More shots from the VCA rally through Melbourne yesterday.
I don’t think the stills really do justice the theatrics of the students so I’ll upload some video over the next couple of days as well. Geoffrey Rush gave a wonderfully impassioned speech about the importance of arts education and practical acting training before the rally started and you can see the first half of it here.
Students from Victorian College of the Arts staged a rally in Melbourne yesterday to protest the proposed changes to curriculum and cutbacks on teaching staff and courses.
The US library of congress has recently uploaded a small slice of their photographic collection to flickr. There are a number of sets covering news events from the early 20th century including a whole bunch of editorial/propaganda photos of the ‘home front’ during the second World War. These shots have also been lovingly scanned at high resolution and made available at the Shorpy Photo Archive. Most of the images were taken with colour Kodachrome film and there is something a little unreal about seeing these people as if they were curling their hair and riveting airframes together yesterday morning.
I came across a terrific little collection of hand-cut sihouettes set against Victorian-era paintings by US writer and artist Wilhelm Staehle the Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre. The humour is very much in the vein of Married to the Sea but the execution is terrific.
I thought I’d post something up about my favourite photographic ad campaign this year. US photographer Dustin Humphrey has shot a series of surreal composites of surf action shots and underwater still-lifes for surf brand Insight. the campaign involved building elaborate beatnik set pieces off the coast of Bali above and below sea level. The campaign took out the Sony World Photography Award for commercial advertising.
Melbourne copywriter and advertising pundit Tait Ischia has given an excellent rundown of the current marketing campaign for the Converse brand on his blog The Wayfarer. The campaign, by US ad agency Anomaly, included a sponsored hit single with a very impressive motion graphics clip by PsyOp animation studio.