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Hello!
Artifactuality welcomes you to
Summer 2010, and our long over due "surfs up on the remote, e-mail
blast." We've been catching the creative wave with projects that
mountain bike in the snows of Kilimanjaro, and gives the inventor of
Jell-o his full well deserved recognition with a new documentary about
his life... But right off the bat (yes we did some baseball work
also) if you happen to be surfing the channels with your remote on
Wedneday June 9th, tune into MTV and see the graphics package
Aritfactuality produced for the "Fresh Meat 2 Reunion."
We poured a lot of creative juice into this refreshing analog julep, and
think it is a lot of fun. Read more about it below............
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Christine & Bob
Creative Partners of
Artifactuality |
MTV's FRESH
MEAT 2 REUNION
Premieres
Wednesday, June 9th at 11pm
Artifactuality has just completed the aniamted title graphics
package for MTV's Fresh Meat 2 Reunion. The latest edition to the
successful and immensely popular Real World/Road Rules franchise is
chock full of competitive challenges, back stabbing secret alliances,
relational makeups/makeouts while riding the wild rollercoaster toward
the final battle for the $200,000 prize... It all takes place on
the breathtaking back drop of the Canadian Rockies in British
Columbia.
Artifactuality, saw the series' eye-popping aerial
landscape, the young and very motivated contestants, and then created
"The Surreal World of Fresh Meat 2," where the totems are as big
as mountains, wild and domestic creatures pair up with Lumberjacks
and Lumberjanes, and the Big Hands take control of the game...
This
project, inspired by Canada and brought to you via the great stuff at
Tony's Traintown, was a creative process which utilized all aspects of
our production toolbox – concept development, model design,
illustration, photofilming (our new made-up word for the style) and,
finally, to post
production compositing and music remix... It was a
lot of fun!
Tune
in Wednesday, June 9th at 11pm to watch it in action on MTV. Check out
the full :30-second "art director's cut" on our new YouTube
channel by clicking on the image. If you are interested in the
creative process, see the photo case study in our Facebook page.
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A few shots from the
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MORE
STUFF TO WATCH!!
Artifactuality is always looking for ways to
entertain and enhance your late night or at work web surfing, so
come on out to our site's gallery section and enjoy a selection of our latest
graphic packages designed for The Ruins Challenge and The
Real World DC.
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COMMUNITY
Artifactuality has always been interested
in lending its creative know-how to important projects in the
community around the corner, or across continents. Several
projects of note came across our screens recently and we would like to
share them with you and what they mean to us.
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"The Ruins: The S#!t
They Should Have Shown" (top) and "The Real World DC Reunion" |
Peter Cooper
may not be a familiar name to many
Americans but in fact he has had a very large impact on New york
City as well as the history of the United States. An inventor and
industrialist that brought the world things as diverse as
Jell-O and the iron structural I-beam, Peter Cooper was also a
visionary in his views on the great issues of his day that formed the
America that we now live in. He gave Lincoln the venue he needed to win
him his party's nomination for president in 1860, ran for President
himself in 1876, and, dearest to Artifactuality's heart, built the
college that nurtured Christine and her incredible
art & design skills--Cooper Union.
Artifactuality, aimed at giving back to the great institution,
volunteered to help design the DVD packaging for "Mechanic
to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story," which will
air on PBS this fall. This film was produced and directed by Janet Gardner,
another Cooper Union alumna. Find out more about this film
and about the man at www.petercooperstory.com
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Detail from the final
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Rory Mcguinness is a young bicyclist from Great Britain
who organized an incredible journey to raise money and awareness to
the plight of street children in Africa. His energy and passion
raised over £19,000 for streetinvest.org on his trip on
bicycle from Dar el Salaam Tanzania by way of Kilamanjaro to Narobi
Kenya. Artifactuality helped this charity effort by creating animated
maps for the video that documented this incredible trek. See the 3-part
video, titled with "CFSC" (Cycling for Street Children) on our YouTube
channel under "favorites".
Click here to learn
about Street Invest and how to donate to this worthy cause.
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Some people search for the meaning of
life at the top of a mountain in Tibet, others... PLAY
BASEBALL!
In
these state budget slashing times we live in, Artifactuality
helped the Montclair HS Baseball Booster Club raise money
by designing and prinitinig the 20 page program for a fund
raising dinner and silent auction this January that featured 3 alumni
speakers who had made it to the top of the baseball mountain: Len
Coleman, Earl Williams, and Dale Berra.
The
team went 19-11 this season and made it to the state semi-finals. Go
Mounties!
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Finally, an exciting news just came in: "Within",
the psycho thriller movie that we designed the title sequence for, will
have its television premiere on July 31st on Lifetime. The title
sequence is now live on our YouTube Channel. Watch "Within" opening title sequence by
Artifactuality.
And that's all for now! Hope you
enjoyed our little update... Until next time, ciao!
Christine
Moh & Bob Mickens,
Creative
Partners of Artifactuality
P.S. O
yes– Artifactuality now has a toll-free number: 888.939-8698.
So feel FREE to call us – maybe we can help you out
with your graphics and creative on your next project.
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Animated Bike Route
Map for Cycling for Street Children (top) and detail of cover design for
Montclair High School Baseball Alumni Dinner Program |
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Artifactuality
P.O. Box 531 | Montclair, NJ 07042 US
888.939.8698 • www.artifactuality.com
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