Presenting the 1938 Auto Union type D. Read the rest of this entry »

Just watched this, again, on DVD…

Some might not like this film, they need to lighten up, but I think it one of the great SF films of all time. The classic Luc Besson film, with over the top costume designs of Jean Paul Gultire as well as set desings from Jean Giraud (of renowned French graphic novel ‘Moebius’ fame), is unashamedly Euro-centric and that’s part of its draw.

To put it simply, The Fifth Element is not only very funny and a visual feast (that pokes fun of greats such as Aliens but also has endless hidden detail) but the script is spot on and when combined with the great editing, make it a film of timing and segways that are seamless and very funny.

If you have not seen it and you like SciFi, or even if you don’t, see it.
The DVD sits in my very selective collection…

We just got back a sample of some jeans today. Lordy they are fine and we are not saying that just because we designed them, or are offering them for sale in the near future either. They are really, really nice; should be, they take close to four hours to make! Read the rest of this entry »

We read this on a UK based clothing company’s website:

“Own Less

If you don’t own the latest thing, it won’t go out of date.
If you don’t own much, you won’t have much to lose.
If you own next to nothing,you won’t worry about ending up with nothing.
If you own less than you want, you will still have more than you need.
If you spend less money on things, you can spend more time on you.
If you own less, you will value it more.
If you own only what you can carry,you will carry less baggage around with you.

Travel light”

Oh for fuck’s sake, what does THAT mean? How can a company whose whole existence is based on selling stuff to people, the more the merrier each year we might add, come up with such a pile of shite, or worse still stick this on their website?

Have we might have missed something here but isn’t this a complete pile of hypocritical horse crap? How can anyone expect to run a business based on the principle of selling stuff to consumers every hour, every day, every week, and every month of every year turn around and tell their customers to buy less?

If a company does not want you to buy, it should close shop and stop inflicting this sort of drivel on us all.

Hokay, I’ll admit it, I really, really dig stuff like this; always have. Men in black jumping out of aircraft way up, with wings on their backs to glide behind enemy lines in stealth mode.
Cooooooool! Read the rest of this entry »

For over seven years we worked creating digital montages for architecture offices in order for them to convey what they are doing to clients, councils and courts. For better or worse we were pretty damn good at it and could create montages that looked like photographs. We knew all the tricks and developed some of our own that would fool the observer into believing that what they were looking at was actually a real photograph. Read the rest of this entry »