Lucky Number Slevin

A bit behind with the times i know, but what a great movie, very cunning in its plot and lots of phrases that all come together as the film progresses - the Kansas Shuffle, Good Cat and Slevin. It is a better version of Oceans 11 when looking at the storyline, everything seemingly links even down to the small fact of the baseball. The filming of the film is clever, one part is Slevin playing chess with The Boss and then Smith playing The Boss, it flows through a three way conversation which has only ever taken place between two people; from Smith to The Boss and The Boss to Slevin. A useful way of showing how the information was received and passed on to with who was involved. The film is a mixture of gang culture mixed in with humour, a fantastic film to be seen by all, i don't want to say to much to spoil it but it's awesome.

Silent Disco

I know were not supposed to be uploading our nights out in Leeds etc but this is for the marketing of it. Every Tuesday at NU they have a Silent Disco, a strange concept you may think but actually pretty good. Everyone has wireless headphones and the choice of two channels for variation in music and their own volume. It's great because you can take off your headphones and talk to each other relatively easy and funnily you hear everyone singing which is normally drowned out from the music (must be awful for the bar staff...). Check out vid below for a bit of atmosphere.



When you think about the concept it's great, you go out with a group of friends and each has a different taste in music usually resulting in a compromise or split. So this lets you all stay together and dance to what you like, clever idea and funny when your all dancing to different channels because what your listening to doesn't match up with others dancing.

Cadbury's Ad

My sister kept raving about this as supposedly did radio 1, this is far from what i expected from Cadburys, one of the best bits for me was at the beginning - a GLASS and a HALF FULL PRODUCTION, using what you've got to reinforce the brand that bit more but in a playful way. Now the actual ad has Phil Collins backing music with which the gorilla later starts playing the drums...one of the bizarrest ads especially from Cadburys but to be fair if nothing else it will get people talking.

Section Seven

This site is for a design agency in Seattle, the layout is pretty basic but effective and interactive. It is easy to navigate and clearly labels and displays the work. A varying range bright colours are used for signifying different projects, to look at the site is nothing special but it has a nice flow to it and works well.


It's good to see all the varying layouts as you get to see what works and realise you can work out what you want, what is popular and what your aiming for - is it high tech animation and layout or simple and effective?

www.sectionseven.com

Photography

I found this site through another site, what mainly appealed was there idea - A collection of unexpected photography. It's nice that it is not all set up or have to be in certain genres, it can be anything you want. If you go on have a look at the collection through the thumbnails you get to see how random the collection is. The two pictures below i found in pretty quick concession.



Let's just say it's interesting.

www.filemagazine.com

Perfect Fools

This websites pretty funny, bit weirder than the rest and interesting to navigate. When your looking at it the trees seem to get in the way of the work and you wonder why would anyone put stuff stuff in front of there work. A small toolbar along the side and bottom allow you to go across and up and down. Thought it was very interesting to have this layout of a ground where it could interfere with viewing there material, but maybe that's the point, it makes people look harder. By the looks of it they have had some big clients but annoyingly the absolut stuff i wanted to look at would not open, but check it out even if just for the layout features, never seen anything like it.


www.perfectfools.com

Jonathan Yuen

This site was featured in one of the american design magazines and from the stills in the book it looked good, but it's even better in real life. You start off fishing and you get the choice of two crosses, one takes you into that section, the other takes you across the site and opens up more areas.


The further across you go the more you explore and end up with a picture as below. Then each section that gets added on creates a picture.


It is a wonderful site to explore and the work is pretty good too. From the main screen it takes an element and carries it through to the next section keeping it consistent. On the right section of the picture above you will notice a guy with a frog when you go into that section it follows on to the screen below.



A great site that should be looked at http://www.jonathanyuen.com/main.html