I’m a huge fan of roller coasters and amusement park rides. The bigger the better. This is the Centrifuge Brain Project which studies how these rides affect our IQ. Very interesting research. Enjoy :)
Written/produced/directed by Till Nowak, starring Leslie Barany, cinematography: Ivan Robles Mendoza, sound: Andreas Radzuweit, Lukas Bonewitz
Physalia create another unique experience as only Physalia can : with Lore&Jun for the new Canal+ channel, Liga de Campeones – a real modular sculpture was created for each scene and shot with our Motion Control system in order to capture its importance, as if stuck in time, or seen in slow motion-only that, as we all like it, with a twist. Also check out the Making Of Video.
The Power of X by WE ARE Pi
Dutch agency WE ARE Pi collaborated with the Koener Union and BIG Productions to create a colorful kaleidoscope of human movement for the TEDxSUMMIT in Doha, Qatar.
There is a behind the scenes video here.
KULTNATION updates with incredible new storyboard and design work. enjoy…
Wow, some breathtaking light effects …
New York/San Francisco-based content creation/production company Bodega director Jimmy Diebold lights up the Seattle night in a new music-driven 1:55 short “Midnight Lights,” made as a tribute to the Seattle Seahawks and their home stadium.
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Atelier Olschinsky – a studio by Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss based in Vienna, Austria – have some incredible work on display. Just the structure studies are worth a whole morning dedicated to it.
The biggest tour story of fall 2011 is definitely Amon Tobin‘s ISAM: Live. The first time in the artists’ history that he’s presented his music in a cutting-edge visual format is taking North America by storm. By far the hottest ticket on the concert circuit, ALL DATES are completely sold out and at a record pace. The show feature’s the stunning 25? x 14? x 8? multi-dimensional/ shape shifting 3-D art installation surrounding Tobin, enveloping him and the audience in a beyond 3-D experience … toasted by everyone from Billboard, Wired, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, URB, Time Out New York and many more! Ninja Tune bass diva Emika opening most dates in support of her upcoming self-titled debut release as well as Eskmo and Lorn in select spots.
Chicago-based, design-focused production company Leviathan produced the show’s projection mapping, creating ethereal CG narratives and engineering the geometry maps for an entire stage of stacked cube-like structures. Taking the performance further, the Leviathan team also developed a proprietary projection alignment tool to ensure quick and accurate setup for the show, along with custom Kinect control & visualization utilities for Amon to command.
Adding the final element to the unlike-any-other tour experience is the booming bass courtesy of sound provided by Pure Filth. If you’ve ever been lucky to attend a Low End Theory, Bassface, or even last year’s bass tent at Coachella, you can vouch for the uber-serious sound experience only the mighty Pure Filth Soundsystem can provide. According to LA Weekly, “Overheard: Girl standing next to speaker: ‘I feel like my face is getting a massage.’”
Roca Blanca Artist Gabriel Orozco collaborated with Architect Tatiana Bilbao in creating his own home: The Observatory House. Set into a rocky elevation with an incredible 360 panorama backdrop. Inspired by the Jantar Mantar Astronomical Observatory. A wonderful example of architecture incorporating its natural surroundings giving its inhabitants an uninhibited view and experience of nature.
Images by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan.
GMUNK has never disappointed — going back to like 2000, he always came out with something better than the previous and damn if he isn’t one of the funniest — “MUNKSTERBATE strokn’ it with purpose” –: http://www.gmunk.com
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*** I had to categorize this under animation, architecture, art, CG, design, directing, interactive, motion, vfx
“..just because quantum physics said so.”
Murat Pak has initiated a new project entitled The Node, where his new film will be reinterpreted by a stellar collection of audial ‘pure minds’
“The Node” is a project of time-image represented as pixels, which is connected to its reinterpretations done by various frequency artists.
“The Node” should be considered as a virtual installation including a collection of recurrences. Each audial redesign of “The Node” will be made by the pure minds in the list here. A notification will be made when each version goes online.
Not new, but well worth a revisit … produced by WOW Tokyo ~ wonder lights and shadows; The motion graphic work Lights & Shadows depicting a chaotic view of a Tokyo evening’s beauty. Each and every aspect of Tokyo, coated with new technologies, one unit of a mysterious city comes to mind. The characteristics of Tokyo are in a consistent state of change. Find beauty in this chaos, in particular, a refined beauty expressed through light and shadow.
music by Masato Hatanaka
Some chaotic/surreal/beautiful work from U.K based, Master of Architecture student Paul Nicholls which was exhibited at Apha Ville Festival 2010, Onedotzero 2010, and part of the Autodesk Showreel 2011 :: In an age of progressively automated manufacturing and fabrication processes, the Royal Cabinets are an aggressive expression of labour. Assembled from a contractor led design approach, the cabinets draw on highly skilled local craftsmen and artists to produce the fantastical.
Me And Mister Jones is Antwerp, Belgium based Husband and Wife duo Tom Merckx & Fanny Khoo, whom hold an abundance of talent. They have recently updated their site with plenty of inspirational design spanning print and architecture. The photos above are from their sandy island project; 18 stunning villas designed by renowned Italian architect, Claudio Silvestrin whose genius lies behind the sleek and pared down look. What was orignally intended to be a single marketing book became 18 individual ones, spanning across a wide scope of marketing video, interactive to gallery interiors won us acclaim at the CNBC PROPERTY AWARDS 2009. Created for equus-design.com.
Last month we posted the Seed Cathedral, check out this video for a more upclose look at the building’s exterior and interior. This breaks the boundaries of a traditional architectural skin like no other and is directly affected by wind currents giving the visitor a sense of entering a living organism rather than a static structure.
This is quite amazing; “”Seed Cathedral’ by Thomas Heatherwick, under construction in Shanghai for this summer’s 2010 World Expo, has an amazing ulterior motive: at the end of every one of the 60,000 transparent acrylic rods that you see fuzzing outward into the sunlight are the seeds of plants … creating a larger-than-life catalog of the plant species that contribute to national and global conservation programs, in a veritable cathedral of seeds.” (directly from BLDBLOG).