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Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. ...


More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.

Writer: Erik Proulx
Director: Marc Colucci
Directors of Photography: Peter Nelson, Will van Hazel, Todd Heater, Neal Morrell, Mark Harmel
Production Company: Picture Park
Executive Producers: Jennifer McKenzie, Erik Proulx
Producers: Carrie Jacobson, Scott Burtnett
Post Production: Finish/Boston
Editor: Pete Warren
Sound Post Production: Soundtrack/Boston
Mixer: Brian Heidebrecht
Music: Caspian

thanks Rob for this one..

EREMY SCOTT web video thingy...

JEREMY SCOTT web video thingy... Dir. NABIL from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Directed by Nabil Elderkin

Song: Esau Mwamwaya f. MIA & Santigold, “Get It Up”
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Jay-z on Bill Maher

I respect the lyricism Jay-z brings but I don't condone some of his verses speaking religion. But that's me personally. Still like the music.

Rock The Vote T-Shirt Design

This design was created for the ARTST x Rock The Vote t-shirt competition. I did the whole thing concept to completion in about 5 hours last night because I found out about the competition late (one the day of the deadline lol).

I went to school thinking I was going to knock out my 32 magazine spread sketches but got sucked into the internet trap. As usual I was surfing the web looking for inspiration and material for my blog but once I hit N*E*R*D's BBC Blog and saw the Rock The Vote competition and I knew what I needed to do that day.


Except for the logo The Type is all original.


More to come later.

Astana National Library by BIG

via dezeen



BIG’s design merges four forms - a circle, a rotunda, an arch and a yurt - into an “infinite loop” with a single double-looping surface plane covering the entire building.



Let’s leave it to the architects to explain better:

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BIG to design Kazakhstan’s new National Library in Astana.



Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, BIG was awarded first prize in an open international design competition which included 19 entrants among others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.



The new National Library, named after the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, encompasses an estimated 33.000m2. The winning proposal was chosen by the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan K. Masimov together with Astana’s akim I. Tasmagambetov and a council of architects. The design was hailed as being both modern and rational and anchored in a classical vocabulary of traditional libraries. The circular organisation of the archive at its inner core combines the clarity of a linear organisation with the convenience of an infinite loop.



“The design of the National Library combines four universal archetypes across space and time into a new national symbol: the circle, the rotunda, the arch and the yurt are merged into the form of a Moebius strip. The clarity of the circle, the courtyard of the rotunda, the gateway of the arch and the soft silhouette of the yurt are combined to create a new national monument appearing local and universal, contemporary and timeless, unique and archetypal at the same time” - Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner on the Astana National Library 2009



Nation Building

Being one of the future cornerstones of Kazakh nation building, and a leading institution representing the Kazakh national identity, designing the library went beyond a mere architectural challenge. The new National Library in Astana, Kazakhstan’s new capital since 1997, shall not only accumulate history but also provide a foundation for new futures for the nation and its new capital. It will serve as an intellectual, multifunctional and cultural center, with a primary goal of reflecting the establishment and development of a sovereign Kazakhstan, its political history, and the Head of the State’s activities and role in the development of the country.


The National Library will be the place where the citizens of Astana, the people of Kazakhstan as well as international visitors can come to explore the country’s history, its diverse cultures, its new capital and its first president. The Library will accommodate and communicate with all segments of the population: civil servants, politicians, researchers, students, museum historians and staff.



The Library is conceived as a symbiosis of urbanity and nature. Like Astana, which is located in the heart of the Kazakh mainland, it will be integrated into the heart of a re-created Kazakh landscape. The park around the library is designed like a living library of trees, plants, minerals and rocks allowing visitors to experience a cross section of Kazakhstan’s natural landscape, and personally experience the capital’s transition across the country from Almaty to Astana.




“What is a library but an efficient archive of books… and a path for the public to reach them” - Thomas Christoffersen, the Project Leader on the National Library



In the library they will be able to study the history of the Kazakh culture and language present in the massive collection of books, magazines, film and other media. The archive is organized as a circular loop of knowledge, surrounded by light and air on both sides. On the periphery a 360 degree panorama of Astana - at the heart of the building a contemplative courtyard domed by the heavenly light blue of the celestial vault. The simplicity and perfection of the infinite circle allows for a crystal clear and intuitive orientation in the vast and growing collection that will populate the shelves of the National Library.




The ideal addition to the perfect circle will be a series of public programs that simultaneously wraps the library on the outside as well as the inside, above as well as below. Twisting the public program into a continuous spiraling path tracing the library on all sides, creates an architectural organization that combines the virtues of all 4 complimenting models. Like a Möbius strip, the public programs move seamlessly from the inside to the outside and from ground to the sky providing spectacular views of the surrounding landscape and growing city skyline.



Möbius Strip

The 2 interlocking structures: the perfect circle and the public spiral, create a building that transforms from a horizontal organization where library museum and support functions are placed next to each other, to a vertical organization where they are stacked on top of each other through a diagonal organization combining vertical hierarchy, horizontal connectivity and diagonal view lines. By wrapping the transforming composition of spaces with a continuous skin we create a Möbius strip volume where the facades move from inside to outside and back again.



“The envelope of The National Library transcends the traditional architectural categories such as wall and roof. Like a yurt the wall becomes the roof, which becomes floor, which becomes the wall again” - Thomas Christoffersen, the Project Leader on the National Library



ASTANA NATIONAL LIBRARY CREDIT LIST:

ARCHITECT: BIG
CLIENT: Kazakhstan Presidential Office
COLLABORATORS: ARUP AGU
SIZE: 33.000 M2
LOCATION: Astana, Kazakhstan
STATUS: 1st Prize


Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Project Leader: Thomas Christoffersen
Team: Amy Campbell, Jakob Henke, Johan Cool, Jonas Barre, Daniel Sundlin




Posted by Marcus Fairs

Wowzer!

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

from Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.





This video is sick! This is the stuff I wish I was making. I wonder how they made it?
They probably set up a 360º camera array around the dudes to create the spinning head footage first and recorded the source audio simultaneously. I bet the dj's used some form of time—coded vinyl or mp3 formatted turntables with an app that recorded the time signatures as they played. Then some one would've had to take that time signature data and translated it to the 360º view of the heads with one revolution of the record being equivalent to a full rotation of the head. Then composting it all together to rap things up, but DAMN! That was hot.

I wounder if Kohl's would let me convince them to do something like this.
Spinning heads on turntables lol, that would be a stretch.

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