Friday 23 December 2011

Tuesday 22 November 2011

amalgamation by dunun


amalgamation from dunun on Vimeo.

Hundreds of faces seamlessly morph into one another in this mesmerising video animation, created by French artist Micaël Reynaud using a series of black and white photos taken by Michael Jang.

motion : Micaël Reynaud, gplus.to/micael
portraits : Michael Jang, michaeljang.com
music : Memory Tapes, myspace.com/memorytapes
animated gif available, j.mp/amagamation
youtube 1080p version, youtu.be/5lugDrGlQTQ?hd=1
Static portraits, j.mp/uKhLs3 (+ interview of M. Jang)

Saturday 19 November 2011

Perfect Christmas ad



“For gifts you can’t wait to give” There is something even more wonderful than receiving the perfect gift, and that is knowing you have found the perfect gift for someone you love. This year we have brought to life the feeling of excitement and anticipation you get when you have found that perfect gift for someone and cannot wait for Christmas day to arrive.
Our advert follows one little boy who is impatiently counting down to Christmas. We see him tapping his fingers, gazing out of the window, even trying to cast a spell on a clock to make time go faster, but to no avail. The track ‘Please, Please, Please let me get what I want’, was originally recorded by the Smiths, and has been rerecorded by emerging artist Slow Moving Millie.
Agency: Adam & Eve, London, UK
Agency Producer: Matt Craigie
Creative Director: Ben Priest, Emer Stamp, Ben Tollett
Art Director: Matt Gay, John Long
Production Company: Blink
Director: Dougal Wilson
Executive Producer: James Bland
Producer: Ben Link
DOP: Lasse Frank
Production Design: Andy Kelly
Costume: Michelle May
Editor: Joe Guest
Editing House: Final Cut
Post Production: Moving Picture Company
Music: Major Tom
Sound: Factory Sound

Friday 18 November 2011

I need nothing


I Need Nothing - a nearly useless odyssey from Cãoceito on Vimeo.

Awesome graphic album sleeve inspired video by Cãoceito + Burdman with a group of Portuguese artists.
‘I need nothing’ is an original concept from Cãoceito + Burdman, shot by Moopie. Its premier happens as a tangential project of EXD’11.

It’s a visual story told with over 200 illustrated album covers. “At a time where digital audio files dominate but where traditional mediums still seduce fans, the album covers, being useless for some, stay relevant for others“.

Largest stop motion animation



The Nokia advertising campaigns can’t stop amusing us. Three Nokia 8s and a whole sea of sand,  as a result Sumo Science and Aardman created Guinness Record for largest stop motion animation. .The film Gulp tells a story of a fisherman  swallowed by a giant fish. It was being filmed with the Nokia N8 phone from start to finish.

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Thursday 10 November 2011

Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel / UPC


Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel / UPC from Appshaker Ltd on Vimeo.
Huge thanks to everyone for your amazing feedback, we appreciate your likes, shares and adds. Please ADD us on Facebook at facebook.com/​appshakerUK

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Appshaker recently launched a unique way for people to interact with the amazing world of National Geographic Channel's content from around the globe.

Using the principles of augmented reality, people could immerse themselves in different scenes such as dolphins, leopards, the space landings, dinosaurs and more.

1000s of people interacted with the National Geographic Channel brand in the process as it toured Hungary, with 1000s more people sharing snapshots and video on Facebook as a result.

For more information on appshaker, please head to appshaker.co.uk

Show your love for the Penguin Cafe Orchestra by purchasing their single at:

itunes.apple.com/​gb/​album/​perpetuum-mobile/​id17508263?i=17508153

Tuesday 8 November 2011

I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer


I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

This feature documentary was shot last summer.

The entire 40 minutes version will be available on 11.11.11 at 11 a.m for download on my video blog sebmontaz.com.

You're welcome to watch 14 minutes of the final film on sebmontaz.com.

I have been filming the Skyliners on an incredible exploration into the world of free flight.
Tancrède, Julien, Seb and Antoine are pioneers in ‘highlining’ - a vertiginous combination of climbing, slackline and tightrope walking.

We travelled from our home in Chamonix to our training ground in the Verdon gorge, testing the limits for our ultimate goal...
We rigged highlines on the skyscrapers of Paris, and finally came to the spectacular cliffs and fjords of Norway.

Months of training led the Skyliners team to attempt their dream of complete freedom... the freedom of flight !

More about the Skyliners team: facebook.com/​pages/​Skyliners/​270006826367436

My Face Book page: facebook.com/​pages/​Seb-Montaz-Video-blog/​149892381710213

Director/Editor: Sébastien Montaz-Rosset
Sound design: by talented Michael Denny michaeldennymusic.com/​

Song used: The Rural Alberta Advantage. Frank, AB
Download the album/track here: amazon.com/​Frank-AB/​dp/​B002A60FN4

BEST VIEWED IN HD AND FULLSCREEN (with scaling off)

Sunday 9 October 2011

Sunday 18 September 2011

Blue Blood (official video)

“Bloodrop” short film made by Alexei Popogrebsky

Bloodrop

“Bloodrop” is a short film made by well-known Russian director and writer Alexei Popogrebsky (“Koktebel” 2003, “Simple Things” 2007, “How I Ended This Summer” 2010). It is a film about a wall photo…

Monday 12 September 2011

Finding Joe

Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person. Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, Finding Joe shows how Campbell’s work is relevant and essential in today’s world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life - or as Campbell would simply state, how to "follow your bliss".
Featuring: Deepak Chopra, Mick Fleetwood, Rashida Jones, Tony Hawk, Catherine Hardwicke, Laird Hamilton, Robert Walter, Akiva Goldsman, Sir Ken Robinson, Robin Sharma, Lynne Kaufman, Alan Cohen, Brian Johnson, Joseph Marshall III, Rebecca Armstrong, Chungliang Al Huang, David L. Miller, Gay Hendricks, David Loy and Norman Ollestad.

Connected (2011) Trailer Movie, Tiffany Shlain



The evolution of us

Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your laptop? Or become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all? In this funny, eye-opening, and inspiring film, director Tiffany Shlain takes audiences on an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century. From founding The Webby Awards to being a passionate advocate for The National Day of Unplugging, Shlain's love/hate relationship with technology serves as the springboard for a thrilling exploration of modern life…and our interconnected future. Equal partsdocumentary and memoir, the film unfolds during a year in which technology and science literally become a matter of life and death for the director. As Shlain's father battles brain cancer and she confronts a high-risk pregnancy, her very understanding of connection is challenged. Using a brilliant mix of animation, archival footage, and home movies, Shlain reveals the surprisingties that link us not only to the people we love but also to the world at large. A personal film with universal relevance, Connected explores how, after centuries of declaring ourindependence, it may be time for us to declare our interdependence instead. Genre: Documentary Official Site: connectedthefilm.com Director Tiffany ShlainRun Time:82 minutes


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Tuesday 6 September 2011

RENAULT LATITUDE 3d mapping



Marka: Renault Ajans: Orange Mind Prodüksiyon: Effective www.effective.com.tr.

Renault 3D mapping Test & Calibration
RENAULT LATITUDE
This exclusive project was firstly presented in Nişantaşı for 7 days and then, for 2 weeks in Kanyon Shopping Centre’s front hall.
As well as this project is exclusive in Turkey, is also exclusive in the world for outdoor presentation. Renault preferred outdoor mapping show for its brandnew model “Latitude” launch. It was a real challenge for our production team to perform mapping on a 3D object with 3D animation. After 8 weeks working, very effective images were appeared.

Production: Effective / effective.com.tr
Technik: Visio Vox / visio-vox.com.tr 


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Sunday 14 August 2011

logorama short film




An animated short that re-imagines Los Angeles as a city made up of nothing but corporate branding, populates it entirely with corporate logos and mascots, and then sets Ronald McDonald loose on a profane and by all accounts enormous bloody rampage of gun violence.

Written and directed by the French team of François Alaux and Herve de Crecy, and created over the course of a few years, this Best Animated Oscar-Nominated short film features a world full of brand logos and corporate mascots (I’m sure a couple thousand appear in all — it even features fictional companies like the Buy N Large logo from Pixar’sWall-E) Watch the short film now, embedded after the jump.
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Saturday 6 August 2011

Amazing video treats

MoVE

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage…

The kid can dance


One day on Earth

One Day on Earth - Motion Picture Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.



8 Year Old Jonny Mizzone - Flint Hill Special - Sleepy Man Banjo Boys



Rotten Apple

Apple - Beast File from Duncan Elms on Vimeo.


The Short History of Ernesto Che Guevara

What we think we know and the reality


Monday 25 July 2011

Greenpeace targets VW with “Dark Side” Viral Campaign



July 15th, 2011 by Katrina Percy
Written by VAN’s guest blogger Carla Stone
If you’re an advertising fanatic, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the sensational SuperBowl commercial for Volkswagen, featuring a little boy in a Darth Vader costume trying in vain to use the Force, finally reacting with surprise and delight when his attempt on his dad’s new VW Passat finally pay off. The ad was cute and clever, and unsurprisingly generated widespread viral sharing and a lot of positive PR for VW. However, the tables could soon be turning as the result of the latest campaign by Greenpeace – in which the environmentalists tackle the “Dark Side” of Volkswagen.
greenpeace volkswagen Greenpeace targets VW with “Dark Side” Viral Campaign
Greenpeace has constructed an elaborate viral campaign centred on Volkswagen’s Star Wars theme, highlighting the auto company’s opposition to CO2 emission cuts. The campaign website – titled Volkswagen, The Dark Side – calls aspiring Jedi to “Join the Rebellion” and convince VW to change their ways by signing a petition online.
The activists have also created a viral video parody of VW’s wildly popular viral campaign, in which a team of Star Wars “good guys” – a including a pint-sized Yoda, Chewbacca and C3P0 – confront little Darth and try to turn him away from the Dark Side. Meanwhile, in space, an ominous Death Star replica emblazoned with the VW logo readies its lasers to destroy the Earth.
Greenpeace’s next step involved some guerrilla tactics; a group of activists in London covered a number of billboards throughout the city with banners of their own design, featuring an image of the iconic Vader helmet with the VW logo in place of the mouth. The Rebellion continued as Greenpeace environmentalists dressed up as Stormtroopers took to the streets of London to spread the message.
VW responded to Greenpeace’s accusations of a poor environmental record with refreshing candour; Volkswagen’s head of press, Paul Buckett, has stated that the company will give their full attention to the issues raised by Greenpeace. Mr Buckett’s message to the public was honest and straightforward; “If you want green fuel, then we can give it to you” he stated; “But you’ll need to pay more. Still want it?”
The Greenpeace guerrilla campaign has set the social media world abuzz, with the Dark Side video boasting more than 507 078 views within three days of launching. The campaign has gathered a huge Facebook following, and led to #VW as a trending Twitter topic. However, Volkswagen’s open attitude and gracious response to a difficult PR situation has been every bit as impressive as the campaign targeting the company; the “Dark Side” ads may be extremely popular, but they may not have the effect on VW’s reputation that Greenpeace activists are hoping for…

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Saturday 23 July 2011

WikiLeaks' MasterCard Commercial Parody



Wikileaks and Datacell (a service provider assisting WikiLeaks) just announced their intention to sue the European operations of Visa and Mastercard for an ‘unlawful, US influenced financial blockade’, withholding over $15 million in donations.
In the meantime, a spoof advertisement has been released based on Mastercard’s “Priceless” tag line, mocking the fact that despite blocking donations, their actions aren’t stopping the world from changing.

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Friday 27 May 2011

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Time Square New York Hacked with iPhone



Not sure if this is real, but I'd like it to be.

It's called 'Frequency Shift Keying'. It's a method for bi-directional serial communication using the combined mic/headphone jack in an iPhone. It's similar to old telephone modems in practice; converting serial data to audible tones on the left and right channel and then back into data on the receiving end. It's done this way because Apple does not allow your average Joe access to all the hardware data ports. That part at least is plausible.

Saturday 19 February 2011

Augmented Reality Technology, 3D Interactive Toyota iQ | Toyota UK

 

Toyota’s created a 3D interactive version of iQ for the Toyota iQ augmented reality. If you’ve got a webcam, you can download the application and use it to explore the car.
Even if you haven’t, it’s worth taking a look at the demo.
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