On the road again...

Attic Fire traveled to Raleigh, NC last week to photograph the NCSU Student Health Services.  Here are some of the awesome images they captured:

What a lovely time for a fall road trip! Can't get away? You like Architecture? 

 

You should totally check out their blog - it's the best of both worlds.

Behind the Scenes with Joshua Cogan

Joshua Cogan gets to have lots of different adventures shooting for Travel Channel.  Check out some of his behind the scenes videos!

See the results of all his adventures @ www.joshuacogan.com

Hit it Off

Blazing out of Buenos Aires, the all-girl power trio known as Las Kellies mixes their fun sensibilities with post punk funk that is as cool as it sounds. New York new wave vibes thrashed out with primitive joy. Darting angles and rumbles and shouted choruses bring you into their funhouse. Combining all of those sensibilities was the challenge for designer John Foster. Working with the band and their label, Fire Records, Foster ultimately arrived at a packaging solution that brought in xeroxed fanzine images coupled with raw and stunning color graphics. Creating a pattern of intensity and fun, he perfectly bridged the band's vibe and introduced them to the world.

Check out more of John's designs @ www.badpeoplegoodthings.com

Deep Space Sorg

It's Friday!  Get lost in Brian Sorg's blog for a little while.  It's so easy.

 

Do you want to try it, Pokey?

Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and stop-motion, clay-animation pioneer, would have turned 90 today. Thanks Mr. Clokey! 

Let's take a look at some of Maxwell Sorensens stop-motion, clay-animation work....

Middle Distance Runner "The Unbeliever" from Maxwell Sørensen on Vimeo.



I asked Maxwell about his take on the process and here is what he has to say:

"Stop-motion is an animation process where a physical puppet or objects are moved frame by frame to create the illusion of movement. There are typically 24 frames in a second of film or video, so that’s a lot of positions if you’re making a 3 minute music video or short film (3x60x24=more than I want to count!). To a lot of people that sounds absurdly tedious, but it’s actually a very enjoyable, almost meditative process where you get to see otherwise dead inanimate
objects come to life and take on personalities of their own.  

Claymation is just regular stop-motion, but clay is used as the primary building material. Clay characters usually have to be sculpted around a machined skeleton called an armature. This is because the clay is usually not rigid enough to support the range of motions you will need to smoothly animate a range of poses. When I build a character, first I draw some sketches, then I plan the armature (figuring out the proportions at this early stage is critical), then I either build a new armature or recycle an old one, altering it if need be. Finally, I start applying the clay, or some other material that will skin the character. By the time I’m ready to shoot a scene I’ve usually planned everything out in advance with storyboards and thumbnails so the actual animating is mostly just following my scene notes, although accidents do happen as the characters come to life. I photograph everything with a Nikon or Canon DSLR and a piece of software that lets me preview the scene as I’m working on it. This greatly aids in speeding up the work and correcting mistakes before it’s too late. 

One of the real joys of stop-motion animation is that it forces you to really analyze motion, gestures, and expressions, at the most minute level so that they can be replicated on the puppet. Often I’ll shoot reference footage of myself or one of my helpers acting out the scene and then copy those motions frame by frame onto the puppet. In the end, I think it’sseeing that spark of life as a puppet or object comes alive on screen that makes the process so rewarding and addictive."

View more of Maxwells awesome creations @ www.maxwellsorensen.com

It's still summer if you want it to be

The summer music festivals may have passed but the sun is still shining.  Check out Brian Sorg's behind the scenes shots from Lollapalooza and daydream about steamy weather and sweaty, scantily clad hipsters.

Get the stories behind the images @ spin.com

See more of Brian's work @ www.briansorgfoto.com

Check out all of our artist's work @ www.claxtonrepresents.com

Tomorrow We Disappear

Joshua Cogan has been working on this amazing project as the Director of Photography as well as shooting all the still photography and acting as one of the Interactive Producers.
Check out the trailer....

For hundreds of years roaming artists traveled the Indian countryside, creating the stories, the mythological backbone that would unite a country. Before radio, film, and television, these artists helped form what we now call the Web of India.

In the 1950s the artists ended their itinerant routes and moved into vacant land beside a jungle in West Delhi. They called their new home the Kathputli Colony. The colony is now a tinsel slum, providing home to some of the world's greatest street magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers. But last year the government sold the Kathputli land to real estate developers; the slum is to bulldozed and cleared for development.

"Tomorrow We Disappear," will take you into the world of the Kathputli Colony, to experience the last remnants of its unique culture before it's too late.


Want to contribute to this project?  You can right here on Kickstarter!

Why, thank you!

We have received a lot of compliments on our new website, thank you, we like it too!  The design was spearheaded by our own wonderful John Foster and all of the programming was done by our dear friend Rishi Chakrabarty.

Are you in need of a new website?  Rishi does lots of things that we don't even understand, and we don't have to because he does them so well!  

His talents include:  Pixel perfect css/html, javascript, php, flash animations, & graphics.   Ecommerce, inventory management, &  customized content management solutions, including Drupal, Wordpress, Site Executive & Expression Engine.   He will work closely with you for a fully customized and beautiful website.

You can contact Rishi at rc@78-studio.com or give him a call at 202.674.5471