Hasta La Motion!

Photo by Victoria Peckham

There’s a lot going over the next month. I’ll try to round up a few of the relevant events here. Stay tuned for a full-fledged calendar feature soon.

May 20th: Forget The Film, Watch The Titles! (Los Angeles)

Coming up this Wednesday the 20th at the Billy Wilder Theater in LA, Flux and Forget The Film, Watch The Titles! have organized a fantastic lineup of title designers: Jamie Caliri of Duck, Danny Yount of Prologue, Karin Fong of Imaginary Forces, Garson Yu of yU+co, and Kyle Cooper of Prologue. Wow.

RSVP for free admission

May & June: Cut & Paste Asia

Cut & Paste is currently on its Asian tour. Hong Kong was last week; coming up are Shanghai (05/23/09), Tokyo (05/30/09) and Sydney (06/06/09). Also make sure to put the Global Championships on June 20th in NYC on your calendar.

Cut & Paste website

May 21st-30th: LOOP (Barcelona)

LOOP is a multi-day event that includes a festival, a fair and a conference within the field of video art. And it takes place in one of my favorite cities, Barcelona. Sounds like a great way to spend a few days.

LOOP site

June 16th-18th: Promax|BDA North America (NYC)

This is a must-attend event for many of you, and this year looks really strong. Confirmed speakers include Robert Redford, Bob Saget, John Maeda and Ralph Steadman, among many others. (Little ol’ me will be doing State of Design on June 17th in Grand Ballroom, if you want to stop by and say hi.)

Full Promax|BDA schedule

June 18-19th: Sonar (Barcelona)

Sonar is “Barcelona’s International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art” from June 18-19. This year’s lineup is a tour de force of musicians and DJ’s accompanied by visuals and installations from around the world.

Sonar site

Know of more events?

Send ‘em my way! I’m working on a calendar feature for the site, and I’d love to start harvesting stuff now.

Now get out there and mingle!

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Tiger Beer Sieges New York, London and Paris. Three nice spots by Octobor.

Prologue’s Ilya Abulhanov designed and directed this title sequence for the 2009 OFFF festival in Oeiras, Portugal.

Starring a mysterious cast clad in para-military gear, the sequence feels like the pre-amble to a guerrilla warfare strike in the not-so-distant future. The quirky costumes and desolate landscapes are the real focus here, mixing elements of Half-Life, Star Wars and the Mujahideen. Ilya does a nice job balancing the sparse cinematographic compositions with solid type and understated graphics.

As always, HECQ delivered an outstanding soundtrack that extends the ambience of the visuals and builds tension throughout the project.

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Dutch creative studio Onesize concepted, directed and produced a short, presenting this years sponsors for the OFFF in Oeiras / Portugal.

“Dan LuVisi is a digital concept artist working in the film, video game and comic book industry.”
Since my younger days I’ve always been fascinated by character design, and I have to say Dan’s work caught my eye!