Archive for October, 2009

Fall leaves piles of awards for DWD

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

winners
We are proud to announce that DWD won two W3 Gold Awards for our interactive and motion work with non-profit clients Christopher Street West (LA Pride) and Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

“Daily Dose of Pride” is an animated commercial created to promote the 2009 Los Angeles Pride Festival. The theme  was based on the idea of a 50s-style vitamin commercial. Watch it here.

For the Outfest 2009 festival campaign, DWD created an animated trailer that promoted the festival and a longer version which opened every film in the festival. Creative Director and animator Dustin looked to recapture that feeling of experiencing a film together as a community in the animation and key art, where the forest creatures come together to put on a show. Watch it here.

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We were also awarded a W3 Silver Award for our motion work on The Duchess website for our video intro created to introduce the characters on the site. Watch it here.

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And last week, Print Magazine awarded us a winning spot in their Regional Design Annual 2009 for our work on the Alison Berger Glassworks catalog for Plug Lighting. This thoughtfully luxurious catalog features award-winning lighting designer Alison Berger’s hand blown glass lighting pieces. See more of it here.

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Nerdcore Rising: Netflix pic of the week

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Nerdcore Rising

Nerdcore Rising

Nerdcore is a micro-genre of hip hop, created by some hardcore nerds who like to rap about computers and the dorkiness of their lives. At the center of this documentary is MC Frontalot, the “godfather of nerdcore.” (Check his website http://frontalot.com/). The film follows him and his group out of Brooklyn and on the road to various obscure college towns for their first national tour in 2007. Playing to crowds of maybe 10 hardcore fans who drive hours to see them, the four guys see nerdcore as a possible way to reach fame beyond being a web designer(!). The tour culminates  to play to a crowd of 7000 at a video gamer’s convention (Penny Arcade Expo.)

MC Frontalot

Negin Farsad’s documentary is hilarious even when the music is a bit grating. It gives a peek into the lives of those couples who meet at Star Wars conventions and guys who spend more time playing Word of Warcraft and other role playing games, than they do working. And they wonder why they haven’t gotten laid in over a year… Most of the nerdcore rappers are white males, and their rhymes of “lonely me, I’m a dork,” couldn’t be further from mainstream hip hop, which glorifies rappers and their bling. You have to admire Frontalot’s tenacity. Rent it now!

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