Patience is a Virtue

I've been fascinated recently with RSS Feeds and have been adding lots of design resources, magazines and blogs to our Google Reader (Many thanks to Calvin Lee from Mayhem Studios who recommended this reader). There's so much high quality material out there, that its hard at times to choose what to look at first.

Anyway, despite this bombardment of inspiration I managed to pause for a second and take a look at a blog written by a great guy I met a while ago now, called David Parrish. David has a brilliant blog called T-Shirts and Suits with lots of information for people who run creative businesses. I was drawn to this post about viral marketing and this video in particular, by BLU:



MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

This must have been produced by a painstakingly patient person. Not only is the artwork spreading across a huge amount of space, but its being drawn and redrawn countless times. Imagine creating something beautiful and then redrawing over it to produce yet another beautiful piece of artwork. Its a wonderful example of stop motion animation combined with some top-notch graffiti.

I found BLU's Blog and, after looking through some wonderful photos of the team at work, began looking through their blogroll list and found a link to ekosystem: a street-art & non-hip-hop-graffiti gallery. Here I found a section with links to blogs by this community of artists and this one, BO130, yet another fantastic artist had posted this video:



I Met The Walrus

Animated Short :5 min 10 sec
Written, Directed & Animated by: JOSH RASKIN
Produced by: JERRY LEVITAN
Pen Illustration by: JAMES BRAITHWAITE
Computer Illustration by: ALEX KURINA
Starring: JOHN LENNON and JERRY LEVITAN
For more Info: http://www.imetthewalrus.com/

We've just seen this video last September at The Smalls during The London Design Festival. It's a superb video and another great example of patience. The video was made 38 years after the audio was recorded. Take a look :)

T-Shirts and Suits

During our trip last week to Manchester for this year's RSA Flying Start Programme we were fortunate enough to hear a talk by David Parrish, International Business Advisor for creative people and author of the book: 'T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity.'



"David Parrish helps creative businesses to become even more successful by bringing together creative people (T-Shirts) with smart business thinking (Suits)."

For those who work as freelancers or run businesses in the creative industries this is a must read. A fantastic book, crammed with advice and the great news is you can read the full version in interactive PDF format for FREE here!

(Better yet, grab yourselves a paperback copy of the book here and read it in it's full papery glory :D)

Useful Links:

David Parrish - Creative Industries Business Adviser and Trainer
T-Shirts and Suits Creative Enterprise Network
T-Shirts and Suits Blog
David on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
Join the TSS Group, Be a Fan of the Book on FaceBook
View and print the eBook on Issuu