Stop frame may take a long time to do but if its done well there is little that can beat it. This is one such example Animator Steven Briand made this expectional stop frame animation over a two month period while working as an intern at Partizan. This is clean, sleek and clever; its amazing what you can do with some paper and card, see more of his work on vimeo.
Absolutely brilliant Joy of Destruction was made by Xaver Xylophon a 24 year-old visual communications graduate from KHB Berlin Weißensee, he has created a retro feeling stop frame and slow motion short to focus our attention on our thirst for destruction. I also liked the querky Zyklus short animation.
JOY OF DESTRUCTION from Xaver Xylophon on Vimeo.
A film about the human drive to destroy and the absurd entertaining value that's attached to it. Paper collage & stop motion | KHB Weißensee 2010
ZYKLUS I from Xaver Xylophon on Vimeo. With Benedikt Rugar, Sebastian Lörscher, Céline Van de Velde & Malte Seddig. Sauen 2010.
Have you ever looked at a white wind turbine and thought they look sleek, simple and pure, but perhaps they could use just a little colour to spice them up. Well thats what German Artist Horst Glasker decided to do to acknolwedge their unique design and environmental contributions.
I am lost for words! this is possibly the best way to build walls, I think that this should be the way all walls are built in the future, it takes away the mess of inaccuracy out of wet trades. An army of flying robots place hundreds of blocks perfectly to build a complex undulating structure that was built over a few days. The flying robots were engineered by ETH Zurich, the project was conceived and designed by architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler of Gramazio & Kohler. The installation was named Flight Assembled Architecture.
Do you have an apple tree sitting in your garden not doing much apart from looking very English, well if you have the inclination why not make it into a electrical energy source and power some outside lights. Photographer Caleb Charland pulled the power from around 300 apples to light up some LED lamps. Charland hooked wires into about 300 apples that were still connected to their trees and found that it only took about 10 apples to power each LED light. So let me do some maths here, 300 apples 10 apples for each LED, you could run a small city 30 LED lights, I'm going to the DIY store to get some cable.
You remember the kinetic Honda Advert right? Well if you liked that you'll more than likely take a shine to this. If like me turning the page of your morning newspaper is getting a little predictable you should get kinetic artist Joseph Herscher in to your house and he will spice things up a bit. The Page Turner is rather unique in its complexity, any way have a watch the hamster does some of the work as well!. You can see more videos of his ingenious work here
Buenos Aires - Inception Park from Black Sheep Films on Vimeo.
As technology progresses the visual wonders we see on screen moves with it, here is a great short film in which floating roller coasters course through the streets of Buenos Aires. The short film is Directed by Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films.
Lakai Fully Flared Intro (re-mastered in 720p HD) from skatefairy on Vimeo.
One of the best skating videos I have ever seen.
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