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Joy, Joy, Joie

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:18:04 +0000

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

If You’re Feeling Blu…

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:56:19 +0000

…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.

Visual And Reasonable

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:37:36 +0000

Keeping the discussion on a thoughtful level. One man’s take on the health care debate brought to life by a couple of animators.

Pes Never Disappoints

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:29:45 +0000

This one’s for Monumental Blumenthal.

I would love for this…

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:32:06 +0000

…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.