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TELEPHONEME by MK12: “

MK12 has just released another in-house project, a short film called TELEPHONEME. It brings the idea of ‘language working as a double-agent, carrying a hidden meaning with it for reasons yet-unknown’ (there’s a PDF with more details in the cool site!).

The movie expertly combines live action with animation in the collective’s unique style, with neatly composited shapes and type, aged-film textures, and a beautiful nostalgic color palette. TELEPHONEME synthesizes a lot of MK12′s aesthetic, which will definitely keep on inspiring crowds of Motion Designers throughout the world.

MK12′s co-founder Ben Radatz kindly shared some insights about the project:

TELEPHONEME came about after we’d begun writing a short about how the alphabet was actually a ‘trojan horse’ with coded messages and symbols, designed by a shadow group intent on keeping the rest of us down. While writing the piece we came across a Bell Labs-funded educational film called ‘The Alphabet Conspiracy,’ which had pretty much the same content we were writing into our version. So we instead appropriated the voiceover and re-mixed it into a slightly darker version of itself. The voice is that of Frank Baxter, aka Dr. Research, a well-known figure in the educational film world. And, he tweets! We developed a typeface called ‘Chadwick’ which we envisioned as a ‘root font’ of sorts – a theoretically perfect and balanced font that concerned itself more with technical execution than visual aesthetics. This was the font that we used throughout the piece, and we set up a pretty rigid set of guidelines for it’s use. It’s not something that’s likely to be picked up on, but it made a good foundation for the rest of the piece. While voiceover is borrowed from the original film, the sound design was done in-house, borrowing from analog sources and mixing them into a very sight-for-see composition.

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And the Nominees Are…: “

The 2010 Emmy Awards for Best Main Title Sequence are as follows…

Imaginary Forces for The Pacific • HBO
Steve Fuller – Art Director, Ahmet Ahmet – Art Director, Peter Frankfurt – Art Director, Lauren Hartstone – Designer

Imaginary Forces for Human Target • FOX
Karin Fong – Creative Director, Jeremy Cox – Art Director, Cara McKenny – Creative Lead

Imaginary Forces for Nurse Jackie • Showtime
Steve Fuller – Creative Director, Mark Gardner – Creative Director, Corey Weisz – Editor, Cara McKenny – Creative Lead

Curious Pictures for Bored To Death • HBO
Tom Barham – Director, Marci Ichimura – Compositing/Animation, Dean Haspiel – Illustrator

Shine Studio for Temple Grandin • HBO Films
Credit List coming soon….

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Urban Echo is an ongoing series of interactive sound and video installations. The project has appeared in many forms ranging from intimate outdoor video sculptures to large interactive public façades… In each installation, participants send their thoughts and questions via SMS and voicemail. The responses are then projected and added to a dynamic spatialized audio composition.

This version was installed at Huset i Magstræde in Copenhagen, Denmark for the International Computer Music Festival in late August, 2007. It was completed in collaboration with composer J. Anthony Allenjanthonyallen.com.

I can’t say anything this song doesn’t say brilliantly. Comedian Adam Buxton takes on the Radiohead remix contest with his own entry, which cuts through the hype brings a bit of wit to TV incidental music and remixing alike. And, really, how often do you get to say “Radiohead” and “rap” in the same sentence? Take my mechanical rights, please!

See, there, I said something. It wasn’t very good. Just so listen to the song and thank me later, okay?

See also Adam Buxton’s sketch for BBC3’s Rush Hour which cleans up NWA to “Help Da Police.”Thanks, Jaymis!

 

From Create Digital Music

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