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The Canon First Cut Contest is Back and is Looking for Bigger, Bolder Pitches
Ready to bring your biggest, boldest, and most awesome-est short film ideas to life? Canon has announced that the company is bringing back its First Cut Contest for a second go-around, and the contest is looking for bigger, bolder, and more awesome pitches. Following up on the success of the inaugural Canon First Cut Contest last year, this year’s version will continue with the same unique format that encourages aspiring filmmakers and creators to record short video pitch submissions for the projects of their dreams, with the opportunity to land budget and support from Canon. Sounds intriguing
Nofilmschool · EN
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How Editor Sofi Marshall Wove Together Black Bear’s Bawdy and Heartwarming Fable 'Wicker'
Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s Wicker follows an ostracized Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions and falls in love with a Wicker Husband (Alexander Skarsgård), drawing together practical effects and technical filmmaking. After learning its otherworldly, fantastical plot, Editor Sofi Marshall jumped at the chance to join the project and reunite with past creative collaborators, directors Huston Fischer and Wilson, to bring this project—and the Wicker Husband—to life. Marshall built on Colman and Skarsgård’s authentic, powerful performances to bring the funny, heartwarming, and
Nofilmschool · EN
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The Souls of Animals
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.” Here was “the poet of the body and the poet of the soul” holding up a mirror to us creatures inhabiting an animal body complicated by a soul — that organ of want and worry which we ourselves invented to explain why we make art, why… read article
Brain Pickings · EN
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What AI has changed in Design Systems, and what is still up to us
Three design experts told me how AI is changing the way we build and maintain Design Systems. And led me to think that “the future” is already happening now. What is the human role in creating and maintaining a design system in the AI era? Credit: Anna Lefour with Gemini. You’ve probably read, or even written, one of those LinkedIn posts about someone building a complete Design System in 20 minutes with Claude. Or in 15 minutes with Gemini. Or… you get the idea. Those posts made me curious. I had never built a full Design System, although I had set up the basic elements of one before I really
UX Collective · EN
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AI can generate the interface. What makes it worth caring about?
As more product work is generated from shared patterns, designers need to decide where an experience should surprise, celebrate, or simply leave someone alone. Imagine asking an AI tool to design a task-completion state. The result has a checkmark, a friendly message, and a small burst of confetti. It uses the right components. The spacing matches the system. The animation is polished. Now imagine that same response after two different tasks. In one, someone has finished setting up a business they have spent months trying to launch. In the other, an administrator has updated the forty-seventh
UX Collective · EN
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In a world of panic, calm and certainty win
You can dread the future or help build it. The people who come through this already chose. While panic around what AI means for our industry is the reflex right now, calm is a decision. The calm that comes from knowing what you actually know is the rarest and most valuable thing you can bring to a moment like this. I recently turned 50 and reckoning with that did what it does to so many people. It made me think. Not in a hauntingly dramatic, staring-out-the-window way, but in an introspective way where you start taking stock of what you’ve actually learned, what still rattles you, and what has
UX Collective · EN
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Why Claire Valdez Wants Universal Rent Control
The democratic socialist who just won Nydia Velázquez’s House seat says her housing platform is rooted in history, not fantasy.
Curbed · EN
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Coco House / CVA Arquitectos
Living immersed in nature. House and nature are conceived as an indissoluble entity. Designed as a weekend refuge for the architect herself and her dog "Coco," the project synthesizes her personal quest to live immersed in nature. This search began with the idea of carefully integrating the volume with the existing vegetation and connecting it precisely to the natural terrain. In this way, the house harmoniously adapts to the steep slope, merging with it and becoming an integral part of the landscape.
ArchDaily · EN
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Sewing Atelier Studio / Atelier 77 + Matéria Base
Located in the historic neighborhood of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro, this sewing studio occupies a platform surrounded by a stone retaining wall, built over 200 years ago, according to local reports. This pre-existing structure establishes the architectural concept, serving both as a physical boundary and structural support for the new intervention.
ArchDaily · EN
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Tabasco 267 Apartment / CAAM Arquitectos
Tabasco 267 is the renovation of a 90-square-meter (968-square-foot) apartment in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City. CAAM used the existing conditions as the project's primary raw material, transforming the layout, ceilings, finishes, lighting, and furniture.
ArchDaily · EN
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iPhone Duo 2 images leak online, hinting at a 3-camera setup and even thinner body
iPhone Duo 2 images leak online, hinting at a 3-camera setup and even thinner body Apple’s first foldable has been on shelves for about two weeks, and the internet has already moved on to the sequel. A purported prototype of...
Yanko Design · EN
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This AirPods Open concept puts Apple’s famous stem behind your ear
This AirPods Open concept puts Apple’s famous stem behind your ear Apple has a long habit of showing up late to the party and somehow leaving with everyone’s attention. It wasn’t first to MP3 players, smartwatches,...
Yanko Design · EN
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This Minimalist House in Japan Turns the Walk to the Shower Into a Landscape Moment
This Minimalist House in Japan Turns the Walk to the Shower Into a Landscape Moment At Minimalist House in Japan, the route to the shower passes through a glass corridor between two buildings. That short journey captures the thinking behind...
Yanko Design · EN
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LEGO’s Biggest Ever “Godzilla” Build Hits The Shelves, Defeating Even The Sagrada Familia In Size
LEGO’s Biggest Ever “Godzilla” Build Hits The Shelves, Defeating Even The Sagrada Familia In Size If you bought LEGO’s Sagrada Família 3 days ago and cleared a whole shelf for it, I have bad news. LEGO just revealed something taller....
Yanko Design · EN
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Aurzen ZIP Pro Puts a Foldable Projector and Basquiat Art on Your Holiday Gift List
Aurzen ZIP Pro Puts a Foldable Projector and Basquiat Art on Your Holiday Gift List A projector that packs its own stand already makes a thoughtful gift for someone who’s always rearranging movie night. Aurzen’s ZIP Pro folds into a...
Yanko Design · EN
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Mamdani's Five Ballot Questions Pass, But Arts Groups Remain Skeptical
Concerns over landmark sites and lack of public input have dampened trust in Proposal 3, in particular.
Hyperallergic · EN
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The Prior Occupants of Westbeth Are Just Beyond Reach
A little more legibility would've benefited Alison Nguyen's fragmented short film about the famed NYC artists' housing complex.
Hyperallergic · EN
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Daniel Sikkema Sentenced to Life for Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema
The 56-year-old man is accountable for a "cold, calculated murder-for-hire plot," said US Attorney Jamie McDonald.
Hyperallergic · EN
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Koto Unveils Oxford Street Branding
Koto gives London's Oxford Street its first new brand identity, built around the word for and the line Where London meets. London's most famous shopping street has never had a brand of its own, and Ko...
Abduzeedo · EN
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Mosby’s Files: Archival Web Design by tubik studio
In Mosby’s Files, tubik studio turns color-coded filing tabs and loose-leaf collages into an archival web design on American modernism. Built by tubik studio under Art Director Ernest Asanov, Mosby’s ...
Abduzeedo · EN
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Valmy: Condensed Typography by Almarena Creative
Almarena Creative crafts Valmy, an expressive variable typography system featuring two distinct axes across four styles and nine weights. Almarena Creative built Valmy around a compact, condensed skel...
Abduzeedo · EN
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Studio Dumbar’s Personal OS Branding for Wabi
Studio Dumbar/DEPT builds the personal OS branding for Eugenia Kuyda’s Wabi app generator around glass orbits and a five-dot W mark. Launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, Wabi lets people generat...
Abduzeedo · EN
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Red wasn’t always Republican. The surprising history behind America’s political color divide
“Better dead than red.” Cold War conservatives used to say that, and they meant it: Better to suffer nuclear annihilation, they believed, than endure a “red” victory. And by “red” they meant anyone on the left of the political spectrum—from the Soviet communists to their “fellow travelers” in the U.S. It’s strange, then, that America’s conservative party, the Republican Party, is now the red one. There’s no ideology behind the switch, no founding decision by either party to claim a color as its own. The whole red-state/blue-state vocabulary is much newer than most people assume. It dates almos
Fast Company Design · EN