Looking to the east for the solution, we explore what happens when you accept many possibilities for a result. The outcome is unknown, but the result will be rewarding. This video is from a recent series of works and motion tests in the studio.
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Designers: Lee Suetorsak, Jackkrit Anantakul, Michael Paul Young
Animators: Lee Suetorsak, Jackkrit Anantakul, Michael Paul Young
Soundtrack: Jackkrit Anantakul
In February of 2009 we got a call from Catherine Owens, the long time super creative director for the uber-famous band U2. Catherine came across our work and knew she found the team who could help with U2’s 2009 world tour (titled 360). After a quick stint of meetings in New York, we came back to the Bangkok studio and begin work for the following two months on numerous ideas. We began our development on the videos for the tracks Beautiful Day, Ultra Violet and The Unforgettable Fire. The first series of works involved filming small fish common in the canals of Bangkok for very fluid and dreamlike sequences. For the second series we explored mapping the films into a 3d space and further distorting them for an enhanced depth and perspective. Then for the last series of works we explored more solid colors, 2d and fast paced clips to stimulate lighting effects and screen energy during the performance. In the end we created over 100 different sequences, with over 300 total clips delivered in various formats, colors and speeds.
The concert opened in Barcelona on June 30, 2009 to a sold out crowd of 90,000 fans. The screen that displayed this work was designed by Willie Williams, Mark Fisher, Chuck Hoberman, and Frederic Opsomer. The screen was composed of 888 individual hexagonal panels that support 500,000 Barco LED pixels. It can transform from seven meters to 22 meters high and move up and down.
Article about the Screen Design
Advertising Agency: Rabbit
U2 Creative Director: Catherine Owens
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Lead Designer: Michael Paul Young
Designers: Lee Suetorsak, Taechit Jiropaskosol, Jackkrit Anantakul
Animators: Lee Suetorsak, Taechit Jiropaskosol, Jackkrit Anantakul, Michael Paul Young
Editor: Lee Suetorsak
Soundtrack: © 2000 U2 & Universal-Island Records Ltd.
A short film created for YouWorkForThem using various clips from the stock video products titled Moire. Composed of patterns and hypnotic illusions, Moire may result in acid flashbacks from your teenage childhood or slight migraines.
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Lead Designer: Lee Suetorsak
Editors: Lee Suetorsak, Michael Paul Young
Soundtrack: Madsound
Michael Paul Young was invited to be one of the creatives involved in the fashion label Diesel’s Only the Brave perfume launch. The final result was a room design titled Discolored & Battered Bravery: Physical pain or the threat of death will never overcome the ability to see into the lion’s mouth and ask for seconds with a side dish of uniquely colored raw meat. Project curated by Hellohikimori.
Soundtrack by Madsound
A work of art that explores the relationship between nature, motion and sound, The Interpretation takes us on a languid journey through a slowly flourishing forest. Hinting at vague memories of microbiology and rotating through a cool organic spectrum of greens, blues, browns, blacks and whites; this motion-based work will entrance its viewer as the forest evolves. The Interpretation is set to a minimal score filled with authentic sounds of nature, complimenting the environmental essence of the visuals. One of the movies on this DVD also features a soundtrack composed by various Ghostly Records musicians.
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Lead Designer: Michael Paul Young
Animator: Michael Paul Young
Soundtrack: Michael Cina, Ghostly International
This is Agostina was developed as animation experiment for YouWorkForThem’s release of the font, Agostina. The font was designed and coded by Michael Cina with extra swash-like characters in the open type format. This is Agostina explores those swash-like features and its options in 3d and other experimental animation methods.
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Animators: Lee Suetorsak, Michael Paul Young
Editor: Michael Paul Young
Soundtrack: Madsound
King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal (1964). Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers (1936). American President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (1983). After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper (ice hockey) Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play (1959). The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established (1936). The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, renamed BBC1 in 1964 (1936).
OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria (1973). The first commercial nuclear power station was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England (1956). At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline (1998). Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US (1933). There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year.
