Hasta La Motion!

The promise of Wes Anderson’s new film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, seems a little hard to deliver on BUT……it’s like, c’mon!!!!! Roald Dahl, George Clooney, Jarvis Cocker, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson all signed on so why can’t you? Like, you don’t always have to be so stuffy. Maybe a stop motion film that looks like a furry fetish video is just the thing that you need to take you to tier two. Check out more at COOL HUNTING.

To spread the word about the We Make It Good Phonebooth we designed, printed, and pasted a thousand posters all over downtown Manhattan. If you listen closely to the audio that is playing over the film you’ll hear the message that callers were greeted with after dialing 888 WMIG 666. This phone number will be in constant use and is always a good way to find out what we are up to. We suggest putting it in your phonebook.

THE POSTER:

Adam Kimmel’s lookbook for Fall / Winter 2009 puts Factory alum Gerard Malanga behind the lens to recreate Warhol’s famously awkward screentests from so many decades ago. Stacked from top to bottom with familiar and talented faces, all methods of artistic expression get screentime as Kunle Martins, Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, and Glenn O’Brien – to name a few – sit on the hot seat in heavily shadowed awkwardness. Oh yeah, and the clothes are pretty awesome too. Check em out HERE.

Shilo recently completed Still Run, a music video for the Australian band BrotherSister from their latest album The Wunder Tales. After we listened to the record, we fell in love with the graceful beauty of the song and lyrics and knew we wanted to make a film that explored the idea of perseverance through change and adversity. The music for Still Run offers a haunting, multilayered, atmospheric mix with a steady, moving beat with but the lyrics say it all: “I still run, I still run, I still wander. In our day, everyday, we would wander. And I want to go, were nobody moves. Are you hearing something, don’t let me see you move.

Both “The Wunder Tales” and BrotherSister’s 2006 self-titled debut release can be ordered from their website. www.brothersistermusic.com

Click here to view the embedded video.

LEGS are back with another off-the-wall web-film for Diesel. You may remember them from last fall when they launched with a web campaign that included ‘Pete the Meat Puppet’. This one, for Diesel/L’Oreal’s new fragrance Only the Brave, is three films that play at once to create a fourth.

The three films in this triptych deal with themes of heart, mind and nerve. The centerpiece of mind narrates the other more abstract, non-linear pieces. Legs managed to mash-up a wide range of film vernacular in the process. The obvious quotations of Lynch and expanded-cinema pioneer, Brakhage are backed up by an array of other references including Jurgen Leth, Jarmusch, Sam Raimi, Dario Argento and the graveyard scene in Easy Rider.

Though this didn’t have the budget of the piece featured in my last post, it is still another great example of the freedom directors are being given within the realm of online-content creation. Legs was given a great opportunity to flex their writing and directing chops with an assumed creative freedom that would likely be unmatched in an on-air environment.

Client: L’Oreal/ Diesel
Agency: Sub Rosa
Creative Director: Michael Ventura
Art Director: Bryan Hodge
Copywriter: Legs
Agency Producer: Brent Cheatham

Production Company: Legs
Director: Legs
Director of Photography: Scott Beardslee
Executive Producer: Adam Joseph
Line Producer: Emily Wiedemann
Editor & company: Paul Snyder at Lost Planet
Visual Effects: Paul Snyder
Sound Design: Ryan Price at Sound Lounge
Music: Geremy Jasper, Jason Binnick

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