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Feature Story

Instinct, Intuition & Memory

 

Split Run is a portfolio feature that uses the power of both print and the Internet. Featuring an original image-maker who does both stills and motion work, the portfolio appears in Applied Arts Magazine and online. Pick up the May/June 2013 issue of Applied Arts to see the print portfolio of  John Londono.

 

Ask Montreal photographer John Londono what has contributed to his success and he ticks off the big three: timing, luck and doing what he loves. Yet, from his life story the picture that emerges is one of a man who has deliberately sought cross currents in his career that have pushed him sideways or seemingly backwards when other artists would have driven ahead. . . .  See the motion work of John Londono.

 


From the Wire



Rotoscoped and animated Beat Up Kidz video

 

"Beat Up Kidz" is the new Music Video for Toronto-based band The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores, directed by Ryan Enn Hughes. The video was shot using a variety of DSLR cameras. Footage was rotoscoped and animated in postproduction frame by frame. Director + Camera + Animation: Ryan Enn Hughes Editor + Additional Camera: Micha Pichlkastner ... Read the full article.


ArtWorks


New ArtPrints Gallery Launches

 

Applied Arts is proud to announce the launch of its final ArtWorks Gallery — ArtPrints.  This is an online marketplace featuring unique art created by a wide variety of talents. It provides a secure online shopping destination for all kinds of prints of photography, illustration and painting that is simple to use and fun. . . .  Read more.

 
Opinion


Mr. Rogers Meets Mao Zedong
by Will Novosedlik
When brands appropriate art, the decontextualized result is generally meaningless. But when art eats brands for lunch, the result is almost always sublime. For example, while surfing the web recently for some heavy-duty cleaning products (don’t ask), I came across an ad for Downy Unstopables “in-wash scent boosters,” I was immediately struck by a highly recognizable dot pattern in the background . . . Read more. 

The Rebranding Blues

by Will Novosedlik

 

While driving across town this week I caught some snippets from Question Period on CBC radio. One was a challenge from the NDP that demanded to know why the government was spending several millions turning all government websites blue, the colour of the Conservative party. . . . Read more.

 
Opinion


In Social Media, Silence is Definitely Not Golden

by Suzanne Pope

 

What would happen if a bank president disregarded almost every social media lesson learned the hard way by other brands? He might end up like Gord Nixon, who has finally felt compelled to apologize for RBC’s outsourcing of 45 Canadian IT jobs to India. . . . Read more.