Though I prefer to rent movies (ah, the freedoms of one’s own living room!), I headed to the movie theatre earlier this week to catch The Artist.

This 21st century silent movie by French director Michel Hazanavicius has gotten everyone talking ever since it hit the Cannes Film Festival – and especially now that the movie, its director, and its two lead actors are up for Golden Globe awards.

I urge everyone to go see it, if anything, just to experience a very special atmosphere that we often don’t get at the movies anymore: a kind of mesmerizing stillness and quiet that lasts for 100 minutes, interrupted only by intermittent chuckles, (and not by the noise of rustling candy wrappers and soda slurps).

Tidbit: The comical and very classy Jean Dujardin is [...]]]>

The handsome George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) kind of looks like a cross between Gene Kelly and Gomez Adams, don't ya think?

Though I prefer to rent movies (ah, the freedoms of one’s own living room!), I headed to the movie theatre earlier this week to catch The Artist.

This 21st century silent movie by French director Michel Hazanavicius has gotten everyone talking ever since it hit the Cannes Film Festival – and especially now that the movie, its director, and its two lead actors are up for Golden Globe awards.

I urge everyone to go see it, if anything, just to experience a very special atmosphere that we often don’t get at the movies anymore: a kind of mesmerizing stillness and quiet that lasts for 100 minutes, interrupted only by intermittent chuckles, (and not by the noise of rustling candy wrappers and soda slurps).

Tidbit: The comical and very classy Jean Dujardin is up for Best Actor for his role as George Valentin in The Artist, which has been nominated for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical)

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 [...]]]>

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 Music Waste. Stick around to see what else we’ve come up with.

-Justin