Painting an outside alive - David Ellis + Blu

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
year 2009
http://www.blublu.org
http://www.davidellis.org
produced by studio cromie
http://www.studiocromie.org
music by Roberto Lange
http://www.robertolange.com
made at Fame festival 2009
http://www.famefestival.it

David Ellis and street artist Blu collaborated on this amazing stop-frame animation for the Fame festival ((famefestival.it) the meeting of a dozen international artists in a small italian centre, Grottaglie, where they celebrate ceramics and painting skills) in 2009.

Book design competition ???

Penguin and Puffin are offering £1000 award and a placement at either of their offices,
IF
your book design gets picked as the best for either Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, or Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach...



Worth a try I suppose.

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/penguindesignaward/index.php

Black Swan - Rodarte

I'VE HANDED IN THE PENULTIMATE WORK FOR GRAPHICS BA!!!

So have been relaxing a fair bit. Went to see Black Swan, with Natalie Portman directed by Darren Aronofsky. And then saw this on nowness.com, realised that Rodarte had designed all the beautiful costumes for the film, and also made this short film in March 2010, a Space Odyssey style exhibition of their various clothes, all set in the grounds of Paypal founder, Elon Musk's Space X jet lab in Hawthorne, California.

2010: A Space Odysseyfrom Todd Cole on Nowness.com.

Here's an press image from the film. Everything about it did look amazing, however I feel Portman's descent into a crazy, schizophrenic perfectionist was a little hastened and the horror elements over-exaggerated.