Tom Gauld has just started up a tumblr site called You’re all just jealous of my jetpack where he will be posting the weekly cartoons he makes for the Guardian newspaper. Recommended bookmarking.
In my job where using stock photos is necessary (and at times frustrating), it’s refreshing to see this very creative approach in combining 873 images at 15 images a second to create this 1 minute long stop motion short.
Copywriter Sophie Schoenburg and art director Marcus Kotlhar worked 6 months researching images, improving the script and building each scene so they would not only be understood, but would also touch viewers. Sometimes, for example, a scene would look perfect on paper, but the images chosen to depict it were not sufficient or did not perfectly match up to offer the right movement and sense.
And very hungover’dley at that…
In this set: Flavorwire have released their third (and apparent final) video essay compiling the debut film roles of many of today’s movie stars. Be prepared for some pleasant surprises and some…
Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Basquiat, Ron English, and Joan Miro, these being only a few, are just some of the artists that have inspired this young artist. – Alec Goss works with a variety of different styles and elements ranging from collage, painting, graphic design, and so on.
via: thecoolsumist
Pretty much scrambled to get to the pre-order section straight after seeing this demonstration promo for the Leap, a motion control user interface device currently in development that maps hand gestures with ridiculously fast accuracy.
While I’m still waiting on edge for what Windows 8 and Kinect are gonna bring to the table later in this year, the prospect of this device (and it’s cheap as tits US$70 price tag) seems too good to give up. And while the estimated shipping date is around the end of the year, I’d say that’s still faster than the Minority Report technology 40 years from now. Hells yeah.
These full length renditions are incredibly well done. First up is OK Computer…
And then Kid A…
Back in 1993, Douglas Adams recorded this soundbite for his then-publisher, retracing the origins of books and an almost prophetic description of their evolution to e-books.
Below is a submitted animation for a competition run by the Literary Platform to design a motion graphic to accompany this soundbite. Check it.
Seven years ago this week, David Foster Wallace argued that “learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.” Yet in an age of ceaseless sensationalism, pseudoscience, and a relentless race for shortcuts, quick answers, and silver bullets, knowing what to think seems increasingly challenging.
Calls for more big ideas in SF are generally a political cri de coeur. We might equally imagine a similar essay in the context of mid-sixties Soviet fiction, calling for more fiction about tractors and breakthroughs in agricultural genomics.