Montreal’s Guy Laramee reinterprets the literary world with this gorgeous collection of outdoor spaces. Vaguely similar to an earlier post on reinterpreting encyclopaedic pages, Laramee’s approach is intensely original. I suspect the carvings to be hand done but am curious if 3D models and laser cutters could achieve a similar result and open the approach up to include some form of animation.

thinking thinking thinking…

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abduzeedo.com
GuyLaramee.com

A series of 15 second spots to promote iPhone alternatives offered by Bell Mobility.  As there are only so many ways to showcase a touch-screen device, the challenge was to find a slightly different approach than the predefined iPhone commercial visuals.   To accomplish this we broke the locked-off Apple style and placed the phone in a actor’s hand for a more human and tangible result.

Technical Roles:

• Key / Composite Screens
• Track Footage
• Colour Correct

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Despite the sombre undertone apparent in the handful that i’ve watched, what shines through are truthful, raw, heartfelt stories told with a strong cinematic style.

Cannonball Excerpt:
“If we’re going to be doing this kind of stuff, we’re trespassing in peoples yards and skating in peoples pools we’ve gotta have respect; clean the pools out. Any trash we bring, take it with us when we leave. People already look down at us as it is so there’s no reason to fucking confirm what they already think is already true. It’d be better to prove them wrong. (2m05s)

April 16th is the official anniversary for the mobile app Foursquare. More than 15 cities celebrated the mobile location based “check-in” app by throwing their own “Foursquare Day” events to celebrate local business.

This year’s 2nd annual Foursquare Day in Toronto was a great success with sponsors donating everything from autographed Tim Burton books (TIFF) to phone cases for every patron (iSkin). Even our (usually) pathetic mayor (Rob Ford) acknowledged the date with a signed letter from his office.

I documented this event with a home-made camera system that appropriately reflected the client and medium that Foursquare users embrace: the smartphone.

Rationale: 4 Squares, Mobile technology, 4 Camera phones. (enough said, no?)

Making Of:

Final Edit:

Thanks to:
Rob Scarborough, Jon-Erik Lappano, Karly Gaffney, and all the organizers & sponsors for the event.

Music:
Public Enemy – Harder Than You Think (instrumental)
Ratatat - Drugs

The experience of witnessing sound and light responding to each other is hardwired into our genetic make-up to captivate and entrance audiences.  Whether it was early humankind staring into the skies to witness lightning dance with thunder, a toddler hypnotized by a blinking toy, or ourselves enslaved by our digital devices, the simple act of light and sound never ceases to amaze at all ages.  Having had 4 years experience as a lighting technician, I’m always intrigued by live concert lighting for these same reasons mentioned above.  Take into account the concert lighting visuals in the video above and i find it difficult to tear myself away from the video. (…for at least the first two minutes.)

Although I definitely feel that they did an exceptional job, the video (like most music videos) slightly struggles to maintain interest as it only showcases performance footage.  Which makes sense, since “the visuals were created to add life to footage that was originally rejected from the band’s label.” That said, had they been given the opportunity to shoot with this intent I suspect the results would have been a much more engaging piece had a simple story been added.  Either way, extremely well done!

Personally I’d love to see this execution as an ambient visual in a live concert where an audiences could glance over at it briefly before returning their attention to the live show.

Created using: C++ / openframeworks / opencv
More images available at The Found Collective.
Found Via CreativeApplications.net

Another captivating Delauney exploration can be seen here, by Quoyola.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Also check out the spot they did for Google eBooks last year that is in the same visual style.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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