Story Box | An Exploration in Craft:
Tanner Goods is a small leather goods manufacturer located in Portland, Oregon. They work hard to manage multiple storefronts and offer a wide range of hand crafted leather accessories. They thrive on their attention to detail and appreciation for top quality products. In the future they plan to expand their product line to include non-leather goods such as eyewear and time pieces, while maintaining their strong roots in simplicity and utilitarian product design.
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Kony 2012:
KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
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One Minute Wonder:
One minute wonders is just that. A series of video portraits of wondrous people, telling their personal story in 60 seconds flat. Artists, entrepreneurs, designers and rain-makers offer up an insight into the individual, their motivations and what really makes them tick. People who live within a moment in time that we define as the Present Plus.
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Story Box: Lifeblood:
Taking original footage from Planet Earth and Frozen planet Ben Symonds has reinvented and transformed the footage into something more than a documentary.
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Fidgit Box Production: GoSquared 4.0:
Fidgit Box produced this short animation for the release of GoSquared’s new real time analytics interface.
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Where To Find Inspiration When The World Tells You To Give Up :
I am staring through a wall of fog at the vague contours of an empty runway. Airplanes should fill this scene, but they can’t land. At 1:55 p.m., my flight status should read “Departed” but still reads “On Time.” Nothing here seems to be working. I want to quit and tell the 100 people scheduled to show up at my workshop tomorrow morning to take the day off.
Surely you’ve felt the same before. You were launching a new product, leading a once-exciting project, or growing your business. Things started out fun and you made some initial progress. Then you hit a “dip,” as Seth Godin calls it. Your progress slows, your passion evaporates, and everywhere you look the signs seem to be saying “give up.”
Do you quit? How do you generate the energy to push on?
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2AM:
Have you ever been up late till early in the morning and been extremely bored? What do you normally do? 2AM shows you what you can do with a couple friends and some good camera equipment. Additional lights from Ikea, masking tape, white A4 paper and tracing paper. Edited by Laith Wallace (Pixeloute Design Studio), with additional Photography from Sai Wentum (Ess Dots & Pixeloute Design Studio) and Gabriel Fayika from Scope Photography
Filmed with a Canon 7D
Lenses: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens
Photography: Canon 500D
Lens: Canon EF Lens - 50 mm - F/1.8
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Story Box: Juicy Digital (Josh), Watercolour:
In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. Painting is a mode of expression and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. This video highlights the process of painting, showing how even something very creative and organic still has a mechanical side with process and technique.
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How Creatives Can Save The World:
The biggest threat to the world right now comes from bad ideas. Ideas are like fruit. They go bad. Ideas that might have been good once have brought climate change, the economic crisis and peak oil. I'm not saying that there is a particular way of the world that should be saved; industrial, tribal or 24 hour pure techno. But I do believe that creatives can save the world. Because creatives can get people out of a rut.
Investigators of disasters know; it’s not one big error that leads to a disaster, it’s a series of small ones. And that, my creative friends, is our way in. Everyday there are countless moments when small disasters can be averted through creative thinking backed up by creative doing. For an idea to really take root, it matters how you plant it. Handing out advice rarely works for me. In fact, I’m almost guaranteed to be ignored, even if someone is paying for that advice. I find the thing that really makes the difference is that the idea has to be genuinely for their benefit, and given freely. Sure, I charge for my time. But I let the idea go. Unless it’s a really good one in which case I close my mouth and make a mental note: see IP lawyer in the morning.
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Michael Kiwanuka, 'Eventually you accept who you are':
These might come to seem precious hours for Michael Kiwanuka, when he looks back. It's a slow Thursday afternoon, bland and chilly in that specially offensive January way, the 25-year-old folk singer wrapped in a duffel coat and sitting unnoticed in the depths of a London bar. Tomorrow he will be named the BBC's "Sound of 2012", an award that seeks to identify, in the early days of the new year, the artist or act who'll prove British music's most significant debutant by December. Another bit of talked-up, awards-season guff, you'd say – you'd say if the call wasn't so often right, Jessie J and Adele and 50 Cent and Keane among the wisely tipped "Sounds" from years gone by.
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Story Box: Mike Matas, One Week In Japan:
In November 2011, Mike Matas and his girlfriend travelled to Japan, taking the train from Kyoto - Nara - Hakone and then to Tokyo. This film is made of nearly 4000 photos taken over one week in Japan.
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The Noun Project:
The best ideas, like the best song lyrics, feel familiar from the moment we encounter them. (We say, "I should have thought of that!") The Noun Project, a growing library of free, downloadable icons symbolizing objects and concepts, feels like one of those ideas. So simple it seems obvious, and so useful you can’t believe it didn’t exist before
Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov, along with designer Scott Thomas, The Noun Project launched in 2010 with a catalog of a few hundred icons and has since grown by leaps and bounds. New symbols are submitted daily by designers around the world, and the Noun Project team recently crowdsourced the translation of its library into 25 languages.
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Made Men: Top 10 Most Influential Men Of The ’20s:
There’s perhaps no other decade in the 20th century in which the world underwent as much change as it did than in the roaring ’20s. Technology grew by leaps and bounds, spurred by the visions of an elite group of innovators; culture was thriving thanks to a group of writers and filmmakers that pushed the boundaries of their respective art forms. The seeds for a war that would change everything were sewn. Here are 10 men who had a hand in defining the most influential decade of the 20th century.
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Story Box: James Isbell, Spaceman:
The animation in itself is amazing with the little Spaceman and his rocket… On top of this the inspiring story about a friendship and helping each other, as James laughs with his little friend and helps his newfound companion return home by making him a Rocket! It’s short and sweet with a loveable Spaceman character and a lovely storyline. It hopefully leaves the viewers wanting more, it definitely made me want to watch more…
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Story Box: Simone Giampaolo, White + Black = RED:
“White + Black = RED” is a socially positive animated short with a strong anti-racist message. The story is about an argument between two opposite characters: one white and one black who, by the end of the film, learn how to respect and love each other.
It is entirely stop-motion animated on two female bodies, a pale one and a darker-skinned one. Therefore, I’m very grateful to the two models, who’ve been really, really patient during the production of this animated short!
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Highlighted Business: Fidgit Box:
This week, Guest Editor Lola Bukvic of Fidgit Box, describes our online venture, highlighting the opportunities that the digital world can offer on OnlyUncle.
With the opportunity of entering a creative sustainability competition whilst at their university, Matt Dadson and Roy M. Kimani took it upon themselves to use this as the initial springboard to launch a new online company. However, long before this competition, Matt had always been intrigued by the idea of finding a space where the creative could be able to collaborate with others, whilst Roy researched on finding ways creative ideas could be effectively exchanged. It was the coalition of these two ideas that led to the birth of Fidgit Box. Early on the two cofounders had two mandates…
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Story Box: Ben Symonds, This Place:
We all have our own special place. From television shows to social blogs to natural retreats to our very own imaginations. A special place not only provides a sense of comfort that we cannot source elsewhere, but removes us from a chaotic and fast-paced world, where we can dream a little and unwind in what can be considered as our own kingdom.
“This Place” by Ben Symonds takes the audience on a personal adventure, as they travel alongside the featured character towards his “favourite place”. From a unique and creative set of typography to the heart warming and mystifying music, “This Place“ steals a piece of our hearts and keeps us on edge as the story beautifully unfolds in front of our eyes as if we too were riding through this wonderful journey.
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More Than Just A Charity: Hope HIV:
Are we able to articulate our feelings and inspiration with just one word? Can a construction of letters truly illustrate our heart’s content?
We are all aware of the ancient saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ and with that being the common application on a daily and overly regular basis, its become rather detrimentally stuck on repeat. In today’s 21st century modern society, we have gradually distanced ourselves from expressing ourselves through language and migrated towards carelessly popping out words like a tennis ball machine, with little meaning and no feelings attached. Technology and materialism most certainly play the leading role in this communicational dilemma, as we have slowly but surely began to fuel and feed our inspiration and happiness off robotic and manmade objects, or co adhering to the latest trend on twitter. It’s as if we have almost forgotten, through the continuous iPad editions and designer collaborations, what truly matters to us as a human race.
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The One Word:
Forget “You look Stunning” and “Great Hair Darling”, Generous seems to be the trending compliment in today’s society, yet before we so easily deliver the compliment as we receive it are we really as generous as we proclaim to be?
Dropping that spare 20p coin from your coat pocket into the homeless guy’s plastic cup outside Sainsbury’s or discussing how BBC’s Children In Need had you reaching for the Kleenex all night isn’t quite enough. Sorry honey, but the charity of the year award isn’t heading in your direction. When it comes to charity and donations especially during today’s financial crisis alongside global inflation, there is of course a fine line and a limitation according to our bank accounts on how much we can give. Yet by paying more attention to our outgoing expenditures just as little as £10 can save the lives of many in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), with 73% of those countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Nik Pears recognized the troubles in Sub-Saharan Africa at a reasonably early stage and decided to put others needs before him. FIDIGTBOX: NIK PEARS goes behind the scenes with the charity and music mogul discussing his music label and Sessions agency Dependant Records, yet most importantly Charity organisation Hopehiv which celebrates its 10th birthday this year.
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