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Holiday ad season is here, and Apple has released a gorgeous ad, Sway, with professional dancers acting as its protagonists. Via Adweek: The story picks up when she slams into a handsome stranger, who catches her mid-twirl. As they gaze into each other’s faces, lives transforming and whatnot, the woman puts one of her AirPods […]
Son of Jaguar is a Google Spotline VR 360 short by Jorge Gutierrez of Book of Life fame, about an aging Mexican wrestler who lost a leg. Via Hollywood Reporter: Google Spotlight Stories offered a preview of The Book of Life director Jorge Gutierrez’s first virtual-reality/360 short, titled Son of Jaguar, this week at CG […]
Classic Specs x Milton Glaser of ‘I ❤ NY’ fame: Milton has moved from graphic design into designing sunglasses, and the results look good. Via DesignTaxi: It’s almost impossible to be in graphic design and not hear of Milton Glaser. The renowned designer is responsible for the ‘I ❤ NY’ logo you see on shirts […]
Yes there’s an environmental cost to free shipping – or at least, free two-day shipping. Vox examines the impact of online shopping and ways to make it more sustainable. Via i-D: It won’t come as a huge surprise that fashion and beauty sales account for a significant proportion of the multi-billion dollar online shopping industry. […]
That Long and Lonesome Road to Grandma’s is a delightful grad film by Felipe Di Poi Tamargo of Rhode Island School of Design. Via Short of the Week: Whenever trying to explain exactly why I’ve picked a film for Short of the Week, I often go back to our submission guide and check that a […]
NASA veteran Cady Coleman helped to write this Volvo ad about an astronaut’s trip to space and back. Via Adweek: Grey executive creative director Matt O’Rourke told Adweek that the Coleman connection came about when a music producer working on the campaign in its conceptual astronaut-and-husband phase said, “I have a cousin who’s also an […]
Did you know – in between films, Keanu Reeves actually designs and builds custom motorcycles in a company that he co-founded. Via Wired: This week, Reeves has abandoned Hollywood for Milan. The Italian city plays host to the Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motociclo e Accessori, or EICMA. He’s not at the world’s preeminent bike convention to […]
Blizzcon 2017 rolled around, and Blizzard reminded us why they’re still the king of game cinematics with a new slew of short films, including another Pixar-level Overwatch cinematic (above) involving the character Reinhardt from Overwatch, as well as two other cinematics, for World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm: Behind the Cinematic had an […]
Tom Teller’s Icarus is a short film about a mother-son astronaut partnership, along with their quirky robot Kevin, with great VFX. Via Short of the Week: There may come a day when I get tired of human-robot banter, but until then, I will take great joy in films like Tom Teller’s Icarus, a suspenseful live […]
Jerónimo Rocha’s latest animated short film, Macabre, is a scary, beautiful story about a man who gets trapped in a freaky mansion. Synopsis: K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz 280 SE against a tree, right after trying to avoid running over a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a secondary road […]