This video was doing the rounds back in December but I still want to share it with you. Created to promote the Eames exhibitions and events in the Pacific Standard Time Cultural Festival.

Interestingly before his rap career Ice Cube studied architectural drafting. In the video he describes the Los Angeles he knows and gives props to Charles and Ray Eames.

Love the line: “They was doing mashups before mashups even existed.” – Ice Cube

via archdaily

Related Post:

• Eames Lounge Chair – Moving with the times
• A Gathering of Elephants
• The Eames Lounge and Ottoman (1956)

For those of you that have been following the progress of Dabe Alan’s camera tattoo sleeve  things start to get a bit digital in Part 3…

“So for this video the main two things that you’ll see are my very own Canon 5d Mark ii, and my favorite mouse I’ve ever owned, the Logitech MX518 (I TOLD you this was gonna get nerdier). With the addition of the glowing mouse, all the green that was glowing on the other cameras makes sense. You’ll also notice the 35mm film turning into pixels as it gets higher. Oh but it’s not gonna stop just there…” – Dabe Alan

For more info on the tattoo and stop motion film check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here. His website is also looking pretty cool these days – www.dabealan.com

For more great work and other impressive nerd sleeves check out Tony Touch’s flickr page here

If you haven’t seen the previous parts of this stop-motion film check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here

I found this video while cruising NOTCOT the other week. So inspirational – makes me want to get out my sketchbook, quit my job and become a graphic designer. It covers some useful creative tips for designers of any discipline.

Created by Rory O’sullivan and Simon Bruyn at Rethink Communications, the video was created to promote the 2010 Rethink Scholarship at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada.

via Rory O’sullivan and Simon Bruyn’s vimeo page.

The Rethink Scholarship website is just as cool as the video. Check it out here.

Also check out www.rethinkcommunications.com

If you haven’t seen Part 1 check it out here.

Part 2 – The Sleeve Continues… the follow up to the extremely popular stop-motion film by Dabe Alan, which he filmed while getting his camera tattoo sleeve by Tony Touch.

For more info on the tattoo check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here

For more great work by Tony Touch check out his flickr page here

Check out Part 3 of Dabe Alan’s tattoo in stop-motion here

Here’s an awesome video by Dabe Alan that he filmed in stop-motion while being tattooed by Tony Touch.

This is cool on so many levels so I couldn’t help but post it onto My Design Fix. I love the vintage cameras, the cool tattoo, the insight into the detail and seeing the process from start to finish. The effect of the stop-motion looks awesome in its own right too.

For more info on the tattoo check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here (Be sure to check out some of his other photos – he’s a great photographer)

For more great work by Tony Touch check out his flickr page here and his website pitheory.com.

Check out Part 2 of Dabe Alan’s tattoo in stop-motion here and Part 3 here

Following the movie posters and book, Kevin Dart has further brought to life the world of Yuki 7 via a theatrical trailer for ‘A Kiss From Tokyo’.

Made in collaboration with animator Stephane Coedel and music composer Cyrille Marchesseau the resulting animation (set in 1964) is every bit the vintage spy film complete with faded logo, film grain and audio pops.

Video via Stephane Coedel’s Vimeo page.

For a really insightful interview looking into this collaboration process check out artofthetitle.com here.

This film has been on my list of things to blog about for a while so I figured this would be a fitting follow up to my previous entry; a tribute to the late Julius Shulman.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics explores the monumental career of 98-year-old architectural photographer, Julius Shulman. Populating his photos with human models and striking landscapes, Shulman combined the organic with the synthetic, melding nature with revolutionary urban design. The resulting images helped to shape the careers of some of the greatest architects of the 20th Century, with Shulman documenting the work of Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, and many others.

For those of you who happen to be in Melbourne there is a screening of Visual Acoustics this weekend (Sunday August 2) as a part of the Melbourne International Film Festival. I’m afraid I’ll just have to wait for the theatre release or when it comes out on DVD though.

For more information visit the official website at www.juliusshulmanfilm.com

“Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.”

Visit the Objectified website at www.objectifiedfilm.com

The Eames Plywood Elephant was a children’s toy conceived in 1945 by Charles and Ray Eames but was never put into formal production. In 2007, the 100th anniversary of Charles’ birth, the Vitra Design Museum in association with the Eames Office put the toy into production in a limited edition.

To further commemorate the 100th anniversary and the elephant’s release, director of the Eames Office (and Charles Eames’ grandson) Eames Demetrios created “A Gathering of Elephants,” a stop-motion animated film, featuring the little elephants roaming LA.

Visit the Eames Office at www.eamesgallery.com

To view a related entry on The Eames Lounge and Ottoman click here.