Peter Andrew Photography "Lost in the Landscape"

LOST IN THE LANDSCAPE from Miles Jay on Vimeo.

We just wrapped this project for Peter Andrew Photography with Derek Blais and Miles Jay.

Peter Andrew is an award-winning photographer from Toronto, Canada who specializes in advertising, location, portrait and landscape photography.

When Derek approached us to do the audio post production on this we were more then happy to jump on board.  It was a really inspiring and fun project to work on.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

www.peterandrew.ca
Director:  Miles Jay
Cinematographer:  Max Chin
Art Director:  Derek Blais
Editor:  Miles Jay
Audio Post Production:  Tattoo Sound + Music
Audio Director:  Steve Gadsden
Production Supervisor:  Caela Maher
Sound Design & Mix:  Dan Horton/Dave Clarke

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Matt Barnes + Klaxon Howl - A Fashion Week Creative

Matt Barnes + Klaxon Howl - A Fashion Week Creative from Spot Cinema on Vimeo.

TA2:: Dangerous Dan's Radio & Print Campaign

Words by Katherine Vankoughnet

Let it be known that after over a decade of business, Dangerous Dan’s still lives up to its name — and to prove it, Toronto’s infamous east-end diner is unveiling a no-holds-barred ad campaign that plays on the restaurant’s reputation for indulging customers in spectacular feats of gluttony.

And with a menu of mouth-watering monstrosities that includes The Coronary Burger Special (Two 8 oz. beef patties, bacon, cheese and a fried egg), The Big Kevorkian and other alarmingly-titled gems, it’s safe to say that owner James McKinnon isn’t one to shy away from controversy… in fact, he embraces it.

In an attempt to push the envelope further, a dual-themed campaign was devised to bring to light the menu’s two main selling points: it’s stoner-friendly and perilously unhealthy. And yes, in a time of whole food revolutions and obesity epidemics, McKinnon adopting a marketing strategy that wears its irreparably damaged heart on its sleeve seems, appropriately, downright dangerous. But that’s the idea.

Spearheading the project, which rolls out this month, is Tattoo Sound + Music with creative director Drew Frohmann at the helm. The audio house developed a series of radio and print ads appealing to the largest market of late-night, grease-loving chowhounds: post-secondary students.

With the radio ads airing exclusively on CKLN, Ryerson University’s campus radio station, Frohmann and his team realized they could take certain creative liberties with the content that the younger, thicker-skinned audience afforded them. The nine unscripted spots were cut from an “authentic” recording session at the Tattoo Sound + Music studios, where a small group of employees put the Dangerous Dan’s delivery service through its paces. The clips feature enlightened conversations on frisbee golf, Grease and aging tattooed genitals — the type of frivolity that any good marijuana-fuelled discussion is made of — and are cut with bong sound effects for added context. [Hear the Radio spots here.]

For the accompanying print series, the much lauded creative director Israel Diaz, and his David & Goliath team were brought in to execute the visuals and capture the essence of the restaurant’s fare.

“We wanted to convey the sense of greasiness in everything from the images, to the graphics and the copy — and they hit it bang on,” Frohmann says. Pictures of triple-stacked burgers dripping with sauces and cheese grasped in eager, anonymous hands accompanied by factious slogans like, “While we still have health care,” and, “It’s 4:20 somewhere,” are taking on a life of their own, exceeding expectations of exposure. The posters are now being coveted as Dangerous Dan’s collector memorabilia, selling in the restaurant next to a sign stating, appropriately: “Food Porn - $1”.


CREDIT LIST:
Agency: Tattoo Sound + Music / David & Goliath
Creative Directors: Drew Frohmann / Israel Diaz
Producer: Heather Fletcher
Copywriters: Drew Frohmann / Dave Barber
Art Director: Mike Lonam
Photographer: My Yen Trung
Radio Production: Tattoo Sound + Music

Ta2 Gallery: Erin Hogue

Our gallery at Ta2 studios is now featuring 6 photography prints by Toronto based artist Erin Hogue:




Please visit her website here and see more of her works.

Artist: Joshua Datu

via joshuadatu.com

Joshua is a multidisciplinary artist and designer specializing in the areas of visual communication and idea development. He is a graduate student of Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design, London.

To see more of Joshua's work visit his website here.

Sweet Read:: The Hogtown Project

The Hogtown Project is a brand new coffee table book about Toronto from Writer Nadine Dolly and photographer Kristie Macor, childhood buds who wanted to make a homage of the city from a residential perspective.

“Most coffee-table books for Torontonians are made for tourists, and usually have spots in the city that we would never go anymore, like the CN Tower. So we thought we should create one that speaks to Torontonians," says Dolly in an interview with the Toronto Star.

The girls spent 3 years, $20,000, and hours of remarkable memories travelling in and out of 180 Toronto locales.

For more info, click here.

Artist: Horacio Salinas

Some fantastic creative photos by New Yorker Horacio Salinas:






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Frederique Daubal

Here's a look at some creative photos shot by French photographer Frederique Daubal. The masks on the models were created out of pages from fashion magazines.

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Tom Edwards vs Rob Matthews

Rob Matthews took Tom Edwards sketches and re-created them as photographs:





Images via www.edwarstom.com

Photography:: Young Hearts

L-o-v-i-n-g the photography site Young Hearts. Photographers Alex Lee and Cheryl Mackey are out to capture engagements, weddings, and just plain good ole fashioned love stories. These aren't your typical couple shots however - Young Hearts takes the shoots onto the streets and into the parks to produce timeless, natural, caught-in-the-moment photos that make every couple look like rock stars.




Check out more here.

Daft Punk by Luis Sanchis

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EXPLOSION!

Adam Voorhes is an Austin, Texas-based photographer who has dissected and dismantled four objects in his series, Exploded. A telephone, gun, etch-a-sketch and frog are included in his work. I want one done of me. Do you think I'm filled with organs or robotic parts? DON'T RUIN THE SURPRISE!

Photographer: Travis de Clifford

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The Selby

God bless Todd Selby & his insane photography collection of creative people in their creative spaces. Toronto places have yet to make it on the list, so Todd... consider this an invitation.

View The Selby here.

Shadow Street Art

New York artist Ellis Gallagher combines chalk and shadows to create his street art. View more here.

Mark Zibert shoots Daft Punk

Let's stand back from all the awesome that is DJ Hero and pay some kudos to superstar creative moon prism power force Mark Zibert for these photogs of Daft Punk.
Yowsers. They put the game to shame.


For more of Zibert's work, click here.

Kevin Van Aelst

Kevin Van Aelst photographs household objects to explain science. According to his artist’s statement, “The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life — the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existence… This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.”




via Flavorwire