Barts Blackboard

Really love this by the work club who invite a different artist to decorate their blackboard in their studio every six months.

Every single line ever written on the Springfield Elementary School blackboard! 2 days, 20 white markers, 288 lines and 7,697 characters.

Check out the wall at http://www.work-club.com/blackboard

Star Wars in Lego in 2.5 minutes

An animation of for the original star wars trilogy made of lego, in 2.5 minutes. Fast and funny!

Video tracking

Have been tracking today with videos and webcam feed, pretty cool stuff I have to say. I've got quite a few results, you can have a go yourself by downloading one I've made here: Webcam motion tracking

Note: You can use this if you have a webcam or video camera, you may have to open something like photobooth or imovie before hand for it to recognise your device is on as it picks up the last used device.


This one detects the colour red and follows that. Hence the rose.


This one follows the motion, the first one is the video itself as the object(s) following the motion. The webcam can be turned on and off but the motion still tracked.


This one follows the motion and fades away.

Another experiment I wanted to do was to try and track the white ball in a game of snooker. This is actually harder than expected because there are other areas of white or motion on the table. Here is a quick example of how it worked anyway:

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Title Sequence

Title sequence for the 80's film 'War Games'. I recreated a computer's DOS effect along with similar computer graphics for the radar system used in the film to create the titles. They were then re-filmed to make them look more authentic.

I then used lots of footage from in and around the cold war as the film was made around the end of the cold war and about missile's being launched between Russia and the US.

Finally added the sound of 'Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood which is again about war.

Showreel 2010

Showreel of my work from years 1 and 2:

Calculated Movements

Early video art by Larry Cuba in 1985. Extremely cool!

Art and Code: Processing

Video with Ben Fry and Casey Reas discussing processing and showing the many things it can be used for. Very interesting. A tad long though, only watch if you have 40 minutes to kill. The last 20 minutes or so show the more interesting work.


ART && CODE SYMPOSIUM: Processing, Ben Fry and Casey Reas from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

White Glove Tracking

Another interesting processing find I think you'll enjoy. Users were allowed to track the location of Michael Jacksons white glove in an old live video performance. The tracking co-ordinates were then used to generate all types of imagery to sit on the tracking area, for example another image, movie, a shape, using the tracking to generate something. Very cool project which once again shows the diversity of processing at an advanced level.



http://whiteglovetracking.com/

Memoirs of a Scanner

Very cool video filmed entirely on a scanner to create a sense of a story.

Memoirs of a Scanner (Martinibomb Version) from Damon Stea on Vimeo.

A to B

A to B Documentary from Amy Thornley on Vimeo.

This is the documentary from our A to B Project, which went horribly wrong in many respects. Makes for quite an interesting watch never the less.

Documentary of Me

Documentary of me from Amy Thornley on Vimeo.

Documentary of me, showing my work throughout ID year one.

Projection Art

Cool video that shows lots of different projections onto various 3d environments using some sort of 3d mapping system. My favourite is probably the projection of the buildings lights going on and off, simple but very clever.

You can view the website here

Salt Sound Waves

I have no idea how this works, but it's pretty cool. It's an experiment using salt to physically represent sound, as the pitch gets higher the salt moves around and creates different patterns.

Warning: I'd turn your speakers down!

Human Gaming

Watch in absoloute amazement.



Edit: Just found space invaders as well!

Trebuchet MS Vs. The Magician

Cool typography animation I found a while ago, but thought I'd share.

Paint your way!

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Found via swissmiss

I really like it!

Wim Crouwel Interviews

Part one:


Part two:


Wim Crouwel interview made by french graphic design magazine "Etapes" talking about some of his work.

Uneradbale

Interesting video about how Wim Crouwel's new alphabet made a resurgence in England in the 1990's. He also makes some comments about the typeface being "unreadable" and purely an excercise.

I actually disagree with him and think it is quite readable even with some of the more abstract letters such as the a or the m. On whole words: the human brain can piece words together simply by the beggining or end letter without paying too much attention to the middle.

But hey he's the typographer, or just modest possibly.

In all seriousness I can't see it working well in an everyday setting.

P.S. the title was deliberate.