Blocter interviews Typeradio
Blocter interviews the people behind the excellent Typeradio – MicroFM broadcast, a MP3 internet radio stream and a podcast station on type & design. “Type is speech on paper. Typeradio is speech on type.”
Blocter interviews the people behind the excellent Typeradio – MicroFM broadcast, a MP3 internet radio stream and a podcast station on type & design. “Type is speech on paper. Typeradio is speech on type.”
Music remains a major source of inspiration for visual artists and designers alike. Surf around this channel for a bit and you’ll find a multitude of tunes accompanying a wide variety of works. But that’s good. We like music. It was a monster of a track called ‘Laptops and Martini’s’ by electronic musician Otto von … Continued
Motomichi – our beloved master of primary colors white, black and red – did this new music video for Temposhark – an indie-electro band out of the UK. Temposhark just released this catchy yet tragic rock-pop-love song called Blame. Not that Motomichi’s other stuff is all happy, happy, joy, joy, but this vid is one … Continued
Long-time music video darling of the Extra Cool club (Björk, White Stripes, Daft Punk, Radiohead to name but a few), pioneer of the Bullet Time technique and director of some very good movies, Michel Gondry recently premiered a new documentary L’Epine dans le Coeur (The Thorn in the Heart to you mono-linguists). Following up from … Continued
This simple-as-pudding Youtube-based image generator by NYC programmer David Kraftsow is a potentially infinite source of online creativity that plays to the idea of the web as giant Xeroxer to the world. The gizmo asks you to enter your Youtube URL or a search term (like your favorite web artiste for instance), and instantly turns … Continued
Named after the prolific Swedish (thanks Marijn!) child adventuress Pippi Longstocking, conceptual Swiss lady Pipilotti Rist has developed a strong body of video artistry since creating Super 8-based show visuals for punk bands in the 1980s. The 1990s saw her develop a penchant for large-scale video installations, including the one that made her famous, “Pimple … Continued
Yes! Another mind-blowing clip from Byron Bay’s hottest animation export pictureDRIFT. A fresh follow-up to the army of space penguins and long-legged night creatures of Hearts a Mess or the aquarelle fragility of Rock Bottom Rider, this video for new Ozzy band Temper Trap’s Science of Fear takes place in a cold, gravity-free Arctic world … Continued
Finally a new episode of Bendito Machine – the online animated series by Barcelona-based Peruvian artist/illustrator Jossie Malis. The series deals with mankind’s intricate relationship with religion. In this episode, the small village community replaces their old radiophonic deity by a new sort of techno-demon in the shape of a giant living tv screen. Hilarious … Continued
In a similar vein to the Half-Life 2-esque sci-fi viral we blogged about a while back, What’s in the Box? is a special effects tour de force by a couple of Dutch student lads messing around with film, scaling and background matte geekology in their bedrooms (presumably). An apocalyptic vision of provincial Holland set to … Continued
Good old Canadialand! Always at the forefront of digital democratization, their National Film Board has just put over 700 full-length films, trailers and clips online for free home viewing worldwide. From a 1969 documentary about Mohawk land disputes in rural Canada, to a heart-wrenching animation that follows the downward spiral of drug-addled Canadian animator Ryan … Continued