A Monster in Paris

It may ring a bell… or not, the name Bibo Bergeron is already well-known in the animation world for Shark Tale and The Road to El Dorado. Now there’s a new magical title: “A Monster in Paris”, featuring Bergeron’s trademark animation style and rhythmic, well-written musical numbers, thanks to Matthieu Chedid (also known as M) and the lovely voice of Vanessa Paradis.

The story of “A Monster in Paris” sets in Paris in 1910, Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be an oversized but harmless flea, from the city’s ruthlessly ambitious police chief.

“A Monster in Paris” is set to be released on the 12th of october.

Discovering new music

What better way to re-start than with a great song? And since I love music… the first article will be about, of course, music! First I would like to mention Thesixtyone, a great site to discover new music. Your can truly spend hours here  just listening to good, fresh new tunes. One of the artists I discovered recently (thanks to Thesixtyone) was William Fitzsimmons. Fitsimmons’ songs quickly find their way into your heart and if not through your head, then through the deep emotional characteristics of each and every song.

But since I don’t want to leave you with a melancholic mood (since Fitzsimmon’s songs can be quite gut-wrenching sometimes), we’ll end this on a happier note, namely the music of singer-songwriter Clara C (Clara Chung). Not really known yet in Belgium, but one day… maybe. In the meantime enjoy!

Hello again!

It’s been a while (too long, i’ll admit!)… just thought I posted a quick ‘Hello!’ note to say that this blog is going to be active again (and it also needs a makeover :)). So stay tuned for more news!

See you soon!

GreyScaleGorilla

GreyScaleGorilla

This is one of the coolest and most interesting blogs of the moment I think!

It is full of helpful en nifty tricks and tips for graphic designers, photographers and creatives. The tutorials are great … and everything is explained in a way that even a complete ‘noob’ would understand.

Nick Campbell (the creator) also just launched a new iPhone app: ‘CrossProcess’ … a photography app with colorenhancement (no more need of Photoshop to make your pictures look cool!)

http://itunes.apple.com/be/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8

Molly Johnson

Heard her for the first time in San Francisco, and I immediatly fell in love with her style.

http://www.mollyjohnson.com/

Albums:

• Molly Johnson (2000)
• Another day (2003)
• Messin’ around (2006)
• If you know love (2007, French release of “Messin’ around”)
• Lucky (2008)

Blog: “A Beautiful Mess”

May I present you

Elsie Flannigan’s blog… filled with happiness, cute things, vintage stuff and fun!!

A Beautiful Mess

Today she also won “Favorite Artist Blog” at the Poppies (the annual pop culture collectibles industry awards). Congratulations Elsie!!!

Shop:

https://www.redvelvetart.com/

Similar in Belgium:

http://www.paplou.be/

http://www.ra13.be/

http://www.emilypuck.be/

Vintage shops in Belgium and around the world:

http://www.fashion-freaks.be/Vindvintage.htm

Digital Advertising: Cartelle

http://www.cartelle.nl

“Cartelle” represents two professionals based in Amsterdam, specializing in conception, art direction, design and technical realization. They live by the motto, “maintain high quality standards” and they do live up to it by presenting visitors with fun, innovative Flash application that allows them to have some fun with popping balloons, drawing skulls, playing with 8 balls and many others interactive designs.

Stevijn Van Olst and Johny Slackare are strong believers in digital advertising and they are collaborating with a large number of new talent in the digital world.

(Source: http://www.trendhunter.com)

COMBO

A collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis

BluBlu

David Ellis

Alma

A short animation movie by Rodrigo Blaas

scary!

Battle of the Vaporware Tablets

Vaporware describes products that have been announced by developers during or before development, with significant doubts if the product will actually be released.

http://theappleblog.com/2010/01/19/battle-of-the-vaporware-tablets/