Three weeks in the making, this 2,100 frame biro flip-book animation entitled A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything, was created by Jamie Bell for his AS Art course final project. I assume he got a decent mark for it.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
Three weeks in the making, this 2,100 frame biro flip-book animation entitled A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything, was created by Jamie Bell for his AS Art course final project. I assume he got a decent mark for it.
Milky Way Rising
Beautiful time lapse video of the Milky Way Rising (To be honest I'm not entirely sure where the 'rising' bit comes into the equation).
Google Liquid Galaxy
Google's Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt's 20% time project. It's a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View. Very cool.
Visa World Cup
Saatchi's latest running man ad for Visa is worth a watch. It charts the journey of one fan from his armchair to the World Cup in South Africa.
Daytum
There's a genuinely great idea in here somewhere. Daytum is the brainchild of Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton, intended as an intuitive tool for counting and communicating personal statistics. The problem at the moment is that the user has to manually add each bit of data in themselves. I believe it becomes truly useful when the data can be automatically updated from things like texts, calls, credit cards, train journeys etc, without the manual input.
Saturday, 13 February 2010
World Press Photo 2010
The winners of the World Press Photo awards were announced on Friday. Photo of the Year went to Pietro Masturzo's photograph of women shouting from a Tehran rooftop in protest at the Iranian presidential results. There's some really incredible images amongst the winners.
Square
Nice idea for accepting card payments through your iPhone, using only an audio input jack. Plus Square donates a penny of every transaction to a good cause.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Yvettes Bridal Formal
Yvettes Bridal Formal is quite possibly the most interesting site I've ever come across on the entire internet. It is just disgustingly beautiful.
Record Tripping
Record Tripping is a game that utilizes DJ scratching to solve little puzzles using your mouse's trackpad.
Lily Allen Xbox Campaign
Barclaycard Rollercoaster
The ad itself is okay. But this behind-the-scenes film of the new Barclaycard Rollercoaster advert is really sweet. Angus Kneale of The Mill NYC, and actor Jake Jample give an insight into the creation of the ad, and a look at the Spydercam.
The Twitchhiker
I've only just recently come across the Twitchhiker. His name is Paul Smith, and in March 2009 he made it from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Stewart Island, New Zealand in 30 days. And with the aid of several thousand people on Twitter he raised £5,285 for the Charity Water.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Buttons and Pins by Ran Hwang
Korean-born artist Ran Hwang creates amazingly large installations of birds and cherry blossom trees using obly buttons and pins.
The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
Awesome ad for Old Spice by Wieden & Kennedy Portland. Great writing.
Sunday, 7 February 2010
The Home Alone Project
Just come across this one. The Home Alone Project. A nice reenactment of John Hughes' classic Christmas movie 'Home Alone' through Twitter, as if in in real time. From design studio Nation.
Fujiya & Miyagi Ankle Injuries
Oooh nice. A dice animation for Fujiya & Miyagi's track Ankle Injuries.
Playboy's Online Casting
Playboy Argentina is using the web for it's new casting campaign. Instead of going to the photographer, the photographer takes pictures of the women through their webcam. The best pictures are assembled into an online portfolio that readers can then vote on to select new cover models.
Massive Attack Paradise Circus
Really interesting film from director Toby Dye for Massive Attacks Paradise Circus. The concept focuses on a little old lady reminiscing about her time in the porn industry. Her sensations of physical attraction and orgasms are cut with actual footage from her "fuck film," while Massive Attack and Hope Sandoval provide the seductively spacious soundtrack.
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Happy Accidents
Photographer Matt Stuart's latest exhibition, Happy Accidents, opened this Thursday at KK Outlet. Stuart has been roaming the streets, armed with his Leica, looking for those wonderful instances where circumstance collide, and happy accidents occur.
Rayban Virtual Mirror
A genuinely useful AR app. Virtual Mirror uses key points on your face to map pairs of augmented reality shades onto. Once you've tried one you like you then click straight through to the store.
Very Slow Scan Television
Just as a Cathode Ray Tube mixes the three primary colors to create the various hues, Gebhard Sengmüller's VSSTV utilizes a plotter-like machine to fill individual bubble-wrap bubbles with one of the three primary CRT colors, turning them into pixels on a VSSTV “screen”. They create large television images with a frame rate of one per day, images that take the idea of slow scan to the extreme.
Upside Downy Face
The Upside Downy Face series is an intriguing concept from photographer Brandon Voges. This behind-the-scenes video is worth a watch too.
Running The Numbers
Photographer Chris Jordan's project Running The Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Jordan takes on the abstract and anesthetizing nature of statistics, which we often find difficult to connect with and make meaning out of. Here on TED, Jordan explains how he attempted to visually examine these vast and bizarre measures of society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Nike Chalkbot
DeepLocal and StandardRobot's Chalkbot is a trailer mounted device developed for Nike. Fully self-contained, it pneumatically sprayed out twitter messages of hope in real-time during the 2nd Stage of the 2009 Tour de France.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Magnetic Movie
Insanely cool film from Semiconductor. A visual exploration into the secret lives of invisible magnetic fields, revealed as ever-changing chaotic geometries. All put to actual VLF audio recordings and scientist's VOs.
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