Another fantastic way to waste my time.
The French website Incredibox – a charming human beatbox mixer made of a human chorus of French slackers. Love the little bonus footage buttons that light up when they’re ready to give you a treat.
Here’s a video of one of my creations:
via Very Short List
…then this should do the trick. Big thanks to Stephen Chow who introduced me to the artist Blu a while back. And thanks to Jeff for sending me Blu’s latest stop-motion video.
Besides the art and the use of the environmental space, I love the sound design. It’s been such a long-time (relatively) convention to use music as a backdrop that I’ve kind of forgotten that well crafted sounds can fill that space just as compelling-ly. (I have two certificates from two different higher institutions of learning that qualify me to wordsmith my own words. So back off.) I especially dig the texturized tone that is used behind the more foreground sounds.
Keeping the discussion on a thoughtful level. One man’s take on the health care debate brought to life by a couple of animators.
This one’s for Monumental Blumenthal.
…to be playing on my wall-sized plasma screen in 3-D. Because the way things are moving, I’m fairly certain that will be available in less than 7 years.
This is so beautiful.