From the palindromic Rats Live On No Evil Star comes Tree on the Green, an awesome music video created entirely from comic book images found online. The images were then animated in After Effects and edited into the finished product.
Rats live on no evil star – Tree in the Green from lallali on Vimeo.
If you are like me, you have spent countless hours on dafont.com or 1001freefonts.com browsing through hundreds of typefaces, if you can call them that. While digital media continue to evolve and become more accessible to the masses, fonts have been slow to adapt … until now.
According to FastCoDesign: “The project is the work of Skyrill.com, two enterprising brothers based in Manāma, Bahrain. ‘I really love how fluids look when floating in the air like raindrops, or splashing as they hit the ground,’ Hussain Almossawi tells Co.Design. ‘That made me want to work along the lines of mixing typography and fluids.’ After exploring several visual approaches, he and his brother, Ali, settled on paint bursting under high pressure.”
The letterforms also exist as a collection of short films, shown below. The liquid fills an invisible molding that, once full, disappears resulting in an explosion. The explosions are controlled by tweaking the parameters around pressure and gravity levels.
Type Fluid Experiment “A” from Skyrill.com on Vimeo.
Type Fluid Experiment “Z” from Skyrill.com on Vimeo.
In a previous post on data visualizations using recently beta’d Visual.ly, I talked about my love of fun, quirky data visualizations. Especially when taken from seemingly unapparent sources.
Behold the “Animation Hotline” an ongoing series by artist Dustin Grella who takes a single voicemail each day and turns it into a work of time-lapse art. His medium is chalk and his inspiration are random voicemails left on his machine from a public number.
According to FastCoDesign “‘Animation Hotline’ Visualizes Voicemails as Hand-Drawn Short Films Dustin Grella takes something we all hate and turns it into delightfully weird animations. A world without voicemail would be a wonderful world indeed. But that’s not going to happen — and even if it did, we’d lose small pleasures like “Animation Hotline,” in which Dustin Grella takes one voicemail each day and turns it into an animated chalk drawing just for kicks. Sound kooky? You’re not alone: Here’s an animation based on a message expressing skepticism that the entire enterprise isn’t a hoax:”
Make sure to check out some of his other videos!
Reality from Dustin Grella on Vimeo.
"Animation Hotline" Visualization Still by Dustin Grella
I am a huge supporter of the creation of new digital forms of artistic expression that have traditional Art (with a captial “A”) roots.
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My friend and colleague Russell Goldenberg, an accomplished interactive designer and digital artist in his own right, has been melding social media and communal interactions with captivating visualizations for years.
Twitter is the ideal vessel for hot-off-the-press complaints. Stuck in traffic? Blast it out to your friends. Hate the last 10 years of MTV programming? Let the rafters ring with your disdain. Goldenberg’s Twitterfuck 2010, is a distilled snapshot of online disappointment, humor and hatred in a sequence of 140 character tirades.
Twitterfuck from russell goldenberg on Vimeo.
Today I came across the work of Ivan Sharko, more specifically The Boring Gallery, a interactive installation and online gallery.
According to FastCoDesign: “Sharko developed an app that let folks “paint” portraits of the ennui of the Twitterati. Over the course of four days in May, the app scanned Twitter for stuff people were bitching about and connected these subjects to photos on Flickr, by using the same tag and geo location. Then, the public used a touch screen table, rigged with a drawing engine, to give bored tweets abstract, visual form. As Sharko writes in an email:
The artwork became a collaboration between the real users who physically interacted with the application and Twitter & Flickr participants. Physical interactions defined the composition of the artwork and some aspects of its look, while Twitter & Flickr users directly affected the rules that guided the engine’s colors, shapes, sizes and behaviors.”
The Boring Gallery from ivanS on Vimeo.
I appreciate how both Goldenberg and Sharko attempt to make meaning and blaze paths through the vast expanse of information produced by Twitter daily. The real art is in the connections the user makes with the content provided to them by the artist.
Please feel free to check out more from Sharko’s Boring Gallery and the work of Russell Goldenberg.
Some information provided by FastCoDesign
In a follow up to my post yesterday on a Lego molding machine made of Lego, and a post I did over a year ago on using the human body as an input device, I bring you one of Intel‘s latest innovations from CES 2011 exploring alternative input devices. In the case of this video, they are using Lego creations and projected imagery to set the stage.
While the interaction appears elementary, the computing power behind this set up is pretty amazing. The setup requires 3D object recognition, gesture recognition and graphical interfaces running in real-time. This is huge step for more sophisticated augmented reality experiences.
Video courtesy of Mashable’s YouTube Channel
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