Italian artist Agostino Arrivabene has many beautiful paintings that it is challenging to choose a small selection to be featured here. His work reminisces art from the 17th century, i.e. showing a characteristic trait such as a dramatic spotlit against a dark background. His art piece “Ruah” (at top) has a wonderful texture to it, Arrivabene used oil paint and gold leaf on wood.
Artwork and photo © Agostino Arrivabene
This video still scares the hell out of me.
Okay, this is pretty amazing. AlmapBBDO produced this spot, which uses 873 Getty stills to tell a man’s life story. And I didn’t realize it before reading the YouTube comments, but the creative team slipped a few Easter eggs in there as well. I don’t know if this will improve your perception of stock photography, but the spot itself looks sure to win major awards.
Advertiser: Getty Images
Title: From love to bingo in 873 images
Product: Getty Images
General Creative Director: Marcello Serpa, Luiz Sanches
Creative Director: André Kassu, Marcos Medeiros, Renato Simões
Art Director: Marcos Kotlhar
Copywriter: Sophie Schoenburg
Producer: Paranoid BR
Executive producer: Egisto Betti
Direction: Cisma, Marcos Kotlhar
Animation: Split Filmes, Marcos Kotlhar
Rtvc: Vera Jacinto, Gabriel Dagostini, Diego Villas Bôas
Soundtrack / Voice-Over Artist: Kito Siqueira
Editor / Assembler: Marcos Kotlhar, Jonas Brandão
Finishing Editor: Split Filmes
Service: Cristina Chacon, Marina Leal
Media: Paulo Camossa Jr
Approval: Renata Simões
(Source: youtube.com, via fuckyeahads)
Check out this vid by fellow Idahoan director Matt Amonson
Behind the Scenes of the Day: The latest Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, is out Friday, and star Bill Murray gives us a preview. The pair go back quite a ways — the actor has worked on every Anderson-directed film except Bottle Rocket (“I still haven’t seen that one,” Murray laments during his video tour of the project).
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Submerged glasses and decanters by fine crystalware makers Lobmeyr, Baccarat and Saint Louis are animated with billows of color in this short by Parisian art director William Snieg. Collaborating with set designer Marcel van Doorn—who devised the formula for the multihued injections—and interior stylist and regular Wallpaper* contributor Leila Latchin, Snieg aimed to capture the elegant movements of the mixed-liquid clouds as if a magical ballet. “I wanted to transcribe the grace of these figures, that look sometimes like fine silk, sometimes like a smoky mist, against a pure base—crystal,” explains Snieg, who art directs campaigns and short films for Louis Vuitton and Dior. In selecting the crystal, Latchin sourced from companies whose centuries-long histories are filled with stories. “Lobmeyr, Baccarat and Saint Louis have all attracted prestigious clients requesting extraordinary commissions,” she explains. “Each boasts an incredible archive and masterful artisans whose skill transforms molten crystal into these exquisite pieces.”
Directed by Pierre Debusschere
Fashion: Melina Nicolaide
Models: Yannick @ Success and Yumi at Dominique
Make Up & Hair: Sofie van Bouwel
Editing and Visual Effects: Pascal Oberlin
Sound Design & Music: Frederic Ameel @254forest
Voice by Valerie Leclercq (Half Asleep)
Director Assistant: Ismael Moumin @ 254forest
(Source: ravished-by-illusions.com)
‘Hanging out of a helicopter, Stephan Zirwes questions our reality while the world is presented to him on a platter. He searches for patterns, structures, connections, uniformities and contrasts, is that a cornfield or a doormat? A bird’s eye view is more than a fascination, it is an opportunity to show things hidden from daily life.’
All images © Stephan Zirwes
Video by: Daniel Iglesias Jr. & Zack Sekuler
In collaboration with: I Versus Eye & Justin Bettman
