The Forest

The Forest from David Scharf on Vimeo.

Antonia is a 12 year old girl. She often has daydreams, in which she wanders of in to a magical far away forest, were she hides from the problems of the real world. One day, however, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision.

Is your inner peace an utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? Or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? And what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12?

In the Animated Short "The Forest" by David Scharf, the protagonist has to cope with this question and her hostile environment and finds a simple but radical solution.

Watch with subtitles, or dowload press material on the-forest.de

Conceived, written, directed and animated by
David Scharf
huesforalice.com

Sound and Music
Javi Otero & César Meler, 48 Billion Atoms

Speakers voice girl
Neath Champion-Weeks

Speakers voice TV Ads
Stephen Taylor
e-voicing.de

Characterdesign
André Ljosaj
smatik.de

Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

YouTube user bengraphics created this montage of film clips from the past 100 years, demonstrating the evolution of cinematic special effects. It was originally just intended for a class lecture, but has gone viral. Featured films include The Enchanted Drawing (1900) Thief of Baghdad (1940) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Run time: 5 minutes.

A "5th-grader-friendly" collection of clips and making-of footage from notable
visual effects films of the past century.

Originally intended for educational use as an introduction to a classroom lecture.
The music track is "Rods and Cones" from the album "Audio" by Blue Man Group.

1900 - The Enchanted Drawing
1903 - The Great Train Robbery
1923 - The Ten Commandments (Silent)
1927 - Sunrise
1933 - King Kong
1939 - The Wizard of Oz
1940 - The Thief of Bagdad
1954 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1956 - Forbidden Planet
1963 - Jason and the Argonauts
1964 - Mary Poppins
1977 - Star Wars
1982 - Tron
1985 - Back to the Future
1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 - The Abyss
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1993 - Jurassic Park
2004 - Spider-Man 2
2005 - King Kong
2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2007 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 - The Golden Compass
2008 - The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Visual:Haiku

Visual:Haiku from Andy Mellon Makes Things on Vimeo.

An original visual haiku for the weekend project.
Five seconds. 7 seconds. 5 Seconds.

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

Music video by Talking Heads performing Road To Nowhere.

Tezcatlipoca

Tezcatlipoca is a three-minute animated short film by Robin George that uses music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to tell the story of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca:

Like other Aztec deities, he could be both helpful and destructive. As a god of the sun, he ripened the crops but could also send a burning drought that killed the plants. The patron god of helpless folk such as orphans and slaves, he was also the patron of royalty, and he gloried in war and human sacrifice. Another of Tezcatlipoca’s roles was to punish sinners and cheats, but he himself could not be trusted.

Although associated with the sun, Tezcatlipoca was even more strongly linked with night and its dark mysteries, including dreams, sorcery, witches, and demons. Legend said that he roamed the earth each night in the form of a skeleton whose ribs opened like doors. If a person met Tezcatlipoca and was bold enough to reach through those doors and seize his heart, the god would promise riches and power in order to be
released. He would not keep his promises, though….

As a trickster god, Tezcatlipoca delighted in overturning the order of things, causing conflict and confusion. Sometimes, these disruptions could also be a source of creative energy and positive change. Tezcatlipoca’s ultimate trick was one he played on his fellow god Quetzalcoatl. After introducing Quetzalcoatl to drunkenness and other vices, he used his mirror to show Quetzalcoatl how weak and degraded he had become. Quetzalcoatl fled the world in shame, leaving it to Tezcatlipoca. He did, however, promise to return at the end of a 52-year cycle.

The YouTube video isn’t bad, but for a full-screen, high-resolution version, click on the link.

Manic Street Preachers - This Joke Sport Severed

A video work of Manic Street Preachers' "This Joke Sport Severed" featuring Turkish actress Melisa Dogu.

Specially edited as to give it an analog cinematographic look (slightly tarnished-grainy depth of field) which suits the overall sense of Journal for Plague Lovers.

Director: Ozum Ozgulgen
Director of Photography: Fatih Demir
The Girl: Melisa Dogu

Franz Ferdinand - "Can't Stop Feeling"

Track:
Can't Stop Feeling
Artist/Band:
Franz Ferdinand
Label:
Domino
Description:
Franz Ferdinand new single, Cant Stop Feeling, release through Domino in the UK and Europe on Monday July 6th 2009. The single is taken from their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, which was released in January 2009.

Passion Pit - "To Kingdom Come"

Passion Pit | To Kingdom Come from Passion Pit on Vimeo.

Track:
To Kingdom Come
Artist/Band:
Passion Pit
Label:
Frenchkiss
Description:
The official video from Passion Pit for 'To Kingdom Come' released on August 24th.

8-Bit Trip

8-Bit Trip is a stop motion LEGO video tribute to classic video games. It was created by the Swedish band Rymdreglage after 1,500 hours of work.

16: Moments

Radiolab presents: Moments by Will Hoffman. This films is a celebration of life that was inspired by David Eagleman's book, Sum.

Este video es una colección de momentos y situaciones en apariencia intrascendentes. Capturan aquello que vemos todo el tiempo y que por abundante parece sin valor. Si tuviera que clasificar a un menú tan amplio de momentos como el que se ve acá, diría que todas son imágenes de tiempos de paz. No es por ser pesimista, pero pienso que el video resalta la vida cotidiana como un tesoro frágil, amenazado.

Vale la pena verlo en HD.

Onwards - Nike

Animation by James Jarvis. Directed by Richard Kenworthy, and music courtesy of Caribou (Crayon was a great choice). Nike did sponsor this piece but I am enjoying this trend of really unobtrusive marketing.

The Strokes: "You Only Live Once"

From Pitchfork.com 5.29.07:
"'You Only Live Once' was always the best song on the album. Its video, however, opens with 'Ize of the World', which suddenly sounds kinda right as a soundtrack to fast-forward images of bustling escalators, rising gas prices, and an eclipse complete with 2001 monolith. Nuclear holocaust ensues; Jimmy Carter gets sampled. Luckily, New York's rock royals are preserved on a rocket ship bound for Sirius, part of a digital archive of life on Earth. As various video monitors tell future species about sex, war, and religion, the holographic Strokes perform on board, sometime in the 420th century.

After detouring through either a Pink Floyd laser show or a wormhole, the video somehow ends with leather-clad Julian Casablancas & co. back safely in 1977. Punk rock. We shit you not. " - Marc Hogan

Director: Warren Fu
VFX: Louis Katz, Warren Fu & Laundry Design
Producers: Chris Noviello, Steve Jang, Warren Fu
Client: RCA Records / imeem

Soundscapes: Todo es música

Soundscapes - by Ace Norton from IE HAGY on Vimeo.

"Soundscapes"
Electronic Beats

Directed by Ace Norton
Produced by Charles Spano
Editing by Isaac Hagy
Cinematography by Hiro Murai
Sound recording and track by T.K. Broderick
Partizan Berlin

Música hecha con los sonidos de ciudades: latas, autos, olas, perros, rejas, niños, campanas, timbres, juguetes, voces…

La música según Wikipedia:

La música (del griego: “el arte de las musas”) es, según la definición tradicional del término, el arte de organizar sensible y lógicamente una combinación coherente de sonidos y silencios utilizando los principios fundamentales de la melodía, la armonía y el ritmo, mediante la intervención de complejos procesos psico-anímicos. El concepto de música ha ido evolucionando desde su origen en la antigua Grecia, en que se reunía sin distinción a la poesía, la música y la danza como arte unitario. Desde hace varias décadas se ha vuelto más compleja la definición de qué es y qué no es la música, ya que destacados compositores, en el marco de diversas experiencias artísticas fronterizas, han realizado obras que, si bien podrían considerarse musicales, expanden los límites de la definición de este arte.

Link Música según Wikipedia

La Batalla de Kerzhenets, 1971

Toda creación deriva de otras anteriores:

Frank Miller/Zack Snyder: 300, 1998/2007.
Yuri Norstein: La Batalla de Kerzhenets, 1971.

Russian animation from Союзмультфильм, 1971. Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Yuri Norstein. "The Battle of Kerzhenets"
Based on the 1907 opera of Rimsky-Korsakov. The film is set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov and uses Russian frescoes and paintings from the 14th-16th centuries (which are animated using 2-dimensional stop motion animation).

Pежиссеры: Иван Иванов-Вано, Юрий Норштейн
Cценарист: Иван Иванов-Вано
Xудожники-постановщики: Марина Соколова, Аркадий Тюрин
Xудожники: М. Спасская, Франческа Ярбусова, Владимир Алисов, Виктор Дудкин, А. Данилов
Aниматоры: Юрий Норштейн, Александр Рожков, Борис Савин, Вячеслав Шилобреев
Oператор: Владимир Саруханов
Звукооператор: Борис Фильчиков
Kомпозитор: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков

Escalator (Video Vertical)

Escalator from Saodesign on Vimeo.

Cosas que no se pueden hacer en la televisión, ni en el cine. Un video vertical. HD realizado con una Lumix LX3.

Proper Hillsides, South Spain - Recordando Viajes completos

Proper Hillsides, South Spain from Adam Bennett on Vimeo.

Este video contiene un viaje completo. Miles de fotografías desde la partida hasta el final, forman una película de menos de tres minutos que cuenta sensorialmente todo un viaje.

(Realizado con Lumix LX3)

Octavia - Viaje

Artista: Octavia
Album: Medular
Director: Vladimir Perez
Fotografia: John Fitzgerald

Printer Choreography - HP - invent

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

Who knows how much is paper and how much is special effects in this ad made in response to a challenge from Hewlett-Packard. The finished product, named “Invent” is impressive! Created by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth. Music by Round Table Knights.

How A Hurricane Is Born

Chaos theory is that branch of mathematics which studies the behavior of certain dynamical systems that may be highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is referred to as the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect states that small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.

Here's a fascinating look at how a little girl walking in the sand of the African desert could cause a hurricane 4000 miles away in the USA. A video from the BBC show The Science of Superstorms.

Super Mario Bros. as a War Movie (Inglourious Plummers Trailer)

This faux trailer presents Super Mario Bros. as the classic war movie The Inglorious Bastards (or possibly the new Quentin Tarantino remake). It’s called The Inglorious Plumbers and was produced by Nick Murphy.

The thrilling parody of the summer's most talked about movie trailer is finally here!

Filmed and Edited by Nick

Starring in order of appearance:
Dominic
Nikkita
Sean
Paul
Coop
Luke
Zane

Amazing Video of Fire Ants Making a Living Life Boat

A little flood isn’t going to stop a couple thousand of good fire ants in the Amazon jungle. Take a look at this amazing BBC Wildlife video of how fire ants crossed a river by forming a "living" life boat made with their own bodies.

Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man

The official video for Mumford and Sons' debut single, Little Lion Man.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

I've recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.

I've written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field.

Every galaxy in the image is in its proper distance as viewed from the telescope line of sight.

As if this image wasn't amazing enough.

In December of 1995, astronomers did a risky experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope. They pointed it to a region in space the size of a speck of dust that is seemingly empty and kept the telescope watching for 10 days.

They could’ve very well ended up with a blank image - but what they saw instead was something completely mindboggling.

Here’s a wonderful clip by Tony Darnell of Deep Astronomy about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field that illustrates just how humblingly small us humans are in the grand scheme of the universe.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Trailer 1 Subtitulado

Title:The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Director:Terry Gilliam
Screenwriter:Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown
Starring:Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law
Genre:Drama, Fantasy
Rating:PG-13 (for violent images, some sensuality, language and smoking)
Website: http://DoctorParnassus.com

Big Bang Briefly

We made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood.

This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with donated creative time from a group with a desire to further public cognition of science.

Science has many amazing stories to tell, this is the first. The Big Bang Briefly.

Story Teller: Janna Levin
Director: Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner
Producer: Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner
Animation Studio: Thornberg & Forester
Director of Animation: Justin Meredith
Editorial: Proton Studio
DP: Luke Geissbuhler
Music: Copilot
Color: James Long

Touchable Holography

Researchers at the University of Tokyo are creating holograms that can be felt and respond to human touch. They are working to create holographic displays that mimic the sensation of interacting with solid objects.

We will present "Touchable Holography" at SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies.

More: http://www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siggraph/09/TouchableHolography/SIGGRAPH09-TH.html

Joker's Daughter - "Lucid"

Track:
Lucid
Artist/Band:
Joker's Daughter
Label:
Domino
Description:
Joker's Daughter are Helena Costas and Danger Mouse. Following the recent release of debut album The Last Laugh through Double Six Records in the UK (and Conor Obersts Team Love in the US), Jokers Daughter is set to release Lucid as the stunning second single. The video is directed by Hayley Morris (who recently won Best Animated Short at the Sundance Film Festival).

Apollo 11: Alcanzando la Luna

Graficos y mas informacion en: 40 años en la luna.

Civilization By Marco Brambilla

Link Youtube (HD)

Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage.

This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell.

Blip

Blip from Sean Mullen on Vimeo.

See what happens when two aliens try to take over the same world in Blip, a short animation by Sean Mullen and Ben Harper of the Irish School of Animation.

Two aliens try to take over the same planet.A short 3d animated film, produced by Ben Harper and Sean Mullen in our 3rd year at the Irish School of Animation.COPYRIGHT Ben Harper Sean Mullen © 2008

seanmullenartwork.blogspot.com
benmation.blogspot.com

Sour - "日々の音色/Hibi No Neiro"

SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura on Vimeo.

Track:
日々の音色/Hibi No Neiro
Artist/Band:
Sour (related)
Label:
Neutral Nine Records
Description:
This music video was shot for Sour's 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP'. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam. Directed by Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura.

Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris

Music video by "Justin Bieber" performing Baby.

Rhonda: Dibujando en 3D

The hands on the screen belong to James Paterson. He is using "Rhonda", a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru circa 2003.

The first half of the video shows James doing a drawing start to finish. In the second part James is cycling through various previous drawings, created between 2004 and 2005.

For the last several years Rhonda has been shown in galleries, museums, festivals and conferences. We are excited to finally release this video online (about time!).

Even more exciting is that our good friends Zach Lieberman (openframeworks) and Zach Gage (synthpond) have just joined the Rhonda Team! With their help we will be creating stable releases of Rhonda for various platforms.

Project page: http://rhondaforever.com

Drop us a line at: hello [at] rhondaforever

Music for this video is "Out On The Weekend" by Neil Young.

Rhonda ©2003-2009

EN el año 2003, Amit Pitaru desarrolló una herramienta para realizar dibujos 3D llamada “Rhonda“. Aquí una demostración por el artista James Paterson

RWE Energy Giant (El gigante bueno de la energía)

60 meters high and about 300 tons. The new mascot of the energy company RWE shows in the latest commercial that size matters.

Un gigante de 60 metros de altura y 300 toneladas, es la nueva mascota de RWE la compañía continental europea que provee de electricidad, luz y agua a 13 regiones. Didáctico y amistoso, con árboles y jardines sobre sus hombros, el gigante de RWE nos muestra con gracia las numerosas alternativas que existen para proveernos de energía.

TO DIE FOR: Graffiti Blanco y Negro

11 hand cut life-sized greyscale layers of the stencil "TO DIE FOR" by BOXI for REMAP KM 2 in Athens with ALPHA DELTA GALLERY. REMAP KM 2 is an event running parallel to the 2nd Athens biennial "HEAVEN". The working process shows filled and dusted layers with spraypaint to obtain 11 shades from white to black with 8 cans.

El video muestra el proceso paso a paso de añadir 11 capas distintas de grises hasta obtener un resultado idéntico al de la fotografía.

Dove - Evolution Commercial (higher quality)

Reginald Pike's Yael Staav takes us from model to billboard in under 60 seconds in this impressive new spot from Dove.

Credits:

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto
Co-CCOs: Nancy Vonk & Janet Kestin
ACD/Writer/Art Director: Tim Piper
Production Company: Reginald Pike
Director: Yael Staav
Music: Vapor Music, Toronto.