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Logorama

This is the most awesome animated short movie I’ve seen recently and you will too. It’s called Logorama and all characters in it, buildings and additional props are entirely comprised out of company logos.

The movie uses logos as metaphors to succinctly communicate a number of obvious or subliminal messages (YMMV). I don’t know about you, but I’ve always looked behind Ronald McDonald’s fake smile (well, all clowns have those) and considered him evil as much as the company he’s representing. Further on you’ll see an earthquake (financial crisis) bringing down a number of buildings (financial institutions Ronald is calling “losers”, since McDonald’s wasn’t too affected by the crisis). My take on choosing Michelin men to represent cops (one good, one bad, of course) is that it reflects pretty nicely the common perception/prejudice of cops being donut-munching fatsos. After seeing many other interesting usages of logos, you may think that the movie foresaw some events like BP Oil Spill.

The authors are a French animation collective called H5 who have also created a number of animated music spots for the likes of Röyksopp, Super Fury Animals, Alex Gopher, Massive Attack, and many more. The movie also won a bunch of highly acclaimed awards including Academy award for Best Animated Short Film (at 82nd Academy Awards 2010, the Kodak Prix at Critics’ Week at Cannes Film Festival 2009 and many more.

Authors’ commentary on the message of the movie is also worth reading: ”Logorama presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks that are destroyed by a series of natural disasters (beginning with a hurricane, cyclone, tidal wave…). logotypes are used to describe an alarming universe (similar to the one that we are living in) with all the graphic signs that accompany us everyday in our lives. this over-organized universe is violently transformed by the cataclysm becoming fantastic and absurd. it shows the victory of the creative against the rational, where nature and human fantasy triumph.”

Thanks to Christopher for the link!

JavaZone Trailer: Java 4-ever

Brilliant!

Here’s a movie only software development geeks will be able to fully appreaciate - Java developers especially. :-)

Look out for the actor names:

• Eddie Larrison - play on the Oracle CEO’s name (Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems, owning Java trademark)
• Scala Johansson (Scarlet, of course; Scala is another programming language running inside JVM - Java Virtual Machine)
• William Windows (Gates, who else?)
• Mona Lisa Harddrive (hm… not really sure)
• Lenny Linux (here neither)

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<h3>Office 2010: The Movie</h3>

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When a rogue font is released into the wild, weird shit can happen to your office, i.e. Office. :-)

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Today I’m posting an animated short film and 10 minutes you must see!

The title is simple:

9

The author is a visual effects maestro who goes by the name of Shane Acker.

And yeah - a full-length movie under the same name is in post-production. The post-apocalyptic visual style with peculiar narration and great sound design has naturally attracted the likes Tim Burton so he has joined Mr. Acker in this endeavour as the producer. Another one joining this project is Timur Bekmambetov, of Night Watch and Day Watch fame, first two movies of the Russian version of Matrix trilogy.

Update: 9 will have its premiere on 9. 9. 2009. in the US.

I don’t know about you but I just can’t wait to see the whole shabang!

Commercial for Madrid Metro

Here’s a nice animation of the “overground” as seen from the Madrid undeground.

[via Peliculas Ponder]