life drawing 27-10-08

life drawing 27-10-08, originally uploaded by donshades.

the first rule of art club is you must not blog about art club

2 Campaign Big Awards for Dare

... and I kind of feel personally responsible for the one we got for the Dareschool 2008 project. To be honest I'm not that fussed with the film we made, as the Director of the film I was rather frustrated by the script and a lack of rehearsal time; however the award does deserve the work that we put into the final cut. We also picked one up for the Walkman Project, but alas Malkoviccch didn't get one; which was a little ironic as out of all three of the projects up for awards, the Script project was the one which really deserved to scoop a silver and (in my opinion) maybe a gold. Next time. In the meantime here's Steel again for one last word on what works and what doesn't online:


Dareschool '07 from donshades on Vimeo.

Big Award from Campaign for Dareschool '08

Dareschool '07 from donshades on Vimeo.

Who Is Johnny X?

New from Sony Ericsson

My Creative Manifesto Project

One of my ongoing projects is thinking about creative thinking. While I was a away in the dessert I did a lot of this; these are some of the things in my notebook. I suppose I'm starting to draft a bit of a manifesto as to how I think things need to be done; how people need to be inspired; when and where we need to incite polemics and constructive self criticism. Where we need to be starting from...

Adver-Storywriter: do you believe your own characters? do they conflict as real humans? would you give a flying fuck about them?

Adver-Writers: don't write lines, talk to me.

Art Directors: don't direct art, direct feelings and emotions. Drive me.

Adver-Conceptors: "I want to [insert idea description here]" - now ask do you really want this? - theoretically simple

Digital Creatives: Is the technology your toolkit, or are you putting spanners on plinths?

Digital Creatives: Are you in your comfort zone or the non conforming zone?

Digital Techs: Aren't you really creatives in disguise? Do you feel you have more to give?

Idea: Are you useful?

Content: How do you make me feel?

For me it's important not to intellectualise things when it comes to action. We can smoke pipes and stroke our beards as late into the night as we want, but ideas don't motivate people like feelings, wants and desires do. I have a great idea blah blah blah fucking long winded explanation. Does it really excite me? Why? How? now the big simple one: how will it make me feel?

On the thinking side, Flo sent this interesting article around Dare today, it inspired me to post my response; as these things have been playing on my mind for some time... Maybe these frustrations can be explained by the medium being so young, maybe not - to me it seems sometimes that we are ignoring what has come before in our race to invent "digital creativiy", to me it should be no different to being creative with any other medium.. humm... more thought required on the matter

Life Drawing Class 01

Life Drawing Class 01, originally uploaded by donshades.

In my post-holiday drive to create things and make stuff outside of my workpace I decided to start a life drawing class on a Monday evening. It's good - it forces me to leave work on time and not end up in the pub. Let's see how long it lasts....

Another Photo From Australia

Lots of nice cars in Melbourne

Documentary Update: Boston Latino Film Festival Screening

Boston Latino Film Festival Screening, originally uploaded by donshades.

Good news - our Film has been selected for screening by another festival. This time it's State Side at the Boston International Latino Film Festival. The nice people over at BSide have put our trailer up on their website. We'll have an official film site up by the end of the week.

Diagram of Me

Diagram of Me, originally uploaded by donshades.

I was thinking a lot about myself while out in the dessert. In the great tradition of the great surrealists of the past I realised that I can split myself into myself and three alter-egos. This is more a note to myself than a blog post but fuck it if you read this blog then you probably read posts from all four of us.