Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Champagne Valentine


The first time I ever saw a David Lynch movie, drank my first beer, listened to The Pixies Doolittle CD, touched an iPod, looked at a painting by Chaime Soutine, mushrooms, etc... These were all very "first time" experiences and today was another one of those experiences.

I've been to the site several times now and I'm still not quite sure what I am looking at or how they created the work in the first place. Champagne Valentine is a digital agency out of Amsterdam and is led by Anita Fontaine and Geoff Lillemon, interactive directors originally hailing from Australia and the US respectively. They have blurred the lines between commerce and art quite nicely and to say the work is "other worldy" is an understatement. Champagne Valentine specialize in expanding/twisting the digital terrain by combining facets of interactive new media, motion and gaming into compelling and technologically advanced works for a diverse group of clients such as Diesel, vh1, T-Mobile, Scion XB, Comedy Central and (RED).