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October 12, 2017
The Unedited StoryCorps Interview: Jennifer Brooks & Jose Angel Quiñonez
Did you know that the stories you hear from us on NPR and our podcast are excerpts of interviews pulled from the StoryCorps Archive? Participants visit one of our recording locations with a friend or family member to record a 40-minute interview with the help of a trained StoryCorps Facilitator, or record a conversation using the StoryCorps App. We’re sharing this unedited interview from the StoryCorps Archive with you in its original form.
In November 2010, Jennifer Caldwell Brooks interviewed her husband, Jose Angel Quiñonez, about coming to the United States and his life here. They were recorded at our StoryBooth at the San Francisco Public Library.
Jose describes coming across the border from Mexico with his five siblings when he was nine years old. Both of his parents had passed away and the children collectively decided that it was the best option for them. “There was going to be nothing for us in Mexico and there was nobody that wanted to take care of us,” he said.
About 22 minutes into the conversation, Jose tells Jennifer about the perceptions he had of her when they first met — she was white and came from an “upper middle class, educated, wholesome family.” It wasn’t until a Thanksgiving dinner at her dad’s house that he realized they had more in common than he first thought.
Jose and Jennifer look back on their childhoods and their parallel desires to just have a “normal” life. They talk about being parents to two young children together and discuss how their upbringings affect and inform the decisions they make.
Launched in 2009, StoryCorps Historias is an initiative to record the diverse stories and life experiences of Latinos in the United states. Sharing these stories ensures that the voices of Latinos will be preserved and remembered for generations to come. Historias recordings are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and in a special collection at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
All material within the StoryCorps collection is copyrighted by StoryCorps. StoryCorps encourages use of material on this site by educators and students without prior permission, provided appropriate credit is given. This interview has not been fact-checked, and may contain sensitive personal information about living persons.
Source: SNPR Story Corps
October 12, 2017
25 Years of SXSW Film Festival – Seth Rogen
To commemorate the 25th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, we will spotlight careers launched, artists discovered, powerful performances, and more from our alumni. This week’s featured artist, actor, director, writer, and producer is Seth Rogen.
Rogen has appeared in six features at SXSW. One of the most popular and talked about films from the 2017 festival was the Work-In-Progress screening of the The Disaster Artist, which he worked on with frequent collaborators James and Dave Franco. The film is set to be released in December via A24, you can check out our Q&A from the event here.
Other comedies that screened at SXSW include Knocked Up (2007, Work-In-Progress), Observe and Report (2009, Headliner), Neighbors (2014, Headliner), and the adult animated film, Sausage Party (2016, Work-In-Progress). Additionally, Rogen co-wrote, co-produced, and lends his voice talents in Sausage Party.
In 2016, SXSW also presented the world premiere of Preacher, a series developed by Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Garth Ennis, and Sam Catlin. Rogen has directed and written numerous episodes of the hit AMC TV show. At this year’s film festival Rogen, Ennis, and Catlin came back to speak on the panel, Inside the Making of Preacher.
We are thrilled to share his #SXSWFilm25 story with you.
“I love SXSW because they are the only festival that puts comedy on an equal stage with other genres. They’ve been the perfect place to launch a number of our movies and I’m sure those movies wouldn’t have found their audience the way they did without the support of the festival.”
Stay tuned to SXSW News each week for more 25th edition stories.
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The Disaster Artist – Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW
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October 12, 2017
Here is everything we know about Respawn’s Oculus Rift VR shooter
Respawn has partnered with Oculus Rift to make a realistic war game for VR that appears to put players in the trenches of a historical war. Here’s everything we know so far from the teaser trailer.
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Source: Digital Trends VR
October 12, 2017
How to Harness the Power of Social Listening for Curating an Effective Visual Storytelling Strategy
Social listening or the practice of doing research on social media – is squarely positioned under our STORY MAKING phase of our Visual Storytelling Framework:
According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics, half of all new businesses with employees don’t make it to the fifth year. When you dig deeper and look at the high-tech sector we see that 70% of all venture-backed startups are failing. And less than 1% have a chance of becoming a unicorn.
CBInsights, who ran this report also analyzed the reasons for this staggering failure rate and found the top reasons are: the No Market Need (42%), Get Outcompeted (19%), Lack of Business Model (17%), and Poor Marketing (14%).
Translation: businesses don’t know how to vet a compelling business story that resonates with their market [highlight to tweet].
Founders are in love with their product, but their product is connected to a nice-to-have problem [highlight to tweet]. Customers don’t really consider the problem their product solves as a major pain.
And this is where the rubber meets the road for the viability of social listening in crafting a meaningful business story. In our visual storytelling workshops, I can’t stress enough the importance of developing a clear picture of your top buyer persona – the hero of your business story.
The process of developing an authentic buyer persona profile requires you to do a comprehensive research. You can run a direct interview with your customer, probe your sales team, and run social listening.
Regardless if you’re in the Business-to-Business or Business-to-Consumer, at the other end there is a human being you’re trying to improve her life with your product. So think about this as a Human-to-Human (H2H) relationship building.
The communication reality is that in today’s sharing economy, your audience is freely talking about their pains, interests on social media channels. So, if you’re working on a new product launch, listening to your audience, your competitors, top influencers – will give you an authentic picture about the market state your product is about to enter.
From this perspective, social listening goes beyond marketing. Think of it as a real-time focus group [highlight to tweet]. It always available for you to learn from and optimize your business story, product development, reputation management, customer service, public relations, influencer recruitment, and tips for enhancing your investor pitch.
All these use cases represent different types of business stories with a wide range of emotional triggers. In order for these stories to be effective, they need to function like “mirrors” and authentically reflect the must-have problem your customer is facing.
Why? Because once your customers see themselves in your story, your story becomes THEIR STORY. They empathize with your message, trust your intentions and are more inclined to act on your call-to-action [highlight to tweet].
I always recommend testing your business story with a few customers, tweak and then you can move into what we call Story Visualizing phase where you convert your business story (your big Why) into mini visual stories. This could be video explainer, infographics all the way up to AR and VR.
Once you have your visual stories created, you move to our Story Telling phase, where you develop your content marketing strategy that adapts your visual narratives to the buyer persona, the platform culture (e.g., LinkedIn vs. Instagram vs. offline event) and their stage in the buyer’s journey (i.e., Discover, Consider, Purchase, Adopt, and Advocate).
But the listening never stops.
Because once your visual storytelling strategy is in full motion, you want to continue to monitor the impact of your stories on your audience and optimize on two levels: a) your tactical approach and b) your overall business narrative viability, as market conditions, trends, audience tastes are in constant change.
On October 31st, I’ll continue discussing this important topic with David Berkowitz, Chief Strategy at Sysomos, the leading social media monitoring platform.
What you will learn:
- Why is social listening vital for crafting a business story?
- What are the core challenges marketers are facing today when researching their customer segments?
- How visual storytelling plays out into social listening?
- 2 examples of successful social listening done right
- 3 basic social listening tips you can apply to your business today
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Source: Visual Storytelling
October 12, 2017
Explore SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Categories Before November 10 Deadline
The 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards is still accepting regular entry applications through November 10. The Awards are open to anyone with a project, product, creative endeavor, scientific discovery, or student project that will launch or has launched between January 1 – December 31, 2017.
SXSW Interactive’s annual competition includes 13 award categories and 6 Special Honors, which recognize the most forward-looking tech developments in the connected world, launched or released in the 2017 calendar-year.
New for 2018, we’ve added the AI & Machine Learning category to the Interactive Innovation Awards. The AI & Machine Learning category aims to recognize the coolest, most cutting-edge, and the most useful applications of these intelligent and learning machines. Does your project make use of machine learning in a creative new way? Have you developed a new way for an intelligent program or system to learn from its users — or even teach itself? Do you have an new bot or interface that could pass a Turing test? Enter it in the Interactive Innovation Awards!
Learn more about the 13 award categories and 6 special honors that will be recognized at the 2018 Innovation Awards.
How to Apply
Tell us all about your entry and don’t be modest! The best entry forms give the Awards Jurists a thorough sense of your project, product or service (including some level of interaction with the project being entered, or video examples of it being used). Be sure to include information like:
- What the entry is and what it does (what problem does it solve or need does it fill)?
- Who it’s intended for (audience, target market, user it’s designed for)?
- What tools were used to build it; or what was involved in bringing the project together?
- Who was involved in bringing the project to fruition?
Feel free to include additional resources like spec sheets, marketing materials, associated social media accounts, testimonials, and a link to access the project with login info if needed.
Discounts for Students, researchers, and academics for the Student and SciFi No Longer categories are available upon request.
Deadline to Enter
Regular Entry: Saturday, Sept. 23 – Friday, November 10 — $150 fee
Final Entry Deadline: Friday, November 10, 2017
Join us for SXSW 2018 – register to attend by Friday, October 20 to save and be sure to make your hotel reservations through SXSW Housing & Travel for the best available rates.
Photo by Jay Willingham
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October 11, 2017
Filmmaker In Focus: Assholes and Tragedy Girls
Assholes and Tragedy Girls premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in our Visions and Midnighters categories, these screening sections are on the funkier side and these films are definitely not for the faint of heart. Take a closer look with our Q&A with the directors below and be sure to check out our alumni blog for more information on where you can watch these films.
Assholes
Peter Vack is an actor and filmmaker from New York City. His award winning short film Send premiered at SXSW in 2014 and went on to play over a dozen other film festivals. Vack has appeared in number of SXSW films, in 2017 alone he appeared in, Dara Ju, M.F.A., and Whiskey Fist. Assholes is his first feature and won the inaugural Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award.
Q: Tell us a little about your film?
PV: Assholes is a perverse comedy about sobriety, addiction, relapse, psychoanalysis, and poppers. That is all I want to reveal here.
Q: What motivated you to tell this story?
PV: I wrote the first act of Assholes impulsively, during a moment of sadness, to exorcise some self-hatred. I showed about twenty-five pages to my friend, Aaron Mark, who is a brilliant playwright and upon whom the male protagonist in Assholes is based.
Aaron encouraged me to do a reading, with him, my sister Betsey Brown, and myself reading the three lead roles. We had a lot of fun reading those pages, and Aaron and Betsey encouraged me to keep writing; but I abandoned Assholes for about two years to write dozens and dozens of drafts of another script for a film that would require a much larger budget to produce. When that film didn’t come together as quickly as I hoped, I felt frustrated in the same way as when I began writing Assholes. So I added a second and third act to those original twenty five pages, making sure to keep the film as contained as possible — only using people and places I had immediate access to — so that Assholes could be made as cheaply as possible. I showed the script to Betsey and Aaron and they encouraged me to make the film. But I was afraid. Ultimately it was Betsey who pushed back hard against my fear and told me I had to take the risk. I am very grateful to her.
Q: What do you want the audience to take away from this film?
PV: I would like for the audience to have an experience watching the film, but I am comfortable knowing that each audience member’s experience will be different.
Tragedy Girls
Originally from Canada, Tyler MacIntyre graduated from AFI with an MFA in 2010. MacIntyre has been mentored by leading industry icons including Peter Bogdanovich and Roger Corman, which helped shape his passion for crafting genre films with a unique voice. His feature debut, the horror-comedy Patchwork won awards at ScreamFest and Toronto After Dark.
Q: Tell us a little about your film?
TM: At its heart, it is a story about two friends having one last hurrah before going off to college… but for them a ‘hurrah’ means starting a murder spree in their high school, and blowing it up on social media. They want to be both victim and perpetrator, journalist and viewer, and even though their outlook on life is warped – it is primarily a story about friendship.
Q: What motivated you to tell this story?
TM: I love playing with the audiences expectations, so stories that subvert genre in interesting ways often appeal to me. This script was originally a very straight-forward slasher narrative which I didn’t connect to, but in rewriting with Chris Hill we were able to find a more satirical angle, equating the narcissism in our characters’ social media presence with literal psychopathic narcissism – which created a lot of really fun opportunities.
Q: What do you want the audience to take away from this film?
TM: This is primarily meant to be a fun ride, but there are definitely elements that I hope cause people to think more critically about the media they consume, and how it can disassociate us from the consequences violent events have for real people.
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October 11, 2017
Announcing 200+ Showcasing Artists for the 2018 SXSW Music Festival
And we’re back! SXSW 2018 is five months away, and today’s announcement reveals the first wave of over 200 Showcasing Artists who will be performing at the SXSW Music Festival, March 12–18, 2018. Discovery is the standard at SXSW, and with acts from 32 countries set to perform in an array of musical styles you can expect to find artists and genres that you don’t even know you love yet.
Showcasing Artists include 88Rising artists Higher Brothers from Chengdu, China and Indonesian rapper Rich Chigga, new Matador Records signee Snail Mail, and recent additions to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, Jay Park and Farina. Moses Boyd returns with the jazz/grime/electronic-infused Moses Boyd – Solo X one-man performance, while Albert Hammond Jr-produced Japanese indie-rockers DYGL, UK and New Zealand singer/songwriters Lucy Rose and Marlon Williams, and iconic UK indie pop legends The Wedding Present also join the 2018 lineup. View the full list of Showcasing Artists below.
Digging into a list of this magnitude is always a treat, but can also be time-consuming. Allow us to lend you a helping hand in the process of discovery:
- Follow the official SXSW 2018 Music Festival playlist on Spotify
- Listen to SXSWfm’s specialty show highlighting artists from today’s announcement
- Surf through our SXSW 2018 Showcasing Artists Music Videos playlist on YouTube
In case you missed it, the SXSW Conference made a Keynote & Featured Speakers Announcement yesterday, including additions to the Music Tracks. Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Keith Urban will speak at the conference as part of Music Culture & Stories, and Spotify’s Chief Content Officer Stefan Blom will have a conversation with Josh Constine, the Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch, in Sync, Stream & License.
Lock in your spot in the audience for these performances and conference sessions by registering to attend. Act quickly, as registering before the October 20 deadline will save you 30% on a Music Badge. The Music Badge provides primary access to all showcases, Music and Convergence tracks at the SXSW Conference and more, plus secondary access to Interactive and Film content. Review this chart to learn more about what the Music Badge can do for you.
Artists, if this announcement has served as a reminder that you have not yet submitted your Showcase Application, don’t panic. There’s still time to apply before the final deadline on October 20. Read these tips from the Music Festival team for a primer on how to make your best effort in the application process, and watch this helpful How-To video if you need help with the nuts and bolts.
2018 SXSW Showcasing Artists
Everything subject to change.
Ace Tee (Hamburg GERMANY)
Aero Flynn (Minneapolis MN)
Altre di B (Bologna ITALY)
Antytila (Kyiv UKRAINE)
Aries (Bilbao SPAIN)
Automelodi (Montreal CANADA)
Avatar Darko (Seattle WA)
Bad Moves (Washington DC)
Bad Pony (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Alice Bag (Los Angeles CA)
Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires (Birmingham AL)
Bajaga and Instruktori (Belgrade SERBIA)
Baywaves (Madrid SPAIN)
Benin City (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dan Bettridge (Bridgend UK-WALES)
The Bishops (Austin TX)
Blackberries (Solingen GERMANY)
Blood Wine or Honey (Hong Kong CHINA)
Boogat (Montreal CANADA)
Moses Boyd – Solo X (London UK-ENGLAND)
Brightness (Newcastle AUSTRALIA)
The Britanys (New York NY)
Abraham Brody (Vilnius LITHUANIA)
Marla Brown (London UK-ENGLAND)
Buddy (Compton CA)
C-Kan (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Dylan Cameron (Austin TX)
Fabrizio Cammarata (Palermo ITALY)
Cape Francis (Brooklyn NY)
Castlecomer (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
ChihiroYamazaki+ROUTE14band (Tokyo JAPAN)
CIFIKA (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Cilantro Boombox (Austin TX)
Cirkus Funk (Cali COLOMBIA)
C.Macleod (Stornoway UK-SCOTLAND)
Kelvyn Colt (Bingen GERMANY)
Coma Pony (Chihuahua MEXICO)
Crumb (Brooklyn NY)
Cursed Earth (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Curved Light (Austin TX)
Cut Worms (Brooklyn NY)
Mikaela Davis (Rochester NY)
Jarv Dee (Seattle WA)
Helena Deland (Montreal CANADA)
Deluxe (Aix-en-Provence FRANCE)
Dirgahayu (Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA)
Stella Donnelly (Fremantle AUSTRALIA)
Keelan Donovan (Portland ME)
Joey Dosik (Los Angeles CA)
Draper (London UK-ENGLAND)
DYGL (Shibuya JAPAN)
El Otro Borges (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
El Otro Grupo (Santa Marta COLOMBIA)
Farina (Medellin COLOMBIA)
Fatai (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
FAVX (Madrid SPAIN)
Charlie Faye & The Fayettes (Austin TX)
Ruby Fields (Cronulla AUSTRALIA)
Fis and Rob Thorne (Palmerston North NEW ZEALAND)
The Fish Police (London UK-ENGLAND)
Flyte (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Foreign Resort (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Forever (Montreal CANADA)
FOXTRAX (New York NY)
Francobollo (London UK-ENGLAND)
Freedom Hawk (Virginia Beach VA)
Fuglar (Santiago CHILE)
GANGES (Madrid SPAIN)
Gang of Youths (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Nubya Garcia (London UK-ENGLAND)
Samantha Glass (Madison WI)
William Harries Graham (Austin TX)
Grand Analog (Toronto CANADA)
Grandchildren (Philadelphia PA)
Greenbeard (Austin TX)
Grim Streaker (Brooklyn NY)
Grupo Rebolu (Colombia NY)
Gulfer (Montreal CANADA)
Gurr (Berlin GERMANY)
Sinead Harnett (London UK-ENGLAND)
Hatchie (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Hater (Malmo SWEDEN)
Ashley Henry Trio (London UK-ENGLAND)
Higher Brothers (Chengdu CHINA)
The Homesick (Dokkum NETHERLANDS)
Honduras (Brooklyn NY)
Warren Hood (Austin TX)
Husky Loops (London UK-ENGLAND)
HUXLEE (Los Angeles CA)
IAMDDB (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Izzy True (Trumansburg NY)
Jade Imagine (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Joji (Tokyo JAPAN)
JP The Wavy (Tokyo JAPAN)
Keith Ape (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Sarah Klang (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
La Banda Morisca (Andalucía SPAIN)
Manu Lanvin (Lyon FRANCE)
Leather Girls (Austin TX)
Luna Lee (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Lethal Bizzle (London UK-ENGLAND)
Benji Lewis (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Dean Lewis (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
LNG/SHT (Cancun MEXICO)
Los Wilds (Madrid SPAIN)
Lolo Lovina (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Luneta Mágica (Manaus BRAZIL)
The Magnettes (Pajala SWEDEN)
Manatee Commune (Seattle WA)
Mannequin Pussy (Philadelphia PA)
Maréh (Cali COLOMBIA)
MARLENE (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Anna McClellan (Brooklyn NY)
MC Lars (Berkeley CA)
Melo Makes Music (Chicago IL)
Milk & Bone (Montreal CANADA)
Miqui Brightside (DJset) (Madrid SPAIN)
Mogli (Hamburg GERMANY)
Mothership (Dallas TX)
Museless (Barcelona SPAIN)
My Life as Ali Thomas (Bangkok THAILAND)
Hans Nayna (Mahebourg MAURITIUS)
Night Beats (Austin TX)
Not3s (Hackney UK-ENGLAND)
No Vacation (San Francisco CA)
October (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya (Chicago IL)
Okey Dokey (Nashville TN)
ONR (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
The Orielles (Halifax UK-ENGLAND)
Our Girl (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Outer Vibe (Nashville TN)
The Outfit, TX (Dallas TX)
Jay Park (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Partner (Windsor CANADA)
Peach Pit (Vancouver CANADA)
Sloan Peterson (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
pH-1 (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Phe Reds (Seattle WA)
Sara Pi (Barcelona SPAIN)
Plastic Picnic (Brooklyn NY)
pronoun (Brooklyn NY)
Punjabtronix (Bristol UK-ENGLAND)
Oliver Rajamani (Austin TX)
David Ramirez (Austin TX)
Rancho Aparte (Quibdó COLOMBIA)
Ratboys (Chicago IL)
Gemma Ray (Berlin GERMANY)
Lou Rebecca (Paris FRANCE)
*repeat repeat (Nashville TN)
Jess Ribeiro (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Rich Chigga (Jakarta INDONESIA)
R.LUM.R. (Nashville TN)
Lucy Rose (London UK-ENGLAND)
Rude Kid (London UK-ENGLAND)
RVG (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Salem’s Bend (Los Angeles CA)
Sammus (Ithaca NY)
sarasara (Lille FRANCE)
Sassy 009 (Oslo NORWAY)
Say Sue Me (Busan SOUTH KOREA)
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (Baltimore MD)
Shamir (Las Vegas NV)
Shopping (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sik-k (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Silibrina (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Raz Simone (Seattle WA)
Snail Mail (Baltimore MD)
Sonars (Bergamo ITALY)
SPORTS (Philadelphia PA)
SsingSsing (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Steak (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stefflon Don (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stonefield (Macedon Ranges AUSTRALIA)
Sturle Dagsland (Stavanger NORWAY)
Sun Seeker (Nashville TN)
Surfbort (Brooklyn NY)
Surma (Leiria PORTUGAL)
Talisco (Paris FRANCE)
Tennis System (Los Angeles CA)
Terry vs. Tori (Seville SPAIN)
Theodore (Athens GREECE)
TiKA (Toronto CANADA)
Adam Torres (Austin TX)
Totally Mild (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Touts (Derry UK-N. IRELAND)
Uni (New York NY)
Us and Us Only (Baltimore MD)
Dhruv Visvanath (New Delhi INDIA)
VOWWS (Los Angeles CA)
Voyager (Perth AUSTRALIA)
VVV (Austin TX)
Warbly Jets (Los Angeles CA)
The Watchers (San Francisco CA)
The Weather Station (Toronto CANADA)
The Wedding Present (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Jerry Williams (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Marlon Williams (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
Wo Fat (Dallas TX)
Woodie GoChild (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
“World Music Unleashed” by SIPM (Austin TX)
Yemen Blues (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Yultron (Los Angeles CA)
Yungen (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Zephyr Bones (Barcelona SPAIN)
Violetta Zironi (Reggio Emilia ITALY)
Everything subject to change.
Photo credits, clockwise from top left:
Uni – Photo courtesy of the artist
Moses Boyd Solo Exodus – Photo by Eddie Otchere
Rich Chigga – Photo courtesy of 88rising
Mikaela Davis – Photo by Will Cornfield
Ace Tee – Photo by Yannick Plume
Partner – Photo by Colin Medley
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Source: SxSW Music
October 11, 2017
Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Toronto
Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Toronto
We are excited to share the event by Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Toronto. A gathering where they would celebrate the local talent from its city with many artists including: Majid Jordan, a l l i e, Chris Larocca, Badbadnotgood and more. Let’s take a look at the event and if you are in Toronto, Canada; you should definitely check it out. We will share in the next article everything about the work in some sort of an interview behind with the designers and artists and about all their work for the Red Bull Sound Select 3 Days in Toronto.
In their words
3 Days in Toronto (October 19-21) is a multiday musical takeover of Toronto, celebrating the local talent who have helped put the city on the map. Tickets are $20. Enjoy! #3DaysinTO
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- Learn more about the Event at Red Bull Sound Select 3 Days in Toronto
Illustration & Art Direction
AoiroStudio
Oct 11, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
October 11, 2017
Watercolor artworks that are too good to be true
Watercolor artworks that are too good to be true
It’s just mind blowing to find artworks so beautiful that you might think it was done digitally. It tends to be very tricky to find amazingly done watercolor pieces, but for Russian artist Ashiya it’s no problem at all. She paints artworks that are too good to be true.
Here you can see some of her latest pieces. For more of it and for videos of her creative process, please check out her Instagram account! You should really follow her keep yourself updated. I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. 😉
PauloGabriel
Oct 11, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
October 11, 2017
Illustration & Art Direction: Selected Editorial Work by Eiko Ojala
Illustration & Art Direction: Selected Editorial Work by Eiko Ojala
Let’s take a look at the Illustration & Art Direction project by Eiko Ojala about a selected collection of his work from 2016-17. What’s interesting is that you would think that is paper cut but it’s a illustrative mixture with graphic design. The Beautiful craftsmanship that you should definitely be inspired. Check it out!
Eiko Ojala is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Tallinn, Estonia. You should definitely check out his Behance for more of his stunning work.
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AoiroStudio
Oct 11, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration