Wow! Please watch this all the way through. The effects towards the end are really spectacular. It is obviously done with some sort of projection system but if someone who speaks Italian wants to read through the Apparati Effimeri site and give us some more details that would be awesome. Some very cool stuff here.
Good lookin out beeeph.
Japanese band Sour employed an army of fans with webcams for this very innovative video.
Nice find ADK.
Alex has got his photoblog up and running and right now it is packed to the gills with great shots like these two from last month’s amazing Sasquatch Festival. Check out the awesome power of the fisheye!
For a lot more from Sasquatch check out Danz’s flickrset and Alex’s flickrset. Nice work guys.
They aren’t all bad… but some certainly are. Pretty damn funny idea regardless.
Thx Jodi
Wow! The interactive video for the Cold War Kids’ great track I’ve Seen Enough just pushed the limits for anything I’ve ever seen as far as videos go. Click the colors on the top to chose from 4 different instrument per band member or click them to mute them altogether. This lets the user remix the song and video on the fly. Incredible! I could play with this thing all day.
Thx Timoney!
Wow – an extremely cool mashup of Tarantino flicks. Fantastic editing of music, sound and video. Worth watching all the way through (how cool is the drumming around 5′?!).
I haven’t checked out Eclectic Method’s other stuff but I’m gonna have to soon.
I have never seen tilt-shift applied to a video but the effect is f-ing awesome. More about the project here.
Always on the look out for cool animation. This original idea is out the jp.
Good find J.
Now that the election is over (congrats, congrats, yes), we can finally get a break from all the emails from MoveOn and the DNC and the Obama campaign asking us for money… right? no? Well at least they have some cool stuff to offer.
MoveOn is offering the above Shepard Fairey print commemorating both the election and the incredibly successful image – for a $20 donation.
Even cooler, they are giving a sticker of the same print away for free!
And the Obama campaign is giving away the Obama Biden T-shirt for $30, though I’m afraid the design seems a little crowded and uninspired. I wonder if the campaign will continue to colelct money into the beginning of the presidency. Obama 2012!!
BTW – I ordered a poster.
The Shepard Fairey designed Obama is quickly becoming the iconic image of this election (posted here back in Feb). It is definitely all over LA and I am guessing most of Obama country. A local hair salon was rocking an image along these lines and I had to do my best to reproduce it. Add mine to the growing collection of rips/mods (let’s just call it a mash up for buzz sake).
Worth1000, a website of photoshop contests, recently concluded a site of strange animal manipulations. Unfortunately, Batbear did not win.
Thx ADK
PsD loves to make fun of botched head replacements, shoddy reflections, oddly sized appendages, horrible movie poster, and girls without nipples – but my favorites are the images that just have extra body parts just hanging out – like this rather lonely hand.
Another fave – Kinda makes you think you could do it better yourself, huh?
Great site – mediocre writing.
Pretty weird. Check it out.
This Saturday in Santa Monica there is an all night art festival. From the Site:
Glow will fill the hours between dusk to dawn with compelling, enchanting and effervescent sights and sounds situated in spaces and times that expand possibilities for where, how and when the public experiences contemporary art.
With the historic Santa Monica Pier and adjacent world-famous Santa Monica Beach as their space, artists were commissioned to create unique and inviting works of art that welcome the public to be both audience and actor for twelve celebratory hours. Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow takes its spirit from the fabled grunion that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.
Sounds like something worth supporting to me and it could be a hell of a lot of fun to chill on the beach into the wee morning hours.
Anyone into it?
Wow this out of control animation – shot on the streets of Buenos Aires – must have taken days and days. Extra props for the special attention to the soundtrack. Great find Addy.
Link
This animated documentary was the most interesting film I read about coming out of Cannes. From the sounds of things it tells a story in a way I have certainly never seen. From the Variety review:
Here, video-filmed interviews were used as visual references to create reportage focusing on one key historical event: Israel’s 1982 invasion of Beirut and, more specifically, the massacres of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila camps by the Christian Phalangist militia, which Folman and his fellow Israeli soldiers witnessed and failed to stop, that happened in the wake of Lebanese president Bashir Gemayel’s assassination.
Folman is effectively an onscreen (but animated) narrator and reporter here, whose interviews with other soldiers (voiced by the real people themselves, apart from two individuals) form the film’s narrative spine. Each interviewee’s story is illustrated, with often startling results.
I’ll be keeping my eye out for this one.
Jax at Pixeloo has “Untooned” a new shot of Jessica Rabbit (full size). Untooning is his process of using different reference photographs to make photo realistic versions of cartoon characters (you may have seen Homer and Mario). Here is a comparison shot of the Jessica work.
But what is really cool is he has just posted a video sped up showing his process. Very interesting to see how he does it.
(Thx to Oliver for the find …finally)
Someecards.com is awesome. Check out their plethora of sarcastic cards for any occasion.
All this weekend from noon to 11pm there is a big anti-war festival happening at The Firehouse (map ) downtown.
LA vs WAR highlights the travesty of a senseless war now going into its 6th year, giving LA artists a platform to exercise their freedom of speech. Hundreds of artists representing our diverse communities unite in delivering a universal message of peace and understanding, and offering resistance and opposition to the US government’s war policies.
With print and graffiti exhibitions, live djs, film events, and plenty of anti-war info – this should be a pretty positive and interesting event.
This is for Oliver, Gerrard, and Pettler. Always good times guys (oh and some bad times apparently).
And also for all those awesome clichéd college posters (avail on amazon) and the many jokes to be made about them - though these lists are missing the ubiquitous Pink Floyd Albums on Girls’ Backs. Love it.
