Just a quick post to mention what a great evening we had on Monday night at the Objectified screening. Thanks to all who showed up (at short notice) to catch a wonderful film. It set a lot of people thinking about objects and we had some lively debate afterwards (and some lively beers). Nice one Gary for making the film and coming over, Nice one Dansk Dynamit for being our co-organiser in this, big nice-one to Plant for sponsoring the event, Grand for being the best cinema in Cph by so many miles and finally a nice one Nick from Bitchslap mag who showed up, unannounced, in his van and brought all the dj gear and leftover posters (as well as us) back to where they belonged.
Speaking of posters - we will soon be offering people who didn’t make it to the screening the option to purchase the posters online anywhere in the world. Talk soon! (Philip from Dansk Dynamit took the photo)
Well today is the day and we will be down in Grand from 16.00 so people can collect their tickets from us there (or before that at the box office in Grand). It will be unnumbered seating so you can choose your own seats when you get in to the cinema. Also, we will have on sale the very beautiful, Cph-customised posters designed by Build (see image) on sale for a wallet-friendly 50 dkk! Printed in metallic spot colours on a heavyweight paper, they are SO tasty and worth a place on your wall. We’ll have some of Gary’s Helvetica DVDs on sale too.
We have an AFTERPARTY organised straight after the first screening continuing well into the evening. It’s right beside the cinema in the garden of Cafe Hollywood. Gary will be there, we’ll have a great dj and BRING YOUR TICKET STUBS because there’ll be a discount on drinks with them. Magic!
And finally there are still tickets available for the new 21.30 screening. Go straight to www.grandteatret.dk to buy or reserve. That’s it! Thanks to those who have bought tickets. SweetTalk Cph, Dansk Dynamit and the lovely Plant are looking forward to seeing you all there tonight.
Awesome news for those of us with tickets and those of us organising the whole thing – we have a sell out for the 5pm show of Objectified in Grand Teatret on Monday. YAY - and thanks to everyone who bought tickets! Please go to the Objectified desk in Grand before the screening – we’ll be there from 4pm – as we just need to check you off the list and give you entry tickets. Seating is UNRESERVED so first in gets first choice on seats.
Good news for those without tickets: In a last-minute move of organisational genius, SweetTalk Cph, Dansk Dynamit and the attractive people at Planthave, with the help of Grand Teatret, squeezed in ANOTHER SCREENING OF OBJECTIFIED on Monday night at 9.30pm! THIS TIME, because it’s short notice, you’ll have to go straight to Grand’s website using this link and book/reserve on there. This is WONDERFUL news for those of you who missed tickets, couldn’t make the earlier show or have been living in a hole for the last few weeks and just found out about this! Gary Hustwit, the director, has also agreed to introduce AND hold another Q&A session for the second screening. How brilliant!
PLUS: The excellent news keeps pouring in. We have just received limited edition prints the of the most beautiful film poster (by UK design heroes Build) customised for the Cph show. We will be selling them at a wallet-friendly price before and after both screenings on the night (even if you’re not going to the screening you can call in and get them). Printed in spot metallic colours on heavyweight matt paper these prints are tasty enough to eat.
ALSO, ALSO, ALSO we will soon be announcing details of an after-party in the area. Eeeeeee we’re excited.
We are down into two figures for tickets for the screening of Objectified on Monday night! Move fast folks. Gary Hustwit has his flights booked PLUS we are having a special afterparty with some more details on this tommorrow.
Thanks you for waiting. We FINALLY have released the tickets for our screening of Objectified on June 29 in Grand Teatret, Copenhagen at 5pm. You MUST buy the tickets online here (not through the cinema themselves)
Please select the will call/pick up option and we’ll have your tickets available for you to collect on the day of the screening.
We’ve been hanging onto this information for a while as we finalise all the details and while we’re just waiting for the last piece of the jigsaw to come together we’re just too excited to keep this to ourselves. We’ll be back with more details on how to get tickets and screen times (don’t call Grand - we’ll be selling them through this website). We’ve got two new friends to help this happen too.
OBJECTIFIED
With special guest Gary Hustwit, Director
Monday 29th June 2009
Grand Teatret, Copenhagen
[ Tickets are NOT available through Grand Teatret but will be available on-line through the websites above in the coming days ]
SweetTalk & Dansk Dynamit are super happy to be working with the awesome guys at Plant*, an independent Copenhagen-based creative interactive agency, on bringing you this Scandinavian premier. After the massive success of the screening of Gary Hustwit’s previous film, Helvetica, we are super excited about this one. Screenings have been selling out all over the world in the last few months so it’ll be a big one.
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
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Objectified had its world premiere at the SxSW Film Festival in March 2009, and is currently screening at film festivals, cinemas, and special events worldwide.
* Plant are SweetTalk Cph’s new supporters. They have stepped up to enable us to put this event on and we are very thankful to them for that. They’ve got a pretty sweet company going on developing interactive campaigns for advertisers and audiences alike, on- and offline. They’re wizzards at microsites, games, widgets and what not and have big fancy clients that include ECCO, Microsoft and B&O. They are about 14 hard-working peeps (we know, we’ve seen them work). They also make damn good coffee. Hurrah to them. We hope it’s the start of a beautiful friendship.
Well, the dust has settled, Rummet i Republikken has been restored to it’s former glory and we’ve just recovered from the drinking and the pummelling we got from the thunder, lightening and torrential rain when we were cycling home from Amigo bar at 3am. Thanks again to all: e-Types, Illutron and Jody Barton for the night. From our point of view it was so great to see something we worked so hard on draw so many good people out on a Tuesday night. And to get those three awesome speakers, plus a free beer, a hand-numbered poster by Jody, button badges by e-Types and a copy of The Radio Post by SweetTalk’s own Simon Roche – well, it’s the best value you’ll get for your 75 kroner these days, apart from a house in Iceland. So a final thanks to everyone. Next SweetTalk proper will be in mid-September but we’re gonna have some special events over the summer. We’re VERY close to arranging one of them so stay tuned. In the meantime here’s some pictures of SweetTalk Copenhagen #7 by Jakob Bekker Hansen.
Oh, and we found a strange amber necklace in case someone’s missing one… It is still tied so we are wondering, how the hell did it fall off someone’s neck?
Tired and hungover we may be but we still have to take a minute to acknowledge the FANTASTIC night we just had. SweetTalk Copenhagen #7 was a huge success - brain food for everyone. A million thanks to our three speakers and all you guys who showed up on the night, as well as the great team of people we had helping out on all aspect of promoting the event, and making it happen on the night. Now for a nice lie-down and a cup of tea. We’ll post some more soon including a gallery of photos from last night and of course, info on the next event in September.
Posters are numbered, badges are made, beer is in the fridge and Simon’s ironed his shirt. I guess SweetTalk no. 36 is ready to roll out tonight in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro. The response has been huge so please come down early to make sure you get in (doors open at 7pm at Vesterbrogade 24). Maybe the morning sun is making us a bit giddy, but we’re really looking forward to tonight - to our great, great speakers and and to seeing all you guys too. That’s enough from us. You know what’s on and where and how good it will be. See you later.
We just got those gorgeous limited edition prints that will be free on the night back from Clausen Offset and now we have the lovely Friday task of hand-numbering them all. Anything for you dear readers. We’re going to have a sunny weekend doing easy things like sitting in the sun and dropping the odd bunch of flyers around to the odd lovely cafe. Next week will be exciting especially as Simon is quite prone to getting a bit stressed around these things, while Kasper is more like a cooling aloe vera lotion over things. So have a great weekend and don’t forget to enrich your lives/waste hours (delete as appropriate) by following us on Facebook and/or Twitter.
