http://www.riddip.com/wordpress An Image & Design Weblog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:19:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 'Dulux Walls' film (part of their latest advertising campaign) has to be one of the most beautiful commercials of the last few years. The idea is a really simple one- get locals from run-down and neglected areas in cities across the world and record them painting their neighborhoods. It's ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1272 If you've got a spare 20 minutes watch David McCandless' talk about data visualisation at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference. . . Considering how much time I've spent watching lectures on TED it seems a shame that I haven't done a post on the site. Day to day I draw 'inspiration' from ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1341 More photos from Aimee Fairman's work at at Craft Cubed here in Melbourne. Click here for a hi-res version of the labyrinth in the drawer. http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1328 Wonderful rolling time-lapse video of Japan by American Director Brad Kemer using the Canon 5D MarkII. It's hard enough to a find a few short seconds when the conditions are just right to take a good landscape image. Which makes what Brad has done in this clip that much more ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1268 Caught a wicked set from Dan Kelly at the Corner Hotel here in Melbourne on Friday night for the release of his new album 'Dan Kelly's Dream'. It was great to see Dan and Beyonce rocking out with a full band and bringing to life to some old classics and new ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1305 A very talented friend of mine working for DT Digital here in Melbourne has just released a series of online shorts for Honda promoting the Honda Jazz. The 'Jazz-Packing' campaign was conceived by award-winning creatives Jason Deacon and Emma Park and it involves series of videos touting the various things that ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1281 K-Swiss recently hired Keith Schofield to put together a fairly awesome commercial with the tag line 'Have an Awesome Day. Which is timely, because 2010 has turned out to be the year of the word Awesome. Personally I'm hoping the word 'splendid' makes a revival in 2011. Have ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1274 I was lucky enough to be invited along to the opening of a couple of exhibitions at Craft Victoria including the work of Melbourne installation artist Aimee Fairman. Together with another local artist Alexander Ouchtomsky, Aimee has created a number of pieces inspired by childhood under the title 'I'll Show You ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1253 After months of deliberation the Royal Commission report into the 2009 bushfires has been released and its findings have been made public. The 'Black Saturday' bushfires burnt more than a million acres of Victoria, destroyed more than two thousand homes, injured 414 people and killed 173. The reports' recommendations mostly relate ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1236 ASIOKE is a short motion graphics piece I put together a few years ago using After Effects. It combines two of my favourite things; karaoke and paranoia. For the non-Australians the format is based on this government TV commercial from a few years ago promoting the National Security Hotline. ... http://www.riddip.com/wordpress/?p=1193