Pharrell Williams - Happy

Have a wonderful weekend! You´ll be happy to hear this awesome performance of Pharrell´s hit.

If you want to be grinning for the next 24 hours you better get happy — or, rather, “Happy.” Yup, Pharrell has released a stunning 24-hour-long interactive music video for his “Despicable Me 2” soundtrack offering, and it’s just crammed with dancing.

The video is really 360 separate clips of smiling men, women and children freestyle-grooving to the song as they walk towards the camera in ordinary city locations including footpaths, parks, hotels, laneways and building foyers. Here’s how the user-controlled video works: A corresponding clock face overlays the day-long video. Viewers can choose to watch in “real-time” or choose a different time of day.

Pharrell has undeniably made genuine video art with heart and humour, so this has to be considered a landmark for the music video.

"CASTELLO CAVALCANTI" BY WES ANDERSON

Bääähm! Director Wes Anderson directed this stunning short film for Prada. Called “Castello Cavalcanti,” the eight-minute short stars frequent Anderson collaborator Jason Schwartzman as a race-car driver who crashes in a small Italian town in 1955, only to find that it’s the birthplace of his ancestors. It tells the story of Formula race driver Jed Cavalcanti, and follows him during the Molte Miglia rally. 

Shot by Darius Khondji(The Immigrant, Amour, Midnight in Paris), this feels like it was shot on a diorama, almost like a mixture of Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Life Aquatic.

It looks typically great.

The Record Breaker

In this fascinating docu by Brian McGinn we meet Ashrita Furman, a singulary driven character, as he is about to attemt to climb Machu Piccu on stills. Furman has set more world records than anyone ever has: three hundred and sixty-seven.” He holds this official record for the most Guinness World Records by one individual, including marks for “Largest Hula Hoop,” “Most Apples Sliced in Mid-Air with a Samurai Sword”, and “Longest Distance Bicycling Underwater.” A health food store owner and devotee of meditation, Furman travels the world creating new categories for record achievement.

'Less than a feature and more than a short, it wins hands-down as the funniest documentary of the year.'
— Marianna Torgovnick, TED

Louis Vuitton - Venice with David Bowie & Arizona Muse

David Bowie makes a very special appearance in the second chapter of Louis Vuitton’s “Invitation au voyage”,in the stunning short movie directed by Romain Gravais. Within the setting of a lavish masquerade,The White Duke is not just waiting for Miss Muse but he is also meant to serenade her, playing a special version of ” I’d Rather Be High” song coming from Bowie’s last album, The Next Day.

Dolce & Gabbana - Street Of Dreams: Martin Scorsese

Check out Martin Scorsese’s new Dolce & Gabbana ad, starring the beautiful likes of Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaughey. The short film, entitled “Street of Dreams,” finds the duo driving the streets of a black-and-white and enchantingly empty New York City. The 2-minute 35-second clip sees McConaughey’s character pick up Scarlett Johansson’s beauty, before the pair shoot pithy lines at each other about love and life in the spotlight, and then romance each other on a rooftop.

Sony 4K

Jaron Albertin directs this picturesque commercial through McCann London for Sony Bravia TV. This ad features millions of colorful petals exploding from a volcano, rushing through exotic locations to a Costa Rican village. Shot in surroundings that offer dramatic nature, landscapes and composition. Sony estimates that 8 million real and biodegradable petals were used in the making of the commercial (based on the weight), connecting with the 8 million individual pixels contained in the new Sony 4K screens.

RATIO

This is something of a visual treat. Ratio was created by Murat Sayginer (CG, Editing, Music), a visionary artist who works in the fields of art photography and computer graphics, and is also known as a digital artist.

Killing Kennedy / Director´s Cut

Awesome visual piece from Rama Allen that got inside the last few milliseconds before a nation’s collective insides flipped. Right before the disorienting lurch of the ground beneath our feet, somewhere between disbelief and comprehension, between cheering and horror. Allen wanted to find that disconnected weightless feeling when something of immeasurable and uncontrollable importance happens right in front of you, and then run it backwards to the decisive moment that initiated it. The VO is built from JFK’s final speech, given that morning in Ft. Worth before traveling to Dallas. They used primarily Phantom and a few old 8mm cameras.

8,336,615 New York

A visual monologue with beautiful shots. The paradox of feeling lonely in a city of 8 million. Directed by Paul Riccio.

Coco - Inside CHANEL

The wonderful story of a young orphan who reinvented herself and became Coco Chanel. In Chapter 5 of Inside CHANEL, discover Coco Chanel’s humble beginnings, from her birth in 1883 to meeting the love of her life Boy Capel. This new film unveils the woman behind the legend, who in a stroke of genius transformed the female silhouette. Coco Chanel closed one era and launched a new century of fashion.

The Last Thing You See

A final shot montage. A meditation on the beautiful, cathartic, and transcendent power of the final shot. So Wonderful!

Inspired by The Final Image: finalimageblog.com/

The Human Scale - Teaser

Today, fifty percent of the worlds population live in urban areas. By 2050 this figure is expected to increase to eighty percent. The megacity is both enchanting and scary. But how do we plan these cities? Typically with gigantic systems of highways, highrise buildings, and life divided into separate cubicles and squares? But where do people meet in these cities? And if they don’t, how does that affect their happiness? Can the urban design inspire social behaviour rather than repel it?

Urban-planning maestro Jan Gehl is on a mission to reclaim our public spaces, throwing out car-driven urban design and building cities for humans. Director Andreas Dalsgaard charts Gehl’s influence around the globe. He formed his ideas about urban space in his hometown of Copenhagen, beginning with diligently recording how people use city streets and squares. His methods inspired a re-imagining of New York’s Times Square, the newly iconic laneways of Melbourne and - even closer to home - a game-changing report for the City of Sydney.

The Day Wonderland Stood Still….

This is a cool timelapse project shot in Philadelphia and inspired by Star Trek: Into The Darkness. Remember the opening scene when the entire forest is red, that was done by processing the footage as color infared film stock.

Bruce Berry Jr produces this surreal look at an empty Philadelphia through infrared timelapse.

Synsam - The Swedish Astigmatic

Wonderful commercial by Anders Hallberg, great storytelling!

Art On Fire

Stunningly beautiful Burning Man 2013 time lapse film by cinematographer Daniel Kelly Brown set to the magical music of Akara. After two years of making the film Spark: A Burning Man Story, we had to go back to the Playa and get an update on some of the artists projects we followed the prior years. Among them, Marco Cochrane’s “Truth Is Beauty” made a fantastic debut at Burning Man 2013 and is featured in Art On Fire.