PLEASE SAY SOMETHING

I've been following the work of David O'Reilly for a while now, and absolutely loving all that he has done. The series 'Please Say Something' started in short episodes a while back but were removed to allow David to enter the project into a film festival, and thus complete the series as one long animation (of 10 minutes rather than 20 or so second stints).
What I love about the story is the way that it unfolds via such simple things - such as the scarf. You get a real sense of character about each...character very quickly through their actions and learn to love them both by the end.
I also love its style. It is honest - as David has mentioned on his site that '[his] goal aesthetically has always been the more broader aim of simply not hiding the artefacts of software, the same way Bacon didn’t hide paint strokes'. I have often found errors in software that have bugged me - most notably in 3D programs where polygons would spike off into infinity - when I first started out using 3D programs all those years ago I hadn't a clue what these were, and now there is an artist who is managing to embrace these errors - though not in a way that destroys the integrity of the animation.

And now for the sake of spreading the love and getting more hits or whatever, here is the embedded video...



I urge you to check out his site and his other stuff, especially RGBXYZ -

HERE.

PRE ENTER

I can't remember how I came across this exactly, but all I know is I remember thinking 'wow'. It's a fairly simple concept that has been executed so well. Ordinary desktop scanners (without the lids) were placed on walls around the club, and in the bathrooms, and the attendees of the show were urged to scan their faces (and other body parts) to be used during the show - as live visuals.

Click the picture to see what I'm on about...

MAPPING

With all the talk of projection mapping, I came across this festival for VJs and visual artists...


And on the site for Modul8 (VJ software for OSX) there is a clip that (I think i read somewhere) was from a previous Mapping festival...

It has some interesting use of projections onto material to create the illusion that some of the projections are in the air...

Kind of reminds me of the scene at the end of Terminator 2, except less fiery.

RED HOT CAR

Nice video/visuals for Squarepusher's 'Red Hot Car' via YouTube...

SUPER 2009 !

Another fantastic use of projection mapping, possibly my favourite yet...

by SUPERBIEN

TOUCH. SCREEN.

With touch-screen technologies being all the rage and the must-have, there are more and more of the things springing up everywhere, though mostly doing the same thing... Here is a different type of touch-screen that actually changes properties depending on how it is manipulated - as it has a certain elasticity to it, rather than a static panel.

Click the image for more...

WILL SCOBIE

An illustrator i have come across before in some design books a while back...

Here is an example of his work off his Behance account. I love the simplistic style of it and the way that it almost looks like it could be mechancial drawings.

Click the image for more...

MMM COLOURS

Some nice LED screens here - the way that club visuals should be done...

PROJ'IT v1.0

Here is a really nice use of projection mapping that makes a simple wall and block of post it notes suddenly seem far more interesting. As far as projection goes, I think the way forward is definitely projecting onto object/things/whatever rather than just a flat wall, as this can be pretty boring...