I told myself I wouldn’t, but writing the intro to this edition of Life In A Minute from Ryan Enn Hughes without talking about how much I love the character Omar Little was impossible. TV just hasn’t been the same without him. So if you don’t know who Michael Kenneth Williams is – click play – get familiar.
“Life in a Minute” is a five-part portrait series featuring some of today’s most interesting artists and performers. Each original portrait will give fans an exclusive inside glimpse at each artist’s life, told through unique anecdotes, memories and stories, by the artists themselves in one-minute narratives.
Through it’s combination of stunning Canadian songstress, beautiful black and white, and propping that would make Aleister Crowley proud, this new creative series from Matt Barnes is without a doubt the greatest way to find the light at the end of your work-week.
Picking up where with Danny Brown left off, Ryan Enn Hughes wants you to celebrate Wednesday with the second installment of Vice & UNIQLO’s portrait series – Life in a Minute – this week featuring the voice of a popular shoe wearing shell.
“Life in a Minute” is a five-part portrait series featuring some of today’s most interesting artists and performers. Each original portrait will give fans an exclusive inside glimpse at each artist’s life, told through unique anecdotes, memories and stories, by the artists themselves in one-minute narratives.
Included with this weeks release, UNIQLO presents the following behind the scenes look at Ryan puttin’ in work alongside the Vice crew and various artists featured in this unique series.
We last heard about Jean Malek teaming up with digital agency TP1 last May when they threw down some great looking work for the Montréal Fringe Festival. Well this fine pairing is back together with some new work starring one of the agency’s most influential and fuzzy employees – Seal Of Approval!
Photographer: Jean Malek
Client: TP1
Assistant: Sébastien Roussel
A really cool project from Ryan Enn Hughes launched this week so for the next couple Wednesdays we’ll be slipping the soapbox under his feet and hearing about his latest collaboration.
Back in February, Vice Magazine approached me to create the “Life In A Minute” series for Japanese clothing company UNIQLO. It was really amazing to work with the folks at Vice, their production and creative team were really solid and awesome to collaborate with.
We shot over the course of 2 days at Pier 59 Studios in New York, and at the end of our shoot, our producer Darrell ran into Beyonce as we were checking out, and made her laugh in the elevator (honest), also Jay-Z was there. The whole experience was pretty surreal.
“Life in a Minute” is a five-part portrait series featuring some of today’s most interesting artists and performers. Each original portrait will give fans an exclusive inside glimpse at each artist’s life, told through unique anecdotes, memories and stories, by the artists themselves in one-minute narratives.
Danny was really honest, straightforward, and funny. He had a lot of great, crazy stories about growing up in Detroit and his approach to his craft was really interesting to hear about. He talked about “customizing your world”, which I really liked, the fact that he was so involved in his music and the business in general. ~ REH
Understanding the daily struggles faced by those who work in advertising, Tyler Gray has a new mailer that’s soon to be headed to many-a creative mailbox in hopes of sharing his understanding for those strong soldiers who allow him to do what he loves.
With the assistance of Anand Iyer and Dave Pigeon from Red Lion, Tyler has created three unique blends of coffee, each specifically designed to help its recipient take that small moment every morning and remember that Tyler Gray Knows I’m Special.
While there has been a number of good internet April Fools jokes played so far, we here on the Westside understand that the internet is serious business, and the hearts of its users should not be subjected to false claims of such (amazing) things as ‘weaponized military felines‘.
And so as a means of combatting todays onslaught of ‘fake but funny’ moments, we offer you Kayla, a dog who spent some time at the studio playing Art Director this past weekend.
As many children prepare themselves for a visit from a giant gift bearing rabbit, we on the Westside are celebrating the season with some new and eggs-travagantly colourful work from Vicky Lam.
As a filthy smoke-sucker*, it’s not often a ‘Quit Smoking’ campaign comes along and makes me think twice about my beloved “habit”. The typical shock and awe – YOU’RE GONNA DIE! – advertisements just aren’t cutting it for me, as these days I’m subjected to some kind of gross imagery every time I reach for a pack.
Enter BBDO Toronto’s new work for the Ministry of Health. Dubbed by CNN’s Erin Burnett as possibly, “the best public service announcement you’ll ever see,” the following 53 seconds not only had me lol-ing from start to finish, it actually got me thinking about how much longer I can keep this “habit” up. Even if you’ve seen it, give a click and get a laugh, this one deserves to squeak past the 1 million views mark.
TGIW!
*Lady at Bloor & Davenport, you were pretty original I’ll give ya that much.
There’s a great scene in the 2005 remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where we meet the character Augustus Gloop being interviewed about finding one of the golden tickets. When asked how he celebrated the great discovery, as if it were a no-brainer question the portly child quickly responds, “I eats more candy!“, and proceeds to tear into a tasty bar of chocolate.
For eight years now, whenever I see chocolate bars, something in my brain replays that single line over and over and it makes me giggle… a lot. And so when roughly 100 beautifully wrapped bars of Cadbury’s new Dairy Milk Bubbly arrived at the studio for Shanghoon care of Ogilvy & Mather, I just about lost it.
Having tried one of the many leftover bars, it’s a tasty new treat from Cadbury that I’m sure Augustus would be proud of, perhaps as proud as we are to show off this mouth watering new work from Shanghoon. Enjoy.
