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This great animated piece from French design studio, H5 is one of the best examples of fair use of copyrighted matearial I have seen in some time.

Via Amy Stein Photo via Next Nature.

The Rube Goldberg of Art and Advertising.

Rube Goldberg born in 1883 and lived through December, 1970 and his influence is still being absorbed and celebrated today. A few days ago I came across this advert for Google's Chrome browser made in the UK. I'm really digging their creativity and use of different angles and mediums like mercury to make their Rube Goldburg like effect look great.



Peter Fischli and David Weiss made this piece over 20 years ago based on this principle called the Way Things Go or Der Lauf der Dinge in German.



Some credit Peter Fischli and David Weiss with the inspiration for the advertisers including this famous Honda Cog ad:



There is also this popular Japanese children's show called ピタゴラ装置 pronounced Pitagora Suichi or Pythagoras Switch.



Also fun to watch is this baking of video for Google chrome:

Will Steacy, staring down the...

This might be a little old but I just found these videos. Kinda fun and they remind me of school cititque to some degree.Will Steacy and hisStare Down vs. Sarah Small. I'm not sure if these videos ends up being good for the photographic dialogue or what but maybe they will get the swing of things. Seems like they should be longer? and less like a quick fire challenge.






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Ryan Mcginley wins Cannes Lions, Press Grand Prix

This years press Grand Prix was won by FFL Paris for its Wrangler campaign shot by the photographer many seem to love to hate, Ryan McGinley. I have to admit when I first saw Ryan's work I wasn't so sure about it. But Ryan has won me over with work like this. Sure not everything he makes is a winner in my book but it seems like he works really hard and consistently and eventually pulls through some gems.

See the rest of the campaign here:
http://work.canneslions.com/press/

and some more images here with some jealous comments.:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/back-issues/creative-review/2008/october-2008/wrangler-print-ads

to see the full camping check out the FRED & FARID, PARIS website.

via aphotoeditor.com

Winner, PDN Photography Annual 2009

PDN has the images from this years photography annual up online (link).



I am please to have been included among this years winners. One image of mine from the Microsoft I'm a PC campaign was included.


© Harlan Erskine Microsoft, I'm a PC and I'm one in a Billion. -Lucille Dechansiaud



check out the rest of the campaign here.

website update: Microsoft, I'm a PC

Microsoft, I'm a PC and this is how I roll. -Desanti Antoine

I just updated my commercial section of my website with the Microsoft work I did this August. The project lasted almost two weeks and sent me and the crew to Paris, London, Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa and a shoot day back in New York. The shoot was a integrated set where a full tv crew would shoot the motion shots and then I would follow up with the still images. All the final ads are on You Tube as well as tons of additional videos here. The ads were produced to counter the nerdy stereotype of PC users by documenting the diversity of their user base. The subjects include a photographer, Nick Fleming a green architect, Edouard François, a French YouTube celebrity, Jey Jey (not yet posted) and many others.

I'll be posting more images soon, including the ads posted last month in Union Square, Times Square and Spring street train stations.



Microsoft, I'm a PC and I share the truth. -Nick Fleming


Microsoft, I'm a PC and I design green buildings. -Edouard François


Microsoft, I'm a PC and my city never sleeps. -Matthew Murray


Microsoft, I'm a PC andI'm gonna get published. -Shamikah Martinez


Microsoft, I'm a PC and I'm one in a Billion. -Lucille Dechansiaud

Harajuku Lovers Fragrance Spot by Friends With You

Harajuku Lovers Fragrance Spot Directed by Friends with you

Check out this new spot for Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Fragrance Directed my my Miami mates, Friends with you. The beginning of last Summer they were down up here in New York filming and now its finally out in all its hyper cute glory.

Must be funny to create a product that causes reviews like this:



and

Let Me Take Your Foto

Check out the original video by the band the Speedies made in 1979. The Speedies were originally made up of
JOHN "BUCK WHEAT" MARINO - Frontman, Lead Vocals.
ERIC "POP" HOFFERT - Lead Guitar, 11 string Acoustic, Computerized Keyboards.
GREGORY "ZAP" CREWDSON - Rythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Snapshots.
ALLEN ZANE HURKIN - Percussion, Gong, Cowbell, Amazing Drums.
JOHN CARL - Bass, Backing Vocals.
via Speedies MySpace Page


Directed and Edited by Danny Cornyetz and Dennis Politakis.

More info, here on the Speedies website. Reciently the folks at Goodby Silverstein & Partners used it in a hp ad. You can read the story for whats going on in a New York Times Online article "A Photographer's Pop Star Moment". I must say I really like both versions.It’s good to see songs used in advertising where you not totally grossed out by the ad and then soured by even hearing the song ever again.



here is another hp ad with a similar feel:

Pictures of you
via duncans.tv

and originally pointed out via
Christian Patterson's blog

also interesting the speedies reunion: