Drawing a Song

The agency Herraiz & Soto has created a gorgeous interactive videoclip for the band Labuat. The idea is so simple as beautiful: the user draws a line with a chinese-style brush stroke that synchronizes with the music and the mouse movements, all peppered with some nice animations triggered at predefined timestamps in the song.



+ Info: direct link to Soy tu aire videoclip.

The Crisis And Us

The new feature film by Johan Kramer is a modern fairytale about the impact of the financial crisis on the lifes of different human beings in Tokyo, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam... and specially Ponzisson.



+ Info: The Crisis And Us will premiere 15th September.
In 15th September of 2008, the Lehman Brothers bank went bankrupt, it was black monday. One year later, this film tries to bring us a 'bright tuesday' it will be show for only one day in cinemas in Holland and other countries. The entrance will be just 10 cent. a special "crisis" prize.

Cannes... Gold?

It can be an important prize, but gold?

Coraline

Directed by Henry Selick, the real director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and based on a children's book by Neil Gaiman, Coraline combines stop-motion techniques with 3D to recreate a nightmarish fairytale. A modern and gothic version of Alice in Wonderland with a mystery mirror world housing some not-so-friendly creatures, the story becomes a cautionary tale of the classic "Be careful of what you wish..."

Visually though, the film is quite something. Apparently everything on screen was made by hand, painted by hand and shot with a camera. Anyway, which part was made by hand and which part is 3D doesn't matter as long as the final result is visually so appealing as in this case.

Pina Bausch

In memoriam, Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940 – June 30, 2009) leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style and contemporary dance. Here, an excerpt of her performance in Almodovar's film "Talk to her"...

Love distance

Traditionally, condom ads rely on more or less gross jokes, hyperboles, they search the "shock & awe" effect, we could say. But this spot winned a Cannes Gold with a nice straightforward idea and big amounts of sensibility (no pun intended)...

When photography was a ceremony...

Since 1960, Malick Sidibé (Mali, 1936) has produced photographs in his studio, Studio Malick, located in Bamako. These images with their pure gaze document popular culture in his city. A vast majority of the photos he took during the 1970s ended up generating an extensive catalog of urban characters and types, the result of working with a sincere documentary approach without hang-ups of feeling superior to them. As a result, Sidibé has achieved producing photographs far removed from the prejudices of a Western gaze cast upon other cultures.




PHE- Today you’re a renowned photographer, and your photos have traveled all over the world. How did you start out in photography?

Malick Sidibé- I studied at the school of arts because I liked to draw. Then I began in photography by working with a French photographer in 1957. At the time, I was the youngest photographer in the city.

Luckily, I was the only one who had a flash, so I began to take photographs of parties at night. I was at the studio until midnight or one in the morning until I went out to take photos at parties. I would go back to my studio, develop the film, and on Mondays and Tuesdays I would hang the photos in my shop so young people could come and choose the ones they liked the most...

+ Read the entire interview to Malick in PHotoEspaña site