Aardman Nathan Love: In order to celebrate their new partnership, New York City animation studio Aardman Nathan Love decided to unveil their new logo the only way they knew how – with a clever, offbeat and especially epic animated short film. Check it out below – Awesome work! 🙂
Selfie Spoon: So US breakfast brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch has introduced the ‘Selfie Spoon’, a selfie stick with a spoon handle for taking selfies while eating cereal…WTF?! It seems the manufacturer, General Mills, is also offering a limited number of the devices for free each day, with the purchaser only having to pay shipping costs – yippee! Because we’ve always wanted to see photos of people with crusty sleep in their eyes and breakfast food stuff caught in their teeth first thing in the morning. We weep for the future…
Killien Huynh: In the ‘Postcard for your enemies’ series, Vietnamese illustrator Killien Huynh adds an ironic and humorous touch to her usually sweet and cute illustrations by creating falsely adorable greeting cards for you to send out to all those friends you love to hate. Genius! 🙂
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: We’re loving that CineFix has just released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema retelling the story of the 1986 cult classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as an old-school 8-bit animated video game, created by David Dutton of Dutton Films. Awesome work! Happy Friday, peeps 🙂
Fulvio Obregon: For his series ‘Me and My Other Me’, illustrator Fulvio Obregon has imagined actors and celebrities posing with the younger versions of themselves, from Steve Jobs to Mick Jagger through to Al Pacino, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, and Robert de Niro. LOVE it – awesome stuff! 🙂
Matthew Rolston: Published in the book Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits, American photographer Matthew Rolston has captured portraits of old ventriloquist dummies, now unused and abandoned, exhibited at the Vent Haven Museum in Kentucky. Through his photographs, Matthew Rolston seems to revive these objects, which were once the centre of performances and shows, and also the popular beliefs, fears and phobias that often accompany such puppets made of wood. We really love these images although they are somewhat unsettling – Happy Friday! 🙂
Apple: During a live event in San Francisco today, Apple introduced a number of new and enhanced products, amongst them the new iPhone 6s with 3D Touch technology and an upgraded camera.
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus – Reveal
Introducing iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus with 3D Touch
Also announced was the brand new iPad Pro with improved performance 12.9 inch retina display, a full-size Smart Keyboard and the Apple Pencil, both available from November 2015.
iPad Pro – Reveal
Introducing iPad Pro
Introducing Apple Pencil
But the most exciting development has to be the new attention given to the long-neglected Apple TV with a brand new tvOS that will incorporate Siri voice commands, access to the App Store, a cleaner flat design and an updated remote control that uses swipe technology. The updated version will be available at the end of October 2015.
The new Apple TV
Socality Barbie: Socality Barbie is the Instagram account of a hipster Barbie, who is now at more than 699,000 followers. An unexpected and ironic success, Socality Barbie was created by a professional photographer, based in Oregon, who wanted above all to parody the similarity of all Instagram accounts. Very funny and clever – Barbie never looked so random 😉
Dismaland Bemusement Park: So on the back of its opening, Banksy has released the official trailer for his Dismaland Bemusement Park art installation which highlights several pieces Banksy curated from more than fifty artists around the world, collectively providing a dark and decayed view of theme parks and commercial recreation. Love it!! 🙂
Dismaland: So we lost our shit when we saw street artist Banksy had finally unveiled Dismaland, a satirical group exhibition inspired by Disneyland. Dismaland brings together many artists from around the world in a giant parody of our consumer society as seen through a trashy, decaying theme park. After rumours and first photos began popping up on the web, the Dismaland project released an official website presenting a map of the park, but also the list of artists including Damien Hirst, Josh Keyes, Escif, Axel Void, Brock Davis, Espo, Mike Ross and of course Banksy. The Dismaland exhibition, located in the Weston-super-Mare in the UK, is open from 22nd August until 27th September 2015. Amazeballs! – LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE 🙂
