this coming weekend in my old home town: arnhem
O.K. Festival is the first event in the Netherlands that offers a survey of independent magazines from all over the world. Under the title ‘Welcome Magazines’ O.K. Festival presents the energy and the visual explosion of strange, beautiful and original magazines.
my next-door neighbour, designer & illustrator ‘frank dresmé’ (a.k.a. 21 bis) was interviewed by design blog fontanel recently about his work (dutch only)
british filmmaker ‘nic askew’ shoots in black & white and places his camera close-up at talking distance; he then lets people do just that: talk about their ordinary/extraordinary lives… like alison wood, 93 yrs old at the time of filming
… the urge to live is extremely strong isn’t it?…
you can see the whole of his impressive shorts collection here, ‘the second glance’ starring david roche also stuck in my mind… (via ‘david s’ on facebook)
this ‘pixels-in-real-life’ genre of film has been done many many times before, but this one entitled simply pixels is also well-executed, not much of a plot but very slick… and it seems to have been getting plenty of viewers recently
not a new idea but a well executed example: the future of publishing