Currently working on the layout for Copenhagen. Can’t seem to decide if it is wierd to break the word “Copenhagen” in two. Any thoughts?
I am still giving this opener a think because i am not sure if the 36 hours shd be in a 3D block.
hmmmm.
Did another version, this one has more text on it and the 3D block removed.
I still cannot decide is this layout is too complicated. Or maybe something simpler would be more suitable?
Here is a smaple of the inside layouts.
Those who have been following my ramblings for a while know without equivocation that I’m a Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted) fan. So imagine my surprise—and delight!—when I came across the trailer for something called Black Lightning that apparently is scheduled for December 31, 2009. I’ve not heard a peep about this project anywhere, online or in print, and there’s no mention of it on IMDb, so pardon my initial skepticism when I read about it on The Awesomer.
But the trailer looks legit enough (not like the many faux “trailers” proliferating on YouTube), and I’m getting strong flashes of Spider-Man, Back to the Future, and and the final tank vs. helicopter scene in Rambo III (I like it; shut up now) in a potent, zippy mix with Bekmambetov written all over it. Although I’m not a hundred percent sure Bekmambetov is directing it (the YouTube sub says “Timur Bekmambetov Presents”), it still looks like a very fun film to end the first decade of the twenty-first century with.
I believe most of you, like me, have been inundated by the media ruckus surrounding the arrest of Roman Polanski in Zürich last week. From Whoopi Goldberg’s “it wasn’t rape-rape” to Cokie Roberts’s “just take him out and shoot him” (now, don’t be a putz; stop overreacting and continue watching the video past the 1:45 mark for the full context) and the support of many in France and Hollywood for Polanski’s release, it’s been quite a show. I think we’ll start hearing some voices of reason right about now. For a start, check out Josh Olson’s take here on the idea that Hollywood is supporting Polanski. I know, I know, he’s an asshole, but the writing’s frank, colorful, and Olson makes more than a few valid points. (Besides, we assholes gotta support one another.)
Personally, I’m not much of a Polanski fan, but I think that has little bearing on his alleged crime and the fact that he went on the run. I ‘m surprised at the number of people who signed the petition for Polanski’s release, and I suspect that a good number of them signed the petition for all the wrong reasons. In any case, it’s impossible to take the petition seriously without Polanski facing trial in an American court and giving his side of the story. I’m even more surprised that Polanski’s artistic contributions as a film director and the severe personal trials he has suffered are mentioned as possible mitigating circumstances. Supposing a cache of Hitler’s paintings were discovered today that showed unmistakably he was a supreme artist, would we scramble to effect a posthumous exoneration, or erect a memorial? I know the analogy is far-fetched, but extreme examples are often the best tools for exposing lapses in human reasoning.
No, I won’t boycott Polanski’s films and the films of those who signed the petition, but I’d be lying if I said these matters won’t pop into my head every time I watch Chinatown or Frantic. (I still find Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist overrated, and The Tragedy of Macbeth had less impact on me than The Three Stooges.) Let’s hope this affair ends better than it started.
Working on a spread for Melbourne at the moment. Needs some changes and more pretty pictures.
My editor feels that the surfer girl on the right is too brochure like, as well as the koala. I will probably have to find more images for the Melbourne skyline, or images of the great Melbourne landscape.
Moments like this, i wish we had a photo department.
I do layouts for a living, and often find that there isn’t enough blogs about magazine layout.
The spread above is a opening spread i did on artist Richard North-Lewis, the man behind the murals at Changi Airport.
I Don’t think it’s great, but overall, the feature is interesting to read, with big pictures to look at and snippets of information about the artist’s work.
The trick is how to keep to the magazine template and yet make the feature unique. This is often very challenging. To help myself in the design process, i frequently save bits and pieces of layout i like from websites and flickr for inspiration. Below is one such example. It is the work of one of my favourtie designers, Luciana Ruivo.
She does some beautiful layouts for BBC Historia Brasil.
Okay, I admit, I’ve laughed out loud at more than a few lolcats pictures, and sent some of my own to colleagues and friends. But how many of you agree with the people at Urlesque that that we should have a day with no cat pics or vids on the Internet?
Check out icanhascheezburger’s response after the break.
If you are looking for a place to chill out with some decent food and good live jazz music, check out Jazz @ Southbridge (http://www.southbridgejazz.com.sg/home.html). Situated at the end of Boat Quay, it’s cozy, it’s intimate. I’ve heard raving reviews about it and would be checking it out myself. But if anyone out there has gone there, please confirm the credibility of the avalanche of raving testimonials.
Upcoming gig:
I really only dig George Clooney in two kinds of roles: comic or when he’s playing a super cool dude. It’s not that he wasn’t any good in Michael Clayton or Syriana, but somehow he has the ability to make something depressing even more depressing (if there’s such a thing).
I haven’t caught Leatherheads yet, but he certainly brought something to the table in Three Kings, Out of Sight, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? I view Intolerable Cruelty as probably the least of the Coen brothers works, but Clooney at least made it entertaining.
The Men Who Stare At Goats looks to be a riot. I couldn’t help laughing when Clooney with a Hitler-style moustache says with all dead seriousness that he is a “Jedi warrior.” And nobody has been able to out-Dude El Duderino himself, Jess Bridges. Add in always-dependable Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey, and it smells like we’ve got a hit.
There is no shame in preferring the Pet Shop Boys to U2.
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