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
