Her Morning Elegance

An award winning commercial for Nomis Sportswear: Damn Boots.
Winner of 2 Gold Lions at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival beating Nike and Adidas.
Produced by Nexus and directed by Woof Wan-Bau

“the couple captured in an intimate embrace references french photographer robert doisneau’s ‘le baiser de l’hôtel de ville’ from 1950″

all images © michael wolf
image courtesy of galerie wouter van leeuwen

‘paris street view’ is an outdoor exhibition in amsterdam’s zuidas area by german photographer michael wolf. the exhibition consists of 24 extremely large-format works  installed in the streets for public viewing.

Over his years of living and working in hong kong and paris, michael wolf has concentrated on anthropological issues with a focus on urban living. contemporary visual culture features  prominently in the meaning of his work and subjects such as population density, privacy and voyeurism are recurrent themes. ‘paris street view’ deals with the cultural identity of paris. with the aid of google street view technology, wolf investigates the concept of representation and symbolism. by using pixelated images from the internet, he breaks through paris’ nearly universally recognizable photographic iconography and suggests a new way of reading the city.  two people embracing on a busy paris street, for instance, are a playful reference to robert doisneau’s ubiquitous ‘le baiser de l’hôtel de ville‘ from 1950. but cropping out parts of  images on google street view, ‘photos of photos’ are created that shed a new light on a city in which nearly everything has already been photographed.

…and I suppose maybe one for the guys too? But definately a bit of Julian Casablancas for the ladies.

Hello, you are a babe.

(Helicopter part from 1.20 onwards is blates the best bit)

“Tilt-shift photography” refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniture scene.

Sooo, I just looked into buying a Tilt-Shift lense myself, and why helloo, at £900 a pop I’ll have to think about it. Maybe next month.

A behind the scenes video made for Grafik Magazine to be presented at Semi-Permanent at Melbourne 2009.

The Criterion Collection is well-known for restoring rare, unique and cult classic films from famed directors like Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Buñuel, and Wes Anderson. Equally respected is their cover art and supplements to their DVDs. For 25 years, Criterion Collection has been pairing art house films with strong design. From typography to photography, they elevate box art to poster art with work that never cease to impress.

from Grain Edit

It’s no surprise these beautiful covers inspire copy cats. Auteurs, Criterion’s sister site for film geeks, embraces it and encourages people to post their redesigns in the forum, “The Auteurs’ Fake Criterion Covers.” More here.