A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s lovely song “Again & Again”. The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res hi-res glory:
This is just awesome. Kudos to Dennis Liu for such a creative approach. (via TUAW and MacRumours Forum).
The ‘See How it Feels’ BMW ad has been airing for a few weeks now here in the UK, and no doubt elsewhere around the globe. Each time it’s on it never fails to draw me in and capture my attention. Simply brilliant.
Kudos to Glassworks for their work on this.
Via ‘The List’ I heard of a promotion which a UK website is running whereby they will credit you with 12 free iTunes tracks for signing up for a free account with them. Basically this is a huge freebie, so here’s how to bag your credits…
You’re done. Enjoy your credits!
I hear from Phu that the latest issue of Computer Arts is out (issue 120 I think).
Well I’ve not seen it yet but I’m in there somewhere apparently. Via a feature written by Craig Grannell.
If you have a copy to hand, bang us over a coupla scans will you… :)
I keep getting this SPAM, perhaps once or twice a week. Unusually it actually brings a small smile to my face, not becuase I understand what it’s going on about, but just becuase I think the illustration is hilarious!
Maybe there are more in the series, featuring Julia Roberts unusually seated on other animals, who knows.
So come one, out of all that junk mail you get every day there must be the odd one which amuses.
If you haven’t seen the new VW Golf GTI ad …
Via DavidReviews.com:
To some, the other idea of Gene Kelly performing an array of modern dance moves may be anathema but even they will have to concede that the ad is a technological triumph as footage of Kelly from Singing In The Rain is seamlessly melded with new footage to create a remix that is simply staggering.
In any case, Gene Kelly was very progressive in his thinking on dance and if this ad has him turning in his grave, it will surely be because he is trying to emulate the elaborate dance moves that the masters of digital manipulation show him achieving in this terrific commercial.
As a captivating piece of film, this ad is an undoubted success but what makes it especially admirable is that, unlike so many car commercials, the striking imagery is made relevant by the central concept – namely, that the new Golf GTi is “the original, updated”.