# The Walled City by Roger Hom (Generic Life)

Here is a short animation film by Generic Life that I found interesting because it happens to take place in the Kowloon Walled City (see previous post). There are extremely few graffiti artists in Hong Kong and making them operate in the Walled City here symbolizes the free zone - and on the contrary of what the authorities were saying, apparently not so dangerous - that represented this incredible densest area in the world (50000 people were living in it).

# Explosion / Massive Attack's Splitting the Atom by Edouard Salier

Here is a good video with good music, enjoy !

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

more about Edouard Salier : here

Thanks Olivier !

# HETEROTOPIAS IN CINEMA /// スチームボーイ (STEAMBOY) by Katsuhiro Otomo, 2004

Here is a movie we couldn't avoid for this thematic, Steamboy a masterpiece of the great mangaka & director Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) . This movie his presenting a retro futuristic view of the mid 19th century in England, where a family of genius is building a steam powered tower combining the most incredible technology for the Great exhibition of 1851 in London. One can notice the highly detailed mecanic parts and beautifull retro machinery (cf : Wild Wild West by Barry Sonnenfeld). More over the graphic quality is bringing the picture to the dream, the perfect mix between 2d , 3D animation and color tones gives a great feeling of depth and a perfect motion fluidity. The 19th century London as a background is just as amazing as the wonderfull scenes that takes place in Paxton's Crystal Palace... I will notwrite longer about this movie and let you discovering it, following few pictures to give you a quick overview.

# Street Packaging

Each product around us got its own use and it is destinated to this one purpose, but sometimes the simplest things create the more interesting results being corrupted by a new employment. The exemple of the cellpohane is pretty relevant, I would like to present the work of two talented graffity artist, and one street artist, two very interesting approach of the cellophane misuse : a graphic one and a three-dimensional one, both in an urban context .

Astro and Kanos, two members of the graffity crew ODV, are the creators of the Cellograff. This new style of street art/graffity, is a new way to paint in the street, painting with spray and being in an urban area, but getting out of the basic transgression cliché of illegal tagging.The Cellograff is more about to sharing an original piece of art and creating an ephemeral performance in an unexpected location than just writing a name. Following you can see few examples of their performances in the streets of Paris.

CELLOGRAFF l'introduction
envoyé par iKanoGrafik. - Films courts et animations.

Cedric Bernadotte defines itself as a street artist, using the cellophane as a medium for a new urban practice, he's creating, with his installations, a new relation between the body and the urban context. With this material Bernadotte is changing the shapes of the streets, from concrete blocks to tense organic forms. Following few examples of some installations in the streets.





More about Cellograff : here
More about C.Bernadotte : here

# Linn Olofsdotter

Linn Olofsdotter is a Swedish graphic designer who develop an interesting colorful aesthetic, some kind of updated Japanese "estampe" (print ?) using collage not as a real medium but rather as a virtual juxtaposition of signs and ideas.

# The art of Chris Johanson

The Californian born artist Chris Johanson is a new incontestable figure of contemporary art.

Coming from the worlds of street art and skateboarding, he is evolving between graphic and sculpture. He was close to contemporary artists escaped from street art like Barry McGee or Dash Snow. He is doing really interesting colorful installation like the following ones.

More here & here.

# Ecole (M.Turnheim, N.Simon, G.Colette-Turnheim, A.Delaroiere & G.Lucas)

A little post for our talented friends of Ecole who just released their website. Ecole is a Paris based young office founded by Max Turnheim and Nicolas Simon, both architects, in 2008, joined afterward by Gala Collette-Turnheim, photographer and graphic designer (author of the superb Wonderland below, assembling the entire Lewis Caroll's book on twelve panels) and then by Aure Delaroiere and Geraldine Lucas, architects as well. The office shares his time between architecture, industrial design and graphic design...Good luck to them for the future !