Animal Collective is a musical collective originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. The band members met in school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. Records released under the name Animal Collective's tracks may include contributions from any or all of the members; the lineup is not uniform. Their music is hard to define, it sound as they experiment with diverse styles and ideas from album to album. Animal Collective on MySpace
The reason why I'm posting anything on this band is the video called "My Girls", that was brought to me by my friend Florian. I immediately fell in love with both, hypnotising tune and the clip!
I'd like to also mention the man, who animated "My Girls". Jon Vermilynea is an outstanding, New York based illustrator, animator and comic book artist. Jon Vermilynea
Animal Collective Animal Crack Box 3LP boxed setArt directed and designed by Rob Carmichael, 4 color silk screen box and LP sleeves
Yesterday, there was launched a new look of MTV, which was created by MTV's creative directors from around the world in collaboration with UK-based studio Universal Everything. The new logo is, in fact, the old logo - but in MTV's new look, the logo remains black on a white ground - no colour, pattern or texture will ever adorn it - which is a change from MTV of old.
MTV Networks International now has a new flexible typographic navigation system for displaying onscreen information. The typeface used for this primary information is Pharma Bold Condensed by Swiss type foundry Optimo.
As well as the main programme info, more playful messages will appear in the lower third of the screen - and for this text, there is a collection of secondary brand typefaces to choose from, depending on the mood of the message.The eight secondary typefaces were selected for their expressive or emotion-inducing nature - and to add an element of fun to the onscreen identity of the channel. The faces are American Typewriter Light Italic, Balloon Bold, Bigcity Maxi, Cozzap Open, Flash ND, Futura SB Bold Italic, Sahara Bodoni and Signpainter House Brush.
Here's an example of how these will be used onscreen (excellent).
Each of the MTV idents has exactly the same 2/2 time signature – a heartbeat-like rhythm to which the MTV logo always pulsates. I present here still frames of my three favourite spots. You can watch all six of the new identshere
An amazing trailer was made to promote a new xbox game (which seems to be not interesting at all). Splendid short animated story of John, Paul, George and Ringo onstage, in the travel trying to escape their histerical fans and in dreamscapes that bring their psychedelic imagery to life. So who wants to join the band? Watch it in HD here
Sipho Mabona is an origami artist. Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, can create stunning video commercials when combined with stop motion recording. This video, created for Asics by Sipho’s company Mabona Origami, is the world wide corperate movie that tells the story of the japanese sports brand ASICS won several international prizes. I think it's simply stunning.
It is quite a serious matter here - just few days ago I turned 25 and guess what? Nothing has changed. Yet. Looking forward to my first wrinkles. Happy Birthday Kasia!