It has been a strange week. I’ve woken up on two couches and seen 4am pass me by while conscious three times (and the second time wasn’t even a long night, I just happened to wake up then.) Thanks to some dark mixture of serious caffeine and a few concentrated bouts of sugar consumption, time hasn’t really registered. I woke up this morning not quite sure where I was. Not in a scary way, just … unsure.
To top it all off, Friday has proven to be one of those rare (but persistent) occasions where I innocently wander in to the internet and am attacked (invaded, molested) by an enormous number of shiny little shards of everyday adwork that only buoy to the surface with the help of design blogs, CG nerds and the occasional bucket of money that ad agencies feed them. I try to keep days like this from happening too often, but it has been a while, so I guess I was due.
The problem is, where to begin?
Well, it started out with the widespread excitement over Scrabble’s new ad campaign (those are 3 different links by the way) in which Scrabble decides to go completely nuts and hires several artists to watch them do it. After watching all three, headed over to watch Onwards , a short film by James Jarvis . Stunning. The best part is, though Nike paid for it, there isn’t a swoosh to be seen for the entire thing.
Then I took a short break from crazy adverts to check out Carolyn London’s fantastic Lost Tribes of New York , and a rather beautiful short called Parallelostory by Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing (from Portland! Woot! Their Peace Corps spot is also great, but didn’t quite make today’s cut.)
Finally, after a day of glitzy motion graphics and fancy after effects, I settled back and thoroughly enjoyed the work of “Filipoiu Marius. “:http://www.altphotos.com/Gallery.aspx?&a=MemberGallery&memberid=12825 Excellent, excellent stuff.
There were more … hundreds more, but I’ve whittled them down the ones that won’t waste your time. :-)
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