Month: February 2018

Gold… Always believe in your soul. You’ve got the power to know you’re indestructible, always believe in the weekend.

AI is not as worrying as you might think.

very cool tape art:

The best wood joints ever:

The cool sounds of skating on thin ice (thanks, T):

Bird’s eye view of geese (thanks, T):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfafOjbTuTM

Incredible miniature airport (thanks, T):



You sure you want to be with me? I’ve nothing to give… Won’t lie and say this lovin’s best… Leave us in emotional peace, take a walk, taste the rest. No take the weekend.

Concussion protocol (this is a hard watch. Thanks, S).

Bad DIY.

How everyone in The Wire was cast.

10,000 classic movie posters, digitised (thanks, A).

Headbanging:

Underwater dog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBv8ea8vS8Q

300 hours, 3 million dots (thanks, D):



The wheel keeps turning, the sky’s rearranging. Look my son, the weather is the weekend.

Paul Thomas Anderson AMA.

Cool colourised photos (thanks, B).

20 best movie openings.

Einstein’s Camera (thanks, R).

Excellent poem:

Natalie Rap 2:

Bright: the apotheosis of lazy worldbuilding:

Great street performers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SC37kMlkI



I stand firm for our soil, I lick a rock off foil. So reduce me, seduce me, dress me up in Stüssy. Show me the weekend.

All of Saul Bass’s movie posters.

Best trailers of all time.

Double acts and how they (don’t) work.

Lee Child on his writing process (thanks, R).

When rappers hear new beats:

Coppola Vineyard short film (thanks, J):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MF2mF7Xfok



Some really, really good posters (at last!)

If you’ve ever been to LA you’ll know that it’s a town full of billboards. This is partly because of the number of films advertised here, but also because of the low-built, widely-spread landscape – full of gaps and sides of buildings that work well for outdoor advertising. We also drive everywhere, so there’s plenty of opportunity to check them out.

Which delights me for two reasons: first, because I live there and second, because I love a good poster. In my opinion it’s the purest form of advertising; if you can make your idea work there, you can make it work anywhere.

And that brings me to the subject of this post: the new Postmates campaign.

For those of you who might not have noticed, 180’s LA branch has been steadily acquiring Cannes Grands Prix and other awards for its excellent and often ‘for good’ work on proper clients.

The latest example of this are these excellent billboard ads. All I can say is, I wish I’d written them, they’re really well art directed and they work brilliantly in real life (here’s another article about them). Congrats, all!