Title Art

This is A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson. This video is an amazing compilation of title art from some of the most influential designers of the last century. If you're either a film nut or a design geek (luckily I'm both), I'm pretty sure you're gonna love it.

Albinson's video compilation comes from his website artofthetitle.com. It's an amazing site collecting new and old title art into one convenient place. Convenient and awesome enough to possibly steal much of your free time. I highly recommend it. If you love art, film, and design; and if you found yourself watching the ending credits of Blue Valentine or or the opening of Se7en thinking, "I'd love to have been a part of that," this site is for you. So enjoy, and let me know whatcha think.

Russ Chimes

Check out this video for Russ Chimes by Saman Keshavarz. It's pretty awesome.

So I'm loving the way that trend now to make music videos is to mix narrative and a unique film style in order to garner buzz. It's just much more entertaining and effective than having a couple kids dancing around quirky places and mouthing the music. This in no way is something completely new, but is completely awesome.

Keshavarz has done some awesome stuff and you def check out his stuff. This short film (slash music vide) is the final portion of a trilogy but I sorta loved watching it first. It was really entertaining to piece together the story as I watched and so I wanted to present it that way here. He's also done a music video for !!! as well as some work for Canon. Def a dude worth checking out if you liked the video. Enjoy kids.

Das Racist

What to do tomorrow (Saturday) night in Buffalo?

Go see Das Racist. 

I know a lot of you remember This Song from last year; an awesomely repetitive/memorable tune with this possibly intentional (or unintentional?) comment on contemporary American consumerist culture. Ok that sounds lofty and maybe they were just having fun, but I think they knew what they were doing. Either way, it polarized listeners with it's style but in my opinion, was awesome. Since then they've released two mix-tapes; Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man. They even let ya download the entire mix-tapes for free right off their website, so there's no excuse not to check em out if ya haven't.

These Brooklyn-ites have a unique style of flow while combining their signature mix of comical and serious content. Their new stuff is pretty solid and def worth checking out. And if you're around BLO this weekend looking for something to do, def head out to Soundlab (110 Pearl Street, Buffalo NY 14202) and check out this show. It's gonna be awesome.

Oh and listen to this tune on the drive down.
-Hahahaha jk