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Justin has also made a great short video chronically his work process. The work in question will be part of his up-coming exhibition 'Between a God and a Ghost' exhibiting in Sydney and Brisbane. Definitely worth a look if you are a fan.

BETWEEN A GOD AND A GHOST from Justin Williams on Vimeo.

Its rare that a job makes me laugh out loud, but thats exactly what I did when this Solo Strong TVC script came across our desk in late May. Our good friends at The Furnace in Sydney commissioned JW artist Tim Molloy to illustrate the initial storyboards, which was eventually turned into the animatic below:

[flv]http://things.jackywinter.com/Solo_Animatic_4Mb.flv[/flv]

Which in turn, they made the following spot from:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qawy3PI-w1Q[/youtube]

Credits for the ad are as follows:
Advertising Agency The Furnace, Sydney, Australia
Creative Director:Rob Martin Murphy
Art Director: Paul Fenton
Copywriter:Luke Duggan
Director:Jim Hosking
Production Company:Revolver Films

In other Furnace-related news, we just found out today that Justin Lee Williams' illustrated campaign for Skins' Radiator wetsuits is a finalist for the London International awards.

Good luck Justin!

Its a Jacky Winter extravaganza over at the current edition of Empty Magazine!

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The Aussie Issue features some generous pages featuring JW Artists Karl Kwasny, EAMO, Justin Lee Williams, Jon Paton, Justin Maller, Biddy Maroney, and Mel Stringer. Get it while it's hot!

Geographic restrictions keeping you from checking out Lamington Drive? For those of you lucky enough to be in Sydney, there are two great shows on at the moment worth checking out.

First in Sydney, we have The Throw Shapes fundraiser for Heaps Decent, featuring EAMO and WBYK amongst stacks of other great talent.

For some more JW action, be sure to check out James Hancock, Justin Lee Williams, and yes, WBYK, over at Palmer Projects for 20/20/20, featuring 20 artists for prints in editions of 20, for a bargain price, of yes, 20 bucks.

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And for everyone else, all I have for you is this:

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[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1424255[/vimeo]

Those of you in Melbourne looking to see some JW work in the flesh are definitely spoiled for choice over the next month with a great selection of group and solo shows taking place.

First up, in a shameless self-plug, is Lamington Drive. The JW-exclusive gallery that sits in our new space, The Compound Interest: Centre for The Applied Arts will be opening its doors on August 21 with our inaugural show, Surrender, by Biddy Maroney and Sonny day, aka webuyyourkids.

Next up, JW artist Justin Lee Williams is having a show of new works along with fellow artist Andrew Gordon at the expansive No Vacancy in the CBD.

Finally, over at Kick Gallery in Northcote, you can catch JW artist Cailan Burns alongside JW favoruites Isobel Knowles, Jeremy Dower, and more for the group show, 'While you were sleeping'

Think you've got what it takes to challenge the Jacky Winter Domination of the Mooks Artspace? Entries close on July 31 for the new theme, 'Cars' Previous winners include James Hancock, Madeleine Stamer, and Justin Lee Williams.