Wallpaper* – The Director’s Cut
Scanning the printed QR code next to each artwork opens up the full motion and audio piece on your phone. Try it it still works off the screen : )
The original video artwork could be experienced on your mobile device.
In order to present the content in a channel right way, maintain continuity but also surprise the reader, the online execution showed the video pieces in situ.
Top, the cut-up, spliced artwork as printed in the issue that aligned with the Directors Cut theme are beautiful in their own right. Above, the animation that readers saw when they used the supplied plastic sheet.
An interview with Dentsu London explaining the project.
There are quite a few thematic similarities between Lynch and Wilson. For the iPad app Lynch looped a clip from from his movie Eraserhead.
Wallpaper* – The Directors Cut
Those of us old (and wise) enough to have been hooked on David Lynch’s early 1990s supernatural television serial drama Twin Peaks, may get a frisson of recognition from the cryptic statement above. Delivered by a mysterious giant to the wounded, prostrate FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, the meaning of this seemingly portentous message was never fully revealed. And now, some 20 years on, through their roles as guest editors of Wallpaper’s Directors’ Cut issue, Lynch and maverick stage director Robert Wilson, have brought the owls back – and they are still, it seems, not what they seem.
By r a pre-cinema French technique called OmbroCinema, Wilson, Wallpaper* and our friends Dentsu London have brought still images to life. Slide the striped acetate sheet (you’ll find it nestled somewhere in this issue) across the image above and you’ll see Snowy twit twoo. Later on you’ll also see Brad Pitt pull his pistol (in his pants) and a sumo salute.
Although they officially worked independently, there are crossovers in David’s and Robert’s offerings that suggest there’s been some form of creative communication. Whether that be via e-mail, iPhone or perhaps an all-seeing eye, we’ll never know, but the recurring images of the owls, the blood-red curtains and even Wilson’s choice of Isabella Rossellini (a long-time Lynch muse) as his cover star does hint at a meeting of minds. And Lynch’s preoccupation with transcendental meditation and unity (the subject of his 16-page pull-out) must also have influenced this harmonious outcome. So, whip out your acetate, let your mind be boggled and rise to a higher plane of consciousness.
The above text is taken from the issue’s intro, by Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers.
Credits
Guest Editors: David Lynch, Robert Wilson
Creative Director: Meirion Pritchard
Editor-In-Chief: Tony Chambers
With thanks to Denstu London and Ombro Cinema expert, Jun Harima.