{"id":2836,"date":"2012-01-27T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:02:17","slug":"dailies-unconscious-mind-mad-men-for-your-consideration-lucky-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/dailies-unconscious-mind-mad-men-for-your-consideration-lucky-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"[Dailies] &#8220;Unconscious Mind,&#8221; &#8220;Mad Men,&#8221; &#8220;For Your Consideration,&#8221; &#8220;Lucky Elephant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mad-men.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mad-men\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2843\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/culture\/how-the-unconscious-mind-boosts-creative-output-38841\/\">&#8220;How the Unconscious Mind Boosts Creative Output&#8221;<\/a> (Miller McCune&#8217;s Tom Jacobs) &#8220;A study &#8230; finds allowing ideas to incubate in the back of the mind is, in a narrow sense, overrated. People who let their unconscious minds take a crack at a problem were no more adept at coming up with innovative solutions than those who consciously deliberated over the dilemma.&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/01\/how-do-we-identifiy-good-ideas\">Wired<\/a> and director <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/artist\/jaraad-virani\/\">Jaraad Virani<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imprint.printmag.com\/animation\/911-and-the-fall-of-mad-men\/\">&#8220;9\/11 and The Fall of &#8216;Mad Men'&#8221;<\/a> (Imprint&#8217;s Michael Dooley) &#8220;This 9\/11 connection hasn&#8217;t been a big secret. On the other hand, it hasn&#8217;t really been very widely acknowledged\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 until now. Imaginary Forces&#8217; rich, subtle, and iconic motion graphic had left much to our imaginations. But the poster leaves us with practically nothing, both literally and figuratively. Layers of subtext are lost, and less is&#8230; less.&#8221; Also check out Art of the Title&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofthetitle.com\/2011\/09\/19\/mad-men\/\">interview with Imaginary Forces.<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/24\/mad_mens_long_standing_911_connection\/singleton\/\">Salon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=173577426080422&#038;id=372813414849\">Imaginary Forces<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apio.tumblr.com\/post\/15990736390\/fyc\">&#8220;For Your Consideration&#8221;<\/a> (Tumblr) &#8220;What began as a joke on [Facebook] with <a href=\"http:\/\/spectacularly-bored.tumblr.com\/\">April<\/a> turned into me making some For Your Consideration posters. Because Oscar season is nigh and I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time Channing Tatum gets the recognition he deserves.&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EvilMediaEmpire\">Evil Media Empire<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.themill.com\/blog\/2011\/december\/13\/from-bournemouth-to-space%2C-james-trosh-directs-edgar.aspx\">&#8220;Lucky Elephant &#8211; Edgar&#8221;<\/span> &#8220;To create the scene of the journey up into the stars, [director] James [Trosh] built a Helium Balloon which would carry his robot into the stars. Laden with a whole bunch of technology which allowed him to track its progress via GPS and locate the tin explorer when it landed. Most importantly though was the filming of Edgar&#8217;s flight, which James and his team managed by rigging up a GoPro HD Hero, with external power pack and sizeable SD card. &#8230; More recently, Jame&#8217;s footage has been picked up by GoPro themselves and has been used in a whole bunch of advertising, including its very own 30sec TV commercial airing on national TV.&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themill.com\">The Mill<\/a>, the visual effects shop who also makes the free iPhone app, <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/resources\/apps\/mill-color\/\">Mill Color<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How the Unconscious Mind Boosts Creative Output&#8221; (Miller McCune&#8217;s Tom Jacobs) &#8220;A study &#8230; finds allowing ideas to incubate in the back of the mind is, in a narrow sense, overrated. People who let their unconscious minds take a crack at a problem were no more adept at coming up with innovative solutions than those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}