Can't wait for this to come out - 100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience is a 75 min. historical documentary about the evolution of Japanese arcades and the culture surrounding it. Found via http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/
"Quayola (aka 'dQ') and Memo Akten through digital production outfit Nexus Interactive Arts, have created ‘Forms’, a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme. This generative animation and interactive installation will display at the Museum from 9 March – 2 September."
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/Exhibitions/IntheBlinkofanEy...
Found via Kristen @artstings
Here's a taster of some of the great integrated campaign work coming out of Sky Creative, my daytime home. As a Digital Art Director at Sky Creative I'd particularly like to add a big shout-out to all those who worked on the digital elements of these two projects.
In Glee, check out the Glee Twitter Visualiser and Yearbook, and in Treasure Island, check out the cool Aurasama augmented trailer...
Glee Creative Work
See the site here: http://sky1.sky.com/sky1hd-shows/glee
Treasure Island Work
See the site here: http://sky1.sky.com/sky1hd-shows/treasure-island
"The idea behind this year’s CCMA was to play on the cool of the early 60’s. Op Art, James Bond, dry martinis and skinny ties."
The design of these idents is beautiful. It's typography is bold, fun and uses strong repeated op art type patterns, really slick - thanks to @leonzeon for sharing
I can't get enough of these future videos, so here's the futurey film...
"Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home. The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet. Its inhabitants lead a new digital and connected life. It is flexible and thanks to its ability to transform, it can adapt to any condition that the user requires."
And here's how they're actually building it...
Found via http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668940/openarch-builds-house-of-the-future-fille...
How do robots see the world? How do they gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us?This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye.
Found via @andspo
A video image consists of three primary components - red, green and blue. For this work each component channel was fed a differently timed sequence of 50 common video transitions. As the three components recombine to create a video image; constantly changing forms and colours are revealed. Made by Timothy Evans in collaboration with Daniel Eatock. Found via http://www.triangulationblog.com/2011/11/rgb-transition.html
Beautiful.
// Warning has zoning out qualities! // http://www.maxhattler.com/sync/ (found via @domtak)
Sync, winner of the Visual Music Award 2011 Special Prize, the Award for Best Video Installation at Multivision Festival 2011, and a Special Mention at Premio Simona Gesmundo 2011 **** SYNC. A CIRCULAR LOOPING ANIMATION PROJECTION INSTALLATION BY MAX HATTLER ****
Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins. Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.
Rather moving, found via http://www.andykinsella.com/