The FACETURE series consists of handmade faceted vessels, light-shades and table. Each object is produced individually by casting a water-based resin into a simple handmade mould. The mould is then manually manipulated to create the each object’s form before each casting, making every piece utterly unique.

Idea and design by Phil Cuttance

Awesome animation. Don’t know why, but I really like the style of the animation and the whole environment.

Theo Jansen is a dutch artist who fuses art with engineering to create new forms of life, the so called “Strandbeesten”. Consisting mainly of PVC pipes, the Strandbeesten use wind energy to walk and are even able to store the energy in PET bottles. Theo Jansen keeps improving his creatures with new mechanisms that make them more viable. For instance they can detect water and turn around to avoid drowning.

http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=1e9cff02-87bc-4e47-98f5-906b3d1f7742 (de, swiss tv)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA (en)

Buero Buero. That’s what I call a nice concept for a studio website. Cheeky! And it works great.

pulse is a live-visualization of recent emotional expressions, written on private weblog communities like blogger.com. Weblog entries are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to Robert Plutchik’s seminal book Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion published in 1980. Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions in his book: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He developed a diagram in which these eight emotions, together with their weakened and amplified counterparts, form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 areas. The cone is the basic form of pulse, which can enlarge in the 24 directions of the different emotions. Each time an emotion tag, or a synonym of it, is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object transforms itself in such a way that the new volume represents a piece of the overall current emotional condition of surfers on the Internet.

RECOIL PERFORMANCE GROUP with ‘Body Naviguation’: two dancers and their digital reproduction are the scenographic frame of this humorous and emotional portrait of human relations.

Check out this guy’s room totally change into the movie he is watching! No SFX, no post production, no cuts, everything you see here is 100% for real.
In the past, projection mapping worked only from a single, static view point, and thus was very limited. By attaching the PlayStation Move to the camera, we can track projections to screens in real time, enhancing the effect of spatial deformation and false perspective on the projections and allowing viewers to look round (virtual) corners, bend walls, create a hole in the wall, or remove the walls altogether to reveal vast expanses of virtual worlds.

Check also: Part 1 and Part 3

Daito Manabe develops wonderful things. This is face tracking app one of it. Check out his other work too!

Really astonishing video of Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. This video is a FICTION and an ARTISTIC PROJECT.

Hypnotizing.

A work by Australian visual artist Kit Webster, ENIGMATICA II is a visual experience that distorts reality and destabilizes its audience by using stimulation and loss of perception. The sculpture consists of ten suspended frames that diminish in size down the length of the gallery.

Continued with Enigmatica III.

The making of “Hero,” a drawing composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots. Wow!

Mortal Engine is a intermedia dance performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Produced by well known australian dance company Chunky Move. Interactive System Designer is Frieder Weiss.

Very beautiful animated ad for united airlines by Jamie Caliri. Paper puppets with hinges were hand animated and shot frame by frame.

Visit the artists website to see some making of pictures: http://www.jamiecaliri.com/heart/the-making-of-heart

This artistic performance is an interplay between contemporary dance and computer-generated imagery aimed at conveying the feelings of a person through sound, dance and video.

Filmed at MAPPING FESTIVAL – Geneva May 2011