Category Archives: art

Salvador Dali In Wonderland

By tone | Published: March 10, 2010
The fascination with Alice in Wonderland has amassed a vast encompassing body of homage works by many in the entertainment world past and future. From art to cinema, it seems many muses have dipped into to the well of inspiration to further explore the themes in the book. Salvador Dali spawned the book into a [...]
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WWF Earth Hour / The Dark Side Saves the Planet

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
WWF has turned to the Dark Side to promote Earth Hour by joining the dark forces and switching off power for one hour. So come March 27 you can safely say you aligned yourself with Darth Vader for one hour.
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Rapunzel Tangled by Disney

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
The classic Grimm’s fairy tale “Rapunzel” has been rechristened as “Tangled” because of Disney’s last movie, “The Princess and the Frog” which was a death knell at the box office with the princess title that turned boys away from the movie. An Errol Flynn-styled male lead was injected into the girl-centric Rapunzel movie. Disney’s top [...]
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New Alice in Wonderland Art by Hugh Dandrade

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
Hugh D’Andrade’s marriage of typography and illustration is a thing of beauty. His art graces many books and rock posters and really does justice to the project at hand. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories is the latest book cover he was commissioned for the Lewis Carroll classic.
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The Secret Of Kells

By tone | Published: March 8, 2010
The Secret of Kells is an animated movie from Ireland that just went under the radar in 2009 with not much media exposure in North America. It is a great piece of cinematic traditional animation backed with a solid story and artistic liberty of form. Not a Hollywood powerhouse production, The Secret of [...]
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LOST 365 Project

By tone | Published: March 8, 2010
Jared Stumpenhorst’s attempt at bringing Lost in 365 days with inspiration based on the 6th and final season of the popular ABC series.
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Descendants Featuring Whoopi Goldberg

By tone | Published: March 8, 2010
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I would guess, let the flood gates open as many will try to capitalize on the Avatar inspired look. Descendants featuring the voice work Whoopi Goldberg is one of those who will try to cash in the greatest all-time grossing movie in monetary terms. The CG animated film [...]
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The Sandpit

By tone | Published: March 1, 2010
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature created by Aero Director/ VFX artist Sam O’Hare. What appears to be a miniature set of New York city at work is but a canny collection of 35 000 still photos and fancy camera tricks to give the illusion of small scale objects and [...]
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Logorama

By tone | Published: February 28, 2010
Logorama is nominated for best short animation for the 2010 Oscars. Logorama examines our daily bombardment of visual ads in our commutes as main characters. Our collective lives are entwined with product placement and association of these universal products and the personification of the corporate identity we perceive of them. The logo has become [...]
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Adobe Photoshop Cookie Baking

By tone | Published: February 23, 2010
Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo. Would life not be better if they resembled some of our favorite computer programs. Adobe Photoshop would be the coolest device in the kitchen as illustrated by Vimeo user Stafania, a recent graduate of the Italian Institute of Design in Milan. Baking cookies with Photoshop is a [...]
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