I realise that this has been upon loads of blogs as of recent, but I thought I'd add it here anyway...
Kanye West's Welcome to Heartbreak
I really like this technique as it is a very creative use of the frame tearing and lossy atrributes that go with compressed video formats. As far as I have read in an interview with the director, it's not the easiest of techniques to pull off well. I can't stand the term 'data moshing', however. It comes across as some sort of high-school kid term used by the nerds in an attempt to sound cool.Similarly, David O'Reilly, one of my favourite animators used this technique a while back in his showreel. With a nice soundtrack.DAVID O'REILLY'S COMPRESSION REEL
Pretty sweet sunglasses designed in collaboration with graphic designers/illustrators such as Genevieve Gauckler and EBoy. It's a shame the currency conversion rate is so awful now...COLAB EYEWEAR
I find Processing, VVVV and other such programs quite interesting and have seen a lot of good work produced with them. I have also, however seen a lot of work that seems to look the same and is instantly tagged as 'generative art'. This photo set by 'Flan [CWM / ICTV]'s' shows some generative work that also combines a lot of graphical elements - something I'd like to see more of in generative design. I still feel that there is a missing link between motion graphics and realtime generative art, though pieces like this show that the gap is ever so slowly closing...
I came across this link earlier to an interesting flash app by (or for) General Electric. It seems that companies are taking note of what's going on in the programming world more and more and creating little interesting devices such as this one. It's not really a new concept, but it has been done very well. Also, it is created with Papervision 3D.
I found this website a few weeks back and have been back to it several times just to look at the gallery; which seems to consist of a collection of weird and wonderful stuff that has been posted around the internet (including links back to the original source, which has provided hours of web-based entertainment). The main site has a quite few interesting articles in the projects section that are in the same vein as some of the images in the gallery, however the part about epiphanies seems to lack the same integrity with some of the crap that people spout...
A beautiful video, and wonderful example of projection mapping...
Here is a fantastic add-on for Firefox (and other browsers) that allows you browse images via a large scrollable wall. Just type something into the search bar and it'll display all the images that include the tag. It's especially impressive with flickr...
Recently I stumbled across these albums on flickr - both of them consisting of some beautiful abstract imagery.A.GILMORE
MR.PRUDENCE
Back in October last year I saw techno-legend Richie Hawtin playing at the Warehouse Project in Manchester, along with an amazing visuals set-up created specifically for the M-NUS tour. The show is all displayed on LED screens - far better than projection - and mixes VDMX, Quartz Composer and Processing into a mesmerizing display of simplistic forms.videos of the tour can be seen here and here
In reflection of last year again, I posted up an item with the same name at around the same time. It was for the 'Jazzmutant Lemur' - a multi-touch device that sends wireless signals over a network and allows you to control many digital audio workstations - a favorite being Ableton. It is now in version 2.0 with a host of new features.
Due to the expensive (though reasonable I suppose) price tag, I shan't be getting one soon. There is a program, however, that emulates some of the features of a Lemur on an iPhone or iPod touch - it is called TouchOSC. I still haven't been convinced that an iPhone is really a worthy purchase, but this application alone has given me a new interest in touch-screen devices, especially when it comes to live performance in music and visuals (and visuals here too).
It's been almost a year since I started this blog. Originally the intention had been to use it as a place to quickly update my tutors with the work I had been doing during the weeks in my final year of university.Now with full time employment in an ad agency, the experience of trying to set up a business as a collective, and the expanded knowledge of design/animation/illustration/VJing etc. etc. - I am going to start putting entries into this blog again with the aim of sharing stuff that I find interesting and forward thinking that I can relate back to my work.Below is a still of one of the pieces I submitted for my graduation project, click on the image to go to the Vimeo page.
