m ss ng p eces worked closely with the Vimeo team to write and create a compelling "world within a world" manifesto spot that showcases the new vimeo interface and features.

www.vimeo.com/new

IT'S ABOUT TIME


Have you ever felt like time is moving too fast?

Do you have trouble being 'in the moment' for longer than a few seconds?

INTRODUCING

The Present

The annual clock that tells time in seasons.

THE STORY

The Present tells the story of the seasons using subtle gradients of pure color to mark the Equinoxes & Solstices throughout the years.

The Present contains a custom microprocessor that was commissioned to accurately turn hours into months. The annual hand takes an entire year to complete a single clockwise rotation.

A prototype of The Present was turned on and set to September 22nd, the Autumnal Equinox of 2011.

Own it at - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottthrift/the-present

Sam Fleischner directed this haunting music video for Panda Bear's Surfer's Hymn as a tribute to all the surfers taken by the sea.

m ss ng p eces created a Visual Life profile for Intel featuring legendary creative advisor and designer Michael Wolff

The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/

Music by Hess is More

What if by choosing the right pair of jeans, you could help save up to 16 million liters of water every year?* This was the question posed to us by Levis. They had an insight that the average pair of Levi's® jeans uses 42 liters of water per washing process and wanted m ssn g p eces to help tell their consumers about the revolutionary Levi's® Waterless™ line which uses up to 96% less water in the manufacturing process.  

The Levi's Waterless™ line might sound like a simple numbers game, but we wanted to find a way to engage Levi’s consumers to help them see beyond that and help them understand that by making the right choice, we can all be part of the solution.

As part of the campaign Levi’s asked people to wash their jeans less, so we enlisted a team of young artists to take over a laundromat and use found materials to animate the Waterless™ story. We took what on paper was a simple bunch of boring facts and turned them into a fun and quirky stop-motion film. By riffing on some of the most popular styles in stop-motion around today we introduced the world to the Waterless philosophy in a fun and engaging way.

The Waterless film was posted on the Levi’s site and Facebook fan page and quickly generated a lot of discussion in many influential eco, trend and animation blogs. The Waterless campaign made a big splash on the internet by taking ordinary facts and presenting them in an new and extraordinary way. 

To deliver the message to people in the wider world, we took to the streets of NYC for World Water Day and marched with hundreds of regular New Yorkers to symbolize the 3.7 mile walk that millions of people in developing countries are forced to undertake every day to collect drinking water. We  then created an art piece in Union Square where water canisters spelled out  the #waterless tag and generated buzz all over the city about the Waterless cause.

Together, the video and the World Water Day walk successfully increased brand awareness and generated thousands of comments as well as over 200k views on the videos.

In late 2006 William Kamkwamba, a young Malawian from a remote village, built a windmill from scrap material and a photo in a children's text book. His invention not only powered his family's home, but has inspired a community of supporters and fuels a promising future for sustainable development in his country. This is his story.

“Moving Windmills” won the “Best North American Filmmaker” award from Participant Media at the Pangea Day Film Festival. Since the film’s release, “Moving Windmills” has been screened at the World Economic Forum, the Consumer Electronics Show, and Columbia University’s African Economic Forum.

m ss ng p eces created a series of films to re-brand french seed to scent company Robertet. The Seed to Scent program establishes a traceable link between the source ingredients and the final fragrance. In collaboration with Austin Advisory Group.

Old School Meets New School in this Dark Igloo piece for Pro-Keds!