If these campaigns were akin to coloring books, all too often the emotional currency of an audience would be underestimated when users are not allowed to color between the lines of their own picture. After-all, what good is it to have an inspired and mobilized base, if in the end, you’re not giving folks enough leeway to interpret and apply your organization’s core philosophy?

The latest campaign from the World Wildlife Fund applyies this methodology while also appropriating inspiration as a tool. In a collaboration with Ben Lee and Chicago-based creative agency, Leo Burnett, “Space Monkey” features Lee’s “Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe” and a message that is defined simply by its beauty and sentimentality — All the while eschewing the need to knock everyone on the head with the blah, blah, blah rhetoric that does little to inspire… Or in the end, keep the candle of an organization’s ideals lit for those that choose to hold it.

To that end, we present a vantage point into the work of Miike Snow, the Sweedish band consisting of Andrew Wyatt, Christian Karlsson, and Pontus Winnberg (the latter two known to some as Bloodshy & Avant).

*The following clip is care of Kieran Evans, Melly Cook, and Vanessa Whyte:

As of late, I’ve developed an obsession with the New York architecture firm of Roman & Williams and in this instance, I thought it might be fun to let cat out of the bag live (Zappe and Garza will be reading this at the same time as you… One of the joys of a live creative build).

Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer, the pair behind B&W, strive to create spaces in which an experience can not only be cultivated, but also burned into the memory of the end user… In this instance, the public or residents that frequent their crafted hotels, restaurants and homes.

The duo has set my mind afire with their take on lived-in structures and much of it holds court with what I’d hope we do for our own audience when we release RootSpeak. To the credit of what Tim and Dan have already crafted, we’re nearly there. Hopefully this will provide a bit of inferred insight though into what others have done when melding traditional method with modern application; thereby creating a space that is at once paying homage to what has come before, while also crafting a new inspired experience for those who, in the end, come to take notice.

-NMH

In what is becoming a standard narrative arc in many Mark Wahlberg’s produced series, life continues to imitate art as the line is blurred between reality and fiction. Blacc’s own video for the title track claims to feature Wilfredo Gomez, a not-so-real skater, often times referred to by Ben and Cam, the show’s denim-designing and hustling main characters.

Watch the teaser for the upcoming clip below…

In 1984, Steve Powers started climbing rooftops in his neighborhood and painting his alias ESPO as a dues paying member of the ICY Graffiti Club. 25 years later he returned home to Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 to write a love letter across the same rooftops facing the Market-Frankford line. The letter, meant for one, with meaning for all, encompasses 50 walls on a 20 block stretch of market street. Drawing input, inspiration, and work from the community, Powers created a letter to and from west Philly. This unprecedented public art project was a collaboration of Powers, The Mural Arts Program, and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. It required 1200 cans of spray paint, 800 gallons of bucket paint, and the skilled hands of 20 of the finest spray painters in America, who Powers put into the legendary ICY club.

“A Love Letter For You – Brick Valentines On The Philly Skyline” documents the art and the neighborhood that inspired this ambitious public art project.

Get the book here

A Love Letter For You from Megawords Magazine on Vimeo.

Now enter the cross-platform clothing company Stussy, and their recent three-part film on the the revolutionary art and process of what is perhaps the most revered hip-hop producer of all time.

Watch part 3 of the film below and visit Stones Throw Records to catch the entire series:

J Dilla Documentary (Part 3) from TurntableTendencies on Vimeo.

La Gaîté Lyrique from La Gaîté Lyrique on Vimeo.

Goddamn amazing we say.

Neon Trees “Animal” from The Occidental Saloon on Vimeo.

The heart of StoryCorps is the conversation between two people who are important to each other: a son asking his mother about her childhood, an immigrant telling his friend about coming to America, or a couple reminiscing on their 50th wedding anniversary. By helping people to connect, and to talk about the questions that matter, the StoryCorps experience is powerful and sometimes even life-changing.

Germans in the Woods from Rauch Brothers on Vimeo.