Objectified

If you saw Gary Hustwit's documentary film Helvetica and liked it, get ready for his second film entitled Objectified in 2009. The film will be about industrial design and discuss some of the worlds greatest consumer products and their designers. Here is a list of people intended to be in the film:

Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)

Here is an old interview with Jonathan Ive of Apple, who will be in Objectified.

Sub Pop at the Needle

If you were in Seattle last weekend you may have noticed the Space Needle flying a new flag. In celebration of Sub Pop's 20th anniversary as a record label the Needle flew the Sub Pop logo high above the city:



In addition to the flag the top was painted like a giant record, similar to this:



Cool!

Heima, Sweet Heima

I had a chance to watch Heima over the weekend, a concert documentary of Sigur Ros back home in Iceland playing in various small towns. The movie is beautifully filmed, directed and edited. The music is played alongside video of various landscapes and the people of Iceland. Sigur Ros' music has always painted pictures in mind of what Iceland might look like and now those images have come to life on screen. I'm looking forward to seeing them live at Benaroya Hall later this summer.