Happy Hallowe'en!

Happy Hallowe'en everyone! Today i've got a very nicely themed post about whats called "Horrorgami". These 4 pieces are part of a 13 piece collection by Marc Hagan-Guirey, that will be privately shown tonight. The collection contains 13 famous horror movie houses all each made from a single sheet of A4 paper! The four pictures I have posted are locations from The Shining, Amityville Horror, Addams Family and The Exorcist.

Is this the end of Star Wars?

So today Disney have bought LucasFilm for $4.5 Billion which includes every little piece of the company from LucasArts to Skywalker Sound and plan to release the 7th episode of the Star Wars saga in 2015 as well as carrying on the franchise with possibly another two films after that. Now as a fan of cinema and more importantly Star Wars, I am afraid of what will happen to the franchise. Will Disney turn it into just another money grabbing monster or will they do something special with it and carry on the saga the way it deserves? I am hoping Disney do it right like they did with Marvel studios.

"Noyvous"

Here's the new video to Jack White's latest single "I'm Shakin'" directed by Dori Oskowitz. I think the video uses some great art direction by showing two Jack Whites and two full bands playing against each other, one in black and the other in white. This is done to portray the echoing sound that the song has with Jack's singing and the doubled guitars as well as giving the image of a fight between two gangs with Jack and the other band members dressed in cliche gangster attire. The song is very good too!

Expect the unexpected

I found this new ad for in car security cameras by DBS. The proposition for the advert is to expect the unexpected so in this case the unexpected is a lightsaber battle taking place in the centre of the car park! I think that the idea behind this is fantastic as it is funny and original and as the ad says, unexpected! The advert is credited to Tribal DDB Singapore. The advert was also accompanied by a poster ad which shows the car from a different point a view the day after, after it has been halved by the rogue light saber.

Today I found this very nice piece of type. Its a font named "Hipster" designed by Ale Paul. I really like this type as it conveys the style of the 'hipster' perfectly with its blend of modernism with the classic beatnik, coffee stained, record collecting old fashion that the hipsters have adopted combined with the arrogance of the copy to produce something that is very fun and original.

The picture above is of the sculpture named "Verity" meaning "the truth" in Italian. This is the first sculpture by British artist Damien Hirst. The sculpture is supposed to represent justice in the form of a cross sectioned pregnant woman holding up the sword of justice high above her head. What a dissected pregnant woman has to do with justice I do not know but its still a very powerful image and the sculpture is definitely quite possibly a landmark in British art!

Katerina Jebb's Un-real Beauty

British-born artist Katerina Jebb has started making a series of anti-ads that are supposed to challenge the idea and themes of advertising in the fashion industry. The idea of the ad I have posted is that of insuring your key assets of what makes you beautiful.The ad stars Kylie Minogue, who has become well known for her backside and so she flaunts it in a satirical way to express the ideas of the director.