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Can’t begin to imagine the amount of work put into this unbelievable frame by frame animated graffiti piece by BLU.
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I’m currently reading the second edition of ‘Thinkertoys’ by Michael Michalko. The author’s background is army intelligence and over the years he has developed a collection of thinking tools that can be used to re-adjust your creative thought process, or just give some fresh inspiration. It’s brilliant and a seriously thought provoking and useful book regardless of whether you are involved in the creative thought process, or not.
This exert is taken from a chapter titled ‘False faces’ and outlines why assumptions are dangerous in any given situation. The chapter itself then goes on to give you the tools to reverse any initial assumptions and shows how it’s possible to gain an entirely new perspective of what the actual ‘problems’ are that need to be tackled in the first place.
I thought this was bang on the money!
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Imagine a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stair, spray all the monkeys with ice-cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result – all the monkeys are sprayed with ice-cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and will want to climb the stairs. To his surprise, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Again, replace a third monkey with new one. The new one goes to the stairs and is attacked. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing the fourth and fifth monkeys with new ones, all the monkeys that have been sprayed with ice-cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs. Why not? Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been around here.
Don’t be a monkey. Challenge all assumptions.
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Very impressive video footage shot so that it looks like tiny toy soldiers. The technique used is called tilt shift, more examples can be found here..
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/
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Hi, so i’ve finally got round to updating my portfolio. As you will be able to see I have been pretty busy 
The digital section contains 7 new sites for clients such as Wrigley, Bupa, Teachers TV, TGA , and the layouts section has 8 new designs.
You can view it all by checking out the portfolio here http://www.a-nt.com
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There are many reasons this blog has been quiet for a while, the biggest reason is this little guy..
Born a couple of days ago, Ollie, weighing in at 7 pounds 4 ounzes has been a very time consuming little chap, even before he was born!
Anyway, aside from now being a dad I have also undertaken many projects and am currently contracting as the creative director for www.twentyfirst.com and loving every moment of it. I will be updating my portfolio when I get round to it and will also put some posts on the blog for the latest work. Projects updated include an animated flash website for Bupa International, 2 viral campaigns for the teaching channel, Teachers TV and a handful of other websites and campaigns.
So in short I have been very, very busy.
See you soon..
Ant
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I’ve always had a massive appreciation for graffiti and so I decided to post what I consider to be some of the most creative and talented artists out there. So in no particular order…
Daim, Mirko Reisser, a multi disciplined artist from Hamburg, Germany and is one of the first and best known pioneers of the “3d style”. His wasp drawings on canvas and sculptures are also incredible and can be found on his site..
Another German artist, Seak (Claus Winkle) this time hailing from Cologne is another pioneer of the 3d style. Again multi disciplined creating absolutely stunning art across multiple mediums. Like a more intricate Daim, on acid.
Interesni Kazki is from Kiev, Ukraine and once again multi disciplined. His work speaks for itself..
http://interesnikazki.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aec_interesni_kazki/
From Venice, Italy, guess what, multi disciplined, 3d inspired, carrying his work into graphic design and onto canvas
Delta (Boris Tellegen) is a dutch graffiti pioneer. His work is still based around typography but he’s evolved his style to far more angular abstract pieces that often integrate with the surroundings.
If you’ve ever visited Barcelona then chances are you have come across Pez’s distinctive characters on the walls around the city. I really appreciated seeing his work around the place when I lived there.
From Los Angeles. Again a multi disciplined artist, his character illustrations and paintings are amazing and he has plenty of examples of that on his site.
http://www.imscared.com/gallery/graffiti
Dalek (James Marshall) works out of Brooklyn, US and again applies his unique style across a wide range of mediums.
From Sao Paulo, Brazil, Herbert Baglione is one of the most prolific Brazillian writers with a very unique illustrative style.
http://www.herbertbaglione.blogspot.com/
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So I recently watched Let The Right One In, or Låt den rätte komma in, as it is known in Sweden and it absolutely blew me away.
The tagline of the film is, “Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.”
Now from a description like that it’s easy to be put off,
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