It’s sad that I just discovered this video, and that I missed the 10/10/10 celebration of this video, but I am discovering it just in time for the Core77 Powers of 10 challenge. For more information on what was missed, visit the powers of 10 site. «powers of ten» (1977) – charles and ray eames [...]
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Invisible Light via Canada
While browsing around for more information on Saam Faramand’s work, I happened upon the new Scissor Sisters video. Created by the Barcelona creative collective, Canada, who are currently signed with the same production company as Saam (Partizan). It’s incredible. With the holiday season, I am a bit behind on my feeds and missed the post [...]
The XX iPhone App
In the early weeks of January 2010 The XX teamed up with acclaimed music video director Saam Farahmand for a unique audio-visual collaboration. XX: A sculpture of the album saw Saam Creating a 3D physical interpretation of the XX’s album. Utilising film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units it gave visitors an [...]
Diesel Interactive Catalog
Unfortunately it’s not embeddable and doesn’t have any social sharing functions, but it is pretty neat none-the-less. I kind of see it as a mix between OK GO’s viral video (if it were embeddable it would probably be more viral), a fashion show and the amazon one click buy option. Peep it here. Credits: Advertising [...]
Collective Consciousness
I am currently starting a new project and this post is serving as a brain dump at the moment. This is a first pass at trying to define what the project should encompass in words. Let’s hope I’m not being too ambitious. Currently code named collective consciousness, it is an api that will provide contextual [...]
Rework
Rework by Jason Fried My rating: 4 of 5 stars I remember when 37Signals came out with Getting Real and it was one of those things I meant to read but never got around to. 37Signals has now come out with their second book, Rework. I had 3 people in my social stream talk about [...]
Defining Data Visualization, Ben Fry, Columbia University
Some quick notes from the Ben Fry talk at Columbia: The difference between Infographics vs Data Visualization is the difference between using small vs large datasets. Wonderlic Test In most systems you will never have less data – determine better ways of hiding it by finding out what is relevant. Remember, audience is everything. aquire [...]
Acid Girls Lightworks Music Video
I do love a good music video. Acid Girls – Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo. “Let them eat cake!” Credits: Director: Steven Ilous DP: Jonathon Narducci Producers: Louise Lynch, Steven Ilous Associate Producers: Daniel Shapiro, Scott Gralnick Key Hair & Makeup: Valerie B. Costume Designer & Stylist: Bryan Hearns [...]
Fuerza Bruta NYC
New experiences are some of my favorite things – especially the ones that I don’t have any preconceived notions about. Going into a dark room and standing around with a bunch of people knowing only that I would have to “look up” is quite an exciting and exhilarating thing. For this reason, I’m not going [...]
An Eye for Design – Using Eye Movements to Generate Design
There have some really interesting projects that I’ve discovered lately that revolve around using eye movements to generate design. The Eye Writer Initiative It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes. Hardware: DIY Instructions From [...]
Anatoly Zenkov Mouse Tracking Generative Art
Anatoly Zenkov created a quick java applet for windows and mac that allows the user to create art based on the stop and go motion of their mouse. The two pieces of artwork I created using his software represent productive vs non-productive time. The first shows a visual of what my mornings are like – [...]
Core 77 Design Challenge – Hottest Product of 2020
Core77 ran a one hour design challenge that I was inspired by the other week. Unfortunately, they closed the contest due to lack of participants before I submitted the final rendering of my idea. So as not to let my one hour go to waste I’m posting it here for my own amusement. If you [...]
MOMA Presents Bauhaus – workshops in modernity
Bauhaus has always served as a personal inspiration and this exhibit helped to put it into perspective. While I still very much respect and admire the work, by seeing it in person I was reminded that they are just like you and me – and inspired to be able to reach the same level of design as they did. Given our current technology and manufacturing techniques it’s really amazing to see how society has and still can build upon their foundations. At least that’s what I took away from this exhibit personally at the time.
Exhibit ends this week – be sure to catch it if you can.
Lady Gaga Monster Ball Tour
Creative Haus of Gaga Aside from making me feel really old in comparison to the high school aged audience, it was an amazing show and was all that I thought it would be.
Electro Opera – The Knife’s Darwin based ‘Tomorrow, in a Year’
Last year, The Knife coupled with Hotel Pro Forma to produce an electro opera based on Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species entitled, Tomorrow, in a Year. The opera incorporated various visual electronic displays that provided a unique take on traditional opera asthetic. A video of the performance can be seen below and a complete description [...]
Processing – scrunch flower generator by mitchell whitelaw
My favorite generative piece of art work to date. Scrunch flower generator by Mitchell Whitelaw
Multidimensional Storytelling – HBO Imagine
HBO created an multidimensional storytelling experience to show how HBO content and perspective can bring more to the viewing experience. The marketing product explores how we take in and interpret information given different perspectives on situations. It can be considered a sort of a immersive game for voyeurists. The campaign consisted of two parts. In [...]
RJDJ Augmented Music – The Little Boots Reactive Remixer
RJDJ, the augmented music generation software for iPhone, has just released their latest collaborative effort with artist Little Boots. RJDJ is a software application that creates music based on your surroundings. It takes pre-made ‘scenes’ as the basic building block, the sounds generated around you and your interactions with the mobile device to create new [...]
Diesel Hologram Fashion Show
In 2007, Diesel presented their Spring/Summer 2008 line with their standard models, but this time added a holographic and under water theme to the presentation. The models walked the runway while graphics swam 360 degrees around them for a very stunning visual display. Below is a video of the original artwork and animation edited together [...]
