Incase I haven’t told you a thousand times already, tomorrow I will embark on my trip to Coachella. I will return from my festival / road trip holiday on Tuesday 8th of May, therefore you should not expect any lightweight blog / link postings from me until then. Good luck and Good night!
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A collection of german photographer Andreas Gursky’s recent work is being exhibited at the White Cube, Mason’s Yard. It’s big, it’s clever and well worth a visit before the show ends on Saturday May 5th (entrance is free).
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Last year I told you about Zopa, a project I worked on at Poke during the summer.
Well it has been nominated for a Webby award this year in the Bank / Bill paying category. The nomination is great news, even better, it’s in with a chance to win two awards - one awarded by the Judges and one voted by the public.
The bad news is that as it stands its not winning the ‘People’s Voice award’ , currently it’s lying joint second with 20% of the vote. So this is when I ask you kindly to find two minutes and go and register and vote Zopa, voting ends next friday, April 27th.
Please feel free to send this desperate post onto friends who you think might like the project enough to vote for it 
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From a far (gazing at billboards) I have been liking most of the artwork for the current low cost flights campaign for BA. Today I found out that ad agency BBH created them and National Telelvision brought them to life, there is a small animation sequence of the type transisitions here.
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SingleShot is a collection of 15 film and video pieces that have been shot in one single take. The project is presented in a fine one page website from BVA, which features subtle AJAX and Flash goodness, with Google maps to support the event listings. Nice work.
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Well on the world wide internet anyway. Just so you know, I have been planning and researching my forthcoming holiday to California and these sites in particular have been helpful…
71 miles
Is a site the Nunz showed me at an official Poke graphics catch up a few weeks back. It’s basically a combination of a feed mash up (eg. kayak, google maps) and good editorial to give you a rich, insightful overview to various locations in Northern California.
My Google Maps
Everyone knows how great Google Maps is, now there is the ‘My Maps’ feature. It’s been very handy for me in plotting potential hotels and getting my bearings, and if I wanted to share my findings with my travel companion and everyone in the internet galaxy the option was there for me to.
DK Travel
I never told you about DK Travel did I? This is a project we did a few months ago for the travel book publishers Dorling Kindersley. As you might expect the site has a great wealth of information on various global destinations, but the clever bit is that you can create your own travel guides, that are downloadable and fit for printing at a small cost. For a far more superior / in depth overview of the project read Tom’s post here.
Posted by Dom
This YouTube user has a great selection of title sequences
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Over the last couple of months I have been enjoying the ‘Thought for the week’ commentary from Johnson Banks studio, ‘a regular posting-place for our verbal and visual observations’. You might do to…
Posted by Dom
‘Sunshine’ (Fox Searchlight) (Sunshine DNA) (IMDB) was a full on spectacular feast of the senses. Danny Boyle/Alex Garland have created a tale epic proportions with believable characters and minimal yet appropriate reference to an already cliched area. All in all, Sunshine is decent stylish sci fi thriller which Id happily watch again at an IMAX.
In a (Solaris/Armageddon) kinda way, it has a couple of well engineered emotionally resonant highs.. (thankfully void of the typical cliched crutches) accompanied by a loud, all enveloping soundtrack by Underworld.
Despite my reservations about the lead choice Cillian Murphy, casting was spot on, Hiroyuki Sanada of ‘Ring’ fame above.
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