Calling all graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers! We are excited to invite you to submit work for our new 4 minute short film called "Brain Power." The film will have many high profile screenings and will be used for free by non-profits and organizations around the world! Our last four films premiered at Sundance and have won 35 awards.Our previous short film "A Declaration of Interdependence," included music by Moby, was featured on the youtube homepage and was released at "Interdependence Day" on September 12th of 2011. You can check it out on www.letitripple.org. We would love to be able to feature your work in this new film "Brain Power."We are looking for artistic interpretations of the brain (think anything from your version of a brain scan or neurons connecting, to an artistic metaphor like the brain as a garden, or the solar system, or the neurons of the brain connecting like computers on the Internet, or whatever you imagine. Participants must submit their entries in the form of graphics, illustrations, or photographs (directly to talenthouse). We will then use the winning entries in the 4-minute film, combined with other animations, archival imagery, and other crowdsourced video footage.This film "Brain Power" is part of the "Let It Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change" film series by The Moxie Institute. The first film in the series was "A Declaration of Interdependence," which featured music by Moby, graphic art from our great partnership with Talenthouse, as well as videos submitted from all over the world. The film has now been translated into 65 languages and is being used by non-profits for free all around the world. To watch the film or to find out how to get a free catered version for your organization please visit: www.letitripple.org.You can also watch the trailer for Tiffany Shlain's award-winning feature film "Connected," hailed by The New York Times as "Examining everything from the Big Bang to Twitter," and "incredibly engaging...could not take my eyes off of it!" at www.connectedthefilm.com
By Tiffany Shlain
I want my pictures to reveal what is behind our immediate reality, to be playful and mysterious. I strive to explore structures and forms that are repeated in nature. I am captivated by the “concealed machinery” behind all that exists. From my perception, these works evoke the essence of structures such as bridges and temples, as well as natural and astral landscapes. I imagine that these spaces house memories, feelings, and thoughts that together compose the real being of things. They are spaces that can only be contemplated and where one can only be.
Location Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, San juan
Bio
jose soto
b. San Sebastian, P.R. 1976
Studied at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas where he obtained a B.A. in Image and Design, in 2000. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as photography assistant in the studio of John Betancourt.
In 2004, Soto founded Eclipse Multimedia, a company that offers photographic and graphic design services. In 2006, he won the Gold Award in the category of Fashion and Advertising granted by the magazine B&W Photography. That same year he was in charge of the photography of the book Puerto Rico True Flavors edited by Chef Wilo Benet. In 2007, he won a prize in the category of Special Events of the XIX Certamen Excel of the Asociación de Relacionistas Profesionales de Puerto Rico. In 2008 he was among the finalists in the Certamen de Arte Joven Oriental and the Beca Lexus Para Artistas. Since 1998, his artistic work has been exhibited in seven group exhibitions at the Viota Gallery, the Escuela de Artes Plásticas, the Oriental Group and the Universidad Metropolitana. In 2002, he made a work for the public art exhibition Absolut Art in the Plaza which took place in Old San Juan. In 2008, he presented three solo shows: Acuario at Emporio Peroni in Condado, P.R., Dimensiones at Payá Native Bistro and José Soto: Recent Works in Viota Gallery, in collaboration with Walter Otero Gallery, in Güaynabo, P.R.
His work is represented in the following collections: Arco Capital Management, Maximum Digital Communications, Wilo Benet, Luis Gutiérrez, Pabón family, Quiñónez family, León family and Walter Otero.
Influences Everything and everyone. To name just a few: Edward Burtynsky, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Albert Watson, Chuck Close.
Lolly Jean Wednesday 24-Dec 22:51:18
Crazy good work!