2007 Key Art Award WinnersMovie Poster Award Winners

The Hollywood Reporter’s 36th Annual Key Art Awards were announced at the Beverly Hilton on June 15th. The ceremony, hosted by comedian Rob Corddry, gave out awards covering a wide range of film advertising categories covering audio/video, print, and digital mediums. The ceremony included a few new categories and awards, including “Best of Show” awards chosen by the audience text messaging votes made during the evening. The night also saw the first “Visionary Award” given to director Robert Rodriguez, for being “a filmmaker who inspires movie marketers to create work at an even higher level.”

2007 Key Art Award Winners « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

Blogged with Flock

So true

Photo

Blogged with Flock

Its all been done, at least twice.

coloribus.com :: originality discovered

— How often do you get to meet identical people?
— On a rare occasion if they are not twins .
— Is it possible that the same genius idea strikes different people at the same time?
— It is known to happen.
— Are there such cases in the world of advertisement ?
— Yes, they’re all around us!

On these pages I’ll introduce you to a collection of ads using the same idea or image prepared by different agencies. I don’t presume these ads to be stolen or allege plagiarism — it almost never can be proven. The only people that know for sure are the authors themselves. So I’ll be only stating a fact of these mysterious coincidences.

Visit to gallery

Blogged with Flock

Creative Lube #11

There are lots of easier things to be professionally, and yet, you chose to be a creative pro. In this Creative Lube Leslie talks about some things you can do to remember why you made this choice and how it was the best thing you ever did. You'll get some wise marketing ideas in the process, and maybe a (loving) kick in the dupa.

Creative Lube: Creative Lube No. 11--Why be a creative?

Blogged with Flock

37 Signals Backpack

Simple software to help you get organized: 37signals

I can't recall the last time I talked about this but for those who vaugely recall, I am still using Backpack.

In fact the more I use it, the more I love it. I am using a Backpack page as my main Next Actions page. The Calendar is still my main calendar. At first I thought having things online a bit limting, but with 3-4 different machines in use, it's the ideal way of acessing my data where ever I am when the phone rings. People are working on offline solutions, but really it's more about making a small bit of effort in your behaviour rather than dealingw ith feature bloat. That seems to be 37 Signals prime objective, to get you to work more efficent while maintaining a bloat free app.

They also just released HighRise, a contact manager. While very cool, say for a sales guy, I find it a bit over the top. The contact managment is more than I need, and the creation of tasks 2 steps too many. But take a look, all these apps have smaller free accounts.

Blogged with Flock

Actual printer driver selections:16 flavours of Vista to ONE Mac OS X

A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

Blogged with Flock

Fishing 2007

Some snaps from our trip to the Flying Fishermen fishing camp. Great camp, great bunch of guys and of course great fish. So much Pickerel, so little time. As you can see, we didn't even want the Northerns in the boat. While we had a little rain we totally missed all the heavy stuff happening everywhere else.

Blogged with Flock

Just to put things in perspective, we're texas

131 - US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

Blogged with Flock

Design Slash Model

Oliver found ths great short about models who are designers. Funny!

noun: Designerslashmodel

Blogged with Flock

HSC Foundation Ann Report

HSC Foundation
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

The final report was unveiled yesterday and I have to say I was impressed with the results. I always cringe when I finally get to see where my photos end up, afraid of a bad crop or bad printing. But Relish Design did a wonderful design and the printing by Kromar was spot on.

The ex the Lightzone version

The ex the Lightzone version
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

The same shot after I'll tweaked it in Lightzone

Storm clouds

Storm clouds
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

We missed the hail and rain by about 45mins.

Set your PVRs!

I was interviewed awhile back as a "photographic expert" on the authenticity of the photography Hamilton did. I HOPE that through the wonders of editing, I might show up in this doc sounds at least coherent.

Chasing Hamilton's Ghost
"Sunday, June 24th (6:30 p.m.) repeat
In the early 20th century, Dr. Thomas Hamilton was one of Winnipeg’s most respected businessmen, and a leader in the community. But for all his contributions, today he's best known for the séances that he conducted at Hamilton House. And for the hundreds of photographs he took during those séances, which capture images of strange apparitions seemingly drawn from the other side. Or, do they? Tonight, Darren Wall looks at Hamilton's work and his photographs, and asks - what does this all mean?

winnipeg.ctv.ca - CTV Winnipeg - CTV News

Blogged with Flock

Comics with problems

Welcome to COMICS WITH PROBLEMS

Blogged with Flock

SkeeterBag!

Box Fan + SkeeterbagTM + pets, livestock, people or dwellings = the most effective, least expensive mosquito trap ever invented.

Skeeter Bag

Blogged with Flock

I just ordered three of these. If they truly work I will be taking them camping!

RSS in Plain English

This is the easiest explanation for RSS feeds I have seen. If you love blogs, and have a blog, you really need to use RSS. (Rob this means you, please turn on RSS!)

Grand Beach

Not a lot of people out this past weekend, which meant we practically had East beach to ourselves,which was great.

Grand Beach June 2007 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Blogged with Flock

The secret life of ants

The secret life of ants
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Barefoot in the Backyard

Barefoot in the Backyard
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

The post keynote comedown

Cult of Mac

Blogged with Flock

This ones for my shooting friends (and some clients!) who need schooling

EP - A DIGITAL MANIFESTO

 The link above goes to a explanation of  what's considered standard charges for digital services. I aint' gonna stomp on my soapbox too much about this, frankly becuase I am tried of it.

 A couple years ago I really felt compelled to rally the pro photogs in this city and make sure we all knew what we should be charging. Try as we might there were always some key shooters who decided they didn't want to be the samee room as their peers, leaving everyone to wonder "Are THEY the ones who aren't charging enough?" Historically, pro photographers in this city are stand-offissh and wary of each other. I thought the changes in our industry would have changed some of these attitudes. They haven't, so I give up trying to get everyone united.

Mean while the "next gen" of shooters will simply undercharge and devalue our industry to the point where being a photographer is a quaint notion like a woodcarver. In the future we'll all be fighting over the $20 istockphoto is paying.

So if you're gonna charge money for your photography, hit the link. Please.

Blogged with Flock

RAWk ON!

RAWk ON!
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Cool shot of the sub I always wanted

Boing Boing: Scans of comic book ads

Back in the 70's my friends and I were gonna chip in and buy one of these and sail down Sturgeon Creek. Never happened of course, but I always wonder what that sub REALLY looked like.

Blogged with Flock

My endorsment of Lightzone

You can read my uncredited endorsemnet of Lightzone here on their web sight. The link goes to an entry I made on the Lightzone Flickr group. It IS a great program and this new version fizes a few quirks, I just wish they has quoted me by name. Oh well.

When Worlds Collide

A plugin written for Aperture to allow export of photos directly to Facebook

Facebook Exporter for Aperture

Blogged with Flock

BioChambers

BioChambers
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

.Mac make over soon?

Whither .Mac?

By Charles Jade | Published: June 09, 2007 - 12:19PM CT

The .Mac service turns five in July and has easily become the most stunted and neglected product that Apple offers. For $99 a year ($69 if you look around), you get an anemic and tortuously slow gigabyte of storage space for your iDisk (minus what is devoted to your .Mac e-mail account) plus a few services of wildly disparate quality.  By far the best is the seamless syncing of mail, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks across multiple Macs, while easily the worst is .Mac Backup, a flagship product of the Punishment Development Group at Apple. So long-suffering .Mac users like myself should have felt an inexpressible relief at the D: All Things Digital conference when Steve Jobs was shamed in response to a question over the sorry state of .Mac.

"I couldn't agree with you more and we will make up for lost time in the very near future."

Blogged with Flock

More webcam fun

This site allows you to take one picture of yourself every day and share it with your family, friends or the whole world.
Take a photo of yourself once a day at Flickaday.com. The photos are automatically compiled into a movie for everyone to watch.

Take one picture of yourself everyday

Blogged with Flock

Cameroid

Cameroid

Ok now you PC users can have the photobooth experience online, ok?

Blogged with Flock

I'm in my happy place

I'm in my happy place
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

It's all fake

Bush And Tutu Meet On Fantasy VF Cover

Vanity Fair is famous for its blockbuster covers, and at first glance it seems to have outdone itself this month. Twenty different July covers shot by Annie Leibovitz depict major world leaders and celebrities meeting one another in support of Africa.

Among the most historic: A photo of President George W. Bush joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu for a moment of quiet reflection.

But the subjects seen together never actually posed together. Bush was photographed April 13 in Washington while Tutu was photographed April 28 in Kobe, Japan.

Blogged with Flock

WHO behind the scenes

WHO Behind the scenes on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Nothing like the smell of urine and piles of broken glass to give the shoot that gritty urban feel we're looking for!

Ron Sawchuk from McKim, Jason Brandes from Warehouse and the rest of the crew worked it hard and we managed to miss the rain.

Thanks to Dave for these behind the scenes snaps. Look for the posters in a few weeks!

Blogged with Flock

50 years ago, a car was buried for the future!

If you happen find yourself in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 15, bring a shovel. Buried beneath the dirt of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn, about 100 feet north of the intersection of Sixth Street and Denver Avenue, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe has been hidden underground for half a century.  Swaddled in rust-resistant preservatives and gently placed inside a giant concrete sarcophagus, the tailfinned Plymouth was interred on June 15, 1957 as the centerpiece of a time capsule created for the 21st century citizens of Tulsa 2007.

Telstar Logistics: 1957 Plymouth to Emerge from Tulsa Time Capsule

Blogged with Flock

Spirited Energy

DSC_2147
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Hey whatever happened to the "next phase" of this campaign? You know the one where they were gonna sell Manitoba to the rest of the world? All I see is banners like this on buildings everywhere,...

Meanwhile, I am scheming a road rip for us this summer. Guess which phrase I keep playing over and over in my mind....
"Exploreminnesota DOT COM!"
I dont' even LIKE those commercials but it's got me thinking about the state.

The Pool

The Pool
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Come on in the water's great!

yella

yella
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Bugs are cool

Bugs are cool
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Whhy the iPhone is cool, in 30secs

iPhone Ads: Perfect advertising - (37signals)

In 30 seconds you learn you can hold this thing in your hand, you control it by touching the screen, it flows, you can watch a movie on it, the screen pivots, it’s fast, you can type on it, it has maps, it knows your location, it makes useful decisions for you, and you can make calls. It’s all so obvious and comfortable and easy in 30 seconds without being rushed.

Blogged with Flock

RAWK!

RAWK!
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.