Fredo's Fridays 23

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FEATURED VIDEO

DAVID CARSON
HILLMAN INTERVIEW



The man that many 300 dpi'S worship, known for his highly acclaimed Raygun Magazine, is interviewed by Hillman Curtis. Most notably in my mind, what stands out most from Mr. Carson's work was when he selected the entire text of an article for his magazine with the computer and changing it entirely to the dingbats font after he read how lame it was.

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FLASH SITES


NEC e616
PHONE SITE



Slick flash site for a new phone from NEC (Who's NEC?) Oh well, it is probably just another phone not available in the US.

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SCION
MATCHBOX CARS FROM ASIA



This entire flash site was really well done. Love the rollover music on the heads to the right.

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EMI MUSIC
MUSIC LABEL



Flash site for music label EMI, home of artists Air, Al Green, A Perfect Circle, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Courtney Love, Daft Punk, Culture Club, Gorillaz, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Janet Jackson, and Kamel Shadi (Who's Kamel Shadi?).

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STUDIO PORTFOLIO


NATIONAL TELEVISION
WORK, SHOWREEL, CLIENTS, DIRECTORS, CONTACT



Great broadcast motion graphics from these guys. I went straight to the Gwen Stefani video and watched the brilliance.

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DESIGN TOOLS


WHAT THE FONT?!
FONT FINDER



Now I know this has been out for some time now, but I alway seem to get asked at least once a week if I can identify a font for someone. Well, here is a free little page where you can upload a jpeg or gif of the actual font and it will help you find this font for you.

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Fredo's Fridays 22

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FEATURED VIDEO

DUCKLING
SPEEDING HURTS



This Danish production studio releases an impressive video "Speeding Hurts". The greenscreening and post images give a great insight to their smoke and mirrors.

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AERO
BUBBLE GIRL



Psyop from NY delivers yet another slick piece for Aero's bubble bar. Have you felt the bubbles melt?

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MOTION THEORY
CALIFORNIA VIDEO PRODUCTION



"Motion Theory creates at the convergence of filmmaking, design, animation, and visual effects."

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TRANSISTOR STUDIOS
VIDEO NY/CA



I posted these guys a few months back but they deserve to be linked again with this new site relaunch and fresh new content. Be sure to check out the reels of Justin Harder, Bradley Grosh, and Anders Schroeder.

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CAFE FX
FX REEL



"CaféFX built Sin City from the ground up, borrowing from the original comic panels, taking their own photos of period L.A. architecture and studying urban scenes from the film noir genre."

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FLASH SITES


WEST COAST CHOPPERS
REDESIGN



Jesse James and the bunch relaunch WCC with a new hybrid flash/html site.

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NOVEMBER
THE MOVIE



Slick site for the November movie.

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GEOTERRA
GENERAL ELECTRIC



Blitz Studios out of Cali released this beautifully illustrative site with games that actually got me to stick around longer than five seconds.

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GREY GOOSE VODKA
HI-RES FINGERPRINT



We are starting to see more and more of these z-axis zoom effect sites. This one however, created by the highly acclaimed Hi-Res Studio, has a nice elegant touch that sets it apart.

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Fredo's Fridays 21 - 3D

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FEATURED

THE CRAZY FROG
RINGTONE RIOT



Crazy Frog is the marketing title of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. The animation was originally created to accompany a sound effect produced by Daniel Malmedahl whilst attempting to imitate the sound of a two-stroke moped engine also known as the Insanity Test. In 2004, Jamster released the song as a ringtone. Across Europe in May 2005, "Axel F" went straight to number one on the UK charts, with some of the best weekly sales outselling the debut of Coldplay. Watch the hilarious video of this remix to the 1985 instrumental theme of Beverly Hills Cop movie.

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THE EMBASSY
V/FX STUDIO



This highly acclaimed visual effects studio from Vancouver, Canada is a major force in the 3d/VFX industry. Working in major film titles and high level commercials from I,Robot to Nike and the Matrix, these guys have enough render power to make your toes pop (whatever that means).

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BLUR
SOFTWARE/ANIMATION/VFX



Blur has always amazed me not only in their ability to do strong commercial work with Gaming Cinematics, movie V/FX, and animation, but also with their Brazil product which produces some incredible renders from 3d Studio Max.

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THE MILL
V/FX



I know I have mentioned The Mill before, but they deserve another link for their entire site. The undisputed VFX champion studio from the UK (and now NY) has talent coming out of their.......ears. Don't miss a single project from this impressive portfolio. It's all bueno.

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DIGITAL DOMAIN GROUP
VFX STUDIO



Do you guys remember that scene in Lord of The Rings where the Liv Taylor elf summoned the water horse spirits down the river to wash away the evil minions in hoodies?...Well, this is the studio responsible for such a marvelous spectacle. Oh yeah... and they did work on other high level work too, just go.

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iMAGINARY fORCES
IF



It all started with the movie "Seven". After that it was history for Kyle Cooper and his funky bunch. The masters of title sequences, an art started by the late Saul Bass in the movie Psycho. Ever time you watch a movie and you say "wow, the way they made the cast and title text come up on the screen was wayyy dope!", chances are, Imaginary Forces has left a finger print. These guys are also delving into interactive design and what not... their flash site is nice eyecandy tambien.

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MISC


Major studios we all know:

Industrial Light and Magic - George Lucas
Pixar Studios - Steve Jobs, Brad Bird and John Lasseter
Blue Sky Studios - Fox Entertainment (Ice Age, Robots)
Dreamworks - SKG (Spielberg, Kutzenberg, Geffen)- makers of Shrek
DNA Studios - Nickelodeon (Jimmy Neutron)

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FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHY

NICK KNIGHT
UPDATE



The man behind last week's Christian Dior's photography. Here he experiments with explosives and humans in one setting for Numero 50 magazine. Be sure to check out his other works along with the other photographers'.

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ALBRECHT GERLACH
PHOTO



Sweet new site from Design Studio "Group 94". They always seem to make everything so simple into something great.

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LUNK LUND
PHOTO AGENCY



The top photography agency in Stockholm, Sweden. Established in 1994. Photographers, stylists, prop stylists, set design, food stylists, hair, make up and high quality stock photography.

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FLASH SITES


HAVAIANAS
ILLUSTRATION/ANIMATION DELIGHT



This isn't your ordinary flip flop showcase... the animations and illustration will enchant you to buy, buy, buy! Take your flip flop and drag it around the site to watch the entire thing animate and build itself... then buy flip flops and you are set for the summer.

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THE BARBARIAN GROUP
BANNER AD DESIGN



I know I posted "banner ad design", but these guys are the studs behind The Subserviant Chicken viral campaign for BK which they named, the most successful online campaign ever! So go look at their banner ad designs and chicken work.

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VIDEO DESIGN


REXONA
FOR OVER-THE-TOP PROTECTION



This sweet commercial done by UK's best, The Mill, is definitely one of their best.

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UNITED
THE BULB



Nice illustrative commercial for United Airlines.

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Fredo's Fridays 19

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FEATURE

CHRISTIAN DIOR
UPDATE



Christian Dior does it again with a hot new update... and Nick Night behind the camera doing stunning work yet again.

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UBIQ LIFE
PHILLY KICKs WEAR



This store opened up on Philly's own Walnut St. A great place for new kicks, clothing and to see some fresh art.

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ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY


ANDREESCU AND GAIVORONSKI
ASSOCIATE ARCHITECTS



It is always nice to see good use of flash. This is the online showcase of two architects from Bucharest. Great fluid motion.

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DBRAIN
INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS



Beautiful interior and exterior work from this Japanese firm.

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PHOTOGRAPHY


DETLEF SCHNEIDER
GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER



Hot photography from German-born Detlef Schneider. His fashionable style is definitely unique with manipulation of dark colors.

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VIRAL MARKETING


THE SITH SENSE
VADER KNOWS



Try to see if Vader can guess at what you are thinking of through this mind guessing game. From the same people that brought you the subservient chicken... Burger King.

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BLOG/PHOTO


ZOTO
PHOTO UPLOAD



The first contender for the image upload title against Flickr is live. Zoto looks to have the same features.

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Fredo's Fridays 18

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FEATURE

FANTASTIC FOUR
ONLINE GAME



Play against others in this online flash game for the new Fantastic Four Movie.

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CSS/FLASH DESIGN

WEB.BURZA
CSS POWER



These guys are doing some nice stuff with CSS and a kiss of flash. Nice site from Web.Burza.

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VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

H.264
QUICKTIME COMPRESSION



Quckitime's lastest compression codec offers amazing quality at higher resolutions. Be sure to check out this page that demonstrates just how powerful this codec really is. (Only available on the mac... for now).

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ONLINE PORTFOLIO


LANCE WYMAN
BRANDING AND DESIGN SYSTEMS



"A design dinosaur, his work can be found in urban wayfinding systems, cultural centers, public transportation systems, public parks, international events, and corporate identities."

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PRINT DESIGN/BOOK


BLACK DAY TO FREEDOM
BOOK



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MUNK MOTION
PORTFOLIO OF MORTON ROWLEY



Great motion design from Artist Morten Rowley.

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Fredo's Fridays 17

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FEATURE

DODGEBALL
SEE YOUR FRIENDS MORE



Dodgeball and Google have joined forces as Google acquires another online entity. Dodgeball allows the socially consciencous to be more social :) Coordinate social intractions, meet new people or give serendipity a "nudge". Being hailed by Wired as "...the first MoSoSo provider.." Check out what is the buzz at Dodgeball.com.

**MoSoSo - Mobile Social Software**

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TECHNOLOGY DESIGN

RE-IMAGINING APPLE:
APPLE GEAR WE HOPE TO SEE



"These product images accompanying this story were created for Business 2.0 by award-winning design firm Pentagram. The project was led by Robert Brunner, who was Apple's chief designer from 1989 to 1996 and who oversaw the design of the PowerBook line, among many other hit products."

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FLASH ANIMATION

TOKYOPLASTIC
MUSIC BOX



The latest installment from Tokyoplastic. For those that missed their first work "The Drum Machine", Tokyoplastic releases two new pieces in both raster-based and vector-based 3d animation.

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ONLINE MARKETING


OLD SPICE
WHEN SHE'S HOT



Create your own commercial using prerendered video and audio clips, all in a flash environment. Not to be confused with the paradoy "When You Stink"

SHE'S HOT LINK
YOU STINK LINK


SENSATION
BLACK



It is great to see more and more people taking advantage of video production and publishing it on the web. Although this is for an event that many of you many not attend, it definitely does its job well.

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TWiN
PORTFOLIO



Teaser site from Johnathan and John Baker - A directing crew from Sydney.

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TYPOGRAPHY


TYPOPHILE
BETA



A great community to find all of your typographic needs.

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FEATURE

ADIDAS ORIGINALS
BROADBAND CINEMATICS



My personal first contender for site of the year. Adidas has a great new site in their hands with this powerful online showcase with a sexy cinematic feel. Go here and select "movie" in the middle for the best experience.

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FILM


RUBBER JOHNNY
CHRIS CUNNINGHAM/APHEX TWIN



"Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK's most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring music by legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham's first published book of original artwork."
Be sure to view the trialer.

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TECHNOLOGY DESIGN


CENTAUR
CONCEPT



"Like the mythical half-horse, half-man of Greek lore, Concept Centaur combines the best of several technologies to create an innovative whole. The result of exploration by Segway LLC's product development team, Concept Centaur will challenge the way you think about four-wheeled transportation."

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MICHELIN
REVOLUTIONARY TWEEL



"At the NAIAS 2005, Michelin unveiled the first real-world application of a radical new technology that integrates tire and wheel, and operates with no air pressure." See the Tweel applied to the Segway Centaur.

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ARCHITECTURE DESIGN


UNREALIZED MOSCOW
Москва невоплощенная



The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Unrealised projects

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POSEIDON UNDERSEA
RESORTS



The world's first permanent one-atmosphere sea floor structure and the world's first true undersea resort. Guests will enjoy 5 star luxury accommodation, all with stunning views of the underwater world. For only $1500 a night... I hope I don't get wet.

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VIRAL MARKETING


AXE
FEATHER FUN



A bed, a not so good looking girl, your mouse, and a feather... don't get carried away. It is only French, viral marketing with video implementation. Now go send this to your buddies.

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PRODUCT DESIGN


TARGET BOTTLE
THE PERFECT PRESCRIPTION



How the pill bottle was remade—sensibly and beautifully.

The photo above is the pill bottle designed by Deborah Adler, a 29-year-old graphic designer whose ClearRx prescription-packaging system debuts at Target pharmacies on May 1.

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FLASH SITE


PSP
A FAIRY TALE



"If you are looking for "temptation within fairy tale", this one is for you. True, the site is a beauty. And yes, it's filled with models posing as fairy tale chicks holding delicious technology in their hands. What's not to like?!"

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CSS AND OTHER NONFLASH :)


CODA COZA
MySQL, PHP, XHTML 1.0, CSS2/3, FLASH



Damien du Toit, from Cape Town has found the winning formula with his latest site design. His site exhibits a mixture of MySQL, PHP, XHTML 1.0, CSS2/3 and a kiss of Flash.

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