In many ways i find artist like this very interesting and well there is nothing different in this case. Russ Mills is a true artist, i mean there are not a lot of them hard core analog/digital artist out there. Now days everything is made out in photoshop brushes and vectorized illustrator paths. I heard a thing the other day, from a student over at Hyper Island that there are a lot of people in his class, that are HARD CORE ANALOG, yes correct people with absolutely ZERO computer usage but still very creative designers & artists.

Maybe it’s a trend, away of being these days, the more retro you go the bigger hype you build, its like if you have an iPhone (like me) your just a dude trying to be cool, but if you use the 1G iPod your the hypest kid on the block. (I’m gonna pull out my old ipod suffle) thats how cool i can be, maybe try to find an old trucker hat on the attic to.

/Linus Ekenstam – Geek & Nerd

This is the year when one of the most legendary companies turns a 100 years. Its the Shoe company Converse, and now they want us to buy even more of there cranked up juicy shoes and to do just that and create the right vibes they have merged the singer from The Strokes, Julian Casablanca, Hype Machine phenomena Santogold and the super producer Pharrell Williams. I like N.E.R.D’s new sound and i can feel some of those vibes in this song to, the over amped Jimmy Hendrix guitar rifts with the sweaty Pharrell beat boxing.
 
For the production and animation work converse can brag with Psyop and there portfolio is big, great things have arise from their master minds. I love the stop motion feeling and it kinda sets the entire image on the My Drive Tru experience, the rumor has it that it took a set of 30 animators 2 months and 9580 digital paper dolls to create the video, so its nothing for a single designer to take on, if you don’t have a spare year or two and willingly want to send every waken hour in front of the computer. What do you think of the song/video?