Really nice animation directed by Johnny Kelly, who has graduated from the RCA last year.
Johnny Kelly of Nexus Productions follows up his award winning student piece Procrastination with a piece for Adobe which is just as artful. Using part 2D animation, part papercut stop motion he brings an apple seed to live and follows it through its natural journey.
Click here to see the movie.
(via Motionographer)
The connection between colour and emotion is intrinsic in all of us. Universal and without language, there is a common, almost synaesthetic understanding of how different hues reflect what feelings are held within us. In his brilliant short film and unofficial music video for “Gong”, by one of the world’s best bands ever, Sigur Rós, film-maker Eric Lerner explores not only the correlation between colour and emotion but what would happen if these colours were on display for everyone to see. Like a gigantic mood ring on our bodies.
(via shape+colour)
Saw the website of Barcinski & Jeanjean the other day, really cool.
Also see these pieces of work by them too, really like the idea of the bluetooth music in an exhibition space.
Whilst in Amsterdam Varvara and myself went to the Stedelijk Museum one last time before it shuts its doors at their temporary location in October. My favourite piece of work in the exhibition was that of JODI, titled Untitled Game. (Don’t ask me how to use their website, I got nowhere!)
Untitled Game is based on the well-known game Quake, a first-person shooter that is played all over the world. The player encounters all manner of enemies (other online players and virtual monsters) in complex underground spaces. The artists have adapted the software of the different levels of the game that can be seen and played in the exhibition. This means that we experience the virtual space as black and white surfaces, or even as an entirely white screen. To find your way, you have to know the game so well you could play with your eyes closed.
JODI, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, show in their work how the representation of reality in digital media functions, and how the accepted norms can be undermined. They play with the mistakes and bugs that they find in the software and develop absurdist scenarios that continue the traditions of Dada and Pop Art in the digital art of today.
Love this video Varvara took, Phil thought he was posing for a picture.
When I saw this advert on TV I just couldn’t stop laughing!
Check out Darren’s other work here, there’s also a London advert too which is pretty funny.
Wow.
“‘Imagining the Tenth Dimension’ is a book by Rob Bryanton where he explores the possibilities of going beyond 4 dimensions. He created an animated video for chapter one of the book illustrating his concepts behind moving from one to ten dimensions.”
Also check out Rob’s blog.
(via Laughing Squid)
I know I am a little late in posting this, and the exhibition isn’t up any more, but I thought I would share some of the pictures taken from the exhibition which was held at the Sasoon gallery in Peckham, London.
Varvara’s group piece was probably the best one there, especially for interactivity. The group wrote down a bunch of secrets, marker penned them onto “HELLO MY SECRET IS” stickers, put them inside a brown envelope which had a number on the front. Also inside the envelope was sheet of paper explaining the idea behind their project, with the number secret they got and a finger print of who’s secret it was. All these envelopes were hung in a big grid and as people entered the exhibition they were asked to pick a secret. Participants were then asked to put the secret onto themselves and were photographed with a polaroid which was then put in the place the envelope once stood.
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