I love when I forget something I used to think was cool but then find it again. I saw this video while in Las Vegas over the weekend and I immediately looked for it when I came home this week. The song, Flat Beat by Mr. Oizo, isn’t all that great but I love the video. Flat Eric starred in some Levi’s commercials but his crowning achievement is the video for Flat Beat. He basically bops his head up and down to the music and seems to be a high level executive typing on his computer, signing papers, and testing cigars. The puppet is very simple but very expressive and conveys a lot of humor with the simplest movements. I think I might have to include some more retro-inspiration this week…
Elio
August 15, 2006 By
Image from Elio on Flickr
I don’t normally like watercolor, but I was really drawn to this work by Elio, a Chicao based artist. Since I don’t like using watercolor, I’m not always looking at watercolor artwork, but I often like when watercolor is mixed with dark, black lines. I like how Elio uses very strong, bold, humorous line work and adds minimal splashes of color. I saw him on Drawn! and I am impressed. He has a site other than the Flickr site, but Drawn! has had some problems lately. I think they have heavier traffic because of a Time article they were recently in.
Threadless
August 9, 2006 By
Threadless is nothing new. It has received a lot of press over the past year, but I haven’t seen a lot of inspiring artwork lately so I thought I would talk about something that is truly deserving of the tag “inspirational”. The premise is simple. Each week, people submit t-shirt designs. Anyone who views the site can score each design. The designs with the highest scores every week win $2000 in cash and prizes, and people can actually buy their t-shirt. Pretty cool, huh? The t-shirt designs range from clever to strange to beautiful to spectacular. Now, if only I could come up with a good design…
