Proud to say I’ve have the plea­sure to work with this bril­liant young Direc­tor: Ange­line Gra­gasin. And her new ven­ture THE ANIMALS is in the final stage of rais­ing pro­duc­tion funds via Kick­starter. I can’t wait to see the film, but while we wait, send her $5…it’s way more fun than that new bot­tle of sham­poo you’ve been mean­ing to pick up.

Fur­ther­more a lovely blog for the play-by-play, Meeeow!

I will always love Dig­i­tal Kitchen for their title sequence to “Six Feet Under”…seered in my heart for life. BUT I really appre­ci­ate this irrev­er­ent reel/ish bit they just posted//»

Almost a f*u to the sales-y reels of flash & splash that become the call­ing card of any mograph com­pany. Of course, they’re DK–they can do what­ever they damn well please. Get down, DK, get down.

Well the office is offi­cially ready for the sum­mer grind.

Yeah, I geeked out on this blade­less Dyson “air mul­ti­plier.” No really, that’s its name. Not par­tic­u­larly more quiet than a reg­u­lar fan, but it’s def­i­nitely got as much chutz­pah as those hand-driers that make the skin of your knuck­les rip­ple like Old Glory flap­ping in the breeze on the 4th of July. I’m such a sucker for good design and reg­u­lat­ing temperature.

Cheers, mate.

Peter Nitsch of Escape Code cre­ated asciimeo.com which encodes any vimeo vid into ASCii Art. Geek OUT with me:

CLICKIT

Awoke to a dreary and wet day here in Chicago, and the sad news that the leg­endary Gil Scott-Heron has passed on. ((Still so rel­e­vant to mod­ern hip-hop, he’s got a whole track on Kanye’s new Dark Twisted…)) Below is Chris Cunningham’s entranc­ing video remix of “New York is Killing Me.” Turn the lights down and set this baby to fullscreen…

“The catch­phrase, what that was all about, “The Rev­o­lu­tion Will Not Be Tele­vised,” that was about the fact that the first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move. So when we said that “The Rev­o­lu­tion Will Not Be Tele­vised,” we were say­ing that the thing that’s gonna change peo­ple is some­thing that no one will ever be able to cap­ture on film. It will just be some­thing that you see, and all of a sud­den you real­ize I’m on the wrong page, or I’m on the right page but I’m on the wrong note, and I’ve got to get in sync with every­one else to under­stand what’s hap­pen­ing in this coun­try.” –Gil Scott-Heron RIP

Thanks to my girl @Mar_Har for post­ing the CC vid.

What’s 100x bet­ter than a music video!? A live per­for­mance inter­act­ing with video…superbly graphic in design, timed to kill.
(And don’t even pre­tend like you don’t love this woman…)

YES, Bey­once with some super-tight motion gfx–laced chore­og­ra­phy. I can only imag­ine how hard it was to exe­cute the sync…mad respect, lady. It must have been so fun design­ing this inter­ac­tion with the chore­o­g­ra­phers and B…I’ll post some credit as soon as I fig­ure out who’s respon­si­ble for the “easy part.”

I’m in the mar­ket for a new vehi­cle, and the mini cooper I was lust­ing after just wasn’t///zoomy enough. Per­haps a VW…
a squishy one:

For those of you who don’t know my story, I spent a lot of ‘o7 and ‘o8 on the ground doing my media-diligence to get peo­ple fired up about the guy we wanted to be POTUS–both out­side and then inside the campaign.

So the fol­low­ing video came up in con­ver­sa­tion today…and I just have to admit: this was my favorite guilty plea­sure video of all the media that came out of that wild race. No, it’s not that Will.i.am song…

I guess that means I should share some ancient ani­ma­tion from my vault as well. You could say I really cut my teeth as an ani­ma­tor mak­ing these Obama vids with CRO; what a crazy time.

Start­ing to hear the rum­blings of 2012 cam­paign get­ting their media together here in Chicago. There will never be another 2008, but I’m inter­ested to see what peo­ple are feel­ing 4 years later… Maybe Amer­ica is finally ready for those pur­ple tube tops.

Genuis lit­tle ana­log “ani­ma­tion” machines.
Super fun visual flavor…totally dig­gin the track too.

And YEAH, this guy is barely out of col­lege. Nice one ADAM, go get it!
http://www.adamgrabowski.tv/