Apple Movie Trailer Binge After Thoughts

After watching every movie trailer on all three pages I've decided the only movies I must see (when I say "I," I mean everybody should do it too. As to prevent me from looking down on you).

The 1st must see is "Hanna."

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/hanna/

It has an interesting font for the movie title (which is a plus to typophiles) and because it is a teenage girl that is on the verge of becoming a woman with trying to find out what she wants in life while facing constant hurdles of heartbreaks and family issues.....NAAAAWWWWWWWTTTTTTTTTT.


The 2nd must see is "Even the Rain"

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/eventherain/

It's like the sequel to Christopher Columbus...I think. But it really made me think, because I like when I say like smart and sophisticated things.


The 3rd must see is "Love"

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/love/

The title makes no sense, the trailer is very confusing, but it is in my top three because there is astronauts and Civil War soldiers.

After some intensive thinking, being strong is an art too.

I'm on a huge apple binge trailer right now. After my last post about "HUH-air," I decided that art is not exclusive. Which is why I am considering bending coins and tearing phonebooks apart with your bare hands as an art form.

See the link to the trailer

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/strongman/

Hair is like...like....like...art

I understand there is no clear cut to what defines an artist. In many ways most people have been conformed into artists and there is a somewhat lack of exclusivity. Without the exclusiveness in art, I also wonder why most hipsters are not actuaries or investment managers. Coming to end at this tangent my main point is that if found urinals and elephant poop can be art so can hair styles.

That is why I would like to nominate Vidal Sassoon (see video clip) as of artist of the hour on January 31, 2011 at 2:36 A.M. Easter Time Zone. From his sole contributions to society by eradicating ugliness (to the extent of hair, sadly ugliness cannot be fully eradicated) and giving more options to geometrical hair shapes.

Congratulations Vidal, you will be receiving your half off coupon to Dairy Queen along with your fan mail.


(Also, the movie trailer has some nice After Effects. Check it out)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28jvlBA0RMk

You probably know them not by name, BUT YOU SHOULD!

As I referenced earlier, in my first blog entry, that I want to steal Olly Moss and Mike Mitchell’s work and claim it for my own. For preventive measures of me being successful otherwise I will show their work and leave links to their websites.

Olly Moss is a Brit, but I won’t let that go against him due to his designs. His play with designs like the Thor movie poster makes me actually want to see the cheap grade Marvel comics summer popcorn flick. The details of the Evil Dead poster really mixes the most iconic scene and setting of the movie into a really amazing use of negative space. But what won me over towards Olly Moss was that he clearly is a Lost fan from the details of the character poster of Locke.

Mike Mitchell is an American. I could complain a lot about this, but again, like Moss, his work shuts me up. His humorous take of iconic movie characters with 3-D glasses to the almost forgotten kids classic of an anatomically correct rendering of Darkwing Duck. But what Mike Mitchell is most famous for and probably leading campaign manager of Conan O’Brien’s against NBC and Jay Leno.

These are just a couple of examples of their perfect work, look at more images at ther websites.

http://www.ollymoss.com/

http://www.sirmikeofmitchell.com/

Nice to Meet Me

My name is Brett, I am starting this blog because I must be heard, I like attention, very narcissistic (I won’t be surprised later that I go back to my blog to read and gloat about what I just wrote), also because I think most other blog’s opinions/voicce don’t matter (unless Michael Caine gets one, then I may be slightly interested), and most of all because it is mandatory for a grade in my class of the History of Visual Communication.

But enough about why I have to do this blog and more about myself. I am just a single man in Brooklyn (HEY LADIES!) who enjoys the finer parts of life, like art, culture, and puppies (HEY LADIES!). I am student at St. John’s University and study in Graphic Design and courses in Computer Something.

Designs that I generally try to copy (THE ULTIMATE SIGN OF AFFINITY) or strive to be like are those of the works by Olly Moss and Mike Mitchell. With their clever pop culture influenced posters and designs of movies and television. They waste their time to make great work about entertainment and insignificant past times that most people waste their time too devoting. It can be a lucrative. Instead of copying their work I guess I will make it a goal to harness all of my wit and creativity to create at least one piece of art or design this semester that could be mistaken of Olly’s or Mitchell’s.

To actually make this goal an accomplishment, I do have to look back….to the past in the history of design. To learn greatly from blunders and success, so that I can achieve my goal and most of all not starve and be a beggar to my parents (who’ve probably already have given me more than enough).

I am getting pretty tired, but probably will not fall asleep, soooooooooo, Blog on History of Visual Communications.

See you tomorrow at the New York Public Library.