Youtube Play vs. Vimeo Awards

On September 20, the shortlist for the inaugural YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video (basically an online video contest open to all) was announced. The 125 videos on the shortlist, selected from more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, can now be viewed through Youtube’s Play Channel.

The 20 finalists, eventually selected from a jury that includes director Darren Aronofsky, Animal Collective, graphic designer Stefan Sagemeister and visual artist Takashi Murakami will be announced October 21 during a fancy celebration of some kind and put on view at the Guggenheim October 22-24.

We obviously haven’t made it through all 125 videos of the shortlist, let alone any of the 22,ooo and some odd other submissions, because well, we have shit to do.  But we’ve shortlisted the shortlist and left you with links to some of our favorites so far.

Cardboard – a cardboard animation
The Huber Experiments Vol. 1 – slow motion awesomeness
Mother of All Funk Chords – funny and funky video mashup
Kibble Kat – pixar-like animated short
Bathtub IV – time lapse photography creates “fake miniatures”
Luis – stop motion animation with a dark atmosphere
Stindberg and Helium at the Beach – simple approach to funny
Wonderland Mafia – 316 Mafia x Disney’s Alice in Wonderland
Human Mirror - 15 pairs of twins and a subway car
Noteboek – confusing reality
Foods – food cravings documented over a month (Tricia’s pick)

What’s that…you have an insatiable appetite for internet videos and want even more?

Luckily, secondary online video depository Vimeo, which tends to cater more to burgeoning filmmakers because of its high definition player, will host the first annual Vimeo Fesitval & Awards show in New York October 8-9. The judges panel picked from more than 6,500 entries for Vimeo’s shortlist, which is organized nicely into 9 categories (unlike Youtube’s madness) and is also online now. We haven’t had the time to watch many of Vimeo’s shortlist (thanks to the aforementioned Youtube disorganization) so no recommendations from us. Don’t be scared to just click around in there, I promise it will be ok.

Website Shout Out: What Type Are You?

Answer four simple questions for the Freud-like ‘psychotherapist’ in the chair and find out what font type matches your personality through Pentagram‘s “What Type Are You?”. This is an entertaining animated quiz researched by 23 academics across Eastern Europe that also has interesting background information on each respective font.  Plus, you graphic designers out there could use it as a tool to better select a font for that next “I’m not sure what I want” client, assuming you could get them to answer the questions of course. My personality was paired with Architype Van Doesburg, a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon a 1919 alphabet designed by Theo Van Doesburg, a co-founder of the De Stijl art movement.

Take the quiz here
Read more about the project here

Website Shout Out: Clients From Hell

If you’re a designer, or even just know one, you’re familiar with this: most of the time clients are about one idiotic request away from sending the creative staff into a searing, shatter your smart phone against the wall, kick a baby seal type of rage. Thankfully the website Clients From Hell documents exactly what its name implies while also giving the pissed off designer a chance to vent through an anonymous venue. I’m sure some of you readers have your own horror stories, so get to sharing.

Here are a few favorites:

#1 Make Them Disappear
Client: “We don’t want people to think that everyone using our service is black. Can you make most of the people white?”

Me: “They are stick figures, I don’t think there’s going to be any racial profiling.”

Client: “Well you’re using black lines for all of them. We want to see most of them as white.”

Me: “Don’t you think that would look even more racist? Besides, it’s a white background, the white stick figures would disappear.”

Client: “Then change it to a black background and make the black people disappear. I don’t know, just figure it out.”

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#2 No Title
Client: “Let’s get together and figure out a way for you to work more hours for less money.”

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Rathaus Fashion on Bloglovin

If you’re into the fashion blogging world, you probably know about Bloglovin’. If not, check it out, Bloglovin’ is a great tool for managing all of your favorite fashion blogs. We have just added the Rathaus fashion feed to the site. Click the link below to follow us.

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posted by: Tricia Rock

Website Shout Out: FWAPhoto

“FreeSpiritsGod” by Michele Rieri – Reggio Calabria, Italy (2009)
(click for a larger version)

About FWAPhoto:

FWAPhoto is a dream showcase for us and we hope you will join us in enjoying one amazing photograph every day of the year.  That’s right…we will showcase one photograph every day via the website, via your iPhone and you will have the option to save your favorite photos to your Lightboxer to enjoy as a screensaver on your desktop.

To see an overview of the monthly archives click here

posted by: Harold Johns III