Street Art: Nunca 14:10

As you probably know by now, I’m interested in street art, as long as it manages to look “different” somehow. And this one does. Nunca from Brazil. Lovely work which looks totally contemporary, but has an ancient vibe to it.

 

MANIFESTO Profile: Nunca from themanifesto.ca on Vimeo.

David A Smith: Sign Artist 12:35

Hand crafted reverse glass signs, decorative silvered and gilded mirrors,… A unique behind-the-scenes look into the working methods and techniques of one of the few remaining traditional glass artists…

 

David A Smith - Sign Artist from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

 

 (Found via The Donut Project)

Sound+Graphics(4): Seaquence 11:11

My apologies to the regular readers of Monsieur Bandit. It’s been a while since my last conf… ahum…post. Life got in the way. Nasty thing, life. You know…

Today Monsieur Bandit is back with a fourth installment in the sound + graphics series. You might remember the last one (check it out here), the “Tonematrix”, a virtual sequencer, something resembling a monome, and lots of fun to play with.

This one is quite similar, but more elaborate. And again, it looks like a great thing for people like me, who know absolutely zip-all about music but still would like to play.(I’ve got a very sad story about how my musical aptitude got crushed in kindergarten. Remind me to tell it one day…),

The “Seaquence” adopts a biological metaphor: it allows you to create musical life-forms in a virtual petri-dish, and combine them into pretty convincing compositions. It is hopeless to try and explain it with words, so please check out this video for an introduction and then head over to http://seaquence.org where you can play with the actual thing!

Try and get not too addicted…

 

Seaquence Demo from Daniel Massey on Vimeo.

 

(Found via Co.Design)

Nina Simone 14:05

Done for a motion graphics class by Tamara Conolly. Nice video. And Nina Simone…

 

The Threadless Story 13:19

via thedonutproject.com

I must admit, I'm not a big T-shirt lover myself. I'm a shirt-wearing-kinda-guy. Then why a post on Threadless?

Threadless? Oh, come on! You know Threadless...? They are the online place to be for submitting t-shirt designs which, if they get selected by the Treadless-community and the Threadless-people themselves, actually get printed and sold.

That makes Threadless a shop, yes... But it also became a place to discover many,many interesting illustrators, often people who don't fit into either being a designer for some fancy studio or an artist for some even fancier gallery. Perhaps it's just some kid, working from his parents basement, like the one in the video (you gotta love that guy :) ....)

Take a look at the docu, then head over to www.threadless.com to check out some of the stuff they have. Maybe you'll get inspired, who knows...?

(Found via www.thedonutproject.com )

Martin Allais 16:41

via gestalten.com

The guy has a cat. What more do you need to know?

(Alright, if you insist: check out http://www.togetheronemoretime.com for more work and info...)

Pelé 15:41

Santander - Pelé from Isabella Papa on Vimeo.

A very short little video, which I know nothing about. It’s Pelé. It’s painted. I like it. Enjoy.

 

Edit: A helpful friend of Monsieur Bandit on twitter gives this as a translation: “Pele says he couldn't do more than 1000 goals alone without the help of the others. Football is a team game. Everybody ( the team) wins” and mentions it is an “ad for santander bank - sponsor for libertadores cup.  (Follow the example, let's do it together.)”  -  Thanks @marciawch