A hot June day in 1970, and Dock Ellis was doing what any self-respecting Major League Baseball hotshot would do: opening the doors of perception with LSD. That self-same evening – and still “high as a Georgia pine” – he managed to throw one of just 263 no-hitters ever made in the history of the … Continued
Ooh yeah: magic in the truest sense of the word. Unwind for a few seconds with this miniature masterpiece. And then un-magic it instantly by watching the Making Of! But I digress: this guy has the Bad album AND a Rubik’s cube! Man after my own heart.
Massive Attack sounds with UVA on visuals: what’s not to like?! It’s the video for Massive’s new track United Snakes, a snippet from their forthcoming album (due out early 2010). And at over 5 minutes, you can fully immerse yourself – before being slapped in the face once more with the reckless reality that is … Continued
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
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…
No, this is not Sex in the City – The Animation. (Come to think of it, that would be awesome!). “Goody Two Shoes” is the pilot episode of an animated series that sadly never happened. Created by Rutu Modan and Batia Kolton, two acclaimed illustrators and graphic novelists of the Israeli comic artist collective Actus … Continued
Beautiful poetic visuals created by three of Hornet’s directors for a unique one-night only concert of The Decemberists: ‘Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized’. Directors Peter Sluszka, Guilherme Marcondes, and Santa Maria, along with a fourth director Julia Pott created backdrop visuals for each of the four sections of the album. This … 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!
A whole new level of retro-geek is reached with this awe-inspiring display of patience and dedication (obsessive compulsion?). Close to four minutes of Lego-tastic stop motion are the culmination of no less than 1500 hours of deconstrucing, reconstructing, and photographing the beloved plastic brick-plugs, by Swedish musician Daniel Larsson and his animator buddy Thomas Redigh. … Continued
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