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Spotted this story over at Creative Review Blog and had to share it. It features a great re-invention of the flip book, using balloons and a popper on a 200 metre rail. Directed by Dulcidio Caldeira at ParanoidBR this stop-motion ad for MTV, used the action of bursting balloons to create a brand new style of flip-book.
“To achieve a moving picture effect, 10 balloons had to be popped per second, or 600 balloons per minute,” Caldeira says. “It took nearly 24 straight hours to shoot the multiple takes needed.”
Certainly inventive and memorable it brings a whole new dimension to the ancient idea of the flip book.
As some of you may of noticed (via Twitter and the Dot Design blog) I was pretty annoyed at the beginning of last week. Annoyed due to the newly launched website StartUpBritain, this is the site backed by the Prime Minister David Cameron that is an attempt to help startups and new business in Britain.
Though a great idea and obviously something worth backing I was disappointed to notice that when it came to supporting British designers the site preferred to recommend a US crowd sourced design site. So when the site launched I vented my anger via Twitter along with alot of other designers and businesses. My ranting was then picked up by Mark King at The Guardian who rang me to find out my view on the subject. (more…)
