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Dan Has Potential

Words by Alex Bec, Monday 14 June 2010

Our guest this week is London’s very own Dan Has Potential. As a man with a love of drawing twinned with an ability to make consuming music videos we had a guess that he was bound to have a whole suitcase full of exciting reference – and we weren’t wrong.

The frustration of crazy golf embodied by student animation collective Megacomputeur 23 August 2017
Enormous 20ft Barbies and bluebottles in real-life locations, by photographer Michael John Hunter 23 August 2017
French animator Jon Boutin's quick-witted shorts will have you creasing 23 August 2017
The MIT Technology Review design team share their love of printed matter 23 August 2017
Gemma Mahoney, a graphic design student producing professional work 23 August 2017
By designers, for designers: Monotype’s font subscription service 23 August 2017

Features / Graphic Design “Imagination doesn’t compare to our real life design history”: Annie Atkins on the art of graphic design for film

Every month, ten people descend upon a basement studio in Dublin’s historic Merrion Square. The streets are lined with grand Georgian houses and pristine iron gates protect a well-kept public park. Each person is there to attend a two-day workshop organised by a tenaciously talented Welsh woman in order to learn how to make film props.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 17 August 2017
Work / Film Nils Clauss gives a voice to Seoul’s shop mannequins in Plastic Girls

Over the past two years, Seoul-based director Nils Clauss has been making a trilogy of documentaries that represent and discuss different characteristics of the South Korean city.

Lucy Bourton — 01 August 2017
Work / Film Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer: the Stein sisters’ heart-warming film on child ballroom stars

Filmmaking sister duo Emily and Alice Stein have returned to Emily’s photo series on young ballroom dancers, extrapolating on the subject with a heart-warming short film. Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer focuses on one Neopolitan pair, Francesco Cesario and Chiara Morgese. It shows them in action, poised and immaculate, as well as giving glimpses to Chiara’s normal life. Shining a light on details such as her lace socks and Disney wallpaper, the film subtly contrasts the two sides of its subjects in a charming way.

Jenny Brewer — 25 July 2017
Work / Film Greg Barth puts world peace to a public vote in satirical film, Epic Fail

Like most of us, filmmaker Greg Barth was left shocked by 2016. “It was the year I realised how divided we are as people” he says, explaining the premise for his latest self-initiated film Epic Fail with Blinkink. “Facebook algorithmically pairs us with like-minded people, that fortify our opinions rather than challenging them, so my social network circles were a falsely reassuring place to be during the Brexit and Trump votes. Without realising, I was browsing an alternate reality online, which I found fascinating and completely horrifying.”

Jenny Brewer — 24 July 2017
Work / Film “Real-time life events and the emotions that come with them”: Frankie Colamarino’s visual diary

“The difference between writing in an actual journal and what I’m doing through the videos is that if you read my physical journal, you would know exactly what I’m going through or feeling,” explains Frankie Colamarino, founder of Frankie Studio and full-time creative director. As a means of finding a place to locate his thoughts in abstract measures, Frankie has found a personal release through the form of video collage.

Ayla Angelos — 14 July 2017
Work / Film Director India Sleem plays with colour and composition in her work

22-year old director and photographer India Sleem may have been born and raised in Manchester, but these days, she calls New York home. “I come from a family who always encouraged creativity through fashion, music, and art,” India explains of her education in visual art. “I was first introduced to photography at a young age, and would take photos of my Gran and her friends at their lunch club. I started being interested in filmmaking soon after that. I was obsessed with watching old music videos — Janet Jackson, M.I.A, Grace Jones. I loved the style and cinematography, but it didn’t hit me till later on in life that I could actually pursue it all as a career.”

Bryony Stone — 30 June 2017