Golly gosh, isn’t this week jam-packed with animation greatness! Must be the onset of the cold front (Southern hemisphere excepted), getting the old creative juices into action. In a similar vein to the brilliance of stop motion graffiti maestro Blu, cardboard enthusiast Sjors Vervoort shot this delightful animation in a non-descript Dutch town, where his … Continued
Motion painting! It’s when you create animations with live painting by capturing the lengthy, arduous, but ultimately thrilling process on candid camera. Like this glorious, multiple-sense boggling stop motion re-decoration of a baroque courtyard, created by giant muralist extraordinaire Blu, and his buddy David Ellis. Holy guacamole, they’re good!
Proving that a bump to the head can isn’t always a bad thing, this charming little fellow will brighten your day: guaranteed. High on rainbow slides and pink unicorn rides, he can stave off even the grimmest of grim reapers and manages to get the sea-monster to body-pop. Free cheer-uppery courtesy of London bwoy Ian … Continued
It’s high time we posted some budget stop motion greatness – and here it is, in the form of this little sequence by a creative who (rather obscenely) calls himself Milky Eyes. He is unusually elusive when it comes to Google search engine results, despite his enviable talents in paper trickery…
Oh my, what a fun discovery (thank frag for Twitter)! Fuelled by the appalling quality of multiplex curatorship and the need for personalized, portable cinema, some canny Angelinos came up with The Auteurs. It’s an online community of leftfield film lovers (i.e. you), where membership is free, you pay just a little to select from … Continued
Interactive hotshots Champagne Valentine just dropped a sumptuously sinister interactive website commissioned by Tate Modern for the launch of How It Is, the new exhibition by high-brow artworld darling Miroslaw Balka. Combining Flash and Papervision technologies they create the essence of darkness, using complex shading algorithms to allow users to explore a series of dark … Continued
Watching Taxi to the Dark Side again the other night left us hating humanity – and thankful that the dark days of Bush-Cheney are behind us. At cross-media fest Picnic 09 in Amsterdam recently, we came across Gone Gitmo, an immersive journalism project constructed in Second Life, that places users inside the Guantánamo detention center, … Continued
Dutch artist Peter Jansen started out as a physics student before becoming a tour guide for frustrated adventurers wanting to try their hand at canoeing. We are inclined to imagine that he woke up one night during a particularly inhospitable camping trip, with two thoughts: (1) my life needs more glamor and (2) why is … Continued
Not sure how the race war in the Comments section came about (those testy Commentators!), but this is a chuckle-inducing animation about a virtual social butterfly who finds solace the handy tools offered by Facebook for the collection and categorization of friends. I feel a friend request coming on!
Aah the sweet naïveté of vintage commercials! A time when copywriters were poets, creative directors humble homebodies, and consumers preferred their consumables frozen and laden with E numbers. This digital archive of vintage television commercials is a fun way to reflect on the grandiose growth of the advertising industry – and it’ll whisk you into … Continued
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