Smoke Break #923: Cool Doc Short Explores The Rise & Fall Of Kodachrome Colour Film
February 8, 2012
The recently retired, most commercially successful colour film in history gets its documentary due (via).
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Smoke Break #922: A Beautiful Love Story About Working In The Restaurant Business
February 1, 2012
by Andrew Morrison | This is for all the restaurant industry folks coming off shift tonight. Dine Out Vancouver and Feast Van are both nearing their respective ends (Feb. 5th), and having worked the former for many years, I know you must be dog tired and dreaming of a trip far, far away in order to recharge your batteries and blow some of the cash that you’ve toiled so long and hard for. Might I suggest Midtown Manhattan? There, you can pay a visit to Prime Burger, where some of the staff have been on hand for 50 years, and where you just might find the inspiration to look forward to your first night back, whether it be at Hapa or Hawksworth. Of course, if you’d sooner go to Maui, knock yourself out. Maybe just enjoy the film above on the flight between well-earned beers.
For many of the guys that work here, the restaurant is like a second home – some of them have been slinging burgers, making shakes, and waiting on customers at this location for decades. Opened in 1938, the place hasn’t been altered since the early ’60s, and it looks all the better for it.
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Smoke Break #921: A Short (Awesome) Film On Mid-Century Coffee House Life In London
January 27, 2012
The more things change, the more they et cetera. (via)
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Smoke Break #920: A Heady Glimpse Inside The Quickly Fading World Of Moveable Type
January 26, 2012
These days, it’s easier to find moveable type as detritus gathering dust in the drawers of antique stores than it is to locate a printing workshop that still uses the stuff. This short film about letterpress reveals one of the few survivors in the UK (Plymouth University). Hang in there, dudes!
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Smoke Break #919: The Water/Whisky Trick (Or How To Entertain Yourself While Alone)
January 23, 2012
Chances are if you’re pouring yourself glasses of Jack that big, spilling a few drops is the least of your problems. Also, poor Susanna!
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Smoke Break #918: How To Virally Market Your Sushi? Send It Into Space, Of Course!
January 22, 2012
When faced with the conundrum of how to spread the word about a small, Baltimore area restaurant chain client, the creatives at Bark Marketing decided to forego the low-hanging fruit of “it’s out of this world” PR and literally shoot the product into space…
Sticky Rice launched a sushi plate of their popular Godzirra roll on January 1st of this year. Six months of planning and testing went into this project as a lot of variables were at play: -60F in space, FAA regulations, overheating or freezing batteries, GPS issues, stabilization, and how to make the damn sushi stay together in high winds.
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Smoke Break #917: “Lifecycle” (365 Days In The Life Of A Locked Up Bike In Manhattan)
January 20, 2012
Kind of a shitty thing to do a perfectly good bike, but you gotta let the branding agencies work, right?
Smoke Break #916: If David Lynch Wrote An Ad For One Terrible Beer Against Another…
January 14, 2012
I understand hating on Heineken, but hating on it for Pabst? Lynch is even weirder than I thought (warning: language NSFW). PS. You know it’s fake because there are no midgets. via
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Smoke Break #915: What All The Books Do After The Lights Dim And The Staff Go Home
January 10, 2012
Great animation from bibliomaniacs Sean and Lisa Ohlenkamp. The two spent a few sleepless nights with a crew of 20 piling, switching, and stacking books to make the sequences work. As the cover reminds us at the end, “there’s nothing quite like a real book.” The next time you’re in Toronto, set aside an hour for a twirl in the stacks at Type Books, where this was lovingly and – one assumes – painstakingly filmed (via Colossal).
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Smoke Break #914: What You Should Do On A Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Like This
January 6, 2012
What to do on a miserable day like today? Watch this wedding invite video from two young Scout readers (Jenny and Darren) basking in the awesomeness of their love and their city. The pair were married in November (our sincerest congrats). Aw…we heart you, Vancouver, even in January. See? That was easy! You may now enjoy the rest of this terrible, no good, very bad day.
