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MUSIC WASTE 2010

Today we’re going to show you a little something that Global Mechanic’s own 1998creative came up with for this year’s Music Waste. Some of you might be wondering what Music Waste is. Well, it’s a music art and comedy festival held at various venues all over Vancouver. It goes from June 2nd to June 5th 2010. For more info on venues and artists please visit the music waste website here.

The animation will be up on the music waste website and should be playing here and there on a loop during the festival. It was meant as a sort of fun little art project that could be projected at any venue. As you can see, the animation takes you on a trip through the history of music players from the gramophone all the way up to the mp3 player.

1998creative has been working on a few other design elements for this year’s [...]

1998creative Interviewed by Sad Magazine

Chris and Justin were recently interview on the Sad Magazine website by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Slaven. Go check out the interview. It’s gots lots ofs links!

TIME-LAPSE KITCHEN MURAL IN KNIGHT STREET HOUSE

Recently, Chris Mckinlay (the other half of 1998) moved into a soon-to-be-destroyed house on Knight Street. He and his roommate James have fixed the place up quite nicely since they moved in, but you should have seen the place when they first got it. This should give you some perspective: I believe the only rule that his landlord gave them was, “No growing or selling drugs. Other than that, I don’t care what you do”. So Chris took that very seriously and we went to town thinking of some fun things we could do in his house. The first idea we had was to paint all over the walls. We thought it’d be fun to do a big mural in his kitchen. So I designed a mural idea (giant blades of grass and their root systems) and Chris and I just kind of went for it. I drew on the [...]

KEEPING IT HOLY: BEHIND THE SCENES

How dee,
Today we’re going to be showing you some production stills from the last 10 commandments short. It was a hairy shoot. We thought we would try and get the video out before the super bowl (because of the football theme) so we only had a week to finalize the idea, make props, test shoot, shoot and then do the editing and foley. It was a challenge to say the least, but we got it done and we’re proud of what came out the other side. Take a look at some of our photos (the quality isn’t exactly fantastic. We were using the nice camera to make the film so i just used my iphone for these stills):

So there you have the basic layout of the set and some of the art room. The two are [...]