Archive for September, 2008

Glenn Marshall w/ Boards of Canada

The following two music videos showcase the recent works of Glenn Marshall using Processing to animate the beautiful sounds of Boards of Canada.

Luke Buda – a Resn Production

Resn Interactive Luke Budda The interactive music & video experience from Luke Buda is an amazing display of sci-fi, folk-pop, imagination and delicious colors. The website Luke Buda was designed and developed by the New Zeland interactive agency Resn, and was recently featured on FWA. This is one of the cleanest integrations of 3D imagery, [...]

Le Grand Content

This short film by Clemens Kogler examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce [...]

les illustrations de Lapin

Lapin’s illustrations appealing retro-style, vibrant colors, experimental type, and layered textures are truly an inspiration to sketch outside the box. The loosely drawn sketches combined with precise detail present approachable illustrations that are both progressive and refreshing. View more of Lapin’s work: self-promotional site notebook sketches portfolio

Visualizing Carbon Emissions

The installation entitled The Nine Planets Wanted! , designed by ZAGO is being presented at the United Nations lobby September 9 – October 5. The initiative launches the campaign One Planet One Chance, “allowing visitors to physically experience abstract data related to global warming and take measure of the inverse relationship between responsibility for climate [...]

Photography 08 roundup

Photography portfolio and galery sites are some of the most satisfying sites to explore online.  Often times you find simple color schemes and intuitive navigation controls to showcase brilliant photography really well.  Fast load times are key.  No one wants to wait through 3 preloader sequences just to view the first shot.  The larger the [...]

Wild Beasts – Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants

This music video directed by OneInThree for ‘Wild Beasts’ second single of their debut album ‘Limbo Panto’ is a mesmerising & hypnotic tour de force. It pioneers an amazing mind bending visual technique called the ‘Droste Effect’ which is based on an uncompleted lithograph that Escher made in 1956. The maths behind the lithograph was [...]

Dragoncon `08

We came, we saw, we conquered! Dragoncon was a blast. I’ll have to say, that I had the most fun visiting the comic artist booths. It was pretty inspiring to see such a high concentration of talented illustrators and painters under one roof. I was excited to meet the guys from Atlanta-based Studio Revolver, and [...]