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)

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.

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

A great animation film (Please Say Something, 2009) by David OReilly about a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future.

Honestly, this clip sets the point. I know the clip has been around quite a while, but I think the message is worth to spread.

For all those who hate Microsoft® Word.

ROME “3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive music video by chris milk. It’s pretty awesome!

http://www.ro.me/

The “behind the curtain” article is worth a look aswell.

This striking Radiolab video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab’s Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode. Filmmakers Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante, and Julius Metoyer III play with our yearning for balance, and reveal how beautiful imperfect matches can be.

Your desktop is the scene of the crime.

A clever remake of 2010′s blockbuster movie Inception.

“I shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse.”

More of these time lapses at beepshow.com

Check out these astonishing peripheral drift illusions. The circles in the first image appear to rotate when in the visual periphery. The effect appears for instance when reading a text next to the image (like this one) or generally when you move your eyes. Many variations of this illusion exist. The two examples are from A.Kitaoka.

An explanation of the effect can be found here:
Faubert, J. & Herbert, A. M. (1999). The peripheral drift illusion: A motion illusion in the visual periphery. Perception, 28, 617 – 622.