Paperplanes is an abstract metaphor for modern wireless communications through the use of paper airplanes. Flying gracefully across multiple screens, the planes symbolize digital signals floating in the air without hindrance, encompassing an atmosphere of fluidity, mobility, innocence and freedom. The sound track, composed by renowned sound designer Brian Emrich (Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Phone Booth, One Hour Photo) is simultaneously ethereal yet playful, enhancing the overall experience of dreamy weightlessness.
Paperplanes is evocative of the joys of childhood and how simple the world seemed when one was young. GH avisualagency conceived the piece as environmental therapy, providing a way to transcend the constant chaotic rigors of the outside world.
Credits:
Creative & Art Direction: GH avisualagency
Director: GH avisualagency
Producer: GH avisualagency
Sound Design: Brian Emrich
Animation: Panoptic
Initially inspired by South Parks Quest for Ratings episode, Supercuuute is a study in the pure joy and delight that baby animals, specifically puppies and kittens, elicit from the viewer. Graphically shot against a black backdrop, the individual portraits of each little baby mesmerize and transfix one with the innocence and preciousness of new life. One cannot help but feel happy in the presence of such adorable creatures.
GH avisualagency then juxtaposed each animal with a specific Nokia phone, alluding to each phone being like ones new pet. Renowned sound designer Brian Emrich (Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Phone Booth, One Hour Photo) accentuates it all with his slightly nostalgic, exuberant soundtrack. Supercuuute is geared toward environmental therapy, based upon the idea that smiling releases endorphins in the viewers body, providing a natural high.
Credits:
Creative & Art Direction: GH avisualagency
Concept: Derek Lerner & Annie Ok
Director: GH avisualagency
Assistant Director: Annie Ok
Producer: GH avisualagency
Sound Design: Brian Emrich
DP: Greg Brunkalla & GH avisualagency
Casting: Judy Brown & Annie Ok
Our good friend David Daniell is performing as part of the band with Damo Suzuki, legendary singer of the German krautrock group Can during their early 70s heyday. The show is Monday at the Knitting Factory, and is the last show in Suzuki’s current tour (his first trip to the USA in four years). The band also features members of Akron/Family and Oneida, with Tony Conrad opening
We are happy to announce that powerHouse books has been given a Lucie award for its new book on Darfur, art directed and designed by GH avisualagency.
IPA awards Lucies to those in the creative community who are an integral part of crafting an image.
The IPA members and Photographers Advisory Board have awarded powerHouse Books – Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide as Photography Book Publisher of the Year at The 5th Annual Lucie Awards.
The Photographers’ Gallery invited people to submit photographs of plastic bags spotted around London and elsewhere which can be viewed here.
[...]Reminding us of our ability to consume and dispose, this project provides the public with their own platform for visual expression and is part of the Gallery’s continued remit to encourage further audience participation and highlighting photography’s influence in everyday life.[...]
