Happy 2013

Happy New Year
Gutes neues Jahr
あけましておめでとうございます。
Bonne année
Feliz ano novo
Feliz año nuevo
Gelukkig nieuwjaar
Buon anno
С Новым Годом

The Presets - Promises

Modular Records
Directed by Special Problems
with help from Sriwhana Spong, Rob Wallace, Charles Cumming and Veronica Crockford-Pound

COAL - short film (Director's Cut)

ART COMES FIRST is a collective of self taught artists and creative associates, who believe art should always come first.

Starring Filipa Martinsen Rognan, Kalaf Angelo, Matteo Gioli, Sam Lambert, Shaka Maidoh, Sebastian Dollinger, Aroun Ducroux and T-Michael.
Written & Directed by Finn-Erik Rognan and T-Michael
Produced by Martin Barth Bergholtz
Cinematography by Finn-Erik Rognan
Production manager Elisabeth Mosteid
Coordinator Silje Pallesen
Lights & grip Bjørn-Andreas Rognan
Production assistants Terje Dysvik and Nanette Nartey
Film editing by Finn-Erik Rognan
Colorist Kristian Skogen
Composer Marianne Sveen
Shot on location at Dikemark outside Oslo, Norway.
Filmed with RED Camera & lenses. Edited with Premiere Pro.

Trip to Mexico

I brought my new Blackmagic Cinema Camera with me on a recent trip with my wife to the Bahia de Banderas area of Mexico. We stayed in Mismaloya, about 20km south of Puerto Vallarta. If I had it my way, the camera would have been glued to my hands for the entire trip, but considering it's not water-proof, I had to leave it at the hotel quite a bit.

We did a day trip north of Puerto Vallarta and explored towns, beaches, and did a small jungle hike. In Valle De Banderas, they were celebrating their town's anniversary, or at least I think that's what a banner said. At any rate there were many people out celebrating.

I love shooting with the BMCC! Little issues aside, it is an amazing camera! I love how it makes me slow down while shooting. Considering I'm getting about 25 minutes of raw footage on each 240gb SSD, and the fact that you can't delete clips or format the drive from the camera, makes me feel as if I'm shooting film. On this trip I had no way of downloading footage or formatting the drives. It felt like having an old slr film camera with me and just a couple rolls of film.

I shot all raw and processed the images in Lightroom. I had thought to take Resolve for a spin, but my main workstation stopped working and Resolve won't run on my laptop. I used a calibrated HP monitor.

I experimented with different color grades and you will see different styles in this film. There's even a single random BW shot in there. Uncompressed raw and 13 stops of dynamic range is a powerful mix. Being able to process the raw images in a variety of programs is freeing, and re-processing old footage with new color correction tools is something I look forward to.

Download the original if you want to see the full quality. Not much else to say really. It's good this camera will be shipping in larger quantities soon. Sorry to use an already over used phrase, but this camera is a game changer and needs to be in more people's hands! I can't wait to see what people shoot with it, and what the other camera manufacturers come up with to compete.

P.S. The reality of owning a camera called the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is at times a bit awkward. I'm finding myself saying things like, "No, I'll use the Black Magic." which tends to make strangers in the vicinity raise an eyebrow. Oh well. It's a small price to pay.
Music: I Wanna Go by Summer Heart
Gear used:
BMCC
Blackbird Stabilizer
Manfrotto Monopod
Sigma 8-16mm
Canon 24-70mm (no iris control yet, so all wide open at f2.8)
Canon 70-200mm 2.8 IS Mark II
B+W ND Filters

HOLY FLOWERS - FADE INTO YOU

a film by pierre debusschere
model zuzanna bijoch
styling robbie spencer
florals mark colle
dop amandine klee
editing and effects pascal oberlin
make up adrien pinault
hair karin bigler
production claire silva moreira at 254forest
retouch and first photo assistant ismael moumin at 254forest
nails sabine peeters
set design laurent wenner
assistants kelly de block , sebastien meulenberg
styling assistant oriane leclercq
set design assistants frederic ameel , quentin marteau
casting noah shelley
special thanks to studio 202 brussels
©254forest

Lowland Fell

Lowland is a teenage girl temporarily living in the middle-of-nowhere Ireland while her father is on an archaeological dig. When she happens across two young brothers cutting peat in a bog, a surprise discovery brings the three of them together for a night of exploration

by Michael Kinirons

Reebok Classics Spring/Summer 2013 Lookbook

Introducing the 2013 Spring/Summer collection for Reebok Classics.

Versace Spring 2013 Campaign by Mert&Marcus

THE STUDENT

A film by Adrien Sauvage

Time of Rio

Time of Rio is a taste of  MOOV project about Rio de Janeiro, nature, city and life.
Produced using different image production techniques, like slow motion sequences, Time Lapse, Hyper Lapse, Rails and Motion Controllers.
Captured along the last months is the beginning of our first movie.
Edited in Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X.

Music "Oh Wee" by Immortal Beats and "Whispering Through" by Asura
Thanks for everyone that help us specially our wives for the patience!

BEGINNING / Water projection

According to the Mayan calendar December 21, 2012 will be an certain era ended. Some followers of conspiracy theories claim that in this day the world will end. In June of this year, held an outdoor event, entitled "Revocation end of the world". The whole event was opened the water projection operatively called "Beginning". Animation in a nutshell, was to introduce the audience in modern times.

Scenario, design, animation: NOVINASTUDIO / Grzegorz Nowiński
Sound: Adam Hryniewicki

Fernando Gutiérrez discusses Harper's Bazaar and the work of Fabien Baron

In the first of a series of short interviews based around The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, Fernando Gutiérrez discusses fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar and the work of one of its most legendary art directors, Fabien Baron.

Sigurd Larsen & Michael Johansson - Real Life Tetris

The Danish designer and Swedish architect discusses Legos, spatial logic, and how one man’s trash is another’s treasure.

Time Lapse of Crowd Control in Tokyo Japan for Comic Market.

Images are created by Moconago and taken at Comiket which is the world's largest self publishing comic book fair that is held twice a year in Tokyo.

The Convention draws crowds over 5000 attendees and they use strict crowd control to easily manage the amount of people that attend.

The footage, which was compiled from photographs taken at intervals of 5 seconds, was filmed on the last day of Comiket from around 1:30 AM to 2:30 PM from the balcony of the nearby Washington Hotel.

Louis Vuitton Presents Gstaad Resort

Louis Vuitton reinforces its ties with Gstaad by inaugurating a new "winter resort" store in a traditional chalet built in 1913 and located on the renowned Promenade.
Discover the famous resort through the eyes of Swiss blogger Kayture and her imaginary tribulations on her way to the Louis Vuitton store. The Maison showcases its stylish and elegant collections in the warm ambience of a winter ski chalet, a setting surrounded by authenticity and tradition, filled with new emotions and experiences.

A Burberry Woodland Adventure

Discover the A/W12 collection, inspired by the British countryside, featuring runway models and magical woodland animals.

Xmas

HAPPY HOLIDAYS by BEAMS

Louis Vuitton x L'écriture est un voyage

Directed by Romain Chassaing
Music by Birkii
DOP: Fabien Benzaquen
Set Designer: Solène Ortoli
Colorist: Muriel Archambaud
Agency: Des Quatre
Produced by Solab Pictures

MAN ABOUT TOWN #11

not thinking straight — the gay issue.
featuring mykki blanco, scotty bowers, benjamin bruno, richard buckley, julie burchill, howard cruse, lisa eisner, erwan frotin, jamie hawkesworth, inez & vinoodh, marc jacobs, le1f, matt lucas, ian mckellen, alasdair mclellan, brian moylan, glenn o’brien, pet shop boys, jean-françois piège, pierre et gilles, paolo roversi, karim sadli, joel simkhai, mark simpson, matt tyrnauer, bernhard willhelm + the boyfriends of five a-list designers speak out for the first time! …and art by m/m (paris)

Bois de Guitare

April 77 home goods

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2012

Tigers

The film is titled Tigers. Be what you were born to be.
Twelve minutes to tell the spirit, the drive, the emotions that have moved and still move these men, the Tigers. Take your seats, the film is about to begin.

The Many Lives of William Klein

William Klein has lived many lives. One of the world's most influential photographers, he pioneered the art of street photography and created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century. He also made over twenty films, including the first ever documentary about Muhammad Ali and a brilliant satire of the fashion world, Who Are You Polly Magoo? With a major Tate Modern exhibition currently celebrating his work, imagine... spends time with William Klein to discover the irrepressible, charismatic personality behind a remarkable creative life.

COMME DES GARCONS PARFUMS AMAZINGREEN x POSTMATTER.COM DEMO

Comme des Garçons Parfums’ Amazingreen fragrance presents an interactive journey into kaleidoscopic abstraction on POSTmatter.com, the newly launched online extension of the cutting-edge iPad magazine POST. An evocation of the lush exuberance of nature, the non-hierarchical composition of Comme des Garçons’ Amazingreen sees an unorthodox arrangement of green notes such as palm tree and jungle leaves, green pepper and dew mist juxtaposed with industrial notes of silex and gunpowder accord.
Within this sensorial framework, Amazingreen is conceptualised on POSTmatter.com as a psychedelic journey through a dazzlingly green rainforest, in which the individual notes of the fragrance appear as 3D animations which transition through a series of kaleidoscopic filters controlled by the audience’s cursor.
Developed by POST as an interactive HTML 5 component for use online and on tablet devices, the Amazingreen experience sees a sacred geometry of polygons in discourse with the undulating chaos of nature’s rhythms, where speed ramps transports the audience at warp speed to a landscape of vibrating crystalline and irrational cellular life forms.

THE FASTEST CHRISTMAS SONG IN THE WORLD

BMW presents: The fastest Christmas Song in the World. 
Send your own Christmas greetings here.

2012: What Brought Us Together

It was a year of breakthroughs, adversity, accomplishments. And the web shared all of it. From the highest sky-dive to the fastest running man, a first vote or last mission, joys and tragedies, grumpy cats and flash mobs, from silly to serious; whatever it is that we shared in 2012, here is a compilation.

TIGER FEVER

Directed by Sanghon Kim
Music & sound design by Surkin
Production : Irene
Post-production : Machine Molle

Open Season in the Holy Land

Over thanksgiving, Israel launched another attack on the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas' second-in-command Ahmed Jabari. In retaliation, Hamas began firing rockets that were some of the first missiles to hit parts of Israel in 20 years. VICE traveled to the Israeli-Gaza border to see what eternal tension had flared up this time.
A $1 billion defense system known as the "Iron Dome" has helped protect Israel from rocket attacks since its installment in 2011. Given the recent upsurge in the Israeli-Hamas conflict, the demand for the Iron Dome as a powerful defensive weapon has intensified. VICE wanted to know if targeting Hamas was an absolute necessity now that Israel was so well defended, so we paid a visit to an Israeli military briefing at the site of the Iron Dome. Afterward, we headed south to watch Israeli soldiers prepare for the apparent ceasefire that was to happen between Israel and Hamas in Egypt.

Yohji Yamamoto Spring Summer 2013

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS REUNION | ADHD

Charlie Brown returns home after years in New York to reconnect with old friends, Louis C.K. style.

ADHD is a block of animation airing Saturday nights on FOX starting next year and all over the internet right now. This shit is updated weekly.

MCS campaign with Cara Delevingne

MCS hair accessories campaign with Cara Delevingne, Clara Paget and Suki Waterhouse

RAD by Rad Hourani

Unisex collection #6 show new york

The xx recordings, rehearsals and live

Recording 

Rehearsal 

Live

Frank Gehry's Biomuseo, Panama

The Biomuseo, or Museum of Biodiversity, in Panama City is Frank Gehry's first project in Latin America. The building, situated on the mouth of the Panama Canal, is a colourful design of metal-plated canopies sustained by concrete columns. It will house eight galleries and tell the story of Panama's diverse biological culture and its global impact. Once finished it is projected that the 4000 m2 space will play a significant role in Panamanian society, culture and education. Here, one of the museum's exhibit coordinators, Darien Montañes, explains the work involved in bringing a project of this scale to life.

Acne Studios Aoyama

Acne Studios Aoyama
5-3-20 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku
Tokyo
Japan

Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review

The Birth Of Fashion Revisited

Foliage Fashion by Louda Larrain,
Island of Kauai, Hawaii
Event produced by "galerie 103" and Bruna Stude

01 NextFashion

adidas SLVR Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign

The adidas SLVR Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign Video presents the new collection against a raw, make-shift backdrop, inspired by the movie Fight Club.

Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion. It's an age-old principle that is at the heart of the adidas SLVR Spring/Summer 2013 collection inspired by martial arts, Fight Club, and the human physique. Consequently the new campaign presents the collection against a raw, make-shift backdrop.

Photographed by Willy Vanderperre, the campaign depicts group compositions shot against a set in constant flux, continuing an architectural yet loose look. The imagery communicates Dirk Schönberger's high-fashion perspective, combining precision tailoring with a sport attitude.

The campaign extends this idea by presenting a fusion of seemingly opposing references like Hawaiian prints with boxing silhouettes. This clash illustrates the amalgamation of tailoring and sportswear as the core of the SLVR collection.

The Spring/Summer 2013 video translates the concept into motion. Climaxing to silence, the edit uses acceleration of pace and raw distortion effects to merge the various looks into one contrasting edit.

Creative Direction: Pietsch Lim / PL STUDIO
Photography / Video Direction: Willy Vanderperre
Styling: Jay Massacret
Hair Stylist: Anthony Turner
Make-Up: Gucci Westman
Models: Eddie Klint / Malcolm De Ruiter / Marloes Horst

Filmography 2012

300 movies of 2012 by Filmographile

Would you help this man if he asked you?

Watch as an actor, pretending to be drunk, asks passers-by for help getting into his car. How many do you think helped him?

Drink driving is still one of the biggest killers on our roads, with one in seven UK road deaths resulting from crashes where a driver was over the limit.

Stay safe on the roads this Christmas. Don't drink and drive.

Concept by A Social Media Agency

KAWS Companion: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2012

Legendary street artist Brian Donelly discusses the process and creation of his 40-foot KAWS Companion balloon for the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Directed by: Jake Sumner
Produced by: ALLDAYEVERYDAY in conjunction with Brian Donelly (KAWS)

Remember

SOUP 4

SOUP Magazine Issue #4 Preview

The Butterfly

directed by Andrei Khrjanovsky

Hermés Birkin Lego

LEGO jewelry maker Agnieszka Biernacka has combined fashion and the toy bricks to produce a bag as a tribute to the famous Hermés Birkin bag.

Polo of the Future

80 years ago, René Lacoste invented the polo. Its name code: L.12.12
Imagine the Polo of the Future.

TO THE MOON

Agency Saatchi & Saatchi for Toyota

Man of Steel - Official Trailer

In theaters June 14th. 
From Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures comes "Man of Steel", starring Henry Cavill, directed by Zach Snyder. The film also stars Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Henry Lennix, Christopher Meloni and Laurence Fishburne.

FIREFLY

DIRECTED BY Jan Minol 
PILOT / TECHNICAL SUPPORT Jan Dojcan 
STORY Jan Minol / Jan Dojcan 
EDIT / POSTPRODUCTION Jan Minol 
SPECIAL CREATIVITY Jana Minolova 
CAMERA OPERATORS Jan Fuksa Ondrej Prochazka Daniel Truhlar 
SKATER Jan Minol 
SONG Nullified Mark Petrie

Jimmy's End

A film by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins

We've all been there: in the lapses after midnight, stumbling down unfamiliar gutters after one too many for the road and looking for inviting lights before they call last orders. James is trying to lose himself, but in a fractured men's room mirror finds the eyes that have been waiting for him.

Following from the unnerving prelude Act of Faith, Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins unveil a phantasmagoric English dreamtime made of goosefleshed pin-up girls, burned out comedians and faulty lights, with judgement just behind the tinsel

Jimmy's End pulls back the purple drapes upon an intricate new planet of desire and mystery. We've all been there.

Or it's where we're going.

Ophelia Has a Dream

MIHARAYASUHIRO‘s short film produced with photographer Paolo Roversi and visual design studio WOW.

ISSUE 05 SM video

Ricardo Gomes, photography.
Mikolaj Sokolowski, art direction and edition.
Quentin Cristofari, Success Models for issue 5 of Stage Fashion Magazine.

Can I Make The Music Fly?

Bruce Weber for Dior Homme

Gary Card Studio Visit

Gary Card is an illustrator, set designer and prop-maker. His bright and broad aesthetic has lent itself to a wide range of high profile brands including Topshop, Comme des Garcons, Adidas, COS and Nike. For the festive season, Card designed an electric christmas tree, inspired by the Vauxhall Ampera, installed at King's Cross filling station until January. While we get a glimpse of his studio, viewing a multitude of diverse past projects, Card debates the pros and cons of his work and delves into the origin of his odd affinity for the colour purple.

STYLED | Gangland Oki-ni Fall Winter 2012

about GANGLAND

As the long winter nights draw in and the temperature brings to drop, groups of young men choose to trade the street corner or park for the warmth of a bar, pool hall or cinema. At this time of year social circles tighten and cliques form, as activities move inside and underground.

GARCIA MADRID SS13 2/3 by COMMISSION

M83 - Wait

Directed by Fleur & Manu, this video was made in conjunction with The Creators Project, a partnership between Intel and Vice.

H&M for Brick Lane Bikes - H&M Spring 2013

H&M is pleased to announce a men's capsule collection with Brick Lane Bikes of East London, combining the function of cycling wear with great city style for both on and off the bike.

The 11 piece collection has been designed by H&M and tested and approved by Brick Lane Bikes, one of the world's leading custom-bike specialists. Inspired by both vintage pieces and today's sports performance, the collection is made from more sustainable materials as part of H&M's Conscious work. The collection will be launched on March 7, 2013 in around 180 stores worldwide, as well as online.

'It Had To Be You' feat. Kate Upton, directed by Bruce Weber

Starring models Kate Upton, Aaron O'Connell, Matthew Vande Vegte, Tim Easton and Casey Levens.

Jacket Required x Edwin Jeans

Jacket Required profiles Reynald Gautier, Edwin Jeans.

Find out more:
Jacket Required
Edwin Jeans 
 

Divine Proportions

 Paris Filmmaker Benjamin Seroussi Reinvents the Golden Ratio

 A Vitruvian woman comes to life in Benjamin Seroussi's new fashion short, Divine Proportions, inspired by the disparate environments of a doctor’s office and a model casting session. “I wanted to have a scientific approach to the character,” says the director. “When you have an X-ray, the doctor manipulates all kinds of equipment to take a picture, and when a model goes to a casting, she has to show her profile, hands and teeth.” The idea evolved into an exploration of the body with regards to the Golden Ratio, updating a Renaissance mingling of art and science for a 21st century aesthetic in this piece, which premiered this weekend at Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival. Seroussi, who studied film at UCLA and has worked with brands including Bulgari, Pierre Hardy and Louis Vuitton, found and even made the various instruments and contraptions that helped to convey his vision of human geometry. Australian "New Face" Lorelle Crawford strikes poses in outfits by designers Maxime Simoens and Alexandre Vauthier behind measuring mirrors built by the French filmmaker, before being enveloped by a halo of light borrowed from Le Deun Luminaires and finally, spinning in a NASA-built orientation device. “I’m always looking for equipment that puts the body in different situations,” he says. “I wanted a girl who wasn’t afraid of going into a gyroscope."

How To Kill a Mustache

So, you've decided to shave your mustache.
It's not as straightforward as you might think.
First off, reconsider. Remember that the mouth brow remains the clearest expression of masculinity a man can have above his waist.
So, give it 24 hours. Do a few things that only a mustached man can do, like investigate a crime, or paint a mustache painting.
Next, let your woman touch your lip rug one last time. Assuming she doesn't like it, make her touch it. Remind her what she'll be missing.
Spend some alone time with your Flavor Savor. Pet him. Tell him a secret.
If, at this point, you're still determined to annihilate your soup strainer, so be it.
Some guys go straight for the razor. That's horseskat. This is a new experience for your face caterpillar, so you've got to be...gentle.
Start with scissors, and slowly cut away a few hairs here and there, speaking reassuringly to your lip blanket.
Once your Cookie Duster understands and accepts what's happening, get it done.
Resist the temptation to indulge in temporary mustache shenanigans.
Now is the time to officially say goodbye to your booger broom. It's normal to cry at this point.
Gather the shorn hairs together, and make a llammastache.
Finally, give your dearly departed dirt squirrel a traditional Viking funeral. Send him to the Nordic Gods of facial hair upon a flaming raft.
As regret inevitably sets in, don't lose heart. Your grief is already nourishing the roots of your next nose neighbor. The cycle of mustache continues.

Get the "Viva La Mustache" T-shirt here. 

Written, Directed, Shot, and Edited by Rhett & Link.

TRITON / A Film by Luca Finotti for Made In Brazil

MADE IN BRAZIL PRESENTS TRITON
A FILM BY LUCA FINOTTI
Directed by LUCA FINOTTI
All clothes are custom made by THE BLONDS
Starring ANDRE ZIEHE
Soundtrack by Stefano Fontana
Styling by Beverly Osemwenkhae
Stylist assistant Whitney Espejo
Edited by Matteo Grossi
Dp Damien Krisl
Producer Sebastian Pollin
2nd producer Nick Lacy
Gaffers Yosuke Hosoi & Angelica Iris
Graphic designer Marco Crema

Moscow Design Museum Open

Moscow Design Museum
1 Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Russia

THE PASSERBY

Along the Hudson....the train.
nostalgia for sure...trains do that to me.
"station to station" was already taken.
music/voices and video by Pierre Carrilero aka Pierrot.

JIVE against AIDS

Supermodel Hannelore Knuts and dance partner Marcus Van Teijlingen from 'Sterren Op De Dansvloer' save their last dance for us to commemorate World AIDS Day. Here they are performing JIVE against AIDS