In the halcyon years of the fin de sicle, motorcycles were evolving from rough hewn bicycles with ad hoc clip-on engines attached to full on finished vehicles with a completed concept and big picture aesthetic. By the 1920s, bikes like Matchless, Motosacoche, Brough Superior, Clement, Royal, Monarch, Pope, Minerva, Reading-Standard, Thor etc had launched and [...]
27
Nov
Small displacement odes to two-wheelers of the early 1900s
31
Mar
ChernoKids 6-minute short animation
A beautifully animated and very bizarre — bordering on disturbing — 6-minute animation about a fictional group of mutant children from Chernobyl, titled Chernokids. The short video was made by a group of Frenchies (Matthieu Bernadat, Nils Boussuge, Florence Ciuccoli, Clément Deltour and Marion Petegnief) who will most definitely get some professional work if they [...]
10
Dec
What if Jesus came out as a DJ, wore New Era caps and made real holy water for his crew?
I like the quick mix of Flash animation with real-world graphics…if at least for even a second. Created by the Gobelins, a French animation crew made up of Rémi Bastie, Jean-Baptiste Cumont, Clément Desnos, Jonathan Djob Nkondo and Nicolas Pegon, I guess you could call this a modern retelling of the parables…only with Technics and [...]
