Loerie Awards 2008 Saturday winners announced
We’re just imagining the heavy heads and hearts this morning as a night of partying no doubt continues for some on Margate beachfront and ends for others as they rush to catch their flights back to their beds to recover… Here’s the announcement of this years winners! The 2008 Loerie Awards Festival Weekend kicked off on 26 July with the Saturday night awards ceremony, hosted by Media24. CONGRATS to all the winners… 2008 is the 30th Anniversary of The Loerie Awards, a celebration of creative excellence in brand communication, and the industry partied hard in Margate to celebrate this landmark year. A total of 175 Loeries were handed out at the Saturday night ceremony, two of which were Grands Prix and 15 of which were gold awards. The Saturday awards featured Communication Design; Advertising Print, Outdoor & Ambient; Experiential print media; Experiential Alternative Media & Field Marketing; Experiential Internal Marketing and Strategic CRM Programmes; Student Awards; the Marketing Leadership and Innovation Award; and the Creative Achievement Award, which was introduced this year. The two Grand Prix winners were: – Am I Collective, Craft Illustration, ‘Scrabble’ – Trigger Communication, Communication Design – Architecture, Interior Design & Environmental graphics, Nike, ‘Be true pop-up store’ Both Grands Prix awarded were to small specialist agencies and are a reflection of the variety and depth within the communication industry. On Sunday evening, 27 July, statue winners in the following categories will be announced: Integrated Campaigns; Radio, TV & Online Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Experiential Radio, TV, Digital, Non-broadcast & Live Events; Experiential Campaigns; & The Young Creatives Award. “With the high standards adopted by the Loeries, we can ensure that our winners compete on an international scale, and it’s a great achievement for everyone who has taken a Loerie home,” says Festus Masekwameng, chairman of The Loerie Awards and creative director at McCann Erickson. “The Loeries extends our congratulations to Saturday’s winners and all their brave clients who embrace creativity. Thank you for your participation in making the Loeries 30th Anniversary year a spectacular one for the industry.” Agency rankings This year, The Loerie Awards have implemented the Creative Circle’s Creativity Points ranking to determine the value of the medals handed out. The Creative Circle points allocated to each award are: Grand Prix = 600 Gold = 350 Craft Gold = 350 Silver = 100 Craft Certificate = 100 (The Craft Certificate is new in 2008 and is not officially ranked by the Creative Circle) Bronze = 50 However, unlike the Creative Circle ranking, The Loerie Awards does not combine points from the same agency groups. All agencies are listed as they entered their work....
Japanese Binocular Soccer
It’s a classic, watch it for a great laugh. Thanks Papa Nick for the tip. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvVh0_ZelI[/youtube]
Durban International Film Festival
The Durban International Film Festival “entitled ‘LOVE FILM HATE XENOPHOBIA ‘ takes place this week from the 23 July to the 3 August – Durbanites make sure to get amongst, hook yourself up tickets for both Triomf and Jerusalema, two of this years ‘must see’ flieks. This year DIFF gathers together an expressive concentration of 71 South African films, comprising 10 feature films, 29 documentaries and 32 short films which indicate the steady growth of filmmaking in this country. Underscoring the broader African presence of a further 38 films from the continent will be the Ousmane Sembene Retrospective, a presentation of all the major works of the late, great father of African cinema. Principal screening venues of DIFF 2008 are Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre; Nu-Metro Cinecentre – Suncoast; Ster Kinekor Musgrave, Cinema Nouveau – Gateway; Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre in KwaMashu; KwaSuka Theatre, and the BAT Centre, with further screenings in township areas where cinemas are non-existent, and a special programme of screenings at Luthuli Museum on the North Coast. Read more below, booking info at the bottom: Cinema in all its diversity will once again be celebrated at the 29 th Durban International Film Festival which runs from 23 July to 3 August. Featuring more than 200 films from more than 95 countries, spread over more than 300 screenings at 26 venues across the city, the festival will bring together established masters of cinema and innovative new talents from around the world. Alongside the presentation of the some of the year’s finest films, the festival will run an extensive workshop and seminar programme giving the regions aspirant filmmakers an opportunity to learn from and be inspired by some of cinema’s greats. Opening the festival is the African Premiere of Ralph Ziman’s Jerusalema, a gritty gangster thriller set on the harsh streets of Johannesburg . The festival will close with Mike Leigh’s uplifting new comedy, Happy-Go-Lucky . The festival will offer an exciting journey into the world of contemporary cinema with a range of feature films, documentaries and short films that will not only entertain, but enlighten and inspire. Festival director Peter Rorvik explains: “ The Durban International Film Festival opens a window on the world, provides access to many different cultures and provides a space in which the cinematic art form transcends national boundaries. The recent tragic events in South Africa give cause to highlight what has long been a central idea of the Durban International Film Festival: to create understanding and acceptance of different cultures through the medium of film. A special programme of films focuses on the issue of xenophobia, and some of its attendant roots such as...
340ml are Sorry for the delay.
340ml are sorry for the delay. Watch the promo video below and catch a preview of their new album due out in August on www.sorryforthedelay.com – SOUNDS LUKKA!!! Muito Bom sublime. 340ml also have an awesome Flickr site… And of course, we hope you’re planning to get to Bushfire in Swaziland where they’ll be performing tracks off the new album – don’t say we didn’t warn you. Watch the video below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ0u4_ZgJWg[/youtube] Photo taken from the flickr...
Japan Calling. Arty Southern Africans take note.
Representah’s all know how obsessed we are with Japan… we tell you again, what ever you do, get there. Anyway, one of our favourite creative arts Japanese magazines, SHIFT, has asked us to share some of their current ‘Call to Entries’ for a bunch of Japanese-based competitions including digital film, art, t-shirt design and calender design. They really really want Southern Africans to represent, offering up prizes worth R200k (never mind the air tickets to get to go to Japan!) so make sure you get amongst and check out the deadlines. Read all about it below: – UT GRAND PRIX 2009 – AMUSE ARTJAM 2008 – 12TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL – DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2008 – SHIFT 2009 CALENDAR COMPETITIONUT GRAND PRIX 2009 UNIQLO’s annual T-shirt design competition since 2004, the 5th “UT Grand Prix” will call for entries from July 15th. UNIQLO has actively developed its global expansion as a casual wear brand from Japan, opening flagship stores in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Korea and China, and also shown the global promotion campaigns that world people can participate such as UNIQLOCK and UT LOOP! Based on the concept of “T-shirt Design Olympics”, UT Grand Prix calls for T-shirt designs from young & upcoming creators from all over the world. Works will be chosen from more than 10,000 submissions in the first and second phases of judgment, & these will be shown on the web. In the final stage, 20 designs will be selected by presiding guest judges, & these designs will then be sold as UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) at UNIQLO stores. Cash & other prizes will be also presented to the winner(s). The Grand Prix (top) prize is 3 million JPY (or equivalent in local currency at current rates). Submission Period: July 15th – September 21st, 2008. More info here. AMUSE ARTJAM 2008 AMUSE ARTJAM, a new art competition by a Japanese agency for all-round entertainment “AMUSE”, will open calling for entries from August 1st. This is a competition that has counted more than 5000 submissions and total 70000 visitors in the past 6 events, gathering attentions as a gateway for young artists to success. This year as a new project, they will open a new gallery for contemporary art called “ArtJamContemporary” in the art complex building “NADiff A/P/A/R/T” in Ebisu, Tokyo. The participants of ARTJAM will be mainly featured in the gallery and sent to the world. Anyone can participate in this competition regardless of genders, nations, ages, educations, professionals or amateurs, and genres. However, the competition winners need to participate in the award ceremony, which will be held in The Museum Of Kyoto on...
New Music Review: Deepgroove & DJ Clock
In the last of our feature reviewing Soul Candi’s latest releases, Dawn Penny gets strict and demands the most from our beats. Sharpile for the words as always! Truth presents In the Club mixed by Deepgroove 6 Beats out of 10 The first time I listened to “Truth presents In the Club” I was at home on a Saturday night, making supper with a friend. Needless to say, we didn’t finish cooking and ended up going out instead. The two producers Lee Pattison and Grayson Shipley have always made it their mission to get you on the dance floor. And do they do it this time with “Truth presents In the Club” you ask? Well, in a word, yes. Their latest club mix has this nice mix of different subgenres of house; hip house, vocal house, acid house, deep house, funky house and a touch of hard house as well. It most certainly is a moving club mix and can get you revved up for a night out on the town. Get it or not? I’d say yeah, get it. The First Tick – DJ Clock 3 Beats out of 10 As I sat and listened to DJ Clock’s “The First Tick”, I gazed at my watch and it was 5 past his career. You laugh but I’m being serious. Firstly the name DJ Clock just isn’t ‘big time’ material, but that’s beside the point. His music has a monotony that would put you to sleep if it wasn’t so disruptive to listen to. He lacks individuality, originality and downright listenability – which I have on good authority as being the main ingredients to having musicality. And really I think if you’re gonna sample a track, you need to either make it as good as the original track or better, there’s no room for ‘ok’. He did a rendition of Mika’s “Relax, Take it easy” and he killed it! No, not in that head bopping kinda way, he actually put it six feet under ground. DJ Clock needs to go back in time and rethink releasing something this below...
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