Thursday August 17, 2006

Three Little Dots: Points of Interest

I’m ambivalent about the song, but I love the video for Thom Yorke’s “Harrowdown Hill.” It was created by the Portland animation house Bent Image Lab with a technique inspired by the aerial photographs of Olivo Barbieri, who shoots actual landscapes in such a way that they appear to be miniatures. Beautiful stuff. … I’m also a sucker for the new Grand Theft Auto-inspired ad for Coke, in which our antihero turns over a new leaf. It was created by London animators Smith & Foulkes, who made a great British ad for Honda a few years ago that won the Grand Prix in Cannes. … Onion writer Joe Garden has started a blog about records—the vinyl kind. … Meanwhile, slash icon John Hodgman has started one about everything else.