Funny cat-photos exist since the dawn of the internet. Funny cat-photo + funny line = LOL seems to be simple maths. The series above, ads for Snookums catfood created by Eric Hart, used this simple calculation for their latest campaign. Reminded me of the most recent video by Barats & Bereta:
These pictures are the original photos taken by Mattias Edwall for this year's H&M campaign. These original captures of Ubermodel Tony Ward look even better than in the actual campaign! I'm glad the official Tony Ward site released them!
I really like these timelapse movies by Michael Rissi. Placed a few of them in the past and here's part 4, a winter edition, shot between 2008 and 2010. Music by Chris Smith and good to watch before going to bed.
Funny to see how you can alter movie-trailers and make them into whole different movies. This version of The Shing makes it a beautiful tear-jerker about a loving father-son drama. Now that Room 237 is about love, and not corpses, I want to go to there!
On Thursday May 20th, 2010, Samsung was the first to introduce a large-scale commercial 3D-Outdoor projection in the Netherlands, at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Between 22.30 and 00.30 on the evenings of the 20th, 21st and 22nd of May, the public was able to view the addition of a new dimension to this historic building.
On the adjacent square, visitors are able to try out the new Samsung 3D LED TVs, and are offered a chance to win one of their own every night. Beautiful project and too bad I missed that IRL (or is that a global problem... bloggers missing out on the real thing?).
Photographer Dennison Bertram captured Brazilian model Rafael Lazzini (Elite Models) in this beautiful set "Heaven is for Rock Stars" (imagesource: homotography).
In the Long Run (2010) by art collective IOCOSE is a reconstruction of a possible future high profile media event. The death of pop star Madonna is described in a BBC News special edition, with a journalist and studio guest who go over the details of the fatal car accident, the statements of the VIPs and the reactions of fans around the world.
It is not a true story, but neither is it improbable. All TV networks prepare obituaries about famous people to put on air in the event of an unexpected death. The death of an international figure is not just predictable, it is actually predicted in the video files kept up to date in their archives.
In the Long Run is not a fake; it does not attempt to look realistic and it does not expect the viewer to believe in the contents or that the video actually belongs to a famous news network. But it undoubtedly says that when the event takes place, it will be reported in these terms. In reconstructing the future in the past tense, In the Long Run is a catalyst for endless narratives and interpretative developments. Likely or unlikely, inevitable or imminent, but existing in potential form, like the narration of an event that never took place.
