In honor of the illustrator and writer’s 85th birthday, Newsweek and Blank on Blank are proud to present this animated short about the beloved, late author, which is based off of audio we had left over from a 2009 interview conducted by Newsweek’s Andrew Romano and Ramin Setoodeh.
Book Trailer
My New Teacher and Me – All Jankovic / Wes Hargis
Powerful Words From John Green
Yo! Malorie Black – Man
A specially commissioned animation to celebrate the choice of Malorie Blackman as the new Children’s Laureate 2103-15
Carl Zeiss Lenses – Manufacturing the new Touit lenses
Can you make Charlie Higson’s new zombie book trailer?
Charlie Higson has launched a competition to make the official trailer for his new book The Fallen, the latest in his The Enemy zombie series. This isn’t a one for fainting types, though – a key criteria is “plenty of gore”.
via Can you make Charlie Higson’s new zombie book trailer? | Children’s books | guardian.co.uk.
A Beautiful Video of the Daguerreotype Process
Dan Carrillo: Daclotype from Patrick Richardson Wright on Vimeo.
The way film photographers feel about digital photographers may be the way daguerreotype photographers feel about the film guys. Working with dangerous chemicals, buffing out silver coated plates, spending an entire day preparing for, taking and developing one shot; that’s what daguerreotype photographers love to do. It’s the difference between “crafting a photograph” and “just snapping away.”
In this short film, Seattle-based photog Dan Carrillo talks about that craftsmanship, as well as the beauty and permanence of daguerreotype photography that keeps him doing it when others say “why bother.”