Documentary: Life After Pi

"Life After Pi" by HollywoodEndingMovie

In February of 2013, John Hughes, founder of Rhythm & Hues Studios, regretfully announced that his company was going bankrupt.  With no way to pay his employees, he was forced to lay off hundreds of skilled artists.  Two weeks later, the company won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on Life of Pi.

Life After Pi is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios that outlines the fundamental issues plaguing the industry today. 

Lecture: How to get your ideas to Spread

"Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread"

Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones. The lecture is ten years old, but like all good advice, it still holds true, and in the age of viral marketing, what he has to say is more relevant than ever.

Lecture: Ben Chestnut on Creative Culture

"2011/12 Creative Mornings with Ben Chestnut" from CreativeMornings

Ben Chestnut, CEO and co-founder of MailChimp.com, discusses the history of his company and what he has done as a manager to cultivate a creative culture as his business into one of the most an e-mail marketing company with over 1.2 million users. 

Link Round-Up: March 20, 2013

"Exposure" by Daisy Swain

"I saw a version of this being passed around Facebook, that unfortunately just didn't look very nice, so I took I reworked it. There's still a few bits that I'm not so keen on, but I'm happy enough with it now."

The BBC has released new posters for season 7 episodes of Doctor Who.

"In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990 – as the city was preoccupied with Saint Patrick's Day celebrations – a pair of thieves disguised themselves as Boston police officers, gained entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and stole thirteen works of art." (Previously held by the Art Theft of 1990.) "The stolen works have a total estimated worth of around $500 million, making the robbery the largest property theft ever"* and "considered the greatest art theft in history." Today the FBI announced that they have identified the people who stole the masterworks. They also said they had determined where the artworks had traveled in the years after the robbery. The FBI said they did not know where they were now and were appealing to the public for their help in finding them. The Gardner Museum is offering a reward of $5 million for information leading to the recovery of these works. I recommend highly watching the 2006 documentary on the art heist: 'Stolen.'

Logobook: “Logorama” director Ludovic Houplain has released an exhaustive index of more than 40,000 brand images

Star Wars Stormtrooper Baking Tray