a journey into horribleness, not recommended for the faint-hearted or fragile-minded.

Pour la réalisation de son film web, «The Flying Project», Feiyue a donné carte blanche à deux des membres de «Span-Kidz», un collectif artistique regroupant vidéastes et graphistes. Les jeunes réalisateurs Julien Vray et Srinath C. Samarasinghe ont mis en avant la définition même du nom FEIYUE : Flying Forward, synonyme de « voler et traverser ».

theflyingproject.com

My 6 year old son Liam is colourblind so this is a nice little glimpse of his daily reality… kind of..

Ishihara by Yoav Brill
- Winner of the 2010 Haifa film festival for best animated film.
- To be featured in the Animated Encounters Festival in Bristol, with the support of the British Council in Israel.

A well written and executed, corporate film spoof from Optimus the for 2010 AICP-Midwest Conference

“These standards are constantly monitored…”
“…and these monitors are constantly monitored.”
“The logo molecules travel to the brain”
“…All this is included in the logonom lifetime 2 year service”

film stills from everything is going to be alright by Guido Van der Werve, The Netherlands.

QCC

Mickey mouse

Donald Duck

Armoff

Art series that simulates the comic between the abstract, surreal and the sculptural.

In 1979 Philip Glass wrote a series of short vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street called “Geometry of Circles.”

great find by philbrewer

Toshiba ad campaign features extraordinary, world-record-breaking high-def footage
of a living room chair tied to a simple helium balloon and carried to the edge of space.
making of

Using the imagery captured by the 8 Toshiba cameras, Toshiba – UK produced a stunning 60-second HD commercial of a living room chair as it is carried into space by a simple helium balloon. The balloon flights were launched from a Nevada desert and ascended to an incredible, world-record 98,268 feet (18.6 miles!) altitude before breaking apart and falling back to earth. The IK-HR1S camerasʼ compact size (only 1.75” x 1.75” x 3”) and the HD-SDI video output capability with switchable 1080i/720p scanning options, made them ideal for the flight missions to the edge of space.

Montréal > 70′s

Hikakin > Japanese Beatboxer
Can’t read his blog >ameblo.jp/hikakin
if I trust google translate I now know that : Did you can do for now, no regrets now falls!

direction and animation by BLU
blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI

more of blu here, here and here

Par Patrick Boivin

Poor visibility; weather again unsettled today. Surreal rocks and riven lowlands, valleys fog-shrouded. Frightening depths, and emptiness. Rarity of air is noticeable. What are you looking for in this hostile stretch?

by FIELD

Daily Stack is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management. By creating a physical representation of your tasks, Daily Stack speaks subtly to your conscience and helps you manage your time through unobtrusive ambient feedback.

It consists of a base device and a collection of wooden bricks in different shapes and colours. The bricks represent different kinds of tasks and time-intervals. By adding a brick to the base you commit yourself to the task and time span that the selected brick represents. Daily Stack communicates with a desktop widget on your computer that enables you to keep track of your time and tasks in progress. It also enables you to browse through your past and and compare your days in a colourful informative pattern.

Move left – left arrow key
Move right – right arrow key
Fire laser – space key
Pause game – P
Quit game – Q
Mute sound – M

by neave

see it/download it here

CLEVER LITTLE BAG :

With the ‘CLEVER LITTLE BAG :’, Puma kicks-off the next pivotal phase of it’s sustainability program.
The tens of millions of shoes shipped in our bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption on the manufacturing level alone by more than 60% per year.

In other words:
approximately 8,500 tons less paper consumed,
20 million Mega joules of electricity saved,
1 million liters less fuel oil used and
1 million liters of water conserved.
During transport 500,000 liters of diesel is saved and lastly,
by replacing traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic.
That’s only one brand, I hope others will follow.

But having said that, where am I going to put my bills for my income Tax?
Andif they’re just switching cardboard for fabric (cause they’re still using a lot of material) than what’s the real impact?

Expected to hit the shelves globally by 2011.

Due to enormous interest in watching I’m Here at Imhermovie.com ABSOLUT (yes cause nothing can be free of advertising)
has decided to increase the capacity from 5 000 to 12 000 viewers a day.
Last weekend it had 230 000 unique visitors, which was far more than expected.

Today, at 15h10, there are less than 536 seats left. hurry.

44 Idents for the introduction of the Toyota Aygo by zeitguised.
Amazing 3d work, as always

> Agency: CHI, London
Length: 5s, 10s, 15s
Sound: Michael Fakesch

If you don’t remember zeitguised >
they’re the ones behind peripetics,
which won countless awards and is still to this date, one of the best 3d short film ever made..

216 prepared dc-motors + filler wire 1.0mm

30’000 plastic bags, 16 ventilators

1 polysiloxane hose 3.5mm, compressed air

from Zimoun (CH),

by Sam O’Hare
Shot on a Nikon D3 (and one shot on a D80), as a series of stills. Used a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 lenses for all of these shots. Most were shot at 4fps in DX crop mode.

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Interactive version available at dansedance.com

Use the A-Z buttons to activate each object on the desk. Once you activated on of them, press the same button again to desactivate it. To reset the scene and start again, press Return.

by
Julien Vallée, Nicolas Burrows and Simon Duhamel

Description >

“Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other,
or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them.
We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space.
But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly.
And what if they did so all at the same time?

We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord.
Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths.

This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings.

This is the making of the interactive video that was originally made for If You Could Collaborate exhibition.
Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time.”

making of
café

Numeros

stamp

‘ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH’ ENDPAPER FOR FALLON

PUBLICIS CREME EGG EXHIBITION. EASTER 08

QVEST MAGAZINE FASHION STORY

DER SPIEGEL EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

INTOXICATE

London based illustrator / image maker > James Dawe

Slightly different tone from >i got some serious gansta skills, yet as entertaining.
All drawings, characters out of fabric, stop-motion animation, music and concept made by Die Antwoord.

so ironic it’s not. So un-ironic it is.
more at dieantwoord.com
the secret chamber is especially awkward.

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Stop frame animated title sequence for Dutch science show Het Klokhuis (The Apple Core). It is Hollands oldest youth television show, covering everything from the history of dinosaurs to how an iPhone is made.

This was commissioned by advertising agency Kesselskramer, produced at Nexus Productions, and was made in collaboration with model maker / sculptor Jethro Haynes.

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

by PES

Hungry Eat Head > A site-specific play experience by Hudson-Powell & Joel Gethin Lewis for the Big Screen Edinburgh, produced by Bren O’Callaghan. Commissioned by City of Edinburgh Council with further development (phase 2) made possible by AND: Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture.

Reminisce

of Montreal – Id Engager from Polyvinyl Record Co.
Official video for of Montreal’s “Id Engager.” Directed by Marc Reisbig of SSSR and Hanne Berkaak.
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Why did Brian Wilson use Cooper Black on the cover of Pet Sounds? Why did Obama use Gotham for his election propaganda? It has long been apparent that typefaces reflect the character of the person using them, and that type choice, as well as the words that are typed, is a powerful conveyor of meaning.

This fun interactive microsite figures out which typeface best represents you. The recommendation is sometimes controversial but always unerringly true…. so they say…

By answering 4 questions, “what type are you ” determined I was dot matrix… Now I have to kill myself.

So what type are you ? > A brilliant little app by Pentagram

password : character

merci hobbs pour le fil

by alex turvey >
“I was invited by production company Blink Ink and director Noah Harris to create three unique scenes which feature within the new Ford Fiesta commercial. Having honed an obsession with all things glittery, I decided to take the creative freedom and healthy budget of Ford’s brief to push my fixation to the next level. The obvious choice was to build a four-foot rotating glitter heart and then explode large volumes of glitter from a compressed air rig directly at a kissing couple who had been painted matt black. My content is featured alongside the work of modern day design luminaries such Rachel Thomas, Carl Burgess, Dan Tobin Smith and Chrissie MacDonald.”

Powers Of Ten from VILLA on Vimeo.

Powers of Ten is a 1968 short documentary film written and directed by Charles Eames and Ray Eames. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). The film is an adaptation of the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke, and more recently is the basis of a new book version. Both adaptations, film and book, follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work.

“Streaming Gradient” by Jen Stark from Jen Stark on Vimeo.

This is a stop motion animation I created in 2008 using only paper. Music by Eddie Alonso.

High On Constellation / 26″ x 40″ / felt-tip pen on paper / 2009

Plasmascopic / 36″ x 19″ x 3″ / hand-cut paper / 2009

CURIOSITY from LORCAN FINNEGAN on Vimeo.

“THE CURIOUS POWER OF BUTTONS”

A SHORT FILM I MADE FOR SONY PSP’S ‘PSP AND ME’ EXHIBITION. I WAS GIVEN THE THEME ‘CURIOSITY’..

Into the Wire from Ryan Converse on Vimeo.

rotoscoping

vertical montanas – Thick Mugs from Motive Sounds Recordings on Vimeo.

A video made by the Cinco design collective from Buenos Aires for the track ‘Thick Mugs’ by vertical montanas.

A little more from Cinco design collective

la surprise

mtv

mtv

MTV / Power x 1000% / Soundquake from Universal Everything on vimeo.

Creative Direction – MTV WDS Milan / Universal Everything
Directed – We love our work
Studio location – Studio Umsjatka/Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Audio – Simon Pyke/FreeFarm

Sorry I’m Late from Keith Kenniff on Vimeo.

Directed by Tomas Mankovsky. Music by Keith Kenniff. Film by Blink Productions.

frenchoumeurs, danse ou crève from nicholas timm on Vimeo.

Stopmotion promo pour zélia > frenchoumeurs.com
Marie se prépare pour frenchou

Direction Artistique + post prod > nicholas timm
Photographie > alexi hobbs

Merci à marie darsigny, matthieu salou, mimi et zélia

Artist Allison Schulnik lives and works in California.
You might already know her 2008 short film > Hobo Clown

Which reminds me of a t-shirt I have

photo by alexi hobbs

CHOP CUP from :weareom: on Vimeo.

Larytta’s «Souvenir de Chine» video, directed by Körner Union

By Prologue for MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards

MTV music awards 2009 video package by Prologue from Huitième Degré on Vimeo.

Sweet Dreams from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Written/Directed/Animated/DP/Edited/Sound Design by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Chelsea, Kirsten, and Megan Lepore

MTV Sweetheart from zeitguised on Vimeo.

Tickle Party tells the story of two Fuzzies on an adventure to spread happiness with the moral that more treasures are received from tickling than from poking! A campaign for Microsoft.

Tickle Party – Zune Originals Santogold from FriendsWithYou on Vimeo.