Step back, contenders. I think we have found the world’s biggest Arnold Schwarzenegger fans. This trilogy of short animated films, inspired by the Governator himself, were hand-drawn with highlighters used for color. Read more »
Remember those moving photographs that Darice wrote about sometime ago? They were awesome, especially since in some images, you don’t immediate see what the moving aspect is. I chanced upon some moving photographs today, but they are of a different kind. The kind that will want you to head on over to your favorite bar, or even just your fridge, for the bottle of ice cold beer. Brewer Dogfish Head has a new gluten-free brew – Tweason’ale that is flavored with strawberry and honey. I am not much for flavored beer, but there is something about their marketing campaign – in which these moving images play a large role at Read more »
As the whole world knows, Pixar is the holy grail of animated film. They can do no wrong. Every film they’ve made has been a #1 hit, and an instant classic. But because they have such a reputation for excellence, we never hear about their failures. But as every genius will tell you, brilliance is achieved only on the backs of countless failures. One of Pixar’s failures is a movie called Newt. Newt was announced a few years back as being one of Pixar’s many movies in the pipeline, but since then it’s been canceled for unknown reasons. (My theory: Pixar simply couldn’t make the story live up to its Read more »
In 1926 Dr. Fritz Kahn created a poster of the human bodily functions, Man as Industrial Palace, based on mechanics. Dr. Kahn was famous for using mechanics metaphors to explain the workings of the human body. Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was a gynecologist in Berlin and a world-famous popular science writer who illustrated the form and function of the human body with spectacular, modern man-machine analogies. In the 1920s, his magnum opus, “Das Leben des Menschen” (The Life of Man) – a five-volume series – was renowned as a German accomplishment of global repute. In the 1930s, his books were banned and burned by the Nazis, then edited by Kahn’s Read more »
I have not been bugging you with any animation at all this week. No stop-motion, no visual arts. Only two Saul Bass style videos. Time to change that. Read more »
Probably when I told you yesterday that I’m a big fan of video art and Bill Viola, you lifted your shoulder and thought ‘So what’. But little did you know what was coming. I really hope you like awesome animation, especially stop-motion video as much as I do because I will post you every cool video I find. Run or instead, enjoy the awesome art that stop-motion video can be. Today’s video is not only awesome animation but also has the abso-frakkin-lutely perfect soundtrack in the tunes of Radiohead’s “All I Need”. The artist: Juan José López. The story: watch it, it’s awesome and with lots of WTF!? moments. Read more »
For anyone that would love to have a real keyboard on their iPhone 3G S, take a look at this video which could offer a solution. Read more »
Here’s a fantastic video with some cool editing going on: Street Fighter 2 meets table tennis / ping pong. It would be great if the video was longer, with some more fancy moves, but this will do for now. Read more »
There’s no stopping some people. Once they’ve gotten hold of a Donkey Kong 2600 cartridge clock they’re onto creating animated Kong sequences in parking lots. The giant gorilla and other characters are made out of Post-It Notes (how long did that take to put together?) Read more »
Anyone with the patience to manipulate a whole box full of Rubik’s Cubes and generate stop-motion animation of this caliber simultaneously gets some serious respect from me. Space Invader from Rubikcubism has created this awesome animation. Mind-blowing is all I have left to say… TOP 10by extermitent (Via) Read more »
