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BLU | MUTO

Found this animation from BLU just now and thought it was worth sharing here vs. just on my Tumblr.

Enjoy.

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Friday Music Video Fun

Slow week this week on the blog. Have been busy at work, but part of that was with a presentation to the agency with some thoughts on "what's next" in marketing which I'll get up on SlideShare and post a little on here. In the meantime, enjoy the Have You Seen In Your Dreams video by Miracle Fortress I came across today...

The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour

Love the illustration and animation in this one from The New Pornographers most recent album, Challengers.

the brunettes - her hairagami set

Thought this was an interesting use of marionettes and a comic book style of story telling. Enjoy.

múm - they made frogs smoke til they exploded

do the D.A.N.C.E

TrendCentral points out this interesting video from Justice in today's article:

Justice: Justice has been well known in electronica circles for the past few years for their remixes of songs by artists ranging from N.E.R.D. to Britney Spears, but the Parisian production duo is now receiving acclaim for their own debut album. Thanks to bloggers who spread the word on the animated t-shirt video for their summer club anthem “D.A.N.C.E.”, Justice is on their way to becoming a band known outside the somewhat insular world of electronica. They could also end up being big in the streetwear world: the t-shirts from the video have been selling out at stores such as Colette in Paris.

Tuned In

I keep meaning to start a music-focused blog. Until then, I'll put it up here. So, here is some music I've been listening to lately and the fun videos that go along with some of the artists' songs...

Peter Bjorn & John | Young Folks:

Malajube | Pate Filo:

Malajube | Montreal -40°C:

Loney, Dear | I am John:

So You Wanna Be A Gangsta

I saw these today on Last Gang Records' web site when I was looking into what other bands they have on their label since I can't stop listening to Emily Haines' new album and I've been enjoying her band Metric for over a year now.

I really like the illustration style, color choice and the instructional, yet humorous, tone of the copy. They remind me a lot of the MTV Watch and Learn campaign illustrated by Matt Vescovo, which I also enjoyed when it ran a few years ago.

Anyway each of these 'gang sign' illustrations made me laugh a little so I wanted to share them. Plus I thought they were interesting on a number of levels for how they could apply to some things we're working on right now.

If anyone knows who the illustrator is and/or where I can find more of them, please let me know. I feel like I've seen a book that has them and more illustrations like this/in this tone but am not quite sure and I tried a very quick, but unsuccessful Google search. I'll certainly try again at some point, but I appreciate any leads that would make it easier.

Here are a few more of them that I took screen grabs of:

What-up Dogg

We Cool

You Best Be Steppin'

Big Boss Man In Da House

Flash The Digits Yo!

Gimme A Ring