SweetTalk & Dansk Dynamit presented the Scandinavian Premiere of Objectified, in association with Plant eailer this summer. With special guest director Gary Hustwit – the director of “Helvetica.
The final edit contains over 65 shots comprised of original documentary, studio, tabletop photography and found footage. 6 separate shoots took place in Louisiana, Seattle, Chicago on 7 different still, film, and video cameras. 3 new babies were born at DK between award and delivery. No divorces. 1 Bolex passed peacefully in the night.
Thanks to: Ax Dil, Egbert Steenwinkel, Cam-a-lot, Umsjatka studio
Performance photography: Ram van Meel
Made possible by a grant of Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten En Bouwkunst
A series of short videos as part of a 2 hour documentary about revenge for VPRO television.
Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug
Lernert & Sander are two dutch artists and friends who decided that working alone was getting boring and started collaborating on art related projects. Since their first video Chocolate Bunny they’ve been working on commercials, leaders, art movies, documentaries and installations. Their aim is to make simple and communicative works, that takes little note of the existing border between contemporary art and commercial projects. Their highly esthetic, humorous and dedicated works are often challenging the media and its viewer, in a simple but very effective way. Their work was selected for international festivals in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Oberhausen.
PROCESS / FORMAT—Cast acrylic toilet seat impregnated with heat sensitive
thermochromic plastisol ink. Colour change threshold occurs at 36 degrees celcius.
SIZE—370mm X 360mm X 15mm
QUANTITY—50
DATE—04 / 2003
PUBLICATION—Made and Sold, Design Diffusion News.
DESCRIPTION—Being able to identify a public toilet seat that has just been sat upon (and is thus still warm) is of particular concern to a significant number of the population. Without warning, one can easily sit upon a seat and be instantly repulsed by the trace evidence of a previous user. Conversely, if one is looking for intimate contact with an anonymous stranger without the associated awkwardness of verbal discourse, one could seek out the warm toilet seat. The decision to sit or not to sit is facilitated by the colour change of the seat: orange=cool, yellow=hot. The object retains the heat memory of a previous user and displays it as a visual marker for the next user to assess.
Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )
Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth from Kingston University received 2nd place at D&AD for this viral commercial.
They have created a film that uses the power and performance of the HP workstations to choreograph a visual spectacle that is designed to work as a viral video promotion of HPs Workstations and their ability to make peoples ideas to life.
IE6ify is a clever little tongue-in-cheek jab at Internet Explorer 6 from an Australian based dutch web developer named ElbertF.
Add the link as a bookmark, and then on any web page start clicking it to “simulate” how the site would look in Internet Explorer 6.
Of course, it’s not an actual representation of how things would look, but its a clever idea and illustrates that you should definitely upgrade to the greatly improved Internet Explorer 8 or any of the other modern browsers such as Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5 if you are currently still using IE6.
Plant is a Copenhagen-based creative digital agency. The mission of the company is to conceptualize and develop technology-empowered web content that will enable advertisers to engage international audiences online.
