Cool Hunting
The Dopamine campaign is the latest from Australian clothing company, Insight, divided into two inspired and highly original photo/film projects: the Surf and the Skate.
Redefining "the life aquatic," the Surf Campaign mixes elements of surrealism, 1950s counterculture and a nuclear/grunge aesthetic. Each of Dustin Humphrey's deftly-composed photographs are bisected into different worlds. In one a surfer floats by in the top half while an eerie scene is constructed beneath the waves. What lies beneath are rich, dark visual spectacles including "beatnik graveyards, uba scuba canoes, and motor-cycle riding femme fatales."
The Skate Campaign is shot on location in Bali. Not in some Balinese skate park or industrial zone, but in the middle of the jungle. Why go for a conventional half-pipe when you can shoot one in the center of a rice field or a sandy beach? Like the Surf Campaign, the evocative images evoke a rush of unconscious euphoria.
"I hate to think that we're all just champs and we're doing everything we can to stay happy and fat. That is why we're here, right?" The films are punctuated by politically charged spoken word, something that might come from the lips of Jack Kerouac during a drunken rant. Combined with the images, this campaign is more than the usual lookbook.
Check out the posters on the site.
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