Reading Andrew Sullivan's blog as much as I have been lately, I ran across Atlantic Magazine's self-titled Atlantic Project, in which they ask controversial, thought-provoking questions to the general public in an engaging, sophisticated series of documentary shorts, videos and photographs.
It is nothing short of fascinating. And done in such a heartbreakingly beautiful way as to render anything I've done as an art director worthless drivel.
The home page is a cacophony of sounds and images, some moving some still, navigating you to the several dozen questions - each with it's own section, blog, video, etc.
The photographs are these sleepy nighttime settings with an intrusive neon sign thrust in. They remind me a bit of Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses in which natural landscapes were fitted with red megaphones on poles. Or the cover of DM's singles album that took similar landscapes and placed lcd counters with "dm 86 98" displayed.
The juxtaposition is genius.
The questions, brilliant.
BEAUTIFUL! Reminds me a bit of this guys work.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stefan_sagmeister_on_what_he_has_learned.html
Posted by: Ricardo | October 15, 2008 at 03:33 PM
It would be nicer if some flickers....
Posted by: jason | October 15, 2008 at 09:37 PM
Somewhere Jenny Holzer is laughing hysterically
Posted by: Randy | October 16, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Everything old becomes new again...
Posted by: Scott | October 20, 2008 at 07:23 AM
Really cool but yeah...let's give a shout out at least to JENNY HOLZER, whose been blowing people's minds with this concept for about 35 years.
Posted by: montecore | October 21, 2008 at 11:22 PM
There is a typo in this post: "it's" should be "its" in "each with it's own section".
Shouldn't the Atlantic know better?
Posted by: Judy Hochberg | October 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Andrew Sullivan links to this post on his blog today. You're famous!
Posted by: Jeffrey | October 22, 2008 at 09:41 AM
Sully might be crushing over the wholesome, talented, tall, dark, handsome, NICE, friendly, Italian Stallion that is Anthony Rizzuto. I am not though.
Posted by: Patrick | October 22, 2008 at 11:42 AM
I think I read that Sully likes furballs. Tony, though breathtakingly handsome, is no furball.
Posted by: Boomer | October 22, 2008 at 03:15 PM