Archive for the 'Design' Category
Drawings: Calamity coach
Aaron Costain has created a series of 13 drawings with reasons not to travel. The series called “Calamity coach” is a “…sequence of imaginary events designed to discourage even the bravest of souls from vehicular travel…“
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Animation: Swan Lake
We have reported about Glenn Mashall’s outstanding work with the processing engine “a while ago”. He has created another master piece and made it available online this week. It’s based on the Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake suite, rendered through with his music visualizer and created entirely as a generative/audio reactive animation, without keyframing, manual input or editing.
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Animation: Fische und Schiffe
An animation short film created as a student work similar to an shadow play.
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Music: Lykke Li – I’m Good, I’m Gone
The official video for Lykke Li’s ‘I’m Good, I’m Gone’
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Science: A Fish-Like Airship
A research team around Silvain Michel at the Swiss EMPA has created a blimp that moves and steers around like a fish. The airship uses artificial muscles based on electro-active polymers for its propulsion similar to the way fish swim through water.
Here’s a video of the blimp from a competition at the airship convention last week in Germany.
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Short Film: Mankind Is No Island
This film by Jason van Genderen was entirely shot on a cell phone on the streets of NY and Sydney. It won this year’s Tropfest NY short film festival in September…
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