Julian recently completed this project with Missy (stylist).

The swimming cap is made from cute Kewpie dolls.
Shot on location at Bondi Icebergs, the team cast local talent, Rima, who swims everyday and Ernie, who swims a little less, but owns a red Ferrari.

As they were shooting they found a swim group from Newcastle, so they convinced them to be in the shot, holding Rima.

Cuteness.

Julian shot this little experiement to see if it’s really true that symmetry is more beautiful than asymmetry in the human face. What do you think?

Julian’s Lynx ‘Snow’ campaign with BBH London has been selected to be featured in the 2010 Creative Review Annual. Anyone who knows their butt from their boob will know that this is massive news.  We’re very proud of him.

Julian was recently flown with his producer, Adam, to Queensland to shoot one of Australia’s only elephant actors.  He lives right near Australia Zoo.  Here are the shots.  It was Julian’s dream to photograph an elephant so big thanks to Droga 5 for making it happen.

You will have seen this everywhere if you live in Sydney.  In fact I went past a billboard outside central the other day which had Chris’s Bonds work on one panel and Julian’s Nova piece on the other.  We loved this concept from Three Drunk Monkeys when we saw it and Julian (and of course Kathy McKinnon) did such a great job of realising the vision.  Thanks of course as well to Adam, the quietest, most easy going producer we have ever worked with.

Julian talks about his latest project, “Snow Angels” for BBH London and Lynx.

“As the temperature rose in Australia I went over to shoot snow in London.  The images were shot in various locations around London over three days. Our location manager Richard Ellingham had a task finding locations that would allow us to lay down fake snow. Armed with printed  layouts of lewd shapes in the snow Richard approached various councils, avoiding schools and religious organisations.
We ended up in a carpark in Old St, a suburban street in Hackney, and a shopfront in croydon.

All the snow was set dressed in camera by the people of Snow Business – they have probably had a hand in every film you have ever seen with snow in it.  The snow is made from paper fibre and comes out of a cannon-y tube thing. I am still getting dust out of my camera.

The snow angel shapes were carefully researched by the crew, with  the pre pro meeting with the client discussing double cowboy, reverse double cowboy, 69, and various permutations of doggy style.  They were further discussed at length on set, and when words failed occasionally mimed.
Our first shoot day was the carpark – 900 square meters of snow laid out was by far logistically the hardest. We know the shapes worked when a few office workers in nearby buildings came by to ask what was going on and give some helpful opinions.  I fought back the urge to tell them it was an ad for Cornflakes, and watch them try to figure that one out.
Next night we found ourselves in a gentrified area behind Commercial Rd flower market, battling rain, some of the locals stickybeaking tried to explain what was going on to their kids.
Then, for the shop front, and by unfortunate logistical timings, we made the difficult journey to Croydon on a Saturday night.  I’d rather not talk about it.
Although they have only been out for a few days they have already been chosen as Print winner this week on Best Ads on TV.com”

Thank you Julian for regaling us with your on set tales!

You know those jobs that look really simple?  The ones that weren’t and you just WISH you had a stop frame of the whole thing to prove to people how incredible you are for pulling something off?  Well, we want to say a big ole thanks to Nicole and Miles at TBWA for having the foresight to ask Julian to make a stop frame of the Visa ‘Go’ build.  It’s really made us debate within the agency whether we should do this for all our shoots.  A huge thanks to tin&ed and my professional partner and personal hero, Jeremy from Jacky Winter for all the late nights and patience and diplomacy.

Click here to see the final print ad.

After a month away in UK shooting snow angels having sex, Julian will be back on Monday. And with his books completely up to date, we are ready to rock and roll.

All over the world, creatives have been commissioned with a global brief to create the word ‘go.’ in a variety of different forms, internally coined ‘gollages’ by TBWA. For this execution for Visa Debit, tin&ed were asked to bring their model making skills to build this massive sculpture out of new and recycled computer parts using a pretty clever trick of perspective with ‘Go’ starting in the air on a rig, and ending on the floor of the space.   The retouched final art shown above, masterfully shot by Julian, took three days to build and about 30 seconds to shoot, lit by simple coloured fluro tubes only.

Click here to see the footage of the build.

Julian has a new site.  Of course it’s at the old address.  Having a URL like http://www.julianwolkenstein.com makes him really easy to find.  It was designed by the super talented Jeff Burch

who was featured in the current issue of Monster Children

which you really should go out and buy.  I read the last issue cover to cover and had to scold myself for having no idea what was going on in the cool person world.  Anyway, if you’re clicking through Julian’s site and notice any annoying bugs, feel free to let us know.