Firstly, apologies for the lack of blog last week. We were lost at sea and engaged in some serious skullduggery!
To make up for our absence we’ve got some fascinating treasure for you this week…
We’ve been exploring the darker side of seduction and this new teaser trailer for the Reiss Fall/Winter collection is getting us hot under the collar.
Shot by Jamie Morgan, the campaign explores three key themes - elements, protection, sensuality – (Reiss says they wanted to go back to basics), but its the alluring black and white temptation that we love.
Sometimes you wait all year for a mind-blowing movie and then TWO come along at once. The inspirational genius of Pixar is back and in full effect with the joyous Toy Story 3 and Christopher Nolan has done it again with the head-trip action spectacular Inception. Seek these films out… they are both superb.
What better way to celebrate the release of these two future classics than with this inspired trailer mash-up that enters the architecture of Buzz and Woody’s minds!
The digital magazine format of iPad continues to evolve with a forward thinking app that enables users to build their own custom publications tailored to their own tastes. Check out the future-ready page-turner that is Flipboar
Announced on September 7, the Mercury Music Prizealways manages to raise a few eyebrows when the nominations are announced!
It’s a solid list (announced this week), with some of FIVE33’s favourite albums of the past few months getting much deserved recognition.
Dizzee Rascal, The XX, Foals, Mumford & Sons, Corinne Bailey Rae and Biffy Clyro have been constant audio candy on the office stereogram.
Us? We’re pitching for The XX or Dizzee - they have to be this year’s hotties!
The full list of nominees is below, but we must give a mention to the modfather Paul Weller…
Weller always sweeps up as The Brits Best Male whenever he releases an album, but not so the Mercury’s…unbelievably, this is his first ever nomination for Wake Up The Nation.
And finally, as we are slap-bang in the middle of the geek-pageant that is Comic-Con, here’s a Batman movie you may not have seen before - but which is a stunning piece of fan-film making. It’s dark, violent (be warned) and making a lot of waves in the fan community. Something to tide the fanboys over until Christopher Nolan dusts off the sequel to the Dark Knight.
May 12, 2010 at 12:33 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
FIVE33 recently got the opportunity to get reacqainted with Carrie and the girls from Sex And The City 2, delivering a series of graphical screen takeovers for the highly anticipated uber-chick-flick sequel.
One for those who like their movies to have maximum glamour… take a look!
February 24, 2010 at 8:19 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
As we get closer to release, it seems Alice is becoming more and more fashionable!
The latest edition of Grazia magazine features a fashion pictorial utilising shots from our Alice in Wonderland exhibition. We produced a range of striking plate shots of Wonderland, and the team at Grazia then composited their models and outfits into our backgrounds.
Take a look, and keep ‘em peeled for more information on our work with Selfridges and their Wondrous windows…
January 28, 2010 at 10:33 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
We’re excited to give you this exclusive first look our Wonderland Takeover of Hot Topic in Los Angeles, to herald the arrival of one of this year’s most anticipated movies: Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.
Hot Topic is one of the US’s most popular retailers, and this first glimpse gives you a sense of the cinematic detail and atmospheric style we are bringing to their store– a true first for movie promotion in this kind of environment.
The entire store is being rebuilt from scratch; the Wonderland FIVE33 has installed goes beyond conventional store branding – it brings the world of the film to life in an immersive themed environment, with a meticulous eye for the detail of Tim Burton’s vision.
This one-off theatrical-retail event goes live on February 5th in the Hollywood & Highland Center in the heart of Los Angeles.
You’d be mad to miss it… wait for it… mad as a Hatter!
December 1, 2009 at 8:37 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Ensuring Ebenezer brings his unique brand of humbug to every nook and cranny of London, here are our Tube ads that dominated the Underground throughout November. The perfect signpost to the London Lights for Disney’s A Christmas Carol.
If you haven’t been to seem them yet… why not? There’s only 23 days to go… it’s officially okay to start feeling Christmassy!
November 27, 2009 at 4:53 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Our delightful Ian and Heidi are currently stateside, spending the run up to the holiday season in LA.
They will be checking in from time to time sharing those things that are catching their eye over in the City of Angels. First up, Heidi talks us through a retail event the dynamic duo attended earlier this month…
“Ian and I went to SPACE15Twenty on Wednesday 11th of November to check out this new experiment in retail. The space is a regular host to live performances and film screenings. On the night, they were setting up for the ‘Social Explorations of the Art of Music Video’. Interesting to see the Social implications of an art form that is continuing to evolve. Live music and videos from Gabe Askew (Grizzly Bear) were very cool.
Whilst exploring the space we came across an old photo booth, these are near extinct in the UK so you can only imagine our excitement at the prospect of documenting our new adventure in LA. So after much preening and trying to squeeze ourselves into the tiny booth we took the plunge. Although not our finest modelling shots we feel this has captured a brief moment of our beginnings in this amazing city.”
Back here in London, we were delighted to see the above pictures. Almost looks like the poster to a daring new Rom-Com… ‘Photo-Booth: Love Can Develop in Less than 2 Minutes’…
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