Watch: Love is Like Life but Longer

Poppy de Villeneuve’s beautiful new short film “Love is Like Life but Longer”, featuring the interiors of the new Mondrian SoHo hotel.

Via The Worlds Best Ever.

Interact: Welcome to Pine Point

"Imagine your home town never grew old. Would it be so bad?"

Click here for a beautifully produced, amazing interactive documentary that examines a town lost, but its memories never forgotten.

From NFB:

Some towns thrive and some towns fall to ruin, but a town that gets flattened to the ground and erased from the map altogether? That’s both highly unusual and exactly what happened to Pine Point, a Northwest Territories town that is the subject of a neat interactive project about memory and belonging recently launched on NFB/interactive, the Film Board’s interactive site.

The project, titled Welcome to Pine Point, was created by The Goggles (Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons), a Vancouver-based duo best known for its creative direction work at Adbusters magazine. Since its launch, the project has attracted much positive attention. Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland called it “totally brilliant”, “so thoughtful and so powerful”, while its score, penned by the Besnard Lakes received enthusiastic reviews.

Via lifetime and the globe and mail, thanks Mike for the link.

Misery meets Kate

Misery Bear that is.

Via Jalouse.

Icons: Sean Connery + Gaetano Pesce's Up 5 Chair

Most likely on the set of 1971's Diamonds are Forever.  Via the modern love tumblr.

Watch: A Preview of Gary Hustwit's Urbanized

A preview of the upcoming 3rd film, from the design trilogy that includes Helvetica and Objectified.

Watch: Live The Language

See the world and learn the lingo, in these beautiful commercials for EF Language Schools.
Directed by Gustav Johansson (gustavjohansson.com) 
D.P: Niklas Johansson, fsf (niklasjohansson.com)
Typography: Albin Holmqvist (albinholmqvist.com)
Music: Magnus Lidehäll (twitter.com/​magnusthemagnus)
Produced at Camp David (campdavidfilm.com)
Via charlie & lee

Beautiful

Music by Michael Marantz, via stil genetik.

Flashback: 1973: Bardot + Birkin

From Roger Vadim's Don Juan. Bardot and Birkin aside, this movie is a must see for design addicts as well. 1970's Modernist Glam in situ, and at its peak.

Via Modern Love's Tumblr.

A Day in the Life of The Satorialist

Scott Schuman a.k.a. the Satorialist, takes us along on a walk in NYC and describes how being a self-taught photographer shaped his creative process. Via the hansen family.

Watch: Lifetime Fall/Winter 2011

Lifetime Fall/Winter 2011 from Lifetime Collective on Vimeo.

Taking a wholly different approach to the fashion video lookbook, Lifetime Collective has set a new standard and published one of the most clever and creative videos you will see.
Good work guys. Thanks Mike for the link.

Directed by: Salazar
Music: Chad Vangaalen
Sound Design: Dan Gagnon
Animal Trainer: Dana Dube (Animal Insight)
Stylist: Mila Franovic
Makeup: Shannon Reynolds
Hair: Tania Becker at Nobasura
1st AC: Stephan Duval
1st AC: Liam Mitchell
Key Grip: Will Parrot
Dolly Tech / BBQ Master: Trevor Fleming
Cast - Kristy Jacobsen at Rad Kids
Brennan Lloyd at Richards Modeling
Ice the Wolf
Thanks to Kirk at Jamestown (Location)

New York to Paris: Louis Vuitton x Scott Campbell

Louis Vuitton's video diptyque dedicated to the men's Spring/Summer 2011 collections, starring Scott Campbell. Part 1 New York, Part 2 Paris.

via ambient content's facebook.

Watch: The Corner

A short film by Jay Rodan and Kayt Jones.
Starring Behati Prinsloo and Jamie Strachan.

via Madame Écureuil.

Watch: Mitch Alfus, Leather King: A Selby Film

Todd Selby's inspiring look at a day in a life of Mitch Alfus, owner of Libra Leather. Via pedestrian.

Watch: Time Doesn't Stand Still

A beautifully crafted short by Asa Mader and Benjamin Millepied, starring Léa Seydoux.

Via charlie&lee.

Watch: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs: A video by Spike Jonze

Via jalouse.

Watch: The Story of Eames Furniture: An Interview with Marilyn + John Neuhart

The Story of Eames Furniture: Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart - Interview from Gestalten on Vimeo.

The Neuhart's revealing first hand account of working with the Eames, and a behind the scenes look at the trials and tribulations of the Eames Office.

"The Story of Eames Furniture is an insiders account of the workings of the Eames Office from its founding 1943 and its closing in 1988. The book extremely detailed and gives real insight into the relationships between Charles, Ray and some of the people who worked in the office, like Harry Bertoia, who let it be known that he would quit working everyday at 5:00pm, much to the surprise of his co-workers and greatly upsetting the Eames's Calvinist work ethic. The book also examines some of the tensions in running a design office: many Eames Office employees were never really sure if they had full-time employment, and often felt that they were not properly given credit for the design they created."

Via yatzer, and daily icon.

Watch: Rubble Kings

“From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted the world over.”

Via The Worlds Best Ever.

Watch: Poul Henningsen's Philosophy of Light

Via Louis Poulsen's YouTube Channel.

Look + Listen: Daft Punk: Derezzed / Extended Tron Legacy Trailer

"This new extended trailer features the track “Derezzed" and its awesome glitchy electronica sounds like it could be a leftover joint from 'Homework'. The clip also features a look at Daft Punk's cameo as futuristic djs."

Wow! Via pedestrian.

The Architecture of Tron Legacy

Tron Legacy is destined to be a sure hit with both sci-fi and design enthusiasts alike.

"Shot entirely in 3D and VFX'd by Digital Domain, the film promises some spectacular design and blue-tinted cyberspaces, which, everyone is saying, is thanks to the director's background in architecture. Joseph Kosinski was scoffed at for "throwing away" his architecture degree, but it looks like this architect-turned-CG master of the virtual world will be the last one laughing."

Read more about Joseph Kosinski's background and its influence on the film at arkinet.

Via blue ant studio.

And just in case you missed it, here's the latest trailer again:



And here's the Daft Punk powered version, with some rather tasteful furniture selection evident on set: