That's Ace: February 2011

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Friday, February 4, 2011

dark side of the lens

<p>DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.</p>

"If I only scrape a living, at least it's a living worth scraping.

If there's no future in it, this is a present worth remembering"

Well said, mate.

And on that note, I leave you in the capable hands of my co-contributors as I head overseas on my honeymoon.

Peace

Muz

video footage by Astray Films: Alan Wilson / Alastair Sopp

found via Damo

heavy metal lego fantasy

Sometimes, all you want to do is create a medieval forest out of Lego and play death metal while animating an axeman being given ultimate power via lightning.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

james hopkins loves skulls

The Love Seat
I found Hopkins via his amazing work with skulls (shown below) but pretty much everything he does is rad.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Check out JamesHopkinsWorks.com for more fun with furniture

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

According to their website RightBrainsAre.Us, No Right Brain Left Behind is a speed innovation challenge, calling on the creative industries to concept ideas that can help the creativity crisis happening in U.S. schools today. In collaboration with Social Media Week 2011, teams from creative industries will have 5 days to concept ideas. On the last day of the week, ideas will be submitted virtually to this site, and an expert panel will pick 3 winning ideas that are to be featured by our media partners. The best ideas are to be piloted in 2011 and 2012.

They are inviting teams of various sizes from advertising agencies, innovation companies, design consultancies, and communication schools. Ideas can be in form of tools, applications, or products, or whatever else not yet thought of.

This kind of thing makes me shiver with anticipation, following on from the extraordinary work of my hero Sir Ken Robinson, who changed my life many years ago with this TED Talk below.

Enjoy

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

the ultimate pep talk

While running a website dedicated to spreading positivity can be really fun, it's sometimes difficult to stay motivated while others suffer through the distress of loss, pain or (in the case of Queenslanders) even natural disasters.

It's with this in mind that I have been searching for something that might keep us all pumped throughout the coming days.

The following clip is a mashup of some of the greatest sports movies ever made. Far from trivialising a frightening time for many people, I hope it serves to help bring a smile and a glimmer of hope to people around Australia and beyond, no matter how grim the outlook may seem at times.