Selling Out out to the Phone Company
Bell Fibe TV : Amazing
Art Direction by Noreel Asuro
Art Direction by Noreel Asuro
Alright alright, don't even say it. I can hear you thinking, so no need to admonish me out loud. Yes, I'm a shill for big business now. Yes, I'm forgoing the small, indie, student, or experimental animations I usually post on these pages in favour of big-market, corporate advertising. I swear I'm not making any money for doing so, but I can still hear the screams of "SELLOUT" as I type.
Amy Shackleton - Newtonian Artist
I'm fairly sure Amy Shackleton doesn't use the term 'Newtonian artist' herself, but once you see the video below, you'll know why I did. It's a timelapse that documents Amy's entire, brush-free, gravity driven process; one that transforms a blank canvas into a stunning piece of art.
Electromagnetic Art
Compressed 1 & 2
by Kim Pimmel
by Kim Pimmel
A few months back I did a story about skeptical designer Jason Permenter, and one of his quotes has stuck with me ever since. When discussing his transformation from a working scientist into a person in a creative field, he talked about what he saw as an interesting relationship between the two disciplines.
"Turns out design is science, but with the peculiar goal of producing something lovely."
Hmmm. I'm fairly sure that such a statement would get philosophy of science fans protesting rather quickly. After all, art is almost certainly not a kind of science, nor could it ever be. It can use experiment as a technique of course, but at a fundamental level art is governed by different forces, and has different goals.* All that being said, art can certainly share some of science's characteristics from time to time.**
3D Video Mapping
Promat | 3D Video Mapping
by Antilop Ailesi
Unfortunately I wasn't able to gather a lot of information about the following video by Antilop Ailesi. You see, usually I justify posting other people's content on this page by writing my own take on that content, or at least by offering a layer of detail about the work not usually communicated through social media link sharing.
Can You Guess this Scary Sound?
Did you know I do a haunted house? Yeah, pretty much continuously for almost 20 years now. You can see a video of last years's event here.
In any case, for this year I've been working on a soundtrack to use, and although there are all kinds of different sounds mixed in there, I decided to incorporate one sound any science fan should know.
Breathtaking Footage of the Sun
A while back I posted some neato, full frame images of the sun. I called that article Look Upon the Sky God, because it tickled me to think about how audacious we were as a species to look directly into the face of our cosmic begetter.
If you don't go for the whole supernatural deity idea, then you have to admit that the sun is the closest thing there is to something worth worshiping. It provides all the energy life uses to even exist*; how dare you make eye contact?
Ash Thorp: Designer and Illustrator
Have a gander at the work of Ash Thorp, and then check out the mini-documentary below. QUITE a talented dude. Many of the attached designs are from his work at Prologue Films, but I decided to remove most of the images that made obvious which movies they were made for.
Timelapse Shot from the International Space Station
Wow.
This was posted a few hours ago by astronaut Clayton C. Anderson (@Astro_Clay) aboard the International Space Station. It's only 14 seconds long, but it may be the most amazing 14 seconds you've ever seen. Not only do we see the earth zooming by us in timelapse, but the Aurora* is glimmeringly, gorgeously visible as well!
BBC Knowledge: Best 2D Motion Graphics Ever?
BBC Knowledge
by Mauro Rader via Weareseventeen Studios
I've featured weareseventeen's work before, but this one simply blew me away. It was animated by Mauro Rader, and it's an excellent example of where 2D graphics are capable of going. Sure, calling anything the 'best ever' is often hyperbole, but forgive me my enthusiasm. I'm hot off the heals of watching this stunning piece of motion graphics, and it got me a little excited.
