1. Nike has a history of creating some of the most eye-popping TVCs around, and their latest football ad features a marionette Andres Iniesta doing amazing things with a ball.  Just like in real life.  (via Co.Create)

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  2. If you’re a director, then you’ve got to direct… I don’t believe that you should sit back and wait until circumstances are perfect before you and it’s all gorgeous and marvelous… I never did a picture because I was hungry. Every picture I did was an active, believable, passionate wish.

    Sidney Lumet, Making Movies

  3. Another beautiful, lyrical video from the guys at Variable.

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  4. Beck and McSweeney’s have teamed up to release the ultimate crowd-sourced music project - an album consisting only of sheet music for 20 original Beck songs, never before released or recorded.  The sheet music, with individually rendered artwork for each track, encourages the public to create their own version of the album, the best of which will be published on McSweeney’s website (along with hundreds of YouTube channels one imagines).  The December release promises to be one of the most innovative artist releases in years. (via McSweeney’s) Beck and McSweeney’s have teamed up to release the ultimate crowd-sourced music project - an album consisting only of sheet music for 20 original Beck songs, never before released or recorded.  The sheet music, with individually rendered artwork for each track, encourages the public to create their own version of the album, the best of which will be published on McSweeney’s website (along with hundreds of YouTube channels one imagines).  The December release promises to be one of the most innovative artist releases in years. (via McSweeney’s)

    Beck and McSweeney’s have teamed up to release the ultimate crowd-sourced music project - an album consisting only of sheet music for 20 original Beck songs, never before released or recorded.  The sheet music, with individually rendered artwork for each track, encourages the public to create their own version of the album, the best of which will be published on McSweeney’s website (along with hundreds of YouTube channels one imagines).  The December release promises to be one of the most innovative artist releases in years. (via McSweeney’s)

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  5. Saatchi & Saatchi recently announced the winner of their James Brown Music Video Challenge, which asked people to create an original music video for one of his tracks that doesn’t already have an official video.  Xavier Fauthoux’s winning entry for ‘It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World’ does justice to both the song and the Godfather of Soul’s life with a beautiful retelling of his rise from the cotton fields of South Carolina to be one of the most dynamic and influential artists of the 20th Century.  Which reminds us… why hasn’t there been a biopic of The Hardest Working Man In Show Business yet?  Surely that role is Oscar bait par excellence. (via Co.Create)

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  6. The people who will thrive in this attention economy will be those who figure how to create objects/content worthy of attention without being utterly sideswiped by the cultural obsession of merely getting attention in the first place.

    Paying attention in a distracted world: it’s like bringing a gun to a knife fight.

    James Shelley

  7. 16 Corners is proud to launch our first music video, the debut single of singer/songwriter Luke Tyler.  Titled ‘The Cold’, it’s a terrific song and we were stoked to get the chance to work with Luke.  Enjoy!

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  8. The Daily Mail has published a collection of photos taken by a 17 year-old Stanley Kubrick, capturing 1947 Manhattan as Look magazine’s youngest staff photographer.  Even at such a young age, his ability to compose vivid images is well and truly on display. The Daily Mail has published a collection of photos taken by a 17 year-old Stanley Kubrick, capturing 1947 Manhattan as Look magazine’s youngest staff photographer.  Even at such a young age, his ability to compose vivid images is well and truly on display.

    The Daily Mail has published a collection of photos taken by a 17 year-old Stanley Kubrick, capturing 1947 Manhattan as Look magazine’s youngest staff photographer.  Even at such a young age, his ability to compose vivid images is well and truly on display.

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  9. Abduzeedo is currently hosting a terrific gallery of minimalist user-created movie posters, courtesy of Minimal Movie Posters.  Fan-made posters have for the last few years generally been much more creative and imaginative than official studio one-sheets, which tend to favour floating heads over artistry.  Let’s hope sites like these, and the phenomenal success of Mondo’s posters change that. Abduzeedo is currently hosting a terrific gallery of minimalist user-created movie posters, courtesy of Minimal Movie Posters.  Fan-made posters have for the last few years generally been much more creative and imaginative than official studio one-sheets, which tend to favour floating heads over artistry.  Let’s hope sites like these, and the phenomenal success of Mondo’s posters change that.

    Abduzeedo is currently hosting a terrific gallery of minimalist user-created movie posters, courtesy of Minimal Movie Posters.  Fan-made posters have for the last few years generally been much more creative and imaginative than official studio one-sheets, which tend to favour floating heads over artistry.  Let’s hope sites like these, and the phenomenal success of Mondo’s posters change that.

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  10. There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

    Charlie Chaplin

  11. As promised, here’s a gander at our latest video, a promo piece for UNICEF Australia’s Day For Children, starring renowned children’s author Morris Gleitzman.  It’s a day where Aussie school students are encouraged to raise money to give kids around the world their right to education.  You can find out more at their official website.

    And as always, you can find more of our work here.

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  12. This astonishing, epic music video for Justice’s latest single ‘New Lands’ is as fully realised a music vid as we’ve seen in many moons.  The work of Barcelona-based collective CANADA, it’s like the climactic battle of a late ’70s/early ’80s sci-fi sports movie.  Think Rollerball by way of Tron, Death Race and Escape From New York.

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  13. This Oscar-nominated short, ‘Tanghi Argentini’, was directed by Belgian Guido Thys in 2006, and remains one of the best short films we’ve seen in the last 10 years.  Beautifully constructed, it’s funny and engaging for its full running time, and has a terrific ending.  It’s on the longer end of shorts at 13 mins, but well worth your time.

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  14. A little teaser of an exciting animated project we’ve just finished for UNICEF.  Watch this space for the video, to be posted in a matter of days… A little teaser of an exciting animated project we’ve just finished for UNICEF.  Watch this space for the video, to be posted in a matter of days…

    A little teaser of an exciting animated project we’ve just finished for UNICEF.  Watch this space for the video, to be posted in a matter of days…

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  15. Here’s an oddity from the vault…

    In 1999, Fox commissioned a pilot for ‘Heat Vision and Jack’, a show about an astronaut (Jack Black) who, after being transformed into the world’s most intelligent man by solar radiation on a solo flight, teams up with a talking motorcycle called Heat Vision, imbued with the mind of his unemployed roommate (Owen Wilson).  Together they have adventures while on the run from a murderous NASA agent (Ron Wilson… playing himself).  All in a pilot episode co-written by Dan Harmon (creator and  - until recently -  showrunner of NBC’s ‘Community’), and directed by Ben Stiller.

    Needless to say, Fox never picked it up or aired it, but this goofy throwback to the halcyon days of late ’80s/early ’90s programming still has its charms.  It’s available in three parts of YouTube… click for Part 2 and Part 3.

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