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Creatives, Film 03/03/2012

Two Laps

Boys in general have a talent for making most anything a competition. From racing to the top of the stairs to who wins the girl. As boys get older rivalry only escalates to business deals and golf games. What is the state of men with a little wrinkling, do they still have the king of the hill mentality, or is it lost on youth? In the film Two Laps, we find Val, the lanky giant, and Pete the mischievous opponent gearing up for their annual swim race. Directed by Owen Trevor, using film and digital textures (DV, Hi8, 16mm Bolex, 8mm, 35mm stills and Medium format stills) to capture the archive of this 17 year old race. Though [...]

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Creatives, Daily Tonic, Film 03/08/2012

KONY 2012

A young film maker named Jason Russell from INVISIBLE CHILDREN, has been working and dedicating his life to the awareness and ultimate capture of Joseph Kony, the war criminal of Uganda, Africa. Kony’s actions of  rape, abductions, and mass murder makes Kony a clear example of evil. Jason Russell believes that through viral video and [...]

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Creatives, Daily Tonic 12/27/2011

ERIK MADIGAN HECK

Erik Madigan Heck first caught our eye with his work for Mary Katrantzou this past fall 2011. Born in Excelsior in 1983 to Croatian and Northern Irish parents; he earned his MFA in Photography and Film Related Studies from Parsons School of Design in New York in 2009, where he currently lives and works. Heck is [...]

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Creatives, Daily Tonic 12/15/2011

Scouting Scout

In New York City one can spot a visitor from a mile away, simply from how much they spend looking up… perhaps with their mouths slightly ajar. A description of a dreamer, “a man looking to the stars.” Generations have  read Alice and Wonderland, the story of a girl laying in the grass drifting and [...]

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Creatives, Film 11/14/2011

CRAIG BREWER

CRAIG BREWER is writer-director drawn to films with music as the underlining drive, while revealing the grit into a group or society. He is best known for his  break out hit Hustle and Flow, which he wrote while working at Barnes and Nobles and later directed. He lives in Memphis,Tennessee and lobbies for most of [...]

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Creatives, Film 11/03/2011

APRICOT/ Ben Briand

is a film released two years ago, like most “great” short independent films it was met with accolades with in the industry but little exposure on a mass level. Apricot will be a first of an ongoing series of short film features for Design Tonic. Ben Briand is a film maker with intense film integrity [...]

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Creatives 10/31/2011

DYNAMIC BLOOMS

Dynamic Blooms is a project by the duo, Luke White and Remi Weekes of “Tell No One.” The team experiments with film, breaking down process, while using movement and dance as inspiration. White and Weekes explain their work in a few words, “Think of this as an informal brainstorm.” The publication, Another Magazine commissioned the original [...]

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