PSST! 3 LINEUP
The PSST! 3 Lineup is complete.
There are over 50 people involved, in 15 Groups of 3 teams each.
We’re starting production in January.
And each team gets a two-month time slot to do their section.
So look for the fims in late Summer. We’ll be pretty quiet until then.
The lineup is really impressive. Lots of amazing, diversely talented folks.
I’m really excited to see the ideas and the films come together!
Should be very very fun.
TYCHO: Daydream / Disconnect
New single out from Tycho / ISO50 / Scott Hansen.
A quote from his site:
“I have spent time as a freelance designer and worked for a few agencies, most notably, perhaps, Adobe. In the end I dropped my freelance practice and went solo to focus on my own design and music. This has given me the chance to delve into the style of design I truly enjoy creating and not be swayed by the various trends that seem to perennially filter the collective output of the design world. This is not to say that I don’t appreciate the freelance design game, to the contrary, this is where I received my education, the trenches of client work definitely played a large part in shaping the way I think about design today. But it was all of the work I did for free, for friends or for my self, that I always felt was the truest expression of my design ideals. It was these works that provided the impetus for creating ISO50 in the first place, and eventually for analyzing the origins of the ideals that are the foundation of my own design style; and finally, discussing them on this site.”
Layer Tennis Match 12/07/07
I’ve been invited by the good folks over at Coudal Partners to play vs. Jason Koxvold in the first-ever Layer Tennis match using After Effects.
15 minutes a round!
Hmmm.
Is this really a good idea?
The game begins at 3PM EST, right here.
Companies / Individuals
PSST! 3 invites have gone out to a number of individuals this year. And this year, I’m asking that “companies” do not get involved. By this I mean only that we want all the individuals invited to work on their pieces collectively and outside the hierarchy of the studio “system.” This is for two reasons. First, I don’t want a studio to take on a non-commercial project and drain its financial resources with no promise of gain. Secondly, I want PSST! to be done by individuals and teams working collectively and for those individuals to own their work at the end. When you work at a studio and are doing work-for-hire, you don’t own the work you’ve produced. That company does. Or most likely, the advertising agency or network who commissioned it. PSST! wants the people who design, rotoscope and animate to be responsible for the work and in the end, be able to do whatever they want with it. Put it on their sites, reels, etc. PSST!’s “copyright” as a collaborative work is owned by all the individuals involved in the creation of it.
This does not mean that people that work at companies are excluded from PSST! and that it is only for freelancers or individual artists. Many invitations have gone out to collectives, partnerships and principals and designers at varying companies. Credit will still be given to those organizations as it has been in the past. The only difference this time is that I’d like everyone to self-organize. Ignore the walls of your cubicle. Look beyond your geography. Look into your heart.
This was always the intent with PSST! and I just wanted to make that explicit this time around. Hope you all understand.
Thanks,
B
Top 10 of 2007
My favorite 10 pieces of 2007. Not in any particular order. Means nothing, except they made me happy.
Adam Gault’s Lantern Fishes
Santamaria’s Like No Other
Grant Orchard’s Love Sport series
Eb Hu’s Lalaland
Matt Tragesser’s Soup to Nuts
Federico Reano and Tomás Peña’s OFFF titles
Julian & Francois’s D.A.N.C.E. for Justice
National Television’s Beautiful Prices
Transistor’s MTV Prime
Logan’s QBN titles