have a ‘zoom’ look; there are all sorts of little smurfs and weird details hidden in there, one to watch…

m / 16-05-2010 20:27 - tags: ,  

school’s out

i spent the afternoon today, at design agency ‘koeweiden postma’ in amsterdam, helping young teenagers to design posters for a project as part of the weekend school together with alex (from design agency ‘lesley moore’), photographer ‘jaap stahlie’, my friend bas van der paardt & several others volunteers… like everyone else i felt it would be good to put some energy back into the business we all work in & live well by…

the kids were mostly thirteen, not the most academically bright ones and considering i have absolutely no qualifications to teach (let alone to kids with learning difficulties) it was a bit of an eyeopener for me!… i will post some of the pieces we made (in a very short time) when i have checked if that is ok…

m / 16-05-2010 20:21 - tags: ,  

rgb wallpaper

…a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights…

i regularly visit the CR blog but missed this fabulous-looking project, thanks to my mate ‘ian’ for paying attention…

m / 16-05-2010 20:14 - tags:  

a bunch of stars

london agency bunch are opening a new exhibition based on a recent project involving a whole series of international illustrators, starts on the 28th of may, the site doesn’t have much to show as of yet…

m / 16-05-2010 20:11 - tags: