Table Beggar by Loose Fit - Music Video

I'm clearing out my drafts after being away for a while (yet again) and came across this beauty. A stunner of a music video by London-based director/animator Abbie Stephens (this is her first music video!! OMFGHERTALENTMAKESMESICKINMYMOUTHWITHRAGE) So you now it wasn't a walk in the park the making of is below.

Making of the video:

The Naked & Famous - The Sun - NSFW

This video from The Naked and Famous for their new song 'The Sun' is directed by Joel Kefali & Campbell Hooper for Special Problems. It is full of colour and texture (and loads of boobs just sayin') The song is taken from the album ‘Passive Me, Aggressive You’

The Naked And Famous - The Sun from The Naked And Famous on Vimeo.

Derek Nobbs - Artist

Derek Nobbs draws 'dirty dead sailors' on heavyweight hot-press paper, giving it an aged look with all of the usual artist's vices; coffee, tea, whiskey, tobacco and tears.

I am really glad to have found his work because I think it is just amazing. Inspired by all that nature has to offer, his unique compositions create a wonderful spectacle around his sailors, who each seem to have their own individually intriguing personalities.

Maskull Lasserre - Artist

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre creates secret anatomical sculptures within everyday objects in an attempt to explore their hidden potential and force us to re-think the things we are most familiar with.

I think they just look cool. Whatever the reasoning behind it you can't deny this guy is a master of his craft and he certainly who knows his way around a bit of wood.

Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win - Spike Jonze For The Beastie Boys

First it was Michel Gondry back together with Bjork and now it is Spike Jonze directing for the Beastie Boys again!

This full length music video for 'Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win' featuring Santigold uses stop motion (and a few strategically placed hands) to parody films like True Lies and James Bond.

'Walter's toast!'

Lammicken by Mark Webber for Braids

I love Braids and was lucky enough to see them in my home town earlier this year. At first the video for 'Lammicken' directed by Mark Webber sent me into a sort of colour coma, but then I turned the song up really loud and I was all like 'woooo colour coma!'

Beyonce Knowles for Thierry Le Gouès, Ebon Heath & Complex Magazine August/September 2011

Beyonce is on the cover of this month's Complex Magazine shot by Thierry Le Gouès with an amazing typography cape created by Ebon Heath (check out his portfolio NOW). I want one.

Xavier Barrade for Dry the River

One of my favourite things about writing this blog is coming across things that I genuinely think are brilliantly creative and yet don't take a massive bank balance or a lot of resources to achieve -just some imagination and willingness to put in the hours.

So I loved discovering Xavier Barrade’s 3D posters for rock band Dry The River. Xavier spent over 35 hours creating each 3d poster, hand cutting all the pieces and gluing them together.

The finished result is an ad campaign that sticks out (ha!) from the rest. The video of people's reactions to the posters is great too.

Michel Gondry for Björk and Crystalline

Björk and Michel Gondry. Is there a better creative combination? Maybe Michel Gondry and The White Stripes, but it's sooo close!

NewVillager - Lighthouse

Cheese Dreams?

NewVillager - "LightHouse" from stereogum on Vimeo.

Nicki Minaj, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin For V Magazine Spring 2011

It's good to see Nicki Minaj moving away from her usual face-tourettes look (see here, here and here) in a few of the pictures from this spread for V Magazine's Spring 2011 issue.

Photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and wearing Versace and Mark Fast she really pulls of the zombie body paint.

If you are into it and want to create your own look or you just want to watch a stranger putting on make-up really fast for 10 minutes then I have already found a tutorial for you...

Product Design Mother Eleganza for LOWVIBE

Interesting vacuum-packed salami CD package design by Mother Eleganza for LOWVIBE. You have to rip it to get into it though and I would totes loose the plastic and then leave the CD on the floor, where I seem to keep most things of value, until I innevitably break them.

Lucy McRae for Robyn's 'Body Talk'

Roybn is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. So I was really excited to see she had teamed up with Lucy McRae of Lucy & Bart for the artwork of the three releases from her Body Talk album.

Australian artist Lucy McRae art directed the three covers, as well as the Indestructible video in which 1.2 kilometres of transparent plumbing tubing, with 40 litres of glycerol pumping through it, are knitted together with fishing wire around Robyn. The making of it shows just how much work went into what looks like a simply beautiful video.

ROBYN 'INDESTRUCTIBLE' OFFICIAL VIDEO from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

The Making of Robyn's 'Indestructible' Music Video with EXTRA FOOTAGE from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.