Cosmopolitan//Digital Kitchen

Here's where I make up some lame excuse as to why I haven't been posting. Something that you'd accept but don't really buy, because we both know I've just been lazy- but I mean well and that counts for something.

You can have this Nero song about Promises and we can pretend it's relevant.



Making news, Andrew Hibbard of Pause Fest has been OS doing something kickass and workrelated. During his travels he's been lucky enough to stay at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas,.



The hotel partnered with Digital Kitchen, to create an interactive experience through innovative digital content.

Last year the hotel took home the prestigious Grand Prix at Cannes 58th International Festival of Creativity, as well as the Gold Pencil Award at The One Show.

The Columns in the lobby seem to be a crowd favourite, Michael Bay and Martha Stewart re among its admirers. Eight Columns made up of digital screens broadcast content non-stop but the kicker is that it's ad free. What the what?! Talk about creative possibilities. Curating the content for that would be insane, in both a negative and positive way.



The most recent production by Digital Kitchen is a series of vignettes set in an elevator featuring "a cast of eccentric characters". The viewer catches only a moment of each story, much like the elevator experience where the only clues about each person are revealed in the 30 seconds of shared space. The Cosmopolitan are using the footage as part of their TVC.



There's so much more to say about the hotel, but I've never been there so I really don't know. Digital Kitchen have a whole profile on their work here including press and the like.

Andrew, you stayed there, hit us up with a little review!

Autodesk 'Blockbuster Tour 2012'

The Autodesk Inc. 'Blockbuster Tour 2012' is happening in Melbourne and Sydney in early July! The tour features film superstars Alex Kim from Industrial Light & Magic Singapore and Ian Cope from Rising Sun Pictures discussing the visual effects behind films such as 'The Avengers' and 'Prometheus'. Colin Renshaw from Alt.vfx, will also be there sharing his experience with the award winning Tooheys Extra Dry commercial ‘Nocturnal Migration’.

Register now for the opportunity to meet the guys and be inspired.


http://www.digitalmedia-world.com/VFX/2012-autodesk-blockbuster-tour-stars-ilm-singapore-rsp-and-altvfx

Article via Digital Media World.

(Direct registration link: http://bit.ly/OkCGsx)

The Story So Far... GLOSSY

I always watch stop motion and think "Holy Jeebus, that is so tight. I'm wanna do that." Then I realise that I'm probably not cut out for the workload, tediousness and precision shooting of stop motion. Which makes each little film I watch that much more enjoyable.

Here is a behind the scenes of Julia Bourke's short film GLOSSY.



Can you imagine crafting 288 hands? That means shaping 1152 fingers!!! Yeah... I'll definitely be leaving the animation to her.

GLOSSY will be screening at MIAF in Panorama #4: Australian, on Friday 22 June, 6.30pm. Get tickets here. Go on, get cultured.

Getting The Book Invented

This little animated gem by Gavin Edwards was an entry into the Literary Platform's international competition which asked creative to animated Douglas Adams' audio clip recorded for his publisher tracking the evolution of the book.

The winner was named Eleanor Stokes with her animation. The scroll bit is pretty lolworthy.



Check out the Sourcery for the full story and more linkage concerning 'prophecies'. The Francis Ford Coppola one is particularly eerie/interesting.

THE STREETS OF THE INVISIBLES

Don't you love it when you start a post about one thing, then while searching for links/references/whatever, you get swept up by something completely different?

This video is so just so freaking cool! It's only just popped up on my radar (and you know I'm such a tastemaker...) despite being out for a good few months.

The level of creativity, and the concept of taking google earth creating a dramatic piece with it is just astounding. I've got no idea how he did it, and so well! The audio is linked brilliantly with each frame. I'm not sure why this is so awesome, I think I'm still getting past the fact that he used Google Earth! Whaaaat?!

Alright, I'll stop raving. Watch This. Seriously It's Cool.

Artist: Remo Raucher

Sauced

The Lights That Stop Me

It's that time of the year! Vivid Festival is back and it officially opens today! Huzzah! If you're in Sydney over the next two weeks, you'll definitely come across many of the public events on show but if you can grab a ticket and check out a show. If you're not in Sydney, fear not my child, because through the power of technology you can stream shows on YouTube.
I for one will be tuning in to see Imogen Heap, Temper Trap and also check out Seekae's latest offering. In the lead up to the festival, the band has released this stunning sunrise session.

UUUGH! SO GOOD! CANT HANDLE!

But really now, head on over to Vivid's site to get the low down on events and what's on around you.

Future Deluxe Takes on Thom Yorke & Modeselektor

So incase you didn't know, Thom Yorke is a major modeselektor fan. He's pretty vocal about getting his public to listen to their stuff and finally he has joined forces with the neo electro untaggable band. Those lucky enough to attend Coachella got a preview of what this collab might sound like. UK Based agency Future Deluxe are the ones behind 'This'.

The Making of "That" Promo Future Deluxe have a pretty massive client reel as as far as digital creatives go, they know exactly where the gaps in the market lie and how to fill them. Check out their website here. They're based in Brighton so on a superficial note, not only are they intelligent and creative they are thuper thexy thurfer types with british accents. Get a google alert on happening on any positions going here because this a place you defs want to be. They worked with Thom Yorke, is there really a bigger selling point?

And I must apologise for the untimeliness of my blogging. I crashed my car... That's my excuse. Check back for daily updates!! I know I promise a lot of things, but I promise to keep this promise. Promise.

Save your identity!

When you sit down at your PC, open up your 'Apple Mac' or play around on your smartphone, you are actively contributing and feeding your personal information into the hands of your service providers and into the ever-growing information technology cyberspace.

'Network' by Michael Rigley is not only a visual stunning physical representation of how our personal data is created and built, but also somewhat disheartening in our active participation within this. Rigley perfectly puts this into a tangible form, using clarity and simplicity of explanation to convey his message.

It's amazing after watching just a 3 minute animation, how you can begin to re-think our voluntary contribution to companies profiting off our data. 

Maybe it's time to take back our personal information from ISP's. Occupy the internet, anyone?

Takuya Hosogane makes a Point

This creation is from Japanese artist Takuya Hosogane. He's the featured artist on Pause Fest today. The young talent's work creates a dialogue between flash animation visuals and sound cues.

Vanishing Point in particular, triggers memories of watching Windows Media Player visualisations, except Hogosane's animations are much more iTunes in my opinion. He has a great way of really hitting those nuances in the music using image.

Read Lucy Down's profile on Takuya Hosogane here.

As Down mentions, Hosogane lists video anime series FLCL and Noein among his inspirations. Thoughts? Can you see the parallels in his animation style? Or is has his process drawn him closer to resemble more post modern works?
I can see a definitive line between his work and David O'Reilly's. 

Pause Fest ID Animations

Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Murat Pak

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Bill Francis - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - James Hand

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Sander Van Dijk

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - David Connolly - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Pále
Mastering - P-tronix, London

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Ronaldo Tozzi

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - David Connolly - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Ipman
Mastering - P-tronix, London

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Mirari&Co

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - David Connolly - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Alteria Percepsyne & Ipman

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Ian Clemmer

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Bill Francis
Musician - Last Japan
Mastering - P-tronix, London

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Hi Organic

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - David Connolly & Bill Francis - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Pále

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Dima Grubin

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - David Connolly - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Last Japan
Mastering - P-tronix, London

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Pause Fest ID - Official Version
Visual: Bestia

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Ipman

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Pause Fest - Opening Titles

Breeder is a collaborative studio blending action, design, animation and installation. They have worked on diverse projects in the past including the “Pocket Hipster” smartphone app and “Rising”- a collaborative animation urging donations to Japans’ disaster stricken areas.

Breeder’s passion for storytelling and forward-thinking creative process has seen them deliver originality, diversity and creativity in every project they undertake. So we are understandably excited that the team at Breeder has created the Pause Fest opening titles in collaboration with the sweet sound-design of Radium Audio.

Visual: BREEDER, Australia
studiobreeder.com

Director: Joyce Ho
Producer: Megan Griffiths
DOPs: Timothy Lovett and Chris Morris
RED Operator: Peter Wright
Editing and Colour Grading: Joyce Ho, Timothy Lovett and Chris Morris
Compositor: Chris Morris
Props and Set Design: Megan Griffiths and Joyce Ho
Scientific Consultant: Will Johnston
Special Thanks: Queensland University of Technology

Sound: Radium Audio
Creative Director: Andrew Diey - Radium Audio
Lead Sound Designer - Peter Malmqvist - Radium Audio
Sound Designer - Irad Lee - Studio Irad Lee
Musician - Ipman, Josephine LLoyd, Karin Höghielm, Johan Vavare.
Mastering - P-tronix, London

radium-audio.com

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Vodafone | The Evolution of Mobile

thefoundcollective.com and Flat-e.com combined forces for Vodafone's Youtube channel exploring the evolution of mobile phones.

Thornberg & Forester | PromaxBDA Winners

At last week's annual PromaxBDA Conference in New York, T&F and its partners
won three Gold North America Design Awards, and one Bronze. Among the Gold
winners is the "Thornberg & Forester Brand Video" that won in the Self
Promotion/Show Reel/Company Image category.

INA D X DECOLLAGE.TV | Live Promo

A panoramic ride through a shiny universe by decollage.tv, made of things out of a DJanes life, but with surreal dimensions and lots of reflections.

For that perfect moment, when you are in tune with yourself, the music and the world around you … for that moment when “All Is Well”.

Alan Warburton | Format: A Brief History of Data Storage

An abridged history of removable data storage. I've left out a few formats, which I'm sure the geeks out there will pick up on! Made with After Effects, Maya and Photoshop.

Cyriak Harris | Hooray For Earth "True Loves" (Cereal Spiller Remix)

Music video for Hooray For Earth's "True Loves" (Cereal Spiller Remix). Animated and Directed by Cyriak Harris.

Shaun Pitz | Espresso Manifesto Teaser Trailer

Teaser trailer for the animated short film Espresso Manifesto created by Shaun Pitz.

SR Partners | Resonance

Resonance is the vision of SR Partners; a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways. Resonance will be screened on Pause Fest 2011.

Tadas Svilainis | 140dB

"140 dB" is experimental film about interaction between sound and physical bodies. The main idea is to show how sound can change objects form and structure including human mental state.

Mirari | SHIFT v2

Founded in 2010, MIRARI&CO. is refreshing the industry through innovative concept and dynamic animation. Our mission is to discover unique design solutions through multiple, creative approaches. By integrating elements inspired by the world around us, we are able to generate new ideas, and bring a fresh distinctive personality to a brand.

We are a strong, cohesive unit of directors, designers, and animators able to transform concept into beautiful imagery. We bring honesty, structural integrity, and a fire for new ideas. We are creative problem solvers who will continue to elevate your brand.