So this dude lobs a load of ants in his scanner then scans them for 5 years. What’s the betting he’s single. Still, at least he has his ants (not one of which you can see in this video).
It reminds me of an early version of Sim City set to a soundtrack of obscure Middle Eastern Trance. Actually, that’s sort of what it is. Enjoy.
D&AD: So what do you think of New Blood this year?
Jonny’s beard: ‘Blah blah blah, I live on Jonny’s face’
(or something to that effect)
New work from the Blu, now using more and more of the environment in his work. And bloody loads of paint, obv.
They’ve done it again. Had to post this, it’s just so good, especially the end bit with the crowd of people and the duck. Enjoy
Mike Crozier, AKA Croz, is a 21 year old designer based in Leeds. Currently in a year in industry (something we think every course should do), he has so far worked for La Suprise in Paris (for whom he created the poster, top) and SNASK in Stockholm (the pretty little stop-frame) - now on to ilovedust. And all in one so young. JEALOUS!
With speakers from AKQA, Superfad and Proud Creative, this Thursday you’d be a mug not to get in on Outside In, an event right in the middle of Shoreditch, all proceeds of which (£5 a pop) go towards the Ravensbourne College degree students.
Also worthy of note is the video they made for the first of these talks (though you can’t fault anything set to The XX in my eyes).
On Saturday night ShellsuitZombie were kindly given three tickets to what would turn out to be one of the more surreal evenings of our social calendar so far this year. Mercy, the same Liverpool and London based agency that creates 12 Angry Zines, held the sixth of its incredibly successful (and oversubscribed) nights with Liverpool-based pop experimentals The Wave Machines at Shoreditch Church - ‘Wave if you’re really there’.
This one, entitled Baptism, featured a host of talent in the fields of spoken word, music and performance, with brilliant (and hilarious) vocal performances from Nathan Jones, Ross Sutherland, Salena Godden and David J, Music from Eugene Mcguinness and the Lizards and of course The Wave Machines and some bizarre performance art from a troupe, one of whom kept putting her head in the font (church, not typographic). Everything combined (as well as a BYOB policy resulting in excessive wine consumption) to create a great atmosphere, helped of course by the Medieval/Palladian style architecture of the church itself (yep damn right, wikifuckingpedia).
Moment of the night had to go to Dave O’Dowda from Table on piano accompanied by a choir which popped up out of nowhere (like in Love actually). All in all a memorable night, please for gods sake go to the next one.
(The two good photos are © Tamsin Isaacs, the grainy ones are © Ellies crappy iPhone camera.)
This post is about two things. The first is the photography above, by Kevin Bauman, two of a set of 100 photos of abandoned houses in Detroit, once the USA’s fourth largest city, which has seen a population decrease of over 50% from its highest of 2 million. The second is a documentary that is currently sitting on iPlayer, ‘Requiem for Detroit?’, covering some of the reasons why (and set to a soundtrack of Eminem, you know cos he was from dere innit). Together they provide a bleak (but interesting) account of the collapse of the American automobile industry and ‘Motown’ and the hope for a better future in a city that was once the embodiment of the American Dream.
Some of our long-term readers may remember us covering the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships. Well this is entirely different to that. The London Word Festival is upon us and we here at Zombie Towers are excited as hell about it. With linguistic stylists from all over the world gracing the stage as well as other events ranging from screen-printing to crime-comic- jazz interpretations, this one has it all. You’ve already missed Alex Horne, Robin Ince and various other semi-celebs but there’s literally mounds of steaming culture left to see before the whole shebang ends on the 1st of April.
Impress your mates. Go to a poetry recital.
We like Beardyman here at SSZ Towers, in fact I once drunkenly asked for his autograph literally right when he was having an argument with his girlfriend (He remained polite - A gentleman first, beatboxer second) but frankly the sight of six* of his disembodied heads whining and spinning due to some star-trek science shit made me want to cry. Nevertheless big props to the aforementioned science, this video is really clever.
re. Beardyman - youtube him, you won’t regret it.
*EDIT: I have become aware that there are in fact seven. SHUT UP YEAH.
I just came across this video for a Lexus concept car. I’m not really a car nut, and don’t even like this car. Although I do like a lot of classic and top end models, particularly the ones I’ve no chance of ever owning. But it’s the design process that really fascinates me, it’s the same for anything, cars, buildings, gadgets etc. Seeing how it begins with the early ideas/sketches/modeling, it always gets me excited. Especially when they are brought to life with some great motion graphics.
Having listened to/watched this for the eighth time today, I felt the desire to share.
Please if at all possible watch in HD full screen with your PC speakers turned to 11 and enjoy my nomination for track of 2009.
My god that drop.
In ‘98, aged just 14, aspiring cartoonist Amir Avni wrote to his then hero and creator of the brilliant (if nightmare-inducing) Ren and Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Above is one page of the extraordinary reply he got from the great animator, the rest of which can be read here. So inspirational was it that Amir, currently in his fourth year of studying animation, is rather good himself.
Skills like these should never die or become irrelevant in a digital age so it’s encouraging that there are still those willing to devote themselves to them. And if it means our children grow up watching beautifully rendered masochistic pets break each other, so be it.
Spotted this parkour video on voice of youf, threebillion.com, it’s by Singaporese graphic design student saggyarmpit and it took 4 weeks to plan and create. She doesn’t even think it’s that good! I think it’s great that in this era of CGI where any reality seems possible, people are still creating dynamic, engaging lofi work by hand.
£2.50 for 64 pages, an Eboy cover and fold-out poster, articles by creative types including Adrian Shaughnessy, Sanky, D&AD, Glug, Eboy etc. Want it? Buy it here.
The Revolution has begun. Rebel Radio - Originally a call-to-arms for Che Guevara’s Cuban Militia, now a beautiful A2 Poster available to you! Get it here and read the full post here.
Printed by Bob Eight Pop
OK so recently we held a couple of events. If you were at one of them, go tag yourself on our facebook page. Or just go and stalk if you weren’t. (If this is you, hi Noel)
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