A member of Cannes Lions Cyber jury speaks on why Alexx Henry Studio’s “Viv Mag Motion Title & Interactive Spread” was awarded the Gold Lion in it’s category.
“The Viv Mag motion title and interactive spread is an an astonishing use of work that has stood out from the very beginning of the judging process. It’s a few weeks already and it has constantly ranked very very high because it’s just a very new experience, a new way to look at not only the iPad but how we deal with content in terms of combining written pieces with animation and new depth to the content which is absolutely astounding.
So what it really does is to show us a very clear path to the future and I have to say we were all very excited about it because its showing a new way not only for publishers and magazines, but obviously also for advertisers and the way we look at a print ad evolving into a new medium and how it can actually can be driven into a much much more experiential area.
So this is really an absolutely fascinating work it is a the very beginning but we are all very convinced that this is leading the future now. “
When Kodak first announced they were no longer making Kodachrome last year, we lamented with a small tribute to Saul Leiter, one of my favorite photographers that embodied this classic filmstock.
Well now, its truly the end: Photographer Steve McCurry recently processed the last roll of Kodachrome ever produced by Kodak, at Dwayne’s Photo in Kansas, the last lab on the planet to process the iconic film. This is from that roll:
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Actor Robert De Niro in his screening room in Tribeca, NYC
If you’re in Chicago on the 5th of October come and join me where I’ll be giving a presentation on Living Art and the future of photography in motion. The talk is FREE and open to the public and even better- there’ll be lot’s of cool, like minded creative types to connect with, interested in where photography and motion is going.
The talk is sponsored by the APA Midwest and Workbook and hosted by Columbia College. Please feel free to invite your friends and photo peeps that may be interested.
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
6:30p social • 7p-9p Seminar
Free & Open to the Public
Columbia College Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash Chicago
Here’s our “Living” Magazine Cover and Spread released with the October issue of Outside Magazine. Photographed with the Red One camera, we created our vision of how a motion-magazine of the not-too-distant future would look based on emerging technologies like flexible OLED and E Ink.
Music is “Gone Gone Days” by Two Years Before the Mast and “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” which has got to be my favorite song title in the world by El Ten Eleven. You can buy El Ten Eleven’s music here: itunes.com/elteneleven
Vibe Media Group (Vibe Magazine) is shutting its doors effictive today. Weather you liked the magazine or not, it always sends shockwaves when a magazine closes shop and it can feel like a ominous sign that big change is in the air. And it is. After my dad passed away, I wrote in one of my first blog posts “a good ending is a new beginning”, and that rings true here. We are bearing witness to a transition- old media and business models giving way to the demands of a new world. And the those who can’t adapt will become extinct. I couldn’t be more excited about what’s around the corner.
Sage advice from Milton Glaser by way of A Photo Editor Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, well know for his I Love New York campaign. He also co-founded New York Magazine in 1968.
1. You can only work for people that you like.
2. If you have a choice never have a job.
3. Some people are toxic avoid them.
4. Professionalism is not enough or the good is the enemy of the great.
5. Less is not necessarily more.
6. Style is not to be trusted.
7. How you live changes your brain.
8. Doubt is better than certainty.
9. On Aging.
10. Tell the truth.
Thanks to everyone for all the terrific feedback and comments on this and all the other blogs that carried the Living One Sheet Video! It’s great to be part of this discussion. This is such an incredibly exciting time to be an image maker. We are at the dawn of something new.
It won’t be long before the Harry Potter vision of the future is realized with moving portraits adorning newspapers and adverts. I am so excited about all the possibilities with converging photography with motion and thrilled to be on the front lines.
I’ve been getting some feedback about how these changes are exciting but scary, and some fear about the barrier to entry (cost of Red etc…) and I’d just like to state the obvious and say that yeah, change can be scary, but as Heraclitus pointed out 2500 years ago, the only constant is change. So as artists, we wind up facing the fundamental Darwinian axiom- evolve or dissolve.
Sure the Red One is expensive, but you can rent. And even still, the video image quality from the 5DMII is breathtaking, and that is certainly affordable.
So I challenge you to go out and try something. Take your aesthetic and vision as an image maker and try something new. I’d love to see what you can come up with. As an added incentive, there’s even a contest in the works. Stay tuned for the deets.
Here’s another campaign that does a great job of using photography as the best way of expressing a wonderfully textured idea. From BBDO Guerrero. The cans shown here were installed around Manila.
I just returned from Tunisia where my Dad’s family was having a memorial service. You know, my dad had 12 brothers and sisters, so between the Aunts & Uncles and cousins I had a small nation of family to greet me. There was a celebration with traditional music performed by a well known Tunisian singer, and a wonderful feast.
And after, a beautiful private ceremony where we laid to rest my dad in the Tunisian earth with his mother. In the earth at the head of the tomb, we planted mint. And as we rose to leave, a caterpillar appeared- fat and ready to burst open, and rested in the highlight of the sun as it cascaded through the water that we used to nourish the mint. It was very, very healing.
When I returned, I collapsed on the bed and slept for 15 hours. Waking now with the sunrise (oh, symbolism…) on the heels of my adventure, I am truly invigorated. Hello, world!
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