new work from mister parra and mister bean, if you want you can even put your own head in the cut-out too, great fun… that tune might need a bit of work though… (produced by my dear belgian friends from ‘monodot’, in fact now i think about it that looks like their own office…)
me news
professionalism / personal development
…people begin to get better when they fail…
if anyone knows what really matters in my profession and why, it is probably milton glaser… worth a watch (via ‘michiel schuurman’)
p.s. also check wally olins and the ‘sag’, basically they all say the same albeit in their own way and of course wer all knew it to be true even though we instinctively don’t accept it…
spitting ink
…in this documentary we tried to capture the essence of this poetry, as well as the poets who define the streets of New York. The film made its premiere in 2009 at the International IDFA festival and has screened at various film festivals since.
Spitting Ink follows eight spoken word artists as they traverse the streets, perform in situ, and talk about their motivation to write.
It was a chance encounter with a poet that led us to the streets of NY with a 16mm camera, an old DAT recorder and short-end rolls of film. We thought it would be interesting to film poets on location and cut portraits out of it. We did it without plan or budget because we’re not serious filmmakers. Most of the footage was already shot 7 years ago, but without knowing what to do with it, the footage got shelved. Only later we edited the footage down to all the bits that interested us and from there a story line organically evolved…
the scale of fish
like most facts you hear about our global consumption patterns these days, here are some worrying ones regarding fish…