I think it was in the time of spring 2012, when I came across David Shiyang Liu's lovely piece of work about Ira Glass. It was the most inspiring and motivating video I had ever seen in my life. I watched it over and over again, listened to Ira Glass' voice, and told myself, that I am not the only person who is constantly disappointed about the gap between one's taste and one's skills. Later in 2012, I decided to do my own filmed version of Ira's interview - using my own language to tell his message. It took me about a year from concept to upload.

I made it for myself and for anybody who is in doubt about his/her creative career. I also think that Ira Glass' message isn't only limited to the creative industry. It can be applied to everyone who starts out in a new environment and is willing to improve.

THANK YOU
Ira Glass, whom I've never met in real life, but who had such a big influence on my development. Thank you for telling beginners what nobody else does.

David Shiyang Liu for the video that inspired me to start the project. You all should watch his awesome kineticTypo-version here: vimeo.com/24715531

The people from current.tv who originally recorded the interview with Ira Glass. See the relevant part here: youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY

The people from Magic Lantern who gave DSLR videography a new dimension (I chose this project to be a test run with the RAW plugin)!

Steven Sasseville for painting the "taste" painting for me.
Pedro Sousa for his advice and working his ass off at the "creative work" chalkboard.
Wolfgang Kraus for letting me borrow his sound equipment.
Kai Löhnert for working out on his birthday in the "fight" take.
Wolfgang Hendrik Schnabel for giving me the museum-like atmosphere and his silhouette in the painting takes.
Hermiyas Ötztürk for his hairy "good enough" hand.
Orange Hive Studio for light equipment and location.
Mima and Heinz Sax-Schmitz for the location of the "ambitions" take and finding me the "finish 1 story" typewriter.

Joyce Chen (vimeo.com/clownmori), Soufiane Mabrouki (vimeo.com/user21466567), Damien Tsenkoff (behance.net/damtsnkff), Nikita Samutin (baselinedesign.ru) and Andrej Mikula (amara.org/en/profiles/profile/65015/) for taking the time and patience to create Chinese, Arabic, French, Russian and Slovak subtitles and dissolving language barriers to make even more people understand Ira's words.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU
Solveig Gold for being the most patient and supporting person in my life. She appears in a lot of scenes in this video.
Jutta and Uwe Sax for several pieces of equipment and their support.

Director : Vallée Duhamel
Agency : Ogilvy Shanghai
Production : Sailor Productions
Director of photography : Christophe Collette
Production designer : Jean-François Campeau
Animation : Golden Wolf
Music : Branko
Editor : Paul Jutras
Post-Production : Rodeo FX
VFX supervisor : Erik Gagnon

"Ultimately, life is only 700,000 hours long so we have to make sure the ideas we need don’t get lost – or take too long to find." - Alain de Botton

This is what the The School of Life does, they sift through the most valuable parts of culture, then mine, extract, and remould it into practical advice to help us maintain our sanity in modern day life.

To read more on cultural mining: thebookoflife.org/cultural-mining/
To find out more about The School of Life: theschooloflife.com/london/

We made this film as a piece of love. It was a great opportunity for us to work with Alain de Botton and to collaborate with the very talented Daniel Clarke. We hope you like it!

CREDITS
Written & Narrated by: Alain de Botton
Directed & Animated by: Wednesday
Background Design by: Daniel Clarke
Sound & Music by: Tom Drew
3D Animation by: Grant Henderson
Additional Animation by: Yu Ka Hei Knifeson
Additional Compositing by: Jae Ho Hwang
Additional Cleanup by: Yu Ka Hei Knifeson & Nishanth Sanjay
Production assistance by: Agile Films

TRANSMUTATION
A journey through a morphing and evolving stream of consciousness.
Film by Duncan Hatch
contact- [email protected]
Instagram- instagram.com/duncan_hatch/?hl=en
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Original music by Tyler Lehren- m.soundcloud.com/tyler-lehren

How do you make a spot that paints a portrait of the INTERNET? You use every crayon in the box, that's how! Teaming up with POSSIBLE, we also went through a dozen bricks of clay, spray paint, wood, lasers and a sprinkle of LOL-cats. Onward Internet!

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Credits:

Directed By: Buck
Executive Producer: Anne Skopas
Executive Creative Director: Orion Tait

Creative Director: Thomas Schmid
Art Director: Jonathon Gorman, Justin Fines

Producer: Anabella Zubillaga
Production Coordinator: Stefania Consarino

Storyboards: Justin Fines, Jonathon Gorman, Gareth O’Brien
Design: Justin Fines, Jonathon Gorman, Gareth O’Brien, Daniel Oeffinger, Alex Mapar, Yker Moreno, Kyle Mowat, Christoper Phillips, Federico Reano, Thomas Schmid, Kyle Strope

Animation Director: Gareth O'Brien
Animation: Sander van Dijk, Nicolo Bianchino, Jonathon Gorman, Alex Mapar, Kyle Mowat, Gareth O’Brien, Daniel Oeffinger, Christopher Phillips, Federico Reano, Kyle Strope
Stop Motion: Chad Colby, Justin Fines, Jonathon Gorman, Gareth O’Brien, Kyle Mowat, Jude Tait

Director of Photography: Seth Ricart
Art Department: Victoria Arslani, Jonathan Bell, Olivia Blanc, Chad Colby, Justin Fines, Jonathon Gorman, Gareth O’Brien, Kyle Mowat, Martina Stiftinger, Anabella Zubillaga

Colorist: Jose Fuentes, Seth Ricart & Co.
Music & Sound Design: Antfood