Motion designer Laurent Brett, who you might know from his outstanding title sequences for Sky Fighters, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and Hostage, shows yet another side of himself with the end credit sequence for French war movie Intimate Enemies. More subtle and contemplative than his previous work, Brett created a sequence that seems … Continued
SHOWstudio updates (well, sort of) Submarine Channel’s 2005 documentary and website “Viktor & Rolf: “Because We’re Worth It” with a website where you can watch a series of videos captured during the festival week of the duo’s past Summer show at London’s Barbican Art Gallery. There’s an interview with the two designers and videos of … Continued
Like a ghost town, the relic that is the RESFest website lives on, leaving no trace of human activity since early 2007. The sudden discontinuation of tour dates is the only indication that something went horribly wrong on this otherwise fully functional website. With 10 quality years of exponential growth behind them, RESFest had established … Continued
The world’s first film festival to take place exclusively online, the Streaming Festival has taken giant steps since SubmarineChannel collaborated with them for their first edition back in 2006. In a technological feat that will baffle even seasoned databassists, the festival streams 190 films by over 100 artists arranged into 14 prêt-à-regarder program streams, from … Continued
An ever-growing log of exploratory thinking and doing from the edges of every discipline, Everyone Forever is the brainchild of virtual cross-media studio Universal Everything. From Aerobics to Zoology and everything in-between, the site enables its team of contributors to share their secrets and inspirations with the world. Contributors range from Universal Everything’s favorite collaborators … Continued
Remember the days when you would tune in to MTV hoping to see one of those original MTV idents in between clips? (by the way, where are they now?). You can tune in again now, because Australian motion design studio Umeric direct 12 smashing new Channel Idents for MTV Australia. Apparently MTV loved the idents … Continued
Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit montages thousands of tilt-shift photos and throws in some time-lapse trickery to create short films featuring Sydney Harbor and its environs, which confuse your brain into seeing souvenir-size miniatures of the Made-in-Taiwan-snow-dome school. His work follows on from a technique coined by Olivo Barbieri, the Pioneer of Pocket-size, who creates photos … Continued
Technocolr, the Harlequin Lodge is Second Life’s ultra-fantastical answer to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Giving Tim Burton a run for his money, Anita Fontaine‘s triptastic lodge invites visitors to step through the harlequin wallpaper into a world of floating cupcakes and twisted optical massages at every turn. A garish but irresistable fantasy escapade within … Continued
Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant has an ongoing project called ‘Oog’ (Eye), in which they invite visual artists and designers to comment on current news affairs. Here’s Hoogerbrugge‘s response to the crisis in the financial markets…
Visual Foreign Correspondents – a monthly series of audio-visual artworks – commissioned a Flash piece by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries (YCHI). This Korean-American duo has been creating text-based Flash animations scored with classic jazz for about 10 years now. All this time they stayed true to their signature minimalist aesthetic, partly inspired by the title … Continued
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