Filed under: Art, innovation, nature, photographer | Tags: bugs, charlie McCarthy, light long exp
While we are talking about bugs (see previous post – here), here is a little something, something to make you see them in a different way too.
Photographer and videographer Charlie McCarthy produced a video which is simply stunning. By taking a series of long exposure photographs of fireflies flitting around a street light a very surreal video is made when he put them all together. Coupled with a perfect soundtrack, the video is only 43 seconds long but leaves you wanting much, much more.
If you click on the image you can see the video for yourself – posted on vimeo.com – and have click around on Charlie’s channel to see his other works.
Everybody says great work Charlie, it’s great to see how long exposure work can be given an original twist and make something new, good work fella!
Hello there, been a busy week so here’s a quick post that we stumbled on a few days ago while looking for something else… those usually are the best finds don’t you think?
Everybody is unendingly amazed by the things that nature throws up, in this case the tiny details that go into some of the larger beetles on our planet. A group of scientists with good lenses got their photograph on and made a study of these amazing creatures. The colours which are a result are simply stunning, something which you just don’t expect. In my case, growing up in the UK, most beetles we saw were small black things scurrying about in the woods, so it’s even more crazy to me.
As you know usually we end up these posts by praising a designer or someone for what we have just taken to the bloggerdome, so I guess it’s a case of saying good work small beetle fellas for making smaller beetle fellas that look this amazing. Yeah. Erm, click the image to go to see the slideshow on the New York Times website.
Yesterday evening, on the NED 1 Prime time TV talkshow, ‘Pauw en Witteman’, an ‘Everybody’ contribution was used to help illustrate the collapse of the Dutch DSB Bank (a struggling consumer and mortgage lender).
The Dutch central bank shuttered DSB Bank NV, after a run by depositors that followed a call from a consumer group to pull money out of the controversial institution. Everybody likes to comment in a visual way those things that are happening in society and concerns us all. DSB bank is also a sponsor of a number of sports including Dutch premier football league champions AZ.
Everybody used the figure of the skater from the logo of the DSB bank and placed a hole in the ice in front of him, reminiscent of the Warner Bros. cartoons to show the upcoming danger which the bank and it’s customers face.
Most of you who were born before 1980, will remember what it was like recording your own selection of music on an audio cassette player. Sitting by the radio, waiting for that one song to come by and hoping the Disc Jockey wouldn’t talk through the intro. Those cassettes were played over and over again, until the tape would finally die. Some cassettes would be too precious to give up on, so I would try to rescue them. Then what mostly happened was the tape would run/come out completely, leaving me without any hope…
An artist named iri5 managed to find an alternative destination for her old tapes. Using these tapes, iri5 has turned them into a remarkable work of art in a series that she calls “Ghost in the Machine.” The series portrays celebrities and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe and my all time favorite movie character “the Dude” from The Big Lebowski. Her style focuses on recycling materials, such as those old cassettes, VHS tapes and used books.
She says: ”It feels great to work with strange, older materials. Things that have a mind of their own. Most everything I use has been thrown away or donated at some point. Past its prime, like some of the finest things in the world.” Everybody says: you go girl. As is the way of the web, click on the picture above to see her great works of art… making sure you also check out her compositions made out of photographs.
From Russia with love, granted, not the best Bond film, but the title certainly describes this piece of automotive engineering and design. The car you see above is from the Russian company, MaRussia. It is a sleek and silky looking little monster which has at it’s heart some surprising credentials. Mainly it’s a hybrid. Yep, it’s a hybrid Supercar.
Unveiled last year, you can now order one of these motors, for a price of around €100,000. The car is an example of how the hybrid can be pushed to reach new limits, with it’s claimed 0-60mph of around 5 seconds, and a range of 400Km it certainly will be interesting to see if anyone can be converted from the traditional sports car powerbase of petrol to a mixture of electricity and fossil fuels. The insides are just as impressive, with wireless connectivity and digital video cameras all round, giving feedback to the driver constantly, and offering a whole host of entertainment options it could easily become the new choice of premiership footballer plaything.
The inventor/developer is a Russian fella, Nikolay Fomenko, who seems to have done most things in his life (he’s been a singer, news anchor man, theatre actor and racing car champion) is a bit of a renaissance man. He sees the car taking part in the FIA GT championships in 2010, which will add some great kudos to the car itself, as well as the hybrid genre in turn. Certainly an ambitious chap.
The design of the car looks familiar in many ways, glance from different angles and it invokes a look of the Lotus Elise, the Alfa R8 and McLaren F1 amongst others… But then that isn’t always a bad thing as these are some of the finest looking cars on the road today. As usual, take the mouse to clicky town to get more information on this, and maybe order one too.
So, whilst we’re still not huge fans of hybrid cars just yet, this might make us come one notch closer to that way of thinking, but we just can’t help thinking this is the Captain Drago to Ferarri’s Rocky Balboa. Yo Adrianne!
Filed under: Design | Tags: AMFI2009, Fashion in the City, Heineken the City
This summer Everybody participated on a creative competition by Heineken the City Fashion to design streetwear inspired by Heineken. Since Everybody’s creativity is not limited to print and online stuff we came up with some awesome streetwear.
The idea was to create an outfit without using the populair red and green, only silver, grey and black. From the 314 contestants we ended within the last 20 who made it through the finals. At the start of the AIFW 2009, short for the Amsterdam International Fashion Week, our design was shown on the in- and outdoor catwalk during the opening of the Fashion Week DOWNTOWN in Heineken the City.
The area was so crowded it even caused traffic jams in the heart of Amsterdam. As a Rotterdam based company we are proud that not all good design comes from Amsterdam.
I’ve been fascinated by the classic pin-up art of Alberto Vargas for ages, and I also dig artists surrounding the same type of image. I’ve also, for many years, been engrossed in hip-hop which seems to have become known as “street culture” and the development of art surrounding it, namely Graffiti.
So when the two worlds collide for me it is amazing… and last Saturday they smashed together to make me happier than a fat kid in a Ben and Jerry’s store.
I was wandering around Antwerp and picked up a magazine in one of the places I visit (too) regularly, one of the best magazine shops I’ve ever found (Magazines are also a huge inspiration to me, and probably most designers, but that’s another post!) “IMS”.
In the magazine, I found the work of a French female Illustrator who fuses these two great styles in a very strong manner. She works out of Paris and is called “Elise Ascoet”, but can also be found all over the net by the name of Lyl, or Lyl9. (Flickr has a bunch of pics of her work too).
If you take your mouse down to clicky-town on the image above you can go to her website and see her stuff for yourself. In short, Brilliant!
Everybody says this style is great and well worth having a look at. Elise, true inspiration is something that feels great when you find it – and this feels amazing.
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I was once told – years ago, that all designers are a little bit OCD. In my case it is more than a little true, lord knows I can spend hours sweating over the kerning of a single word in a headline, or checking 6 times that I put crop marks on the last PDF file I put to the printers’… But this guy… This guy brings a new meaning to the old adage, attention to detail.
For example, not content with reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he remixed it. Took the words, every word, rearranged them into different categories of emotion, and made them look beautiful. It’s quite a stunning example of the length he will go to make things. It’s kind of scary when you see it, cos it simply makes me want to take that straight column of copy I just laid out and make it messy… Beautiful but messy.
It’s incredible to see how far one individual will go to make his or her art, and in this case Sam goes the extra mile, then runs another marathon. Spend some time wondering around the work section of his website and you will come away thinking differently about everything. Take your mouse button to smackdown town over the picture and go to his website.
Everybody says Sam’s work is incredible, and should be admired. Do it.
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Ok, so we often repeat ourselves here, but this is another case of things being better kept simple. Simple is good. So while looking to grab some shelves for the West Wing of the Everybody towers, which houses our extensive library… OK, OK, it’s so I can get the pile of books off my desk, we found this great set of flexible shelves by American Designer Pete Oyler.
His solution is heavy duty elastic bands which are stretched around steel pegs affixed to the wall. Brilliant. Everybody hopes this is available in Europe cos we need somewhere to put all our stuff, Somewhere that isn’t the corner of my desk!
He’s a recent graduate of the Rhode Island school of design, his work is great and would fit in most people’s lives. Bacon table being a great example of cast concrete, lord knows we love concrete! bash the mouse button on the picture above to go to Pete’s site to have a look at his impressive portfolio.
Anyway, as ever, Everybody loves this idea, and is looking forward to what Pete comes up with next!
First in our new batch of inspiration is a whole bunch of stunning photography by a very talented artst called Bela Bosodi. Everybody stumbled upon her work whilst researching editorial photographers for a project we are working on, and it’s fair to say we were taken aback by just how different her style is.
The bold use of colour in the Editorial section and simple shapes contrasting with products is simply stunning. Her editorial work for clients such as Tatler and Elle are so simple that we have to file them in the “why didn’t we think of that” box we keep under the desk in the corner here at Everybody Towers. (The reason we didn’t think of that, is we were too busy trying to do clever things rather than keep it simple, and achieve much more)
Her work is well worth five minutes of anyone’s time and is easy browsing too, so hit up the picture above to go to her online portfolio.
Everybody says, great work Bela, we’re keeping an eye on our female colleagues’ magazines to try to spot more!
