THINGS I FIND ON THE WEB
Toyko Plastic shows the truth behind kitty dreams with this series of short animated films.
These are hilarious. The first two are online (and below), more will be up on the website soon.
The Tail Gunner
The Tail Gunner from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.
Catzilla
Catzilla from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.
Wired Magazine has a great article on how OK Go’s “This too shall pass” video was made.
I’m sure all of you has already seen this video, as you know the whole thing was taken in one shot. Everything was precise and even to the beat of the music, it took about a month and a half to perfect it. The people who build this contraption, Syyn Labs, are an LA based arts and technology collective.
The requirements were that it had to be interesting, not “overbuilt” or too technology-heavy, and easy to follow. The machine also had to be built on a shoestring budget, synchronize with beats and lyrics in the music and end on time over a 3.5 minute song, play a part of the song, and be filmed in one shot. To make things more challenging still, the space chosen was divided into two floors and the machine would use both. (via Synn Labs)
how many tiny details needed to be just right for the machine’s timing to work out.
For example, the wooden tracks used to guide metal balls at the beginning of the video had to be cleaned and waxed to keep dust from slowing down the balls and making them stick. And the angle of that board was set at a precise 3.4 degrees of incline, which was perfect for the timing but sometimes led the balls to jump the track. (via Wired)
Read the whole thing here
Joanna(Oxford, England) has created some embroideries based on Kurt Vonnegut’s illustrations and quotes from his novels.
Quentin Tarantino and the Weinstein Company are partnering with Upper Playground Art Gallery (Los Angeles) to present “The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds” to help raise money for the victimes of the Haiti Earthquake.
Grotesk
The interview took place in his apartment in Los Angeles, high in the hills above La Cienega Boulevard.
Published in the Spring 1975 issue of Film Heritage.
“I vividly remember his bookshelves and his multitude of books. During the interview I stepped out in the hall outside his apartment to give him privacy when he received a personal phone call.”
“The most revelatory thing about our interview was when Marty interpreted the end of Mean Streets.” –Macklin
Hear the whole interview here:
Will Strode and Lindsey Zimmerman have started a new comic called Pins N’ Needles.
This is a completely different style to their other comic, Goodbye Blue Monday, both are excellent, but I love the direction they are taking with Pins N’ Needles. There are some really rad panels, my favorite is the bloody nose scene, but I don’t want to give up the whole story. So read it for yourselves.
(via Will) Lindsey and I have been working on a comic story for a while now involving a couple of raunchy girls and their ass-kicking gangland antics. It started with a minicomic Lindsey’s been working on and today I get to show it to you! We’ve got a few more projects to get going before we can start this as a weekly, but this fall should mark the continuing adventures of Pins N Needles!!
Johnny Kelly is a stop motion animator who mixes stop motion
with drawing to create these wonderful & funny videos.
The Seed and Procrastination are my favorites.
The Seed :: 2008
A two-minute animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed. The film was kindly funded by Adobe, produced at Nexus Productions and features a soundtrack by Jape. It was made using a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation. Watch the making of here.
The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
Procrastination :: 2007
Graduation film for MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things ‘off”. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first. Sound design by Mike Wyeld, with a voice over by Bryan Quinn.
The Spotlight Surprise selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
The first feature film by the world famous graffiti artist, Banksy.
Exit Through the Gift Shop’ is the story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur filmmaker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Billed as ‘the world’s first street art disaster movie’ the film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work.
Amy Higgins, a photographer, has a great flickr set called Abandoned.
The photos were taken of abandoned things, mostly houses. I also liked her set of cows and landscapes
on her site.
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Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who won one of the seasons of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”.
The work as it is created and destroyed, over and over, interpreting Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. (This is kinda old in internet standards (August), but I’ve never seen it before and thought it was cool. So there.)
