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HBTV: VERBAL & YOON - Where It All Happens

2013-05-02T13:07:51.802Z

For VERBAL and YOON, the duo have become a musical and fashion mainstay within Tokyo's vibrant landscape. For both of them, they each maintained different jobs in the creative realm before coming together to launch AMBUSH DESIGN. Initially formed as a means for YOON to work and live in Japan, AMBUSH DESIGN has been characterized by its unique designs and pieces. We focused on the couple in their Tokyo studio to gain a better understanding of their brand AMBUSH DESIGN, their Western influences and how Tokyo plays a roll in their inspirations.

Director: Caesar Rodriguez

http://hypebeast.com/2010/09/verbal-yoon-where-it-all-happens

One Plastic Beach

2013-05-02T13:01:24.166Z

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.

To learn more about their work, visit:

http://www.beachplastic.com/
http://www.plasticforever.blogspot.com/

and to learn more about the Gyre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

Camera / Edit - Eric Slatkin ericslatkin.com
Producer - Tess Thackara

Gyre Footage Courtesy of Macdonald Productions

This Is Where We Live

2013-05-02T12:56:38.114Z

Welcome to our city - to our world - of books. This is where we live.

A film for 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary. Produced by Apt Studio and Asylum Films.

The film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators; you can see time-lapse films of each sequence being prepared and…

Rilla Alexander: Without the Doing, Dreaming is Useless

2013-05-02T12:52:29.160Z

We all have an idea we've been meaning to execute on, but how can we really make it happen? In this highly original, all-ages talk at the 99 Conference, illustrator Rilla Alexander walks us through this classic creative struggle by sharing the story of Sozi - an adorable character who walks us through the arc of an idea. She daydreams, she procrastinates, she sets deadlines, she gets tempted by new ideas, she buckles down and works hard - and finally - she realizes "Her Idea."

1:15 - The start of an idea
1:45 - "I can't work with anything hanging over my head…"
2:54 - "Finally. I put pencil to paper. ..and Im confronted by the mediocrity of my idea"
4:10 - What about all those other ideas?
5:03 - Five years pass…
5:30 - "I begin to hate my idea, its a huge weight of unfulfilled expectations"
6:05 - "I give up. But then, it happened…"
6:50 - I love this idea again
7:10 - Deadlines force me to have realistic expectations, "Instead of focusing on how wonderful it is, I focus on getting it done"
8:00 - How to execute your idea
8:41 - Dreaming up ideas is fun, but that's only the tip of the iceberg
9:29 - Without the doing the dreaming is useless
9:55 - Set boundaries
10:11 - Let the idea take control
10:55 - Theres always another idea that looks better. But thats because I'm not working on it. I haven't seen its flaws and failures
11:25 - Don't give up. Don't cripple it with self-doubt
12:09 - It's a lot of work, but much more satisfying than procrastinating
12:30 - Rila reads "Her Idea"

About Rilla Alexander

Rilla Alexander is an Australian-born Berlin-based designer and illustrator. Her cast of creatures dance across Madrid's Museo del Prado's ceramics and stationery products, populate Swiss Credit Cards for Cornér Bank and sleep on the walls of Hotel Fox in Copenhagen (where she replaced the bed with a tent).

As a member of design collective Rinzen, she has published several books exploring the creative process. The felt-covered book Neighbourhood featured the collaborative efforts of over 30 artists reworking and remaking hand-made toys in a sequence that stretched across the world.

Her all-ages picture book, Her Idea, was launched with an exhibition at Colette in Paris — and tells the tale of her alter-ego Sozi and her quest to make ideas happen.

Li Hongbo | Out Of Paper

2013-04-24T15:24:01.564Z

Remember those wild flexible paper sculptures by artist Li Hongbo? This new video from Crane.tv shows the artist in his Beijing studio where we learn much more about how he makes each artwork.