Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Friday, April 4, 2008

Bjork - "Wanderlust"


The latest video from Bjork's album Volta was produced by Encyclopedia Pictura in NYC, and was shot in stereoscopic 3D. And it's just as insanely creative as you'd expect from Bjork.


Here's a montage of the making of the video. Check out how much work went into this!

Monday, March 31, 2008

Elephant Paints Self Portrait


On the off chance that CuteOverload is not a part of your daily life, here's an amazing video of an elephant painting its own self-portrait.

Friday, February 15, 2008

PostSecret - A Valentine Video


Check PostSecret for more anonymous messages.

St. Petersburg Is Smaller Than Moscow


Russian flip-book style animation sequence made almost entirely on post-it notes.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

A Typical Conversation With My Mom


Animation from the series Tales Of Mere Existence by Levni Yilmaz.

Monday, January 7, 2008

The "Hello" Experiment

Click to view video.

Sculpture students in England were blindfolded and challenged to recreate the bust of Lionel Ritchie, from the famous video for "Hello".

Hansel and Gretel


Lotte Reiniger silhouette animation from 1955 of the classic fairytale.

New York Airplane Flight


Paper airplane flying over lower Manhattan.

Goodbye Art: Family in Iraq


To commemorate the return of his Goodbye Art series, Phil Hansen created a portrait of his brother-in-law, who is being shipped off to Iraq.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous: Liberace


Clip from the 1980s Robin Leach show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous about the legendary opulence of pianist Liberace.
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Side Note: If you'd like a closer look at some of the objects in the Liberace Museum, there's a bunch posted on my flickr account.

Tenorikuma Meets Serani Poji


Super cute animated film featuring Tenorikuma, Sanrio bears who make coffee and fit in your hand.

Special thanks to Chris for sending in this video!

Light Criticism


Anti-advertising campaign in Manhattan by Eyebeam, known as "subvertising", that uses video ads to convey new messages.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Homer Simpson: Picture a Day for 39 Years


The Simpsons parody one of the most famous videoblogs ever to appear on YouTube, "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years".

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Banksy Tags Bethlehem


World renowned graffiti artist Bansky has done a bit more tagging of the apartheid wall separating Israel and Palestine. This time in the birthplace of Jesus.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Liquid Sculpture


This is a ferrofluid art project, by Sachiko Kodama, named "Protrude, Flow". The artist used magents to introduce electro-magnetic waves, changing the ferrofluid from liquid to solid material, and back again.

Friday, October 12, 2007

How to Make Giant Soap Bubbles


How bad do you want to do this now?

Thursday, October 4, 2007

My First Crush


Animated film project about first loves, by Julia Pott for Kingston University.

The Loneliest Icelander


There was only one military representative from Iceland in Bush's "coalition of the willing", and he's going home.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

World Trade Center High Wire Act



Back on August 7th, 1974 - before the Twin Towers were completed - French high wire artist Philippe Petit rigged a tightrope between the towers and danced 1,350 feet in the air, without a net. This clip from the Ric Burns series New York: A Documentary, tells the amazing story.

Reverse Graffiti : Ossario


By washing away patches of soot, Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion created an amazing mural in the urban landscape of Sao Paulo.