Feb/100
Cadbury Picnic chocolate bar: No picnic
"A Picnic chocolate bar is chewy, nutty and difficult to eat. GPY&R Melbourne challenged its audience to eat a Picnic in the space of a :30 commercial break. People filmed themselves using mobile phones, webcams and handycams and then created their own TV ads using the website, http://www.itsnopicnic.tv. In an Australian first, every single ad that went to air on television (200+) was unique, and created using the website" Ads of the world
Great idea to get people envolved!
I want them to hurry up with a British one.. thinking 5-6 Jaffa cakes in a minute would be a good shout 
Jan/100
Pirate trailers
Jan/102
Paper-StopMotion Animation
Just finished my first term of my final year and came across this little piece of animation!
could have done with finding this before i handed my final piece in. its such a simple concept but im sure it took hours to do.
the result is a nice and rough animation which i really like and would have wanted to experiment with it for my own work.
oh well
videogioco-loop experiment from donato sansone on Vimeo.
Donato Sanson's other works a bit... out there but its this piece which is pretty cool (more for the techique than the content)
Nov/090
Kasabian Football Hero
Haha pretty sick stuff. The fact that they got 76% after only a few games is well good! it would have made a great third year project if someone was doing user interaction or somthing like that.
Oct/090
HR Giger (+18 years only)
HR Giger was braught up in a lecture today. It was a good lecture but i did disagree with one comment about the inspiration of the Alien Queen. I did some study on HR Giger a few years ago and loved his work, mainly because it was ALL porn and i was in high school, so this might be all wrong but here's what i felt:
The alien queens head
was said to have been inspired from:
Amy winehoues's big hair (not neccessarly her hair but similar) + A three pronged crown.
I think its a massive vagina. I see how it looks similar to the hair and crown but i still belive the main influence is the vagina
Espcially if you look at the Alien Male head.
or the alien hatch lings
i wonder where that idea came from? lets have alook at how the hatchlings attack in the film..
ah i see.
and this one's just amazing, i think the whole image was part of a building or structure and some one has cropped this out but still amazing how hes worked it in.
Oct/090
Typophile Film Fest
The Typophile Film Fest 5 is a one hour selection of typographic films hailing from all over the world including Argentina, The Netherlands, Russia and the United States. The films vary in subject matter and style; creating a dynamic presentation of motion design, typographic animation, short stories, documentaries and interviews. Typophile
Film fest 5 open sequence
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
I've never heard of this before so it will be good to see the entries and winners they show. I think the opening sequence has loads of great tepography and kenetic typodgraphy already and from what I can see on the reviews and blogs about Typophile film fest the opening sequence is one of the things people look forward to most, so here are the perivous Typophile opening seqences
Film fest 1
Film Fest 2
Film fest 3
Film fest 4
Oct/090
Parallex
I was introduced to the parallax a few months ago and thought that it was just a nice little bit of css but that as good as it was, it wouldn't really be anything amazing. It was just a nice touch which makes backgrounds and other elements look more interactive.
(I think the first person to use parrallax on a website was Silverback If they wern't the first they are definitly the people who made it mainstream.)
My opion of the css parallex techique changed after I went to future of web design because one of the creators of the silverback site was telling us how people have taken that idea and now moved it on a bit and made the CSS Parallax: The Horse in Motion effect.
The idea simply combines the css parrallax techinque with a zoetrope, producing a stunning animation using only css and html and two .pngs.
I think limitations of this is that long and complex animation can't be reproduced and even some simple animations will be quite complicated to make.
Oct/090
Different animation styles
Had my first animation practive lecture Thursday and the presentation Darren Wall did contained some really nice experimental animation styles.
The first was some standard stop motion, using human pixels.
The nice thing about the music is its made up of human voices as well. I would say its amazingly directed but wait till you see the next one which is human picles but this thim in one shot.
We come back to stop time animation for "Roofsex" which is created by PES and what makes it special is how he is showing us how good animation can really make any inanimate object come to life. Just the simplicity of the male chair being bigger and the girl chair having a skirt all help give the feeling that this really is two chairs having sex
We moved on to some stunning time lapses looking at the Northern lights
next is Strata - cut which is very new to me. From what I can tell it is basically a tube or block of play dough, clay or wax (originally used by Oskar Fischinger)
with all the frames made inside the tube and they take away the top layerand so on
And the last and most impressive is Strata stenci, the example is by Javan Ivey and is just really nice. All of thi si made from card cut outs so it must have taken ages but it's probably well worth it. The effect can be made on the computer but im sure it feels a lot more rewarding when done by hand.
Oct/090
Liu Bolin
Liu has come up on my rss a few times and I think made a few appearnces on an optical illusion site a few times but I never really thought of posting about it becuase the images I seen were all pretty standard but here's a collection of some of his best work.
there's more here
Sep/090
FOWD ‘09
This is a post about the “Future of Web Design” conference I attended on the 16th September. The speakers were Paul Annett, Mike Tautly, Simon Collison, Dean Vipond and Brendan Dawes.
In this post I’ll just go over what really stood out for me starting with Paul Annett’s “Oooh, That’s Clever! (Un-natural Experiments in Web Design).”
Paul from Clearleft talked to us mainly about “Easter eggs” and why they are used. He discussed he parallax effect found on silverback and revealed a few other “Easter eggs” including the mighty mouse image. (I don’t care what Gez says it’s meant to be there and it’s cool!)
The point of it all was that “Easter eggs”, when used correctly are like secrets, designed to be spread. We all know how fun it is to know something, someone else doesn’t and we love to feel clever by telling people what they don’t know or haven’t noticed. Well that is the sole purpose of “Easter eggs” to hope people find it and want to tell it to the world. His presentation can be found on his website at http://paulannett.co.uk/
I think that Brendan Dawes’ presentation was just genius. I’ve seen some of his Magnetic North stuff before and was just blown away then. To be able to listen to him talk about the thought process and how he views his work was just great.
I think what really helps is that he is great at getting his message across to the audience and im sure that's really usefull when it comes to clients.
He told us how he thought that the best part of an iPhone was the ability to pull the screen down to reveal the grey space (a do nothing machine) and it makes me think of:
"We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about" - Karl Pilkington
I think sometimes it’s important to remember the play factor and less of the logical work part.
Dean Vipond was another speaker who stood out for me. His talk was about adding personality and a sense of identity to your work. I think this could be vital in near future because it is the personal touches which set works apart. I think we would all rather recieve emails saying howdy sam, instead of Dear mr luk.
Sep/090
“Surfing’s the source man… “
Mate of mine was watching Point Break last night hense the title but it was fitting becasue I came across these amazing surf images.
More of these at smashandpeas
Sep/090
Minimalists Photography
Here's a selection of minimalist photography which are nice.
Never really thought of minialist photography before, you get in it traditional art and digital art but just never come across minimalist photography much, or just not thought that's what it is. Theres more at smashandpeas
Sep/090
Cube Dudes
Pixar animator and BURN-E director Angus MacLane's most famous works may be computer-generated, but in his spare time he works in the more physical medium of plastic bricks, rendering his favorite characters in Lego. - i09
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