Belfast artist and programming magician Glenn Marshall, who has already casted his generative, visual spell on us many times before, has started to convert some of his beautiful creations into iPhone apps.
All will be based on his own generative animation system, starting with Zio (Teaser video below).
He also has won an award of distinction at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria) for his wonderful, visual interpretation of Peter Gabriel’s “The Nest That Sailed The Sky”.
For more and detailed information on the development process and his other great work, have a look at his blog below!
International successful, Austrian photographer Bela Borsodi created this fascinating series of letters for the WAD magazine (#39).
Images by Bela Borsodi
A similar project, which also unveils the “trick” and space behind all that in a video, is “1+1=3” by the final-year students of 2009 in product design at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm (Sweden).
As this blog is about everything visual we really had to post this, because it’s one of those things that are visually attracting and disgusting at the same time (an effect that simply causes standing still and staring).
Flickr user Jello Kitty has a very interesting, but also very disturbing set of pictures, mainly taken from french cookbooks from the 1960’s (link after the jump).
Most of these creations remind of monsters, bugs or scenes taken from horror movies and others simply show a lack of respect for those creatures who had to die in order to prepare the meal.
It’s also an interesting start for a discussion, because we live in a time in which most people don’t really (want to) know what they are eating and also many eat meat, but don’t want to face the facts where it’s coming from or how it’s “produced”.
But before I fall into a philosophical monolog … here are some of our “favourites”.
Continuing our series of music video posts, this one is to take a break from the usual visual/video effects madness most music videos come with.
But it’s also because the track is very good imho (esp. compared to our last post’s musical profanity by Lily Allen ;)!
What I like most about it, is the simple, but beautiful story-telling and the fact that it manages to transport the wonderful vibe of this great piece of music so well.
Vincent Haycock is an american director of commercials and music videos. One of his early directing accomplishments was an Emmy nomination for the direction of Nip/Tuck’s main title sequence. He also has been working on commercials for Sony, Budweiser, Nike, and Infiniti.
Not really a fan of Lily Allen’s music, but this is quite a good music video for her song “Fuck You”. It’s been done in Paris by the french directors and artists duo Arnaud & Clément, who are Arnaud Boutin and Clément Dozier.
E3 is in the air, which is one of the largest game conventions on planet and it’s happening in Las Vegas. This also means lots of new games and trailers showing up on the horizon and there might be some out there worth a post because of their style or gameplay.
Anyway — this one deserves a post because of an amazing trailer and I am NOT a too big fan of the Beatles.
As soon as we know who created this, we’ll let you know.
Edit: The trailer has been created by Passion Pictures and Harmonix and directed by Pete Candeland (Passion Pictures), who’s also responsible for the Gorillaz music videos (links added below). Thanks to Robotkid for the info!
The 80’s like colour finish and texturing and the style of animation per se are beautiful, but at 1:30 it really gets crazy and fantastic — enjoy!
