Sure Stash 45 starts out all fancy and high class, with the big
budgets and glossy black and white treatments, but . as always . it
quickly descends into a morass of crazed, unpredictable fun and
brilliant weirdness.
Also included this issue: the newest Stash BONUS DISK packing in-
depth selections of work from Bent Image Lab, Frame and Deva Studios.
We open the main program on the precise and metaphorical new Audi R6
launch spot from the Mill then slip peacefully into Logan.s elegant
fluid work for Kohler Karbon before Psyop and MassMarket gracefully
shatter any illusions we had about Absolut vodka.
Then, just as we were feeling our fourth and fifth chakras coming
into alignment, the Mill busts out the fast break with slammin.
Mistubishi robots and then (without stopping to catch their breath)
they destroy a truckload of Sony HD products by throwing them off
a mountain. Psyop LA contributes to the buzz with their stylin. new
Haagen-Dazs spot while Farfar and Hobby Film convince 1,034 stop-
motion people to follow them around Lisbon for six days for Nokia.
The momentum builds as we break into the broadcast design section
with James Price and Transistor getting all medieval on BBC4 through
Strange Beast, Helios Design Labs getting extra loose and lo-fi for
MTV Canada and Trollback bringing some high-tech class to the sports
world via ESPN. This is also where we find three newcomers to keep
your eyes on: Parisian studio View with their electric new Virgin 17
spot, Thank You from Copenhagen with their manically labor-intensive
new MTV Denmark work, and the team of Tenge Films and mashcomix from
Tokyo with the completely chaotic new open for the Japanese MSN Video
Awards (on the cover).
Music-driven projects on Stash 45 include the doggedly ragged new
R.E.M. .Hollow Man. video from Crush, the pointillist prowess of
London.s Trunk for Hot Chip.s .One Pure Thought., and the wholesome
flesh-gobbling puppet zombie epic .Piece of Me, Piece of You. from
Three Legged Legs for Zune.
Other names of note to watch out for: Brand New School for Cellular
South; Lobo for Vigorsol; XYZ and Charlex for Dodge; Superfad for
Sprint; Warsaw.s Platige Image for Kujawski; Beijing.s Motion Logix
for Li-Ning; NBC Magic Room for .American Gladiators.; Paris-based
Wizz for Seat; Molho from Sao Paulo for Maxhaus; Manchester-based
The Neighbourhood for themselves; and London.s one and only Wyld
Stallyons bringing John Burgerman.s doodles to life for idN.
After all that it.s time to wind down a bit, and so Stash 45 closes on
a beautifully rendered but very serious note with Shilo.s spectacular
new .Burma Viral. PSA courtesy of MTV Networks.
All 11 of the BONUS FILMS on 45 were recognized as miniature motion
gems in the Adobe Photoshop .See What.s Possible. Challenge which
dangled $20,000 in front of the world.s graphic designers, web pros,
photographers, animators, and motion graphics designers and asked them
to .Compose an engaging animation or motion graphic video incorporating
the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of .See What.s
Possible...
The BONUS MUSIC on Stash 45 is happy little avalanche of indie rock
started by the not-so-innocent people at Flameshovel Records. Grab
seven cool MP3 tracks from Maritime, Chin Up Chin Up, Bound Stems,
Narrator and Russian Circles.
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