Tales of Mere Existence

This is a series of animations created by Levni Yilmaz, where the drawings aren’t so much amazing, but the execution and method of an almost stream of conscious narrative makes for some both funny and insightful videos.

Have picked out a few charmers, but check out his Youtube channel for a whole lot more.

The Insect Highway

Another amazing aspect of life on Earth. Recommended.

xkcd: Money

Similar to the dispelling of radiation hyperbole, xkcd makes good on breaking down money in the year 2011.

Holiday 3D projection

This is an impressive light show projection in New York called The Snowflake & Bubble Spectacular. Commissioned by Saks Fifth Avenue for their holiday season, this was developed by marketing firm Iris, whose works have also been seen at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 World Cup and did a pretty good job of it here too.

Happy Birthday Terry Gilliam

I love you now give me the secrets to your powers.

Blerg

Been a crazy week of work and finally, I’m having a quiet night in, unwinding on beer and restitude, which will consist of cleaning, television and you, dear internet.

Work included some design work for the mayoress’ ball, which was set up to include ten fuck off massive projected screens measuring overΒ  8 by 6 meters wide.Β  Photo supplied…

So that was cool.

Also, I attended the 12th annual 24 Hours Movie Marathon over the weekend, which sadly, only makes it my second time attending since last year, but since then, I most certainly intend to keep going to for as long as it can go.Β  Where else can you go park your ass in a cinema for a whole day starting from Lee Marvin to Jeffrey Combs with mandroids and the devil in between?Β  As a stain on the inside of a film lovers’ pants is where.Β  Worth it.

Best thing from it though, is its really helped in kicking the movie watching hangover since last year’s exhausting 365 movies in 365 days project, so I’m starting to feel much better adjusted to commence watching some more flicks again.Β  Yes.

Animation: PencilHead

Okay, I’m not exactly sure what the whole context is around the making of this animation, but this animation is just mental.Β  Created by what I assume is all hand drawn, this short somehow manages to reference quite the number of anime and pop culture films and does it quite impressively.

Irina Werning: Back to the Future 2

Buenos Aires based Irina Werning returns with part 2 of her Back to the Future photo series, where she re-enacts an old photo using the same subject, location and style.Β  In this series she’s branching further out from her hometown and covering more of Europe and the US and has plans for the next lot to be taken around the middle-east.

I just love these photos and the wonderful juxtaposition created from such a simple concept.Β  The fact that she manages to recreate even the lighting and tones of the photos so perfectly is also bloody amazing.Β  Be sure to check out the rest of the series at her website.

24 Hours in photos by Erik Kessels

This image is from one of the exhibitions on right now at Foam Amsterdam where artist Erik Kessels printed off every photo uploaded to flickr in a 24 hour period, resulting in over a million photos piled into multiple rooms.

“We’re exposed to an overload of images nowadays,” says Kessels. “This glut is in large part the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and un-selfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.”

(via Creative Review)