Alex Pardee

http://eyesuckink.com/

This is an artist im always very fond of,  a major influence for me.  Alex Pardee is an alternative illustrator, producing work for magazines, bands and also producing work for a group called zerofriends.

Alex's work can easily be separated into two sections. His personal work and his commercial work are although similar, at the same time different from each other. his personal work tends to hold a lot more expression in colour and movement whereas his commercial work tends to have much more restrictions placed upon it. That is not to say that his commercial work is not as good as his work but is merley different in colour styling.

 Pardee's work is very organic in nature and extremely imaginative, some would say his work can be a little disturbing at times but i find it to be more interesting.  Rather than looking at his work and instantly understanding it, the unusual images force you to stop and look at what is going on.

Glug vs Paintshop Video

Director Charlie Inman has made this brilliant time lapse video. This newest clip from the director features graffiti artists Dep, Tizer, Bonzai and Lovepusher painting in the Russian Club in East London for Glug. Music by Funky DL.

David Choe

http://www.davidchoe.com/

Another video of David Choe, (as seen here) this one is less about his story and more  about his early work. nice video, sort and too the point.

Brian Despain

Kelsey Brookes at Quint Contemporary Art

Kelsey Brookes @ Quint Contemporary Art from Zack Nielsen on Vimeo.

Latest distraction, copyright 17/11/09

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone

This is an amazing stop motion video. must have taken ages to complete. I'm not too keen on the rest of the videos by this artist. 

Slagsmålsklubben: Little Red Riding Hood

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

It seems this student got a very similar brief as i currently have. I like the idea of this, nicely presented. Not knowing for definite but i would say its very Chris Ware inspired. Thumbs up from me.

Papergirl Portland

Papergirl Portland from abraham ingle on Vimeo.

"Abraham Ingle brought Berlin's Papergirl Project to Portland. Over 200 pieces of original 2d art were displayed in a gallery, then rolled up, and distributed via bicycle to randomly selected people on the streets of Portland".

Epitaph

epitaph from rowan pybus & faith47 on Vimeo.

This is a very tastefully done graffiti video, it is not like the others that tend to be fast and loud. Its obvious from the beginning this is planned well and uses some nice filters to give a good look to the video.

"epitaph is an exploration of lost spaces entered through sounds and images
to reveal the echoes of empty rooms, flakes of paint, swollen curves, fragile lines, stories hidden in the flat colors broken apart by wood and steel...

rowan pybus, faith47 and inge beckmann worked closely together to produce this short video piece...
this is the third in a series of videos that faith47 and rowan pybus have been working on."

Duncan Jago and Will Barras

http://willbarras.com/

http://www.mrjago.com/

http://www.scrawlcollective.co.uk/

Will Barras and Duncan Jago are both friends and artists, they both discovered they had talent around the same time as shown in this video. Although they have worked closly together, especially though the Scrawl collective for some time, they both have very different styles.

Will Barras Grew up in Halesowen, near Birmingham. he is highly influenced by comics and spent most of his life drawing cars. this was mostly due to his dads influence. Will now draws figures and vehicles. Generally his scenes are very fluid and full of movement. He tends to use a whole range of different media to complete his briefs. He has some interesting animations as well.

Duncan Jago is a much different artist altogether. He mostly draws disgruntled looking bio mechanoids. these are highly influenced by artists such as Futura 2000 and Japanese manga art. he was also influenced by the hip hop movement when he was young. He is not an illegal painter but often gets jobs to paint various walls. His work can can take many forms and sometimes becomes very abstract. His lines are extremely impressive and rates him as a very influential artist in my eyes.

Both artists deserve a place in anyone's archives.

Emanuelle Walker

Après la Pluie ©2008Gobelins from Emmanuelle Walker on Vimeo.

http://www.emmanuellewalker.com/

An artist from the Gobelins animation school in Paris. Emmanuelle is playing with the idea that water is a portal, quite a nice concept. this has been complimented by the fact that this is a very nice animation. executed well, i don't wish to talk about this too much I just want to add it to the archives.

Pirates Blog

http://piratesonblog.blogspot.com/

I have Only just found Pirates blog, Its quite and interesting blog with a few impressive things. these videos are quite nice, I have seen better ones done before but I've also seen a lot worse. these fit comfortably into what i think are the average graffiti time-lapse videos. There are also examples of the recent work they have done for Nescafe. this kind of light manipulation is the kind that any student can do with a digital camera, but the good thing about these is their complexity. These images are not just your usual long exposure picture. I find these are fairly impressive and like to think they must have taken a long time to get right.