How do you make paint move with the grace and litheness of a classically trained dancer? With a Canon 5D Mark II, and a whole lot of patience. "Bringing Color to Life" was funded by Canon to promote their Pixma printer line. It's beautiful, haunting effect—made all the more fascinating by this look behind the curtain. See for yourself what 5,000 frames per second gets you.
AUJIK, a mysterious Shinto group that believes all things in nature -- including the products of human technology -- possess a soul, have created a series of videos showing organic/synthetic artifacts intended to bridge the gap between the natural and artificial worlds. a Forest within a Forest from QNQ/AUJIK on Vimeo. Amazing show...This is a great demo piece. The designers are using standard projectors and some kind of 3D modelling / physical mapping software to project the moving image on a none rectilinear surface. Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision? I can’t say I did at the time. But as that deal is about to expire in 2011, Facebook’s status as a revenue juggernaut is rarely questioned any more. In fact, I have been mulling over data from both companies, and I’m ready to declare in public my belief that Facebook will be bigger in five years than Google is right now, barring some drastic action or accident. Futhermore, Facebook will grow without needing to cut into Google’s core business of text ads, which are still 99% of Google’s profits. Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that. What do I mean by bigger? Facebook already has more page views than Google. People already spend more time spent on Facebook than Google. I’m referring to the life blood of any business: revenues. Read more, and find out more @ TechCrunch.com Light hearted animation which you cant help but smile at from Californian institute of arts final year Michael Rianada, In fact I challenge anyone to watch this and not appreciate either the humour or how well drawn this piece is, Im looking forward to more visual works from Michael in the near future. I think the world needs pieces like this to tied us over in times of boredom and frustration, this short little animations plays fun at what we as a world prioritise is important for children, and what children think is best for them. Well thats what I took from it anyway, I think this works on various levels but the ultimate lesson here, is that the priority for everyone should be moon boots. This piece has only been around on the internet three or four days, In fact I looked past it the other day, taking the project on face value, I guess you can’t judge a book by the cover as they say. Hopefully Michael Rianda will be bringing us some more great pieces like this one after he graduates. Barking is the eighth studio album by British electronic group called Underworld. The lead single, "Scribble", produced with Welsh drum and bass producer High Contrast, was released on June 28, 2010. The band released a radio edit of the track for free download on their website on May 13, 2010. Each track on the album was written by band members Karl Hyde and Rick Smith in Essex, before being sent to well known producers for their contributions to trance, drum and bass and techno. The album sees further collaboration with Mark Knight, Paul van Dyk and D. Ramirez, whose 2009 single, "Downpipe", featured lyrics and vocals by Hyde. Having listened to Underworld for more than 10 years, their new album definately strikes an unusual impression. Not so much unusual like other times before, but surprisingly different when you are used to their creative sound-scapes like you would usually hear in their previous amblums. Underworld is known for being highly creative and challenging when it comes to introducing new ideas in the electronic music scene. You could concider them as being one of the "godfathers" of electronic music for today when countless times before they always inspired and pushed the creative boundries past conventional mainstream electronic music. After listening to this one, you realize you will not find anything "new" on this album. The album has no-doubt a fun feel to it, but you cant help but ask your self if they have taken the commercial route, or, needed help creating new songs from their co-producers. By far the only track that stands out for being closer to the "Underworld" idea of being inspirational is "Scribble". So long story short, the album is good, but don't expect anything new while it has become more main-stream and commercial for the wider audience. Out of 5 stars, I give this one a 3. |
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