Inspiration: Paper cutting

How gorgeous is this video? It was created by the talented Nicole Licht, an in house designer for Etsy. If you're making paper art work this is a much watch - look at the incredible intricacy of the pieces cut out!

Inspiration: Video Books

Hans-Peter Feldman // Paris from haveanicebook on Vimeo.

Have a nice book have created these beautiful videos that allow you to engage with books in an innovative digital format. Each video takes you through an artist/photography book page by page and even have has accompanying music. Check out the full collection on their vimeo channel!

Inspiration: Me Studio

frontiers of reality - test film from me studio on Vimeo.

How incredible is this video by Me Studio made entirely by hand with string!

Tutorial: for Photoshop and Illustrator!

We have started to upload the video tutorials you've been using in class to YouTube so you can access them outside of lessons and from home! 

Stephen Fry:Planet Word

This weeks episode of Stephen Fry's documentary Planet Word looked at the history of writing and the development of the alphabet - perhaps it would make a good background clip to watch/listen to whilst working on your typography outcomes! You can catch up with it on BBCiPlayer (12 days left to view!)

Inspiration: Vivienne Westwood

I've gone a bit Vivienne Westwood crazy this week! I've found another great video, this time it's the  Red Label SS12 catwalk show. To have a look behind the scenes at the Gold Label show have a look at our previous post.

Inspiration: Vivienne Westwood

This video is great! It gives you a sneak peak behind the scenes at Vivienne Westwood's Gold Label SS12 show! The collection had 3 main influences; China, The Desert and 17th Century corsets and you can read more about those influences in this article.

Natural Beauty

Dutch artist duo Lernert and Sander have taken the cocept of 'caked in make-up' to a whole new level. The film above shows them both applying a years worth of make-up to the face of model Hannelore Knuts. They repeatedly use everyday cosmetics such as foundation, blusher, eyeshadow and lip gloss to the models face to make the model become less recognisable. It's fascinating to watch the texture of the foundation as it sits heavily on the models face, the blusher and eyeshadow providing the only colour. The duo told the Nowness website: 

"We wanted to apply 365 layers of makeup in one day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one."

The whole process took 9 hours, during which the model couldn't move and could only eat and drink through a straw. The artists used 7 bottles of foundation, 2 bottle of cream eyeshadow, 3 lip gloss pens and 2 bottles of blusher. All together 228.40ml of make-up.

Further digging has led me to Chocolate Bunny (see video below) where Lernert & Sander melted a chocolate bunny with a hairdryer. By shooting something desirable and cute as a chocolate bunny and then melting it, their aim was to shock - by shaking children out of their state of comfort. 

What you see is what you get. 

Watch this!

American photographer Taryn Simon has a new exhibition at Tate Modern titled A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. Simon travelled around the world researching and recording family bloodlines and their related stories. The subjects documented by Simon include the body double of Saddam Hussein's son Uday and the living dead in India. Her collection of images chart the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.

Watch the video below as Taryn Simon talks about her new exhibition.

Simons exhibition is open until 6th November 2011.