Looking Thru the B-Sides
Golden Lucky’s stop-motion epic for Fuel, Looking Thru the B-sides, is finally online. Check it out!
PSST!3 at AENY
PSST!3 will screen at AENY’s June meeting on Thursday, June 25 6:45 - 9 PM at PS 41 116 West 11th St. NYC. The meeting will also feature Aharaon Rabinowitz, sharing his AE techniques and giving a sneak peek of Trapcode Particular 2 as well as a top-secret new project …
The meeting is FREE and there will be giveaways of the PSST!3 DVD and other door prizes.
Check out Digup
Digup TV is a new site which focuses on recorded interviews with visual designers. They’re recently covered PSST’ers Santa Maria and PSST alumni Mate Steinforth and Chris Hewitt (and Rob Chiu), as well as with other interesting designers in various fields such as Manuel Lima, the founder of Visual Complexity and Florian Schmitt of interactive design studio Hi-Res!.
I love the format of these interviews, which give viewers a real personal connection to many of the designers we know and admire only through their work and websites. They really do keep true to their tagline: Digital Design, Human Stories.
Opposites Attract
Boards has an interview with PSST’ers PetPunk as part of their New Wave of Design featuring “up-and-coming” artists.
Life Inc. The Movie
Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.
“The more we behave as individual actors in competition with one another, the harder it is to encounter one another in a friendly way.” – Douglas Rushkoff.
This is an essential part of why I started PSST! that may have gotten lost along the way …
Use Their Work Free? Artists Say No to Google - NYTIMES
The NY Times covers an issue of rising importance to illustrators and designers – companies asking for work for free, in exchange for “exposure.”
The culprit in this case is Google, who says in a statement: “While we don’t typically offer monetary compensation for these projects,” the statement said, “through the positive feedback that we have heard thus far we believe these projects provide a unique and exciting opportunity for artists to display their work in front of millions of people.”
“I have done gift cards for Target that are in stores nationwide and animations for Nickelodeon that run 24 hours a day worldwide on cable TV,” Melinda Beck, an illustrator who is based in Brooklyn, wrote in an e-mail message to Google rejecting its offer. “Both of these jobs were high-profile and gave my work great exposure but both clients still paid me.”
Unfortunately the original article seems to be unavailable at Drawger … hopefully they’ve just got too much traffic at the moment and will re-post it soon.
Crossposted at MGDO.
Annecy09
David OReilly’s Please Say Something won Special Distinction at Annecy09. Full list of winners here.
Omar and His Skyhook
Doug Purver’s Omar section from PSST!3 has been expanded into a full stand-alone short film and is now up on his site: roadnorth Filed under Projects: Omar & His Skyhook (No direct link, sorry.) The film has also been selected for Shoot’s New Directors Showcase. More about the film here on the roadnorth blog. Nice!