The only thing more frightening than the horror movies that Lisa Adams of DottyStitches cross-stitched onto these sensational cushions, is the terrifying amount of time they must have taken to hand stitch.
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Anyone who has kids will, at one time or another, point a video camera (or smartphone) at them and make a little home movie. But how about getting kids involved in making movies? Bianca Giaever doesn’t have kids, but the young filmmaker has created a great short film called “The Scared is Scared,” based on a story invented by a six-year-old boy named Asa. Bianca’s questions and Asa’s often flip-flopping, cute-as-can-be answers form the narration of the movie. Bianca takes Asa’s imaginative story and brings it to life as he tells it. It’s clever, funny, and poignant. She offers advice on how to go about making a movie with kids.
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Montreal artist and fabricator Ian Langohr is a multi-talented maker who sculpts surreal and humorous over-the head masks.
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Horror-film fan Marc Hagan-Guirey makes papercut versions of famous haunted houses, in a series he called Horrorgami. “When I was growing up, my elder brother and I were really really different characters. And the one thing that really bonded us was horror movies,” says Marc in the short profile film on Paper Dandy. He’s already created […]
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Today was another hectic day at the office. Workdays can get all tangled up sometimes, serious, fraught with drama, with looming deadlines. And too much coffee. And then you get a mysterious wooden crate in the mail. At least that’s what happened to me today. I came back to my office after a meeting to […]
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This obsessively faceted little gem made me smile so wide, I thought an alien lifeform was going to burst forth from my face! This shot-by-shot homage to the Prometheus trailer is done with 100% paper (and flashlights). It was directed, edited and paper-construction by Travis Betz (aka “The Receptionist” on YouTube). I guess people are […]
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I’m often surprised how much one can fit inside a trailer. Check out this deceptively accommodating movie theater crammed into a recycled 1960’s era travel trailer. It’s solar powered and comes complete with ticket booth, concession stand, and seating for eight adults.
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