Peter Brings the Shadow to Life
Watch this very poetic video by skater Joe Pease made only with his shadow. The title is a reference to Peter Pan.
“It is not uncommon for children to play with their shadows or to imagine that they are tangible. However, in order to grow up, children must leave behind this fantasy…no one ever fully grows up. Instead, growing up is a process that continues throughout life.”
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
More 4′ s New Identity
After winning a competitive pitch,British television Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The package aligns with a re-focussed range of content on the channel.
The graphic device is carried across a range of idents featuring installations made up of 400 mechanical ‘flippers’. 15 differently coloured triangular shapes, which also animate, again making up the numeral with the text similarly placed. Each one is made up of hundreds of mechanical ‘flipper’ units that, when set in motion, reveal a range of colours and patterns. These structures are placed within a series of different environments, such as a cafe, a staircase, on a tree, and on an abandoned boat on a beach in Dungeness. Read More…
Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer
Photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton shot this awesome video of pro snowboarder William Hughes riding the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France wearing a suit made by John Spatcher.
Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three nights on a skidoo with his trusty Red Epic camera at temperatures of -25C to snap Hughes carving effortlessly through the deep snow, even enlisting his own father to help maintain the temperamental suit throughout the demanding shoot. “Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I’ve done in 20 years of snowboarding,” says Hughes of the charged salopettes. “Luckily there was plenty of vin rouge to keep me warm, and Jacob’s enthusiasm kept everyone going through the cold nights.”
Dancing Furballs, How to Give an Inanimate 3D Object; Attitude
When Manhattan Born created Furball spot their goal were to take an expressionless object and giving it personality. In the Computer Art tutorial they explain how to bring a shape or object to life and make it ‘dance’ to music. You’ll learn how to create an animation involving complex expressions and dynamics in Cinema 4D. These techniques are key to choreographing your object to the audio track.
Dancing Furballs from Myles Robinette on Vimeo.
We’ll also explore keyframe animation, lighting, colour schemes, editing in a 3D format and how to implement an efficient workflow. Ultimately, the goal is to hold a viewer’s attention through the movement of an object, without the use of dialogue. often, simple ideas are the best.
ASPIRINA – ‘Simplifying’ Video by Dohee Kim
The work came about has part of an event sponsored by YouTube and TBWA Italy last month. They invited young motion graphics designers from around the world to create online ads for the top 100 brands in Italy for an event in Milan. Kim chose the pixel graphics aesthetic for two of the three briefs she was given.
ASPIRINA – ‘Simplifying’ from Dohee Kim on Vimeo.
Design the future of your brand with Youtube’ is the 2011/ 2012 advertising campaign for Youtube Europe. Youtube Europe asked to create pieces that represent Youtube Europe’s 100 biggest companies, and I’ve participated in the show in Milan, Italy, as a motion graphic designer. Each brand’s creative director chose one word to describe what they believed to be the future of their company. And I created pieces for IKEA, FASTWEB and ASPIRINA. For IKEA, the keyword was “Easy living” For FASTWEB, the keyword was “Innovation and simplicity” For ASPIRINA, the keyword was “Simplifying” backstage videos
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It is not Easy for a Panda to Relax
CubeMe Team wishes you a very good weekend with a very funny video of a panda who does not find its position to relax. It is true that knowing how to relax, is an art.
Surfing with Flares
Red Bull Minor Threat comes this cool surf footage of Bruce Irons creating some breathtaking visuals by blazing through tubes with a flare attached to the back of his board in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.
Disney Selects Noah as Official Artist of D23 Expo
As part of this year’s D23 Expo, Noah was chosen by Disney Consumer Products to create the iconic graphic celebrating this year’s themes. This illuminating video shows the master at work on the classic Disney inspired painting featuring a realistic portrait of Walt and a ‘toony Sorcerer Mickey causing lots of colorful trouble.
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‘Eat the Sun,’ a Documentary on Sungazing
Eat The Sun is a feature length fascinating by Sorcher Films that focuses on a young man’s journey into the little known world of sungazing, an ancient practice of looking directly at the sun for long periods of time.
San Francisco, CA 2004: A flyer at school advertising a lecture by an elderly Indian gentleman sparks the imagination of a young man named Mason. The flyer reads: “You can become solar powered.” It also states that the Indian man giving the lecture, who goes by the acronym HRM (Hira Ratan Manek), has not eaten in over 8 years, a direct result of sungazing.
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Stupid Orchestra by Michael Petermann
Michael Petermann, a classically trained musician and conductor, has put together an ingenious musical ‘orchestra’ made entirely out of vintage electric appliances. ‘The Stupid Orchestra‘ is made out of mixers, vacuum cleaners and washing machines, all built between 1940 and 1975. Performing every hour on the hour at the MKG Hamburg until April 30th, the orchestra runs on an electronic control system of Petermann’s design, meaning Petermann doesn’t have to conduct his electrical orchestra himself.
Blödes Orchester from white tube on Vimeo.
“Quadratura,” Video Projection by Pablo Valbuena
Quadratura is a new site-specific light installation by Spanish artist Pablo Valbuena. He projected a perspective grid between two rows of columns and onto the wall behind them, thus creating the illusion of an infinite pathway.
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Embody Music Video by So-Me
SebastiAn is coming out with his new album called Total later this year and he’s just released the music video for his first single Embody. As always the video is directed by Ed Banger artist extraordinaire So-Me who does an outstanding job with..
Watch it, it’s great.
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Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers
It’s fantastic, a kitchen that turns on itself designed by the German artist Zeger Reyers. Everything breaks… And people instead of complaining enjoy it. How important it is, the way we present things?
“Re-renders” by Luke Barcelona Cano
Re-renders” is a series of 5 video loops created by Luke Barcelona Cano for the London edition of Bring Your Own Beamer.
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Artistic Whirlwind
A whirlwind in Austria lifts plastic sheeting from a field of strawberries. Isn’t it art?
Tick Tock, Short Movie
Tick Tock is a very challenging short film directed by a student for the 2011 Emory Campus MovieFest.
What would you do if you had five minutes to live? Trace a young man’s few minutes of trying to fulfill his highest potential.
Never have I put in so much effort into a single film. This short film is the result of hundreds of hours of work from many people. It was originally made for Campus MovieFest. It is definitely the most ambitious and biggest scale project I’ve done thus far. Watch in HD and with good sound! And watch my other films!
We won Best Picture at the Emory finale. We will be competing internationally at Hollywood in June!
Filmed with a 5d mark ii with 24-70mm lens on a steadicam merlin. We did 36 takes to get the right one. Yes, the film is all in one take. All shot on Oxford College of Emory campus.
Inside Insides
Andy Ellison posts animated images of food on his site Inside Insides. What you see here is an MRI of an onion. The bright spot that appears is actually a bruise! You can also see MRI scans of bell peppers, green beans, persimmons, and much more.
Inside Insides
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“Spread the Ashes of the Colors,” Installation by Megan Geckler
Megan Geckler has transformed the lobby of the Wexner Center into a lively, vibrantly colorful place with Spread the ashes of the colors, one of her intricately woven environmental sculptures.
Geckler uses only strips of translucent plastic tape in her installations, positioning them and weaving them together to create surface patterns and curvilinear forms.
