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INFLUENCERS

 

A brilliant documentary on "How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious". Although the video is  embedded here above,  I strongly recommend you to view it on the dedicated website. It's a simple, smart, relevant & absolutely stunning modern documentary experience too.

How do you consider video quality and graphic interfaces in your online viewing experiences?

 

As mentionned on their VIMEO page :

"INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.

The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.

Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today's pop culture.

"Influencers" belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience."

facebook.com/​influencersfilm

 

Story-telling v.2009

 
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny by Tomas Nilsson.
 

A well known story under a very 2009 video narrative format. Interesting to see how talent... is blooming everywhere. How the codes of story-telling evolve (not only in film and video). How important it is to consider people and what they have to say. How in 2009 they have the opportunity to say it anyway. How the simplest things can touch. How the most complicated sometimes don't. Honoring Tomas Nilsson who drives a boat like "Danger Diabolik" and Karen Abad who loves Dinosaurs and filmed this little poetic gem with a $120 HD camcorder.

(HT to Jurgen and Antoine for pointing these to my eyes).

After The Rain ☂ by Karen Abad loves Dinosaurs..
 

The Modern Techno Fairy

"Magic is everywhere, for whoever is open to see it" - unknown.

  

Every once in a while I like to be short-circuited in my day-to-day life by unexpected and extra-ordinary encounters. Whether re-discovering the simple wonders of nature, exploring new emotional landscapes (like Björk would say) or meeting talented earthlings, I know now how these fresh vibrations are indispensable, as they feed my human soul.

Yesterday a colleague who knows I like weird electronic devices and instruments, sent a little link to my mailbox (thanks Pete!). What I found there was indeed full of wonders. Little Boots is an odd, absolutely lovely Artist with a capital "A". The first video I saw (featured above) immediately punched my curiosity so that I simply couldn't resist checking a few side links out. One other "home recording" particularly touched me.

Although I had already seen demos of the Yamaha Tenori-On, this one added a delicious human vibration touch to the transistors, electronic circuits and flashing leds. Amazing... to be able to both compose a song live on such an instrument and sing -being perfectly in tone- while looking so relaxed at the same time. Fabulous, well to my eyes it is... I noticed that folks at Yamaha are referring to Little Boots on their site with a news story (in other words "text"...) pointing that she was listed on BBC radio one famous "Sound of... 2009". Now, wait a minute... they do point out other artists using the Tenori-On in a very boring (well, at least it is to me) way.

My 2 cents... -and I admit that this thought is probably being quite subjective- I believe that a video like Little Boots' is definitely something Yamaha shouldn't miss. They probably saw it, but I think they should do something about it. It is a LOT more insightful and filled with a LOT (many) more emotions than a corporate "look at this new fantastic instrument" kind of message.

What's your take on this?

   

Honoring Talented Earthlings

 

I just decided to create a new category dedicated to the extra-ordinary encounters made while surfing the web. Talent is everywhere and sometimes some people, their ideas, their work, their art, stand out of the crowd because they bring a new dimension to our eyes And there you dive... right into an unexpected, yet delicious... emotional landscape. Now, as a matter of fact, I realized today that del.icio.us-ing them was just not fair enough. I think they deserve a special series of posts that I'm going to share with you here. Introducing the new category :

 Honoring Talented Earthlings.

For the first post of this category, allow me to drive you through a few gems of the third kind that touched me. The first two were recently pointed by Asi Sharaby's No Man's Blog (thanks Asi!). Two little sites taking me off limits that I'd like to share here. The first being a brilliant idea at the entrance of Joe Michael Lambert Davis' website. Joe made tea. So what? Well, check it out. And don't forget to click down to the very end ">". ; )
 
  

 
The second is Miranda July's unexpected, odd, fun, playful site:  www.noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com (just had to write it). Wow again... love the idea and the personality that comes with it. Get your mouse button ready, but don't worry it is not a shoot'em up kind of thing at all. Smart & simple. Oh boy... I love the kitchen again.

The third (being the first, as it sources the image I've chosen to illustrate this post - although there is no ranking or order intended here)... is the blog o Web/UI designer ilina S. from NYC. Now I found this one while looking for an illustration on Flickr, using the keyword "website". How silly sometimes a search leads you to discover magic finds -the word "magic" is in the root of her blog!-. I saw the image announcement of her new blog and followed the link. This lead me to like the pictures I saw there and so to click back to ilina's Flickr account where I found this strangely fascinating picture:

  

  

Beautiful picture, isn't it? Well read the comments and see how much people liked it. I'd recommend also to take the time to read the legend of the picture and you'll understand that there is indeed a lot of talent between us and the balustrade.