In Munich, Germany, you have a legal graffiti wall known as the Tumblingerstraße. Here you see how a miniature graffiti piece is getting sprayed on the wall.
Tomas Mankovsky made this promo for the band Dancing Pigeons, that Diesel supports through Diesel U:Music. A longer short film version will be released on Diesel.com soon. The film is based on Diesel’s theme for their new collection “Fire & Water”.
Comic-Con saw the surprise announcement of an alliance between Capcom and Namco that’s slated to bring you 2 monster games: Capcom X Tekken and Tekken X Capcom. This is the first teaser trailer.
DJ Cheeba performs an exclusive live mix using Beck’s Vier beer taps to trigger audio samples and lighting effects across a grid of 600 LED-lit Beck’s bottles. The video for Beck’s Vier Music Inspires Art Programme is created by Outside Line.
Triangle is a video work done for the book ‘Black Material’ which showcases NYC artist Robert Knoke’s artwork. Curator Jens Karlson asked Onur Senturk to make a short animation and get Robert Knoke’s black and white artwork as base for video.
$6.000 and she’s yours! Not a cheap date, but after seeing this mini-documentary by the ever-exquisite California Is A Place you’ll recogn she’s a work of labour. Beautiful.
Composite of the work ‘After into the Southport Broadwater Parklands created by Graffiti Technica. I love the lighting & shadow, especially in combination with the music (Voy by Julien Neto)
These are the pools of the California dream! The dream has been dried up in the sun but the pool got his new function.
Some nice distortion in this opening titles for Mad MMX festival in madrid. Do you think this is Trapcode FORM, well check out the making off. These guys from Physalia did a pretty good job!
The second 7″ vinyl single currently out on On-Point Records: Uphigh Collective’s Blend. Debuting singer Delv!s, perfectly fusing everything in between José James and Cee-Lo Green. This is a video of his live version on Studio Brussel, effortlessly!
Stop motion artist Patrick Boivin is back with a new video. You might know him from the YouTube Street Fighter game. There were two things he wanted badly as a kid and never got: A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.
Check out this video for Robyn’s track Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do. It’s written entirely in code, with much of the content fed by fans who tweet what is killing them using the hash tag, #killingme. Since everything is generated on the viewers screen, every view is unique. More info on the website of Thomas Bjork.
Very clean and good looking pixelart video by Jack Cunningham. He created the video for a university project. Make sure you also check out his showreel.
Made by two dutch directors: Andre Maat and Superelectric. More than 150 t-shirts were animated in stop-motion to create this really nice promo for the ARD and ZDF (the german public broadcasters).
My old classmate Menno Fokma, made his new reel for 2010! He improved himself this time! Credits also for the tight audio by studio takt
According to Wikipedia freediving is ‘the practice of breath-hold underwater diving. Competitive apnea is an extreme sport, in which competitors attempt to attain great depths or distances on a single breath without the assistance of a breathing apparatus’. Guillaume Nery takes this to the next level by going into a black hole.
Motion graphics and typography, these are a few of my favorite things. The way this animation for the Spanish economic dept. flows on and on is just lovely. Made, with love, by Cocoe for advertising agency Contrapunto.
A series of reveal films for Aol by Universal Everything. I love how much ideas they came up with, within the same simple concept. The series was launched at the New Museum, NYC, which btw made a shirt that looked very familiar to us. For the earlier phase of the series scroll down UE’s Vimeo page:
Just out: a brand new video for Swedish soundbuba’s Miike Snow working with Swedish director King Andreas Nilsson. The song is called ‘The Rabbit’. I love little men with beards + goats are lovely animals too! All shot in one of the best film locations on earth: Kingston, Jamaica.
Google created a pretty cool video to show the extreme speed of Google Chrome. Watch Google’s video first, because Opera also decided to run some speed tests:
Nike wants you to write the future, but in the meantime W+K is writing the future with this epic World Cup commercial.
It is the name of recently merged Amsterdam districts Osdorp, Slotervaart and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer. The merge also means an end to 20 years of reconstructing Osdorp. Celebrating this +1 was asked to create an intriguing video, featuring the buildings they found most characteristic.
Not sure I agree with the conspiracy-theory (or the Australian accent) but this nicely animated video from The Beast File is definitely for for thought.
Fun viral for Nike Free Run +. Ok, it’s an obvious fake, but you do have to admit that the idea could take DJing to a whole new level. Anyways, see for yourself.
My good colleague Joeri just showed me this really cool short video called ‘Pixels’. It’s a New York invasion by 8-bits creatures. Impressive motion graphics. Directed by Patrick Jean at One More Production in France.
Philips asked five RSA directors to create a series of short films using the same script. The first one is done by Johnny Hardstaff and the second one by Hi-Sim. The other three are released here tomorrow.
Often animators try to get this cut-out paper effect done with their software. Tilles Singer simply did the real thing, using stop-motion and tons of pictures collected from magazines and the web.
Look what happens when you combine graffiti with stop motion. Fresh from the Israelian Broken Fingaz crew.
Sonar killed the Nokta. A basic keyframe animation using flash, without scripting.