This gigantic beauty arrived today. We figured Elliott at 6'2" would be the best way to convey the scale of this shiny new Epson printer.

The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery in London is proving to be one of the most successful exhibitions ever, for good reason.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/may/09/leonardo-da-v...

The Guardian Newspaper has created this very cool interactive guide to some of his work, "from grotesque caricatures to sublime nudes", and it is well worth checking out...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2011/nov/09/leonardo-...

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." -- Martin Scorsese

If you are interested in film, editing, and in action films especially, then these short video-essays by film Critic Jim Emerson make for fascinating viewing. In the first, by dissecting the chase sequence from Christopher Nolan's 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight, he explores the language of film and how directors and editors will often dispense with visual logic and break the rules of filming in the pursuit of bigger, bolder, but not always better, action.

"Ultimately, everything about the movie -- the characters, the story, the emotions -- all come down to what is inside the frame, what's left out of the frame, and the associations that are made between different shots, as they're all pieced together. Compositions, angles, camera movements -- they take on different meanings depending on their relationships to the other shots around them. So, something that maybe isn't in the frame, something outside the frame, or something that may happen in the cut between two shots, can be implied, depending on how the pieces are put together."

Parts 2 (on Phillip Noyce’s 2010 film, Salt) & 3 (in which Emerson takes on classic chase scenes from Don Siegel’s The Lineup (1958), Peter Yates’s Bullitt (1968) and William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971)) are below, too.

In the Cut, Part I: Shots in the Dark (Knight) from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.

In the Cut, Part II: A Dash of Salt from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.

In the Cut Part III: I Left My Heart in My Throat in San Francisco from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.

The videos and an accompanying essay by Emerson can be found at:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/IN_THE_CUT_The_Dark_Knight_by_Chris...

And an annotated transcript is available here:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2011/09/annotated_transcript_in_the_c...

Some beautiful monkey business from our magic man, Russ Murphy.

N O Y O R K !

Directed/Edited by David M. Helman (davidmhelman.com)
FUCKERY by RUFFMERCY (ruffmercy.com)
Produced by Chris Bryant
Cinematography by Nick Medrud

Additional Animation by:
Tsvetelina Tomova
Maxime Bruneel
Ewan Farr

Additional Cinematography by:
Matt LaRoche

Luke 'the bumble' Choice will be enjoying his first NYC Halloween this year...

From the Outback to the rooftops, Luke is always in his element when there's danger afoot! Whether skipping baretoe across crocodiles in a swamp, catching crooks with a boomerang, or bashing on a couple of wallabies, Luke will always stare danger in the eye, and say 'G'day mate'.

After spotting a fire that was going out of control on an adjoining rooftop to our office, Luke leapt down the fire escape, scaled fences, and leapt to the aid of our neighbors armed with a bottle of mineral water and a manful beard. The bigger the beard, the bigger the man.

The fire brigade were called - not that they were needed - and all 5 fire trucks and 30+ firemen arrived with only half a job to do.

Of course, we'll never tell them the real story of how the fire started...... twisted firestarter.

The photographer William George Wadman recently paid a visit to our production studio to snap a few pics of Vault49's Technical Director, Ben Wilkinson-Raemer. These are some cool pics, and Ben is not as evil as he looks.

It's Labor Day weekend for us native Americans and global ex-pats. On Monday we'll be taking a well-earned holiday, but we've arranged for someone to take care of bizniz in our absence...

Our old friend Al Murphy is behind this bit of magic... nearly ten years since we first worked together!

I'm really not sure there's too much to be said about this little experiment, apart from wow, creepy, & cool in equal measure. We've been playing around with some fun stuff with Serge Seidlitz gorgeous work for a little bit, and this features his ace patternwork.

Our boy Elliott's making an honest woman of his lovely lady, while making a thoroughly disreputable man of himself! This weekend saw Elliott take the streets of Brighton for his stag-do, and it's unlikely the town has witnessed such scenes before!

Congrats from all of us Elliott - your move to New York is now a matter of necessity, not just desire, after the trail of destruction you left behind :)