Even though I am long sick of the Geico cavemen, there is something about the bowling commercial that just tugs at the heart strings!
Great article on the ins and outs of three dimensional imagery. Still doesn’t change my opinion that well-shot conventional cinematography is more impressive than the novelty that is Avatar.
This is one of the most useful articles I’ve read in a long time. As we work on focusing, strengthening, and simplifying Newsvine, the concepts discussed by Lukas ring true. “Saying no” has never been a strong suit of mine. It’s very helpful to remember how important of a quality it is. (via fullstopinteractive)
Newly released video of the space shuttle Challenger disaster: It was 24 years ago, I was in 5th grade, but I remember it like it was yesterday. School was stopped immediately and they wheeled out televisions in every classroom for us to watch the news footage. It’s great that this video has been released, but holy crap, how do you tuck something that away for two decades???
New ways of searching are almost never as useful as old ways of searching. Spezify is pretty awesome though. It’s a visually interesting, never-ending, horizontally and vertically scrollable, topic explorer. I don’t think I’d use it for digging deep on anything, but to get a quick visually rich sampling of a topic, it’s quite fun (via tiff, a long time ago actually, over email).
Reminds me of my favorite logo design advice: “Never waste a stroke”. (via gruber)
The best hockey team intro ever: Or as Tyler says “The Alaska Nanooks are my new favorite hockey team”.
Rachel’s right, this is the best thing ever. At least, once you get the joke. Being the old fart that I am, I had no idea why this was funny until I spent about 30 seconds figuring out what a Team Jacob was and and then it was only a matter of time before, well… it would seem this poor girl confused Pat Robertson, douchebag supreme, with teen heartthrob and Twilight “star” Robert Pattinson.
Interesting. I just assumed “switching to Team Jacob” meant converting to judaism.
I have no idea if these guys are any good or not, but this is the best example of a design agency site I’ve seen in a long time. It’s clean, extremely readable, very well-written, friendly, free of fluff and hyperbole, and contains clear calls to action. If you own your own agency and are trying to drum up work, you could learn a lot from how these guys present themselves. (via CSS Beauty)
Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg Makes me want to skip the whole 3D thing and support the Canal Street cinematographer’s guild.
According to Frank W. Sweet, it all goes back to cereal.
Very thorough writeup. It’s almost time to walk sIFR peacefully into the sunset. (via oxygensatchel)
A great HDR Tutorial from Wolfgang Bartleme (aka “The Austrian Wolf”). One of these days, I’m going to start shooting this way… probably after it’s an automatic function of the camera though.
Where Should I Eat? Fast Food Edition: A nice flowchart. Good to see Jack-In-The-Box getting some props. Pretty tough on Arby’s though!
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Haha, my friend and I have put this one up as #2 in the series (behind the one in the airport, of course).
I can’t really pinpoint why I like this one so much, either. But I love the fact that the guy in the plaid is visibly pissed at the guy in white for being late to “guy’s night” in a way that makes you know it’s not the first time. But the guy in white just gives him that mock buddy hug as if saying, “oh come on, man, let’s bowl!” So good.
Totally agree. I think a lot of it is the acting. It’s just a really authentic scene, right down to the initial low-five and the X strike sign. Seems like a lot of the recent commercials aren’t as well-acted as this one.
By the way, I actually interpreted the storyline somewhat differently: I viewed white shirt guy as a lonely caveman looking for something to do and hence, making a trip to the bowling alley. He looks around and sees two others like him and asks to join. One of the others happily lets him in while the other is a little peeved at the third wheel. But once they all start bowling together, they realize they are peas in a pod and proceed to have a great time.
It’s like the Mona Lisa. You aren’t really sure exactly what’s going on, but that’s the beauty of it.
By the way, here’s a link to the full video!