Archive for the 'Art' Category

Vanishing Point

March 10th, 2010 by Ian

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

Damn the illusion of movement. Damn the illusion of movement to hell!

February 24th, 2010 by Ian

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.

The ‘videogioco’ experiment

January 31st, 2010 by Ian

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.

Hungry Horace in Sheffield

January 3rd, 2010 by Ian

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 sometimes with or without a message

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.

Vimeo Top 25 of 2009

January 2nd, 2010 by Ian

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

Eyecandy from graphic artist Mark Weaver

December 11th, 2009 by Ian
1960 by Mark Weaver

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.

The Kopp-Etchells Effect

November 25th, 2009 by Ian

The Kopp-Etchel effect

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.

NSFW Truckers Delight 16-bit pixel vid

November 18th, 2009 by Ian

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.

Berlin and the wall: 61-89

November 16th, 2009 by Ian
Looking across No Mans Land to East Berlin

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

Trippy helicopter time exposure shot

August 19th, 2009 by Ian

Time-lapse helicopter

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

Deadline – a post-it animation

June 18th, 2009 by Ian

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)

Star Wars: Top architecture

June 17th, 2009 by Ian
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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)

Quimby the Mouse

May 10th, 2009 by Ian

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!

Saved By The Bell: The Columbine Years

April 6th, 2009 by Ian

Saved By The Bell The Columbine Years

by Jude Buffum, via Tiny Cartridge