Clever promotion from KLM. They hired Ramana, a famous Dutch illusionist, to levitate in the Manchester airport. The stunt advertises their new "comfort" section aboard planes. Learn more here.

Exit Through the Gift Shop is  a new movie about the notorious graffiti artist known as Bansky. I especially enjoyed the mock award icon, "Best Picture.... of leaves on a trailer."

I am fascinated by motion graphics. Thanks to programs like Adobe After Effects, Apple Motion and Adobe Flash, commercials and movie credits have been taken to a whole 'notha level . Unfortunately, I don't own any of these programs, nor do I know how to use them. Instead, I use Keynote (Apple's answer to Powerpoint) to Macgyver my  graphics into motion. Below, are two examples of my jerry-rigged animations. My abilities are limited, due to the nature of the program... but I just tell others that I'm intentionally using a more simplistic aesthetic, in reaction to the post-modern nature of contemporary society. 

Last spring, AIGA Charlotte hosted its first ever design competition, "Boom." At the awards ceremony we presented the competition coordinator with a gift certificate and this video (mocking Flight of the Conchords). 

This is an animated invitation I created for my cousin's 30th birthday. She never celebrated her 15th birthday, or Quinceanera in Latin cultures, so I played off the idea that turning 30 makes two Quinceaneras.

A VERY fun project I created for our 2010 electronic holiday card. By individually pinning up 2,010 (2") red squares, Little employees created the message, "Joy in 2010." We filmed the video using stop-frame animation (over 700 photographs). Happy belated New Year!

Great new video from OK Go. If you loved the children's game Mouse Trap, then this video is right up your meticulously-setting-up-laborious-domino-effects ally.