Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Hungary: Future Films

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If you like great web design - have a look. If you want to find out what is happening in Hungary’s film industry and advertising one more reason to hop over to Future Films web site…

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Guerilla Advertising: Vote before crossing the street

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As seen in London at some pedestrian crossings…

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Happy Birthday Tomi Ungerer

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Today Tomi Ungerer, satirist and illustrator, turns 75. When Tomi Ungerer is compared to other artists often the names of the very best like Goya, Hogarth, George Grosz or Daumier are used to describe his work. He became famous with witty children books but also for his erotic, sarcastic and political drawings. 1998 he was given the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his life work on children books. But still until today it is almost impossible to buy one of his books in the UK or the US…

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Casino Royal: l’art du déplacement

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With Sebastien Foucan playing the villain in 007- Casino Royal and Luc Besson’s District-B13 with David Belle having just arrived in the US a few weeks ago more popularity will be drawn to Parkour, free running, urban free flow or Yamakasi as the “art” behind the incredible stunts in these movies is called…

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Manufactured Landscapes

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Last month Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured Landscapes”, a portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky won the Toronto-City Award for the Best Canadian Feature Film. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country…

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USA: Director Robert Altman dies age 81

We leave the obituaries up to those who are much better then we will ever be with that kind of stories, but wanted to send out a last tribute to one who’s life might have been much more then “short cuts”.
We limited ourselves to just citing from his most popular movie (Mash) that is still [...]


UCLA: Get Tasered for using the Computer Lab

An incident happened last night on the UCLA campus when, as reported, a student was shot down with a taser gun multiple times by University Police officers for not showing them his ID immediately. There is a full report of the incident at the Daily Bruin web site.
Multiple students documented the incident with their video [...]


Video: Rokkit online archive

If you like great animation clips, good advertisements or short films head over to
Rokkit. It is actually a well known agency in London but they have dozens of high quality videos online. Try out our suggestions below or go to their director page for a start.
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Outstanding Street Paintings

Outstanding temporary street painting
Photos: Max Borge via Flickr


Advertising: SMS Guerrilla Projector

If you recently seen strange messages been projected onto people’s backs during a concert or on the streets of London these have potentially been done with the SMS Guerrilla Projector by Troikart.
Troika Communications a sister company of Troikart has recently been hired by Warner Music to project messages written by one of the band members [...]