The animated chair from Amélia & Duarte on Vimeo.
We just made a chair exercise for people who are working with us that don’t have experience in animation, so they can have a quick visual aid to help them understand better the difference between real image and animated one.
On our first trip to a second-hand market in Lisbon we found some really beautiful music sheets with lovely covers. I specially like the one of “A revolução de Maio”, because it’s one of the few propaganda films made in the Portuguese dictatorship, so it’s was really an amazing historical treasure to buy.
The last picture it’s a note from someone who wrote on the sheet “kissing your hands my lady”. Old-school gallantry at its best.
Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.
The art of origami folding together with new technology. We can do a jumping frog and a shuriken star (ninja star), so beware…
MINI PLANNERS from Moleskine ® on Vimeo.
If you happen to buy a moleskin this year, you know now what you can do with it.
One of our producers told us about this museum when we went to France. I love this concept and so did other people: this museum has won the Kenneth Hudson Award at the European Museum of the Year Award in 2011. It basically works like this:
“The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum’s collection.”
So, if you have an object and you like the memories inside your head to go somewhere else, send to them.
Each object seems so particular to one person, but, at the same time, so universal that you just want to keep reading every single one of them.
I found this one very compelling and it’s the third object you see at the table.
“Man’s belt
Aug 2003 – May 2006, San Francisco, California, USA
The man of my dreams didn’t even exist in my dreams until I met him. Our physical passion ruled the relationship; he was a unique and spectacular lover.
This item may not be very exciting, but the circumstances by which it came to my possession… oh my! He called me in the middle of the night because he had something he wanted me to see. I drove over an hour to pick him up and we went to watch a meteor shower… from a playground. The second I parked the car he looked me dead in the eye and said “Follow me. Leave your clothes.” We spilled out of the car into the warm summer night, articles of clothing flying everywhere. Kinkiness on a park bench underneath a blazing sky, there was more on fire than just those shooting stars.
I found the belt on the backseat of my car days later. I am donating it as a token of thanks for all the moments he made me feel alive. A week after that night I moved away and saw him little after that. I never got the chance to tell him that I love him, but at least everyone who reads this will know.”
Do you see it differently now? It’s not a belt anymore, it never was and now we know.
Hope one of my next travels leads me to see it.
M.
http://brokenships.com/en
