Ryan Enn Hughes

IN PRINT | OOOHH BABY GIMME MORE BEAT UP KIDZ!

by Matt on May 14, 2013

You’re a young band trying to distinguish itself from the crowd with your debut music video. You want to have a strong visual impact on your viewer, while maintaining an image you feel best represents your sound. You want Ryan Enn Hughes.

Pretty cool eh? Let’s take a behind the scenes peek at Ryan’s latest creative production.

Director/ Camera/ Animation: Ryan Enn Hughes
Editor/ Additional Camera: Micha Pichlkastner
Stylist: Judith Clancy
Additional Animators: Genia Shapira, Warren Wilson, & Anthony Saleh
BTS Camera: Ryan Enn Hughes, Micha Pichlkastner, & Judith Clancy
BTS Editor: Ryan Enn Hughes

If you dug the sounds coming out of your speakers just now, give a click and check out more music from The oOohh Baby Gimmie Mores!
Audio © The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores
Visuals © Ryan Enn Hughes

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    TGIW | LIFE IN A MINUTE W/ MISS INFO

    by Matt on April 24, 2013

    “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.

    Director/ DOP: Ryan Enn Hughes
    Agency: Vice
    Client: UNIQLO
    Producer: Darrell Faria
    Editor: Kyle Wilson
    Sound Design: Eric Hoffman

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      TGIW | LIFE IN A MINUTE W/ MICHAEL KENNETH WILLIAMS

      by Matt on April 17, 2013

      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.

      Director/ DOP: Ryan Enn Hughes
      Agency: Vice
      Client: UNIQLO
      Producer: Darrell Faria
      Editor: Kyle Wilson
      Sound Design: Eric Hoffman

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        TGIW | LIFE IN A MINUTE W/ JENNY SLATE

        by Matt on April 10, 2013

        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.

        Director/ DOP: Ryan Enn Hughes
        Agency: Vice
        Client: UNIQLO
        Producer: Darrell Faria
        Editor: Kyle Wilson
        Sound Design: Eric Hoffman

        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.

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          TGIW | LIFE IN A MINUTE W/ DANNY BROWN

          by Matt on April 3, 2013

          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

          Director/ DOP: Ryan Enn Hughes
          Agency: Vice
          Client: UNIQLO
          Producer: Darrell Faria
          Editor: Kyle Wilson
          Sound Design: Eric Hoffman

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            IN PRINT | THE KNITTER SIDE OF TWITTER

            by Matt on February 12, 2013

            Brought to you in part by The Past, Present, and Future, today’s blog post showcases a project that is a testament to the powers of creative collaboration, and proves that at times, the worlds of digital and analog can come together in real harmony. An introduction from creative agency Sid Lee to get the ball rolling,

            Every day, an endless stream of tweets enters the Twitterverse – some to live on via retweets and favourites, others to fade into the dark depths of the web, never to be seen again. This “here today gone tomorrow” phenomenon led us to wonder: must digital chit chat be so fleeting? We didn’t think so. And thus, Knitterstream was born. It began as a data visualization project – an electronic knitting machine from 1998 that, with the help of custom software and hardware, could transform a humble tweet into a tangible, real life, woven work of art.

            With it’s physical debut at the C2-MTL conference a great success, the creative team at Sid Lee knew it was time to bring the Knitterstream to the masses, enlisting the services of not one, but two Westsiders to bring their vision to life! And so it was, that for the first time in their storied careers, the two great minds of Andrew B. Myers and Ryan Enn Hughes were brought together to act as one. Ladies and Gents, we – alongside Andrew, Ryan, Sid Lee, FatBox, Lunch Inc, Apollo Studios, and School – are proud to present, The Knitterstream.

            Directors: Andrew B Myers & Ryan Enn Hughes
            Agency: Sid Lee
            Creative Director: Dave Roberts
            Producer: Emily Patterson
            Copywriter: Pip Scowcroft
            Interactive Art Director: Ivan Sharko
            Cinematographer: Barry Cheong
            Feline: Little Tom – The People’s Champion
            Assistant: Adnan Saciragic

            For more info on the machine and how it wowed the gen-pop at C2-MTL, click on through to the Knitterstream site and check out a digital rendering of its analog creation.

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              PHOTOGASM | WEEKND MOVES

              by Matt on January 10, 2013

              I’ll be honest – when Toronto born hip-hop/r&b star, Abel ‘The Weeknd‘ Tesfaye’s album Trilogy was released back in November, I wasn’t convinced that 27 previously free songs could produce commercially successful numbers; no matter how amazing they may be. Fortunately I was very, very wrong.

              With 500,000+ copies sold to date, I think it’s safe to say this local boy’s presence is far from fading and in accordance with this, today we debut a new GIF from Ryan Enn Hughes featuring The Weeknd doin’ his thing. If you’ve never heard his voice, click play and put some music to Ryan’s work, you won’t be sorry.

              House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls by The Weeknd on Grooveshark

              Ryan Enn Hughes - The WeekndThe Weeknd © Ryan Enn Hughes

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                PHOTOGASM | LIKE SPINNING PLATES

                by Matt on November 13, 2012

                Like the first alien to abducted a human being, Ryan Enn Hughes continues to probe the .GIF medium for new ways of bringing small sized motion to our visually based pleasure sensors. In his latest creation, Ryan puts his own twist on headshot portraiture. Give either image a click to check out more recent work over on his Tumblr.

                Images © Ryan Enn Hughes

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                  TGIW | HUSTLE REEL GOOD

                  by Matt on October 31, 2012

                  Keeping the Wednesday video train rolling into this week with a new piece of work from Ryan Enn Hughes.

                  For the past few months Ryan has been putting together his directors’ reel, a short piece encompassing the entire body of his motion and .gif portfolio’s, with an additional splash of Ryan’s personality. Even if you are familiar with his work, hit that play button because you’ve never seen Mr. Hughes quite like this. Enjoy.

                  Almost as sweet as the launch of his Reel is this other bit of Hughes News from a few weeks back. Alongside Toronto artists Vanessa Maltese and Alex McLeod, Ryan met with Toronto Star writer Chantaie Allick to discuss the changing face of artist promotion in the upswing of social media outlets. Here’s a snippet of the article with some words from Ryan.

                  Yet in many ways, the drive to hustle seems to come naturally for some artists. Hughes, for example, has been described as obsessed with his work and getting it out to the right people.

                  “I’m not interested in waiting in line for an opportunity; I want to make my own opportunity,” says the bespectacled Hughes, his voice soft.

                  But he doesn’t discount the value of face-to-face encounters.

                  “You develop all these relationships online with some people, but to put a face to a name is extremely valuable.” He makes an effort to meet people he has interacted with online. “I don’t think you can replace that with just an online relationship, but the online allows you to reach a lot of people that you normally would never (reach).”

                  Give the image above a click to check out the rest of The Star article, otherwise have yourself a lovely Wednesday. TGIW!

                  Video © Ryan Enn Hughes
                  Image © Andrew Francis Wallace/ Toronto Star

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                    IN PRINT | TAKING A BITE OUT OF CRIME

                    by Matt on October 23, 2012

                    Last Tuesday, Toronto Crime Stoppers (TCS) – alongside several partners in the Ontario gas industry – held a press conference to launch their new Gas Theft Awareness campaign. The recent death of a Toronto gas attendent had re-sparked the issues surrounding fuel theft, and with this new campaign the TCS plans to remind everyone that if you intend to steal your gas, it’s not a difficult process to figure out who you are.

                    DDB Toronto has been at the forefront of many TCS ads, and in several cases someone from the Westside has been lucky enough to use their photographic skills in hopes of helping take a bite out of crime. This campaign would be no different, as Team DDB employed the services of Ryan Enn Hughes to bring their concept to life. Here’s a look at the work.

                    Photographer: Ryan Enn Hughes
                    Client: Toronto Crime Stoppers
                    Agency: DDB Toronto
                    Creative Director(s): Todd Mackie & Denise Rossetto
                    Associate Creative Director(s): Paul Riss & Adam Bailey
                    Art Director: Loretta Lau
                    Copywriter: Jordana Rapuch

                    Keep your eyes open at your local gas station and you might come across Ryans images either in the above layout, or perhaps something like these guys below.

                    Images © Ryan Enn Hughes

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