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Nike a récemment fait appel à Golden Wolf pour réaliser et produire cette très jolie vidéo intitulée « Genealogy of Innovation », retraçant 43 ans d’histoire de la marque à la virgule dans le domaine du sport, pour près de 200 chaussures, réunissant en 2 minutes 7 films avec talent. A découvrir en vidéo.

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On the Origins of Crisis

A look back at America’s fatal foreign policy blunder.

From Adbusters #100: Are We Happy Yet?

Iraq. 2003. It all seemed like a game. The five of us had enough money, vehicles and weapons to form our own little guerrilla group. We began planning our first operation.

I knew from my reading of history what was coming?—?an occupation. None of us figured Saddam’s regime would survive the American invasion. The only question on our minds was what to do after the collapse. My first connection to the insurgency was through writers and intellectuals who, like me, had spoken out through published articles before the collapse about what was to come and what should be done. We shared an ideological view about the coming occupation, and we began thinking how we might act.

The first serious discussion about forming a resistance I took part in came about three weeks before the fall of Baghdad. There were about 64 of us. We met at a farmhouse south of Baghdad. We were all different ages. We all had different backgrounds, different levels of education. But all of us had two things in common: we had all been imprisoned under Saddam, and we were all Sunnis. The purpose of the meeting was to come up with a plan, basically, on how to organize a resistance. There were four senior figures who led the meeting. I cannot reveal the names, however, because several of them are still prominent figures in politics and religious affairs today.

The first thing we decided to do was to reach out to all the Sunni officers in the regime and urge them not to fight the Americans. It was no use to see them die for Saddam Hussein. We would need them for our cause. They had military experience, and they knew where to find all the weapons.

Why just the Sunnis? There were a lot of Shi’ite officers, nationalist men, who might have been interested in your cause.

We did not want to complicate things. A lot of us, myself included, were very conservative religiously. But that was not the point. We did not want to waste time on arguments over religion. Doing so would have been a distraction. That’s why we excluded Shi’ites. We knew there would be conflicts about that but our base of support then was basically conservative rural Sunnis. So we just decided to avoid this whole problem mostly for organization purposes, not sectarian or ideological reasons. Look, reaching out to former Ba’athist officers in Saddam’s army was already complicated enough. Most of us hated them and their socialist ideological view and their years serving the old regime. But we knew we needed them. They had military experience, and they knew where to find weapons. When the meeting broke up, we had all vowed to go out and recruit as many Sunni officers as we could to the cause and gather as much money as we might find from sympathizers. We agreed to meet again on the first of May. We all figured Saddam would be out of power by then at the latest, and that would be our time to begin.

The area where I was living at the time was home to many Iraqi army officers, and I personally recruited about 11 high-ranking officers and about 50 in lower ranks. I convinced them to keep whatever weapons they could find in a safe place and be ready to start the real war, the one that was coming. By the time Baghdad fell, altogether we gathered enough weapons to fight for three years, we estimated. We gathered a lot of money also in the days of the looting. A lot of the looting was organized by gangs. We went to the heads of these gangs after the fall and demanded half of what they had taken, for the cause. They knew we were serious. They knew that we had been gathering men and weapons, and they did not argue with us. In return for half the money, we promised to leave them alone from then on.

We met again as planned at the same place. There were a lot of arguments, of course. We had a lot of money and weapons, and some in the group were getting greedy. They wanted shares of money to support their families and so on. Some in the group were putting forward ideas about forming an Islamic state led by an emir. Others in the group like me were more concerned about coming up with attack strategies and getting started right away with strikes. That meeting broke up without any firm decisions or directives, but it didn’t matter. We had set things in motion with all the work we had done. We had opened the field for anyone who wanted to fight.

Some in the group were putting forward ideas about forming an Islamic state led by an emir.

I decided along with a few close friends of mine to ignore all these political arguments and simply get started with what we meant to do, fight the occupation. Five of us planned our first operation, a roadside bomb on Canal Street in Baghdad near a newly built American base.

To begin, none of us had experience in explosives. So we had to be taught how to make the device. There was an Egyptian from al-Qaeda who showed us how.

You mean from Osama bin Laden’s followers in Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Yes. He had come from Afghanistan, through Pakistan and Iran to Iraq. From our group we dedicated an engineer who took lessons from this Egyptian. He was a typical Egyptian al-Qaeda guy. He had felt oppressed by the Egyptian government and had gone to join the fighters in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion there. He had worked in Iraq in the oil fields in the 1970s, however, so he knew the place pretty well. He knew the roads. He knew the accent. And he had come to Iraq for jihad after the Americans invaded.

After a few lessons from this Egyptian, our engineer came back, and we went about making the device. We made it in a mosque one evening near the base, just after evening prayers. We took an old artillery shell and bored into the casing with a hand drill to reach the explosive material. You have to drill very slowly. You don’t want the friction to set it off. Then after you have a proper hole you put in a little C-4 explosive. On top of that you put a blasting cap or primer. We put several blasting caps, actually, because they were from old Iraqi stores and might be busted. When we were done making the bomb we carried it out of the mosque, all five of us. A lot of people saw us. Everyone knew what we were doing. No one said anything to us. We had made the thing in front of many people in the mosque. Even children were running around us playing as we worked.

We made our way to the road. There were some shepherds there with sheep. They saw us planting the bomb but said nothing. It all seemed like a game, honestly. A game you might play as a child. We ran a wire from the bomb through the fields off the road and found a hiding place where the leaves and grass kept us from view. From there we watched. We did not have to wait long. It was a busy road. The Americans used it a lot. After about an hour we saw a Humvee. This was in the early days when Humvees were often seen alone, not always in armored convoys like later. The Humvee approached, and at the right moment we detonated. The explosion flipped the Humvee onto its side, and after a moment a crowd gathered. We eased out of our hiding spot and joined the group on the street. I don’t know if the Americans in the Humvee were dead or not. I just saw them being carried away on stretchers. No one walked away as far as I could tell.

I can’t say how the others felt at that moment, but I was in tears. I didn’t know whether I was crying out of sadness or fear or happiness. Maybe all those reasons. For me, that first operation was like breaking free from a whole life of oppression. I had grown up under Saddam Hussein. I had spent nearly a decade of my youth in his jails. I had seen my country invaded by a foreign army. All my life I felt beaten down by one hand or another. And now, finally, for the first time I was hitting back.

Omar Yousef Hussein is thin and bookish-looking in his late thirties. He had served roughly eight years in Iraqi prisons for political dissidence but was released toward the end of 2002. Prior to the US invasion he was a historian and academic in Baghdad. He has since helped organize roughly 30 attacks on American forces.

Mark Kukis is an American journalist. This excerpt is taken from his book, Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, a collection of 70 individual Iraqi accounts of the war. Copyright © 2011 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

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Archana Sreenivasan : Illustrator

Archana Sreenivasan illustrates for magazines, picture books, comics and lifestyle products. She enjoys exploring new styles and techniques, and has illustrated for Puffin, Scholastic, Red Turtle, Karadi Tales, Katha, Manta Ray Comics, Forbes Life magazine, and The Mint newspaper. She likes cats, traveling, exploring the great outdoors, bird-watching, and doodling in cafes. She lives in Bengaluru.

Her illustration blog is here. 

Why are you an Illustrator?
I love to draw. Plus, illustration is a wonderful combination of visual communication & self-expression, design & art, which is a space I enjoy working in very much.

Did you attend school for fine art or design?
Yes. I did my BFA at Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, and did a Post Graduate Diploma in Animation at NID, Ahmedabad.

You have a distinct style of illustration. How long did it take you to develop your style?
I’m not sure I have a distinct style. In fact, I enjoy trying different styles. If there is indeed a distinct style, I didn’t specifically spend time trying to develop it.

Were there any particular role models for you when you grew up?
Growing up, I always looked up to my older sister, and her friendship and unconditional support has helped me follow my heart, and do what I love to do.

Who was the most influential personality on your career in Illustrations?
Perhaps it was my boss, mentor, and a dear friend, from my very first job. He taught me (and terrorized me) to pay attention to little details to commit myself fully to any job that I undertake.

What made you decide to become a freelance illustrator? When did you start freelancing? Do you illustrate for advertising?
Illustration studios or full-time positions for illustrators aren’t much of an option in India, so freelance was the alternative. I’ve been freelancing full-time from 2011. I’ve been working mostly with publishing houses so far. I haven’t done many projects with ad agencies, although I’ve been wanting to explore that.

Are many advertising agencies getting illustrations made these days? Do you work more with agencies or publishers?
I do see illustrations being used quite widely in ads, but as I said before, I’ve been working more with publishing houses than ad agencies.

Was there any time when you wanted to quit Illustrations?
I think I will continue to draw always, because its what comes naturally, but there have been times when I’ve considered taking on/have taken on other kinds of employment, due to financial pressures.

Have you considered turning your illustrations into toys?
Not really, although I’ve worked on some projects where I had to design characters intended to be made into toys/dolls.

Any other Indian Illustrators who you admire?
Quite a few. Topping the list is Prabha Mallya. I also admire illustrations by Sameer Kulavoor, Priya Kuriyan, and Ajanta Guhathakurta.

Do you have any favorite fellow illustrators or resources relating to your fields?
The internet is my go-to place for discovering exciting illustration resources. Pia Meenakshi aka Gumani, a fellow illustrator, maintains an art material review blog called http://brokeforart.tumblr.com/ I find her blog very interesting and useful.
You have such a wide experience as a top working professional. What advice do you have for aspiring creative professionals? Would you advise them to take on Illustration as a career option? Is it paying well enough?
A career in illustration usually isn’t a very well paying one. I suppose that’s something one has to be aware of before deciding to commit to a career in illustration. But many people do supplement their income by also doing design projects in either Graphic Design or Animation, which fetch better fees. I’d say a career in illustration is best suited to those who really love the work, because it involves being lost long hours in doing what you love, but forgoing the securities offered by a steady job is probably not a comfortable choice for everyone.

Mac or PC?
Mac.

Who would you like to take out for dinner?
If I could’ve, probably Dr. Salim Ali, or Kenneth Anderson, or Jim Corbett.

What’s on your iPod?
I don’t have one. I listen to random stuff on Grooveshark.barbet

bikernaut

Blue_Umbrella

chaisamosa_lowres

chimp

Chumbak

croc

Isantim

Orange

Scholastic

TwistInTheTale

wily_bedouin

 

 

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Watch the Spot: Mtn Dew Aims for Snackable Content With Dewdles


Mtn Dew is launching a series of bite-size videos featuring a pint-size animated character, in the hopes of attracting attention on mobile devices.

“Dewdles,” a series of eight 15-second videos, features animation on top of live action and was shot with a variety of cameras, including iPhones. The character — unofficially known as “little dewd” within the brand — is decked out in a helmet and cape in Mtn Dew’s trademark green and red. In the videos, he takes a ride on a bottle rocket and the lever of a toaster.

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Advertising Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Executive Creative Directors: Mark Bernath, Eric Quennoy
Creative Directors: Alvaro Sotomayor, David Smith
Art Director: Victor Monclus
Copywriter: Will Lowe
Head of Broadcast Production: Joe Togneri
Broadcast Producer: Ross Plummer
Planner: Ben Armistead
Group Account Director: Kirk Johnsen
Account Director: Kathryn Addo
Account Managers: Jorge Fesser, Luke Purdy
Project Manager: Janna Harrington
Business Affairs: Michael Graves, Dusty Slowik
Head of Studio: Jackie Barbour
Studio Artist: Noa Redero
Production Company: Believe Media
Director: Anthony Mandler
Director of Photography: David Devlin
Producer: Kim Bradshaw
Executive Producers: Liz Silver, Luke Thornton
Editing company: Whitehouse Post London
Editors: Stephen Dunne, Sam Gunn
Executive Producer: Bebe Evwaraye
Audio Post: Wave Amsterdam
Sound Designer/Mixer: Alex Nicholls-Lee
Music: Benjamin Price, Alex Nichols-Lee – ”The Baddest Remix”
Music Company: Wave Music
Post Production: Glasswork
Flame: Kyle Obley
Colorist: Scott Harris / Glassworks, Tom Poole / Company 3
Managing Director: Olivier Klonhammer

Peeps Minis: Lucky Penny Day

Peeps—America’s favorite Easter candy—created six TV spots under the “Every Day’s a Holiday” banner to launch their new year-round candy, Peeps Minis. The spots invite consumers to celebrate each and every day like the holiday it really is.

Advertising Agency: The Terri & Sandy Solution, New York, USA
Creative Directors: Terri Meyer, Sandy Greenberg
Art Director: Meredith Schwinder
Copywriters: Todd Condie, Derek Shevel
Production Company: The Sweet Shop
Director: James Haworth
Published: July 2014

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