‘star wars uncut’ is a crowdsourced version of george lucas’s ‘star wars: episode IV - a new hope’. the project was masterminded by ‘creative technologist’ casey pugh, in collaboration with video editor aaron valdez and sound designer bryan pugh. in 2009, casey pugh divided the original star wars movie into 15-second segments and invited fans to recreate the scenes in whatever manner they desired.
January 24, 2012
December 29, 2011
The Year in Volcanic Activity
Out of an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes around the world, 50 or so erupt every year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gases, and lava. In 2011, active volcanoes included Chile’s Puyehue, Japan’s Shinmoedake, Indonesia’s Lokon, Iceland’s Grímsvötn, Italy’s Etna, and recently Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Hawaii, Kilauea continues to send lava flowing toward the sea, and the ocean floor has been erupting near the Canary Islands. Collected below are scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year.
1 month agoYear in 60 seconds: 2011
A multimedia showcase of some of 2011’s top stories, including Japan’s tragic earthquake, the Arab Spring, the demise of Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi, the shooting rampage in Norway, famine in Somalia and the Royal Wedding.
1 month ago
December 2, 2011
Nando’s: Last dictator standing
2 months ago
November 17, 2011
benetton unhate campaign features kissing world leaders
united colors of benetton has just unveiled its new ‘unhate’ advertising campaign in a handful, of cities, featuring manipulated images that show unlikely pairings of international religious and political leaders kissing one another.
the ad campaign supports the company’s ‘unhate foundation’ think tank and arts research center, designed to organize events and promote acts of intervention towards a more tolerant world.as its first series of actions, benetton organized the hoisting of large posters and projection of digital images of the controversial advertisements in public spaces in new york, milan, rome, tel aviv, and paris.
online, the organization’s ‘kiss wall’ invites users from around the world to upload diptyched images that mimic kissing duos, alongside a message of tolerance and ‘unhate’.
November 9, 2011
Beards, Theft, and Other Peculiar Factors That Turn Images Into Icons
A new book traces how images become universally recognized icons.
Jesus Christ was originally depicted without a beard. The heart symbol didn’t get its two round lobes until the 1400s, and the Coca-Cola bottle hasn’t changed in almost a century.
These are just a few of the interesting facts that Oxford University professor Martin Kemp encountered in the process of researching his latest project, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon. The book, which will be released Nov. 10, examines the stories behind the most famous pictures in the world.
“Where does the notion of an iconic image come from?” is the driving question behind this work. To find out, Kemp chose 11 of the world’s most recognizable images in areas as distinct as biology and product design. The slide show above reveals his 11 picks, and a few of the most interesting factors that propelled their rise from obscurity to fame.
2 months ago
October 28, 2011
Oh Snap!: Paranormal Light-Painting Activity
The haunting images in the slide shows below were created without Photoshop or any special effects. They are simply the result of inspired experimentation with long exposures and lighting. Light painting is not a new phenomenon. (Recall Man Ray’s creations from the 1930s andPicasso’s centaur). But in the last few years the art form, which falls on the border of drawing and photography—and borrows techniques from graffiti and even set design—has exploded online.
October 19, 2011
Totally brilliant: That there is the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, developed by Jonas Pfeil, Kristian Hildebrand, Carsten Gremzow, Bernd Bickel, and Marc Alexa of the Computer Graphics Group at TU Berlin as a thesis project. The working device incorporates 36 2-megapixel cameras harvested from cell phones and contains an accelerometer in its center. Throw the ball up in the air, and when it reaches its highest point (and is thus moving the least), the shutters are triggered, capturing a completely panoramic and navigable shot. Check it out.
Learn more about the device, which is intended to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 in two months’ time, on Jonas Pfeil’s website.
3 months ago
September 23, 2011
« La paille dans l’œil du voisin » sculpture by French artist Sosno.
Art Gallery building. Architectural proposals by R.Daukantas.
July 22, 2011
designed by hussain almossawi of bahraini studio skyrill design, ‘fluid type’ is conceptualized as a dynamic typeface,
in which each character in addition to being usable as a static letter has its own exploding animation.
the three-dimensional letters were first created in 3D max and then filled with virtual fluid in the realflow
fluid dynamics simulator. while the character was filling, almossawi adjusted the gravity and pressure level.
afterwards, he released the original shape holding the fluid, allowing the letter to explode and splash around.
once almossawi achieved a look he liked for each animation, he adjusted the letter mesh and imported it back
to 3D max to shade and render.
almossawi elaborates:
’each letter required its own process based on what it looked like, [including] a lot of trial and error,
sometimes using more that one emitter, at different directions and speeds, and experimenting
with how they would collide with each other.’
… more at skyrill
