The New York Times will publish on Sunday a great series on education in America. Featured will be a brilliant commissioned piece of taped graphic art by Stephen Doyle, posted here. The photography really draws it together. I found myself really liking the textured wrinkes and scrunches of tape along the floor. Follow the link [...]

Gotye’s got some of the most inventive music videos out there. I found this one, for “Thanks for your time,” particularly swell! (Here’s how it is introduced: “Lucy Dyson’s http://www.myspace.com/lucyportal penchant for cutting up old magazines, children’s books and photos of innumerable telephones led to this marvellous animated clip for Thanks For Your Time. ” [...]

There is a delightful story in this week’s New Yorker about the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been developing large scale “beach creatures” that autonomously trek along Holland’s sandy shores. Ostensibly envisioned with an ecological purpose (to retain beach), for some reason the pure lines and spindly white constructions (lots of PVC) evoke recollections [...]

This is a a wonderfully anachronistic promotional piece put together by Disney: in it, a narrator – in a throw-back to “Leave It To Beaver” domestic jauntiness – describes the early fusion of 3D background and character animation with traditional Disney character animation. The result: strikingly good! (Computers used were either Cray or VAX runnin [...]

I’m reading David Price’s really exciting, “The Pixar Touch” and he’s giving us a walkthrough of the early days of computer graphics animation (CGI) at places like the University of Utah and New York Institute of Technology. Luminaries like Fred Parke and Ed Catmull combined sculpture, crushing math, pen and ink drawing, computer graphics, photography [...]

Thanks to dear friend Jon for this must see international video collaboration. I am completely taken with the idea of using the urban landscape as a canvas. And even though the subject is kind of dull and reductive, the inspiration is brilliant!

Sony has been tearing up the adspace for high definition televisions with its line of colorful ads for its Bravia line of screens (ie Balls, Fireworks). The latest contribution to the oeuvre was realized by director Frank Budgeon (Gorgeous Enterprises), who used an insane amount of colorful plasticine (its like play-doh but not) to create [...]