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Fotoshop: The next revolution in beauty! By Adobe…

This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty. I love the line “My skin feels like PLASTIC!!!”

By Jesse Rosten

Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

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Happy 2012! Best collections from 2011

Well it’s a new day… And a new year! Perhaps the last year according to the Mayans(?!!)…

I love the year end lists of the “best of” this and that collections that pop up at the end of the year. Here are a few favorites that I’ve come across over the last few weeks that I thought I’d share with you.

Best visualizations

From visual.ly blog here’s an article on some of the best visualizations of 2011. I really have fallen in love with infographics, but I really like this list because it also includes some interactive information (http://cnn-ecosphere.com/ was my favorite for sure – zoom in and check out the tweets around the world!) as well as some great videos that are packed with interesting and useful information. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did! Another wonderful couple resources for infographics are Good magazine’s infographic page here: http://www.good.is/infographics and http://visualjournalism.com/

http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-visualizations-of-2011/

Best typefaces

Coming from venturebeat.com – here is a decent short list of  the best web and mobile typefaces of 2011:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/best-2011-fonts/

Best cheat sheets

The best wordpress cheat sheets that I’ve found this year are from wptuts+ (love all the tuts+ sites!)

http://wp.tutsplus.com/category/articles/cheat-sheets/

Best movies???

The best movie list of the year – errrrrrr… I have yet to find one that I totally agree with.

Rolling stone has a decent list here: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/10-best-movies-of-2011-20111207 but there are for sure a few in their list that I would swap out. They don’t really have foreign films or any documentaries listed. I could probably make a list of 10 top documentaries because I watch so many… One of my favorites from this year was Waiting for Superman. If you are a student, or work in any part of education – or if you have children or are the least bit interested in education as a whole it’s a must-see.  The hangover 2 and Sherlock Holmes were quite good, and Drive – although it was nicely done was a bit too slow for me – artistic and beautiful yes but also slow. The Tree of life was again beautiful but I like it more as a visual background than a story.

Best music!? Ahhhh that’s always a list too long and complex…


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Danny Yount on Designing Film and TV Title Sequences

Danny Yount on Designing Film and TV Title Sequences, a great 45 minute video discussing production and design of title sequences with examples such as 6 feet under, kiss kiss bang bang and iron man…
See fora.tv for the full program.

Comparing Australia and America

Demo Reel

Personal Influences

‘Six Feet Under’: From Storyboard to Animatic

The Final Version

‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’

‘The Invasion’: Moving into 3D

The Final Versions

‘Fred Claus’

‘The Reaping’

‘RocknRolla’

‘Iron Man’: Going Retro

Danny Yount on Designing Film and TV Title Sequences from Australian Broadcasting Corporation on FORA.tv

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Bottle

No words. It’s just so beautiful.
Written, directed, animated, edited, and sound by Kirsten Lepore.

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

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The PEN story, great stop motion animation

Here are two little videos that go a long way with their stop motion. Both have nice little stories as well.
Enjoy!

The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo.

PEN Giant from PENStory on Vimeo.

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