I assisted the film maker Grace LaDoja on her short documentary for Mother London, looking at the effect of sports on the lives of teenagers. The short focused on the different backgrounds of teenagers and their coaches and how sport can energise and improve many aspects of a young person’s life.

We saw the impact that inspirational teachers can have on a community- spurring on large groups of teenagers to get involved; constantly challenging themselves, winning championships and learning. Giving direction and discipline. We saw what good facilities can do, and heard so many positive stories.

The documentary is to be used as internal research by Mother.

Grace’s Blog: amazinggracelondon.blogspot.com
Mother London: www.motherlondon.com

I’ve put together some of the video work I did with Uber for Eastman. Our brief was to shoot the wind turbines they run at their site in the Lake District, so that Eastman can use the footage to promote their use of sustainable energy. There is more information about the project on my portfolio website, and in my original blog post here: Link.

I was part of this years onedotzero_cascade event- an education program for graduates designed to give the opportunity to collaborate and solve a brief in a multidisciplinary team. Our brief was to improve the city using small interventions, and we presented the solution at the onedotzero_adventures in motion festival, held this month at the BFI in London.

Our presentation “Its Nice to be Nice”, gave positive reinforcement for doing nice things, such as holding the door for someone, standing on the right on an escalator, or recycling.

Our solution is light-hearted,  part of the everyday life and designed to be unexpected. We presented a hand dryer which plays the harmonica when used, an escalator which lights up when a person stands on the right, and a recycling bin that sings back ten green bottles when used, for example.

I also contributed to a panel discussion with practitioners and fellow Cascade participant Laura Bowman on what the industry and education can learn from programmes such as Cascade.

These are the people I worked on the Cascade brief with:

Simon Yewdall – Illustrator – www.simonyewdall.com
Annabel Innes – Graphic Designer – www.annabelinnes.co.uk
Toby Burkill – Graphic Designer – www.toby-b.com
Sarah Franco Alves – Moving image designer – www.littlescissors.co.uk
Callum Parish – Moving Image and Graphic Design – www.callumparish.com
Dan Sanders  – Architect – www.worldofdan.com
Muna Mohammed – Advertising and Marketing

Part of the work shown in my D&AD New Blood show at the start of the month. This was my contribution for my issue of Cake Magazine, with the theme “Lumière”- I wanted to take light to somewhere it wouldn’t be expected. The beach at midnight seemed like a good choice!

The full video “Six Seconds from ‘69” is now online. I’ve uploaded it to my vimeo account (iammartin on vimeo) and there is full info on the project and some screenshots in the projects section of this site- located here: Six Seconds from ‘69. Have a look!

I think wind turbines are pretty amazing- really quite elegant and impressive; so I jumped at the chance to do some work with London studio Uber (www.uber-london.com) for Eastman, a chemical company who have been utilising wind turbines to improve energy efficiency and keep greenhouse gas emissions low.

This is a photo I took while on the job with Jackie Wu of Uber- the final video is in the editing suite.

Working towards the degree show.

A hint of things to come… I’m currently exploring various buildings in Scotland for a series of photos.

Work in progress for my degree show in June. Its all starting to get very close! I have been analysing the structure of audio cassette tapes, working towards what will be exhibited at the final show.