Let’s face it: Gary Hustuit’s documentary Helvetica was a runaway hit. I certainly didn’t expect so many designers and non-designers alike to get so goofy about a film about a typeface. Building on his success and reputation as a top drawer documentary filmmaker and design aficionado, Gary Hustuit is planning on doing again—this time with a look inside the world of industrial design. Called Objectified, this feature-length film is described on its promotional website as:

a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

The film is still in production and slated for an early 2009 release. If it’s as well researched and produced as Helvetica was, it’s destined to be another resounding success. I can’t wait to see it.

Keeping up with the craze over the new Batman movie, I thought I’d add to the hype by posting this nicely designed poster. The chorus of ‘hahaha’s’ written to form the bat symbol is a neat detail.

Props to Warner Bros. for the guerrilla-like advertising.

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With cameras in computers, cell phones and who knows where else, we seem to take for granted that cameras can go anywhere. In the early development of the movie camera, they were much more stable and harder to move around. When this new technology started to become popularized, film makers started experimenting with the range of possibilities.

In 1929 Russian Director Dziga Vertov produced Man with a Movie Camera, a highly experimental Russian film exploring the possibilities of how the camera can be moved about. Many of the film technique we now take for granted (tracking, slow/fast motion double exposures et al) were first used, or popularized in this movie. Originally a silent film performed to live orchestral music, The Cinematic Orchestra reset the movie to their own sound track in 2002 which assists the overall arc of the storyline. Check out a snippit on youtube or better yet, track down the whole movie. Not really the movie you wanna invite friends and pop popcorn for, but a great piece of cinematography. (and the sound track is wicked also!)

Michael Douglas gives a great performance in writer-director Mike Cahill’s feature-length debut, KING OF CALIFORNIA. Douglas stars as Charlie, a troubled musician who has just been released from a mental hospital.

I am not a fan of Michael Douglas but was impressed by his performance in this role, he plays it so well.

To find out more visit the official site or imdb