Andy goes to TED
Kaveh Zahedi, the Climate Change Co-ordinator at the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) explains the importance of climate change today and why creative communications - and Green Thing - have a role to play in the global solution to this problem
By Michael Wright To illustrate the considerable dangers of lifts, Michael Wright not only reused some old bits of polyboard and silver spray to make a skyscraper, lift shaft and lift, he reused some old bits of airfix for the props, two old marionettes to be the lift victims and one of those victims to be the evil lift-cord cutter. The result: a tremendous piece of psychological insight about lifts and why you should doubt them big time. Music by the very talented Aaron Paul Low of Sacred noise, produced by the very kind Partizan.
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Dothegreenthing.com: A Six Pack from Green Thing
A handy six pack reminder of all the Green Things to do. Sign-up to free Green Thing videos by mailing subscribe@dothegreenthing.com. With enormous thanks to all those who've donated their time and talent to make this possible - Partizan, Play, Steve Qua, TBWA, Kethi, Tom 'Scratch' Skelton, Dan Lapaine, Dom Del Torto of KOG, Irresistible, Michael Mertens, Iain Grant, Superhero, Richie Hopson, Angeliki Chatzi, Konstantinos Dagritzikos, Michael Wright, Aaron Paul Low, Rob Whitelock, Euan Wilson, Amy Whitehouse, Ben and Greg, Matt Lipsey, Justin Hawkins, Danny Cohen and HLA. Huge apologies if we've missed anyone - just tell us.
Itâs like the emperorâs new clothes. Mineral water does untold environmental damage, tastes exactly like tap water and costs 1000 times as much. And yet sad gullible people across the world fall for the mineral water myth and think theyâre buying something crucial to their health or self-esteem when theyâre not. Someoneâs gotta tell âem the emperorâs got nothing on â and that someone is Barney Howells from Partizan London who made this very funny and slightly cruel video for Green Thing. Enjoy.
This Moosnight special report featured some best of breed production including lighting by Richard Laing, cow heads by Jeff Cliff Model Effects, sound by Stuart Bunce, sound mix by Iain...
I wanted to make walking fun. For it to look effortless, adventurous and romantic - but all through a pair of fingers. So the search for the right pair of fingers began. I auditioned more than two hundred pairs. Film and TV stars were asking to play the role but they were acting too much with it. Finally I found the right pair on a man called Justin. The lady fingers are Helen's, she's the H in HLA, the production company who made it all happen. Myself and a fine chap called Dominic made all the sets with paper, scissors and sticky-back plastic. Hope you like the video, and hope it makes you want to walk ... Danny Cohen
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Dothegreenthing.co.uk: Eazy On Da Meat by Dom Del Torto
For this bangin’ video, Green Thing would like to big up talented director Dom Del Torto and producer Ollie Allgrove from KOG (http://www.kogindustries.com/), Dan Trapp the DOP, Tomboy Films (http://www.tomboy-films.co.uk/) for providing the studio and On Sight (http://www.onsight.co.uk/) for donating the camera. Also big respec’ to Tom ‘Scratch’ Skelton (http://www.myspace.com/mossballs) for the tune, Tom T-Bone Edmonds for the rhymes and Dan “it’s a rap” Lapaine (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487406/) for the vocals. Large.
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Dothegreenthing.com: Recycled/Reborn with Laura Barton
Guardian journo and interviewer extraordinaire Laura Barton takes a walk through the city of London and finds some thrown-away papers and magazines which she recycled into a poem. And even more impressively, it’s great. Filmed by the talented, willing and helpful people at Firecracker Films and featuring music is by Graeme Miller – cleverly recycled from last October’s Green Thing. commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/laura_barton/ www.dothegreenthing.com/audios/7 www.firecrackerfilms.com
Written and directed by Steve Wallington with filming, editing and after effects by the multi talented Jim Yeomans. Also a big thank you to Antoine & Stuart @ Point Blank
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Dothegreenthing.com: A Short Sharp Animated Shower
Animation-masters Triffic teamed up with jazz outfit Voodoo Kazoo to produce this brilliantly catchy shower-a-long with shades of Ferris Bueller and a hint of Ian Dury. Huge thanks to Andy for the design, Andy, Shaun, Chris and Garf for the animation, Luke for compositing and effects and Tim for vocals and patience. And a watery Green Thing hug to Olivia of Joy for stepping forward in the first place. www.triffic.co.uk www.voodookazoo.com www.joyfilmsusa.com/joy_rsa
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Green Thing: Recycled/Reborn with Tristan Eaton
Toymaker Tristan Eaton of Thunderdog Studios and Kidrobot fame finds a bunch of thrown away saw blades, zappers, knives and a water bottles and turns them into a quite magnificent Recycled/Reborn Green Thing toy thing. The video was "slapped together hastily" by Chris Coots of Sassguerrilla and StrawberryFrog. Slapped together perfectly more like.
The story of a man with a gun and a mission - to eliminate all instances of unseasonal vegetable consumption. Written and directed by the brilliant Michael 'Watercress' Wright and starring...
As the Copenhagen Summit is our climate's last chance saloon, it would help if we all understood what's got to happen there. To make that simple, Green Thing has produced a Quick Recipe for a Successful Copenhagen with diplomacy illustrated through...
This film is about the way you see more when you walk - in this case, the way you look at road signs. I didn't drive anywhere to shoot any of these road signs. Most of them I walked to and one of them was in Norway and turned out to be quite a long walk especially carrying a camera. I didn't do it all, the music is by Marc Folan and the voiceover is Paul Berczeller. If you like the video then why don't you take some shots of some road signs, make your own one and upload it. www.dothegreenthing.com
Seven things you can do to a lead a greener life (from dothegreenthing.com)
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Do the Green Thing - Glow-in-the-dark Thing
Written by the kind and talented people at TBWA London (tbwa-london.com) and directed by Matt Lipsey (feelfilms.co.uk/ml1.html) of Little Britain fame, this video shows the lengths one man is prepared to go to in his quest to have fun in the dark. Special effects? Naah. The man studied appendage dance and mime for a year so he could do those amazing things with his Green Thing. Try them them at home, but be careful.
Guardian journo and interviewer extraordinaire Laura Barton takes a walk through the city of London and finds some thrown-away papers and magazines which she recycled into a poem. And even more impressively, it’s great. Filmed by the talented, willing and helpful people at Firecracker Films and featuring music is by Graeme Miller – cleverly recycled from last October’s Green Thing. commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/laura_barton/ www.dothegreenthing.com/audios/7 www.firecrackerfilms.com
Featuring the animation talents of Tom Baker, the vocal talents of Aaron Willmer and the ivory-tinkling talents of Marc Folan. And see if you can hear the five christmas classics hidden in the jazz soundtrack.
T-shirts turn to thermometers in this heartwarming and body-warming story of a couple who opt for hugging over heating. Written and directed by the warm folks at Superhero (http://www.superheroltd.com) with the kind help of photographer Richie Hopson (http://www.richiehopson.com) , T-shirts kindly donated by American Apparel (http://store.americanapparel.co.uk) and featuring real life couple Angeliki Chatzi and Konstantinos Dagritzikos. Snuggle up to someone warm and press play.
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