Logorama Takes Home The Oscar. Here's The Whole Animated Short Film.

Logorama, a 16 minute movie, took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last night. As you can imagine, many of the sites that previously has this short feature online have quickly disabled it, but I've got both the trailer and the whole film for you (until someone disables the link):

The whole film:

 

Directed by H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain), the short animated film featurtes more than 2500 logos which make up spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city... and much more.
         
Geek Details (thanks to Aeromental)

• The yellow persons on the streets are the logo from the Messenger of AOL.
• The Quicktime logo is a clock in the caffeteria
• For Pixar’s Wall-E fans, you can see the Buy N Large logo
• The Bar Equalizer from the Helicopter was the logo of Cisco Systems
• The earthquake in the city formed the X-Box logo, ironically destroying the Windows building and IBM
• The road near the mountains forms the VAIO logo.
• When the car crashes against a tree, many old Apple logos fall, the multicolor version.
• The cactus were made with the standard USB icon.
• The butterflies are the MSN logo.
• The floating W is for Microsoft Word.
• Sony Ericsson is the Moon.
• Internet Explorer appears as a planet.

You can also find Logorama in full length on iTunes (in case by the time you see this, they've figured out I posted the whole thing and disable it).

Unusual Integrated Furniture Designs From Ontwerpers Nu

On December 16, 2008 Ontwerpers Nu, a Netherland design company, founded by Christiaan Oppewal and Silvijn van der Velden, suffered a tragic fire in their warehouse, which destroyed absoutely everything. 2009 was a fresh start for the company as they moved into the RDM Innovation Dock, part of the RDM Campus.

Ontwerpers Nu continues to create new designs during the rebuilding-process. A company, firmly rooted in the present, they are working on a new future without looking back and they have lots of unusual products that exemplify just that.



Increasingly skilled and possessing what they call a "dutch mentality", they deliver visionary objects, furniture and products. The designs are sold nationally as well as internationally, and are used in private, public and commercial surroundings.

Here are some of their wildly innovative designs and products.

The Bright Table
The Bright Table is a combination coffee table, fish bowl, fruit dish, vase and design light... all in one. Made of bright white fiber reinforced artificial resin, even the lamp comes with it.




€ 880, -
Colour: bright white
Size: 99 x 136 x 31 cm.
Detail: lamp included


Light Up


Deep sea fish becomes furniture.
Some deep sea creatures catch their food with lights on their heads. These striking animals have been an inspiration for a chair with a light, organically shaped. The Light Up would be a real eye catcher in a lounge or a waiting room, but also the living room would benefit from this special object. We have paid special attention to the ergonomics of this chair, which will benefit your back. The Light Up is made of maintenance free material and will look great in the garden too.




Production and delivery on special request only.
Material: fiber reinforced artificial resin, steel construction
Colour: blue / white
Size: 120 x 155 x 210 cm.



Cleanroom Chair


A digital chair.
This chair combines great ergonomics with extreme functionality. Therefore it is a very suitable object for the use of laptops on flexible work places and in waiting rooms. But it can also be a minimal office for a home worker. It was designed as an extension of your body which makes it really comfortable. The design was incorporated into the collection of NgispeN, the new designlabel of Gispen. Available in every colour possible.




Material: fiber reinforced artificial resin, metal frame
Colour: bright white, green, lack, blue, red, yellow
Size: 80 x 100 x 73 cm.


Cabinet Chair


The first Cabinet Chair was designed for the lobby of a hotel. Guests can have a look at brochures and books in this chair. Moreover, it is possible to use the internet with a build in monitor and keyboard. It’s the perfect information desk with a twist. In libraries, flexible working places, a waiting room or at home it can be a beautiful eye catcher too. The drawer is delivered together with the Cleanroom Chair and the required equipment.






Material: timber, metal frame with powder coating
Colour: bright white or royal blue
Size: 82 x 193 x 222 cm.

Please contact them for pricing and availability.

Ontwerpers.nu
Postal address:
Sonmansstraat 46 b1
3039 DK Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Visiting address:
Heijplaatweg 21
Havennummer 2600
3089 JB Rotterdam
06 1508 3213

Telephone: +31 (0) 10 4777029
mail@ontwerpers.nu

How An Oscar Statuette Is Made & Other Facts About The Academy Award

In honor of tonight's 82nd Annual Academy Awards, here's a look at how the coveted statuette is actually made, from start to finish.


The exterior of R.S. Owens in Chicago:

Casting, Buffing and polishing:



The metal is heated to 960 degrees before pouring into the cast.

The Oscar, removed from the cast, and ready to be polished and buffed:

The rough seams are sanded:

And the statue is polished:


Electroplating:


being dipped into the nickel (the second step, it's first dipped into copper):

Dipped into the 24k plate, the fourth step (the third step is dipped into silver):



Engraving and Mounting:


Affixing the engraved plate to the base:

a close up look at base:

Placing the felt pad on the base:



Oscar Fun Facts:

• The official name of the statuette is the Academy Award® of Merit

• Oscar is 13½ inches tall and weighs 8½ pounds

• The First Recipient was Emil Jannings, named Best Actor for his performances in “The Last Command” and “The Way of All Flesh” in 1929

• Number of Awards Presented to date as of 2010: 2,701 statuettes



• It was designed by Cedric Gibbons, chief art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley.

• The Oscar statuette depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword, standing on a reel of film. The film reel features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy (actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers.)

• How Oscar received his nickname is not exactly clear.
The most popular story is that Margaret Herrick, an Academy librarian and eventual executive director, remarked that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar, and the Academy staff began to refer to it as Oscar. Although the nickname was used with increasing frequency during the late 1930s, the Academy didn't officially use the name Oscar until 1939.

• The Oscar statuette hasn't been altered since his molten birth, except when the design of the pedestal was made taller in 1945.


Official Oscar site.

images and info courtesy of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences