Wanna see what its like to go to North Korea?

From the guy that brought you Vice magazine and VBS.TV, 'North Korean Madness'...

This guys got balls, I saw him on another DVD going to Chernobyl where he had to drink copious amounts of vodka to slow the effects of the severe radioactivity in the area.
Love Vice.

Takeshi Murata...

Visual creative wizardry using Flash/after Effects/Cinema 4D. Love the obvious experimental style he has, looks so alluring. Its brilliant when people take a medium to one of its infinite limits. Adobe never had this in mind.

Cannes Lions...

The best advertising awards (I can think of right now), happened over the weekend. Some really impressive stuff this year.
Definitely worth a look!
http://www.canneslions.com
Cannon EOS - Photochains is a great idea and this movie for the new cinema aspect-ratio screened Philips TV...

is just awesome.
see the rest of the Philips vids on there youtube channel... HERE.

A real sad story...

Right Im gonna tell you all this once, and this is the last thing im ever going to say on the matter as the pain is just too unbearable to keep with me, after this last telling of the story im cutting the cord...
So, after reading my last post you will have gained that I was heading to Glastonbury festival last Thursday, I was so excited, Bags packed, youtube videos watched to hype myself up, alcohol brought and plastic bottled, I even borrowed an old phone so that I wouldn't have to rely on a shitty iphone battery, basically we were all set and ready to rock. I fell asleep the night before with butterflies in my stomach and even did that little 'running on the spot while laying down' thing you used to do when it was christmas eve as a kid. Next morning I woke up, an hour before my alarm, and rolled around with my eyes closed and slowly remembered that it was the day we were off to Glasto, happy. Then, as I rolled over, I felt a small uncomfortableness in my neck just below the right side of my jaw and I felt it with my fingertips. A small painful lump, about the size of a sachet of ketchup and as soon as I had felt it I knew exactly what it was... MUMPS (my girlfriend and her housemates had gotten it 2 weeks ago). Fucking mumps, and I havent really left my room since. Physically lumpy and emotionally scarred.
"These things happen", you might say, and "theres always next year" but this one was a special one, It was the 40th, it was the World Cup, but most of all it was sunny, VERY SUNNY. for those of you from outside the UK Its virtually never sunny at Glastonbury festival, kind of an ongoing joke.
So despite my saying in my last post I would have a full Glasto review... I don't... just a real sad story... and a (now boiled egg sized) mump on my jaw.
...still, these things happen, theres alway next year.

ARGH!...

and ARRRRGHHH!!!...

Ladies and gents...

Im doing some top secret guerilla-style advertising around London tonight so keep your peepers out for it tomorrow!
Also I will be galavanting off to Glastonbury (if you hadn't realised that yet) so my next post will be the next coming Monday, I know. I know, "but Josh, how will I cope without your marvellous words and delectable digital titbits?!?", You will just have to fill that void by reading a good book or looking up the days events at the festival thereby possibly seeing me and imagining me giving you a youtube link.
Keep your ears, and eyes, pricked up for the Glastonbury story on MONDAY.

Augmented festival app that may actually be of real use! HELLO!

FREE purchase of this functional masterpiece (dont quote me on that, just saying its gonna be a good one to have [providing you dont have a bloody iPhone without anything less than a generator strapped onto it])... HERE!
From what I can quickly gather from the picture, You can see where all the stages are and who's playing now and next very quickly and easily, good for those blurred moments spent bumbling around lost looking for someone you know after heading for the toilets because you couldn't hold on to that 2 pinter any longer, even if it did mean you would miss the end of your favorite band/DJ...
AND (jesus, you guys are getting your Glasto rocks off here eh?) a full and timed line up for the festival so that those of you that are going can spend hours making a list of exactly who you want to see and those who aren't going can set up your Sky Plus, bite your fists and vow to go next year... OFFICIAL FULL LISTINGS WITH TIMES.

Shangri-La ad, Thanks to Sharan Zwister for this beauty...

I love the filmic use of Tilt-Shift (A new method a lot of people are getting involved with at the moment which makes the subject seem smaller, and more toy-like, than it actually is using fore/background blurring and increasing the contrast and colour etc) in various frames of this short, really excentuates the fagility of the lost traveller.
More Tilt-Shift examples... HERE.

To vuvuzela or not to vuvuzela, there really is no question...

http://www.vuvuzela.fm/
If you like the sound of that go build a house next to the M5 you great arse.
Come on you England.

Stussy & Jarvis collab...

Stussy and illustrator James Jarvis have teamed up to create a set thats promotes responsible street culture, not great for the brand im thinking but a great set of images all the same thanks Jarvis! After meeting James last year I have been looking to procure a graphic of his to meet the illustration he gave me and I think one of this new set will be the decider (you can see the set near the end in the video below)...

Stussy - James Jarvis from Stussy on Vimeo.

Thanks Dan @ The Graphical for this one...

Weekend-proof your iPhone...

Everyone has seen or knows someone who has seen a phone being accidentally dropped in a pint or down the toilet etc when pissed, well fret not kids, Golden-Shellback has the answer... and I dont think you could really ask for a better preforming product!

Golden Shellback Waterproof Coating from gCaptain.com on Vimeo.

Uploaded to Youtube... A THOUSAND TIMES.

Yep. ya heard me correct, A man (named Patrick Liddell, a musician, fucking creative types [me, this is exactly the sort of thing I could see myself doing as an experiment heh]) actually tok the time to upload, rip and re-upload this video of himself... 1000 times!

The end result looks like the first porno I ever saw, yeah thats VHS quality right there...

See the full story, and a few more vids in between... HERE.

Nice little touches that make me happy...

Type 'world cup' into Google. the bottom changes to Goooooooooal.
Thanks Rupert Skive/Dare Digital for this little thang.

Wedgie font...

Its crisp and clean, but not sure of its multi-functionality exactly! Might do a lil something with it one day but for now i'm just liking this geeky fonts 'contact sheet' or 'menu' here...

Tidy.

Ferdinand GT3...

Nicely filmed (another Cannon 5D/7D production no doubt), I love the dead pan presenter and the lap at the end is just beautiful. Comedy GOLD.
This is the cars maker, doing the making... BLAMO.

Right kids, it's Illustrator Wednesday again...

This is the new book from Israel-born graphic designer Noma Bar, Simple but wonderfully concise and meaningful designs. You may recognise his style from Guardian magazines.
I have had this contact sheet of Noma images compiled for you to peruse... HERE.
Inadvertantly came across this site on my Noma travels, just liked the name really... http://www.itsnicethat.com/user/noma-bar

A sticky end to BP.. well the word anyway...

"As the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to wreak havoc on the environment and residents along the gulf shore, this plugin may not do much to stop the oil, but it’s a nice way to express anger and outrage over BP’s response (or lackthereof)."


“Want BP to [blank] up your browser like they’ve [blank] up the Gulf? Install the Oil Spill Firefox plugin from @jess3.”
Josh Denton 'Likes' this...
Thanks Webkitten for Tweeting this little number.