Nicola Roberts

This month I have been listening to Nicola Roberts on repeat. I love her album Cinderella's Eyes, so fun and pretty :) My highlights are the title track and Porcelain Heart. And she is so pretty.

ShadowBookBlind @ Nissan: East meets West - London Design Festival

Emmie Joseph is exhibiting with Nissan during London Design Festival and would like to invite you along for another chance to see her decorate & illustrate using shadow as a transient form of print. Also, the work of 20 other designers across many disciplines under the theme of East meets West. Other designers include Alana Florence, Alessia Giardino, and Solenne Morigeaud.

23rd, 24th & 25th September - Doors open 2:00pm with guided studio tours commencing daily at 3:00pm and 5:00pm.

Nissan Design Europe

Rotunda
181 Harrow Rd
London
W2 6NB

From Paddington Station, look for signs to Sheldon Square. then follow the canal.

"Nissan Design Europe will open its doors and organise a series of tours of the facility where one can discover the automotive design process.

But that's not all: NDE will aim at celebrating the diversity of London's creative industries and become a creative hub hosting arts and design displays by various artists under the theme of 'East meets West: the crossroads of Creativity'."

Wall.E

Er..and I finally saw this...and got totally involved in the robot love story between Wall-E and Eve. I almost shed tears. Mild shame. But I think the film is lovely, I want to own it, the depiction of a destroyed, abandoned, empty earth was well done. Depressingly, I see this future. But without the hopeful ending. Boo.

Let's end this post happily though.. yay for robots that turn into cubes when they are scared! :D

2001 A Space Odyssey

Watched this with my dad...barely paying attention at first...but by the end I really liked it...despite not really understanding. I like stories with human versus robot where the robot is going wrong because of the way it thinks. Like I, Robot (book not film).

Beware, beware, be very wary Bear.

I discovered this fun song. Good but not as good as its predecessor :D

Pink elephants on parade!!



Mmm trippy.

Robinsons Bird House

I have slacked posting lately...been so hectic finishing my masters and working in the bookshop...but, i think i'll be posting again now :) Yay to this ad of a bird house. Obvious highlight being the man clock saying hello. Also, the guardian posters on the way, tweet magazine, worm sausages and bird claw boots :D Attention to detail! Oh yes.

Cheek to Cheek

My friend Frances who dances has done this lovely lovely dance film :) I love the use of shadow and reflection and the blend of happiness with melancholy. It's about loneliness and memories but it feels uplifting to me :) Good times.

My favourite bit of Bug Bazaar @ Millenium Gallery

Visited my gran in Sheffield for her birthday this weekend and saw the Bug Bazaar exhibition at the Millenium gallery...this video was my highlight - While Darwin Sleeps by Paul Bush. This is a section of his film showing 3000 species of insect at one frame each...it's stunning. I marvel at how beautiful insects are and how MANY there are! And amazing variation. Yet I find them so repulsive at the same time. The film goes on and makes it seem as though insects are trying to escape from being pinned in collections...

Candle Rotator

Little film of my candle rotating shadow experiment...what a lot of fiddling and fire hazard...next stop: clockwork?

Crazy video facades

Can this be real? Amazing!

Bix Facade

Oh dear...I've slacked severely on posting.

Well, here's a video from November when a short shadow film I made was played on the Bix facade in Austria. 

Thanks to Ruiari. This video shows mine, Alana's and some of Ruiari's other students I think. 

Étienne-Jules Marey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Jules_Marey

Philips Daylight Window

Moholy-Nagy - Light Space Modulator

I want to do something like this but more beautiful and illustrative....

Little Dragon - After the Rain

High - A Balloons Tale

Thanks Solenne :)

Hiraki Sawa

Domestic/Fantasy! That's what i'm trying to do! :D

http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/hiraki-sawa/video/hiraki-sawa-views-of-hako-2007/

Shadows film

A film made from shadows I've been collecting this summer set to Ooberman <3

Shadow films

Wanted

I watched the film and read the graphic novel. I enjoyed both. Very fun. I enjoyed the slick fantastical violence in the film. (is that wrong?) The stories are completely different just with the same sort of theme of everyone does nothing and are dissatisfied and they should do something? The comic had a bit too much rape and shit in it though...I was embarrassed cuz I could sense people next to me on the bus looking over my shoulder. Lolz.