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This video by Takuya Hosogane is like a hundred Winamp Visualizations (remember them?) crammed into one 100 second video. Amazing.

More of the same at hsgn.tk

Don Hertzfeldt is a genius, and this has been proven time and time again to be fact. I just found this new (to me at least) video by him, The Animation Show. There is an awesome robot battle at the end and the 3d sequence sure beats Avatar.

I’ve seen plenty of innovative animation before, but nothing quite like this. Drawings on paper are usually restricted to the paper they start on, but this video is very mobile.

Everyone with a ZX Spectrum had Horace Goes Skiing. That’s fact, surely? I did. The protagonist, Horace, was in a number of games and should be instantly recognizable to those who spent far too much of their childhoods loading games from tape. For a while now he’s been springing up round Sheffield. I’m going to leave any argument about the rights and wrongs of graffiti aside (primarily because it’s boring) but he tends to pop up in easy to see, yet hard to access places. I snapped him here, behind the famous Roneys butchers.

Horace can be seen with a message and sometimes without one

The locals have already discussed his presence here, on the much-used Sheffield Forum. I’ll be keeping an eye out for more occurrences.

Through 2009 Vimeo has played 2nd fiddle to YouTube, but the quality always seems much higher. Here lies a breakdown of their favourite 25 videos.

My favourites include Reulf (which you can see here), where a range of colorful little cuboid creatures take over a black and white Paris, and Born that Way. It has shotguns. Forever’s Not So Long has a great (very original) take on the end of the world.

Vimeo’s 25 favorite videos of 2009

Also: happy new year, as this is my 1st blog of  2010 x

1960 by Mark Weaver

Graphic artist Mark Weavers’ flickr stream is heavily dosed with win. Some of this work I think may be influenced by the Footfall series of science fiction books. Regardless, it’s great work.

Via the Kitsune Noir wallpaper project.

Named after British and American soldier who died in Helman province, Afghanistan, this weird halo-like effect has been spotted around the rotor-blades of military helicopters. It is a result of static electricity that occurs when the CH-47s fly though dust storms.

View combat journo Michael Yon’s page for more great photographs.

This is NSFW due to lots of things going in and out of peoples bottoms. It is however awesome pixel-work which takes us back to the era of SNES and Sega Genesis. Pretty much the most controversial comment on truckers since that Jeremy Clarkson ‘joke’. The clever people on reddit remind me of Paul Robertson, the twisted genius who did Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight.

Via pretty much about everyone on my twitter stream.

Looking across No Man's Land to East Berlin

Flickr have created a set that commemorates the fall of the Berlin wall. What’s great about this is that whenever we pick up a paper we see the same pictures and video: The Brandenburg gate, that guy with the hammer… etc. You know what i mean? Sometimes you need to step back from the same old cliched images and get more of a sense of the scale of the thing and the effect it had on the architecture around it. This set has regular folk who visited in the dark old days to show off their photos which often show the city, not just the wall, and from the angles you tend not to see on tv.

Picture by flickr user Richard and Gill

This is an album cover awaiting a band. From a series of photography in the vast Google-hosted Time Magazine archive.

The good thing about the new Adobe icons is they’re very easy to recreate in Post-its. Still, god knows how long this took. Music by Röyksopp. (via @laughingsquid)

It’s probably the starcraft in Star Wars that have featured the most iconic and memorable design. The racing stripes on the wedge-shaped A-Wing starfighter always looked cool (like dogfighting in a Dodge Viper?) and the spindly angularity of the Nebulon-B escort frigate made it look like it was going to beat the crap out of you. I think that strong design helped Star Wars become what it did, as fans could have the familiarity of recognisable ships as they moved from watching the movies to playing the games.

Likewise, a simliar level of work went into much of the architecture. The Architects Journal have detailed how some creations have influenced real-life counterparts and sometimes vis-versa.

Bright Tree Village is an exemplar of sustainable, low-tech development. This Ewok settlement on the forest moon of Endor follows the traditional pattern: thatched-roof huts are arranged on the main branches of a tree around the chief’s hut on the trunk. Rated BREEAM Excellent, the development – by architect Wicket W Warrick – makes use of locally sourced materials, is carbon-neutral and far exceeds Endor’s notoriously strict building regulations.

Top 10: The architecture of Star Wars – The Architects Journal (via Lola)

A short story about a disembodied head and the mouse that loved her. The quaintness of the animation here does not match the screwed-up nature of the story!

by Jude Buffum, via Tiny Cartridge