Picks from Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors, Cannes 2008

Joey Garfield directs this one shot wonder featuring Bill Shannon. Born with a degenerative hip condition, he has developed a way of moving on his skateboard and crutches that's both playful and beautiful to watch. Here Bill just does his thing.

The tracks creator, RJD2, also makes a few appearances as several different extras. See whether you can spot him...



Muto:
present active mūtō, present infinitive mūtāre, perfect active mūtāvī, supine mūtātum.

1. I move, remove.
2. I alter, change, modify, transform.
3. I vary, diversify.
4. I mutate, spoil.
5. I exchange, barter, sell.
6. I forsake.

according to Wiktionary.

Mentioned in the post about Tate Modern's street art exhibition, Blu, gives his definition of the word...




An old-y but a good-y. John Kelley's, Procastination deals with something all creatives know all too well.




Santogold + technicolour gorefest = cool video. Thanks Nima Nourizadeh.



Another crazy Bjork video. Encyclopedia Pictura take it to an all new level though. For the hi res and 3D experience go here



And then there's Vincent Moon, who takes a fresh approach to the music promo. The musical documentaries and portraits collected on his site, www.vincentmoon.com/ explore the fascinating characters of the bands he shoots.



Also see previous posts Tits and giggles,
The nerd's done good,
and Stress, Justice
directed by Romain Gavras

International ad students put Britain's to shame

Last week took me to the D&AD New Blood exhibition at Earls Court. Quite frankly the standard was shocking. The graphics and illustration left more of an impression so my mission of finding a copywriter bombed. I came away feeling bitterly depressed. Which is why, when I saw there were no British finalists for the Future Lions it didn't surprise me one bit.

http://www.futurelions.com/

The ideas aren't massively mind blowing (GPS/ Google Earth tracking, nothing new there) but at least they attempt at a degree of creativity that was seriously lacking in most of the work I saw last Tuesday. Oh dear.

Happy Thought has a more in depth review of New Blood, check it

Tits and giggles

Keith Schofield directs for Brighton Port Authority (Norman Cook's new project). The track features David Byrne and Dizee Rascal. The samples are apparently from a collection of tapes found at Brighton Dockside Warehouse. Splains the name I spose.

The nerd's done good.

Who would have thought editing transitions, a computer loading bar and an Apple 'processing' colour wheel could spawn such an awesome video.
















zZz is playing: Grip
Dir. Roel Wouters

link for more work

Flickr Rediscovery

After Martin DeThurah, I thought I'd post some Cole Rise shots.

He's pretty well known within the Flickr community. I remember first seeing a photo of his in the Creative Review article they had on the site. I lost the article but the images below stuck with me. Well pleased I stumbled upon him earlier, immediately bookmarked his page. Enjoy. link

Musical musts for me at the mo

Last October, the gig-ometer was blown apart by an electric Kings of Leon at The Shepherds Bush Empire. The latest contenders stepped up with fine audio fidelity but both lacked on the atmos fronts. The Kings fail to be threatened on the top spot. I can, however, recommend their albums. Give em a whirl.

So I've shown you mine... you show me yours. What's your Ipod saying?

Man I wish I was going Glasto this weekend.

Dir. Martin DeThurah Short Films

One of my fave promo directors seems to be trying to break into the world of narrative film. Although the reports aren't great, he's set the bar high for himself with his music vids. But who cares when they look like this though....


Click the posters for links to trailers. The second one is on Academy's Films website. Go 'Commercials', 'Martin DeThurah', 'We Who Stayed Behind'. But Check out the rest of his reel. Check out the site too - hardcore director fest.