This comes to us from our friends at thehappycorp, an experimental branding and design lab in NYC, after all the talk about Presidential Branding, they thought they would throw a hat in the ring. Watch the video here. Word is there will be more to come.
Maybe God made the world, or maybe man made the world and invented God. This seems to support the latter argument.
Jonathan Harris‘ latest interactive opus, The Whale Hunt, has been nominated for a 2008 Best Visual Design Webby.
In May 2007 Harris spent nine days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, traveling with them as they hunted, killed, and chopped up two Bowhead whales. Harris documented the entire experience with 3,214 photographs, beginning with his cab ride to the Newark airport and ending after the second whale was so much meat on the ice.
If the experience sounds incredible, Harris’ website may the only thing that…
DiVA Fair NYC will put 10-20 mobile video art cargo containers in West Chelsea to showcase the work of digital artists.
The containers look like they fell off the back of a semi; the doors open at 12pm every day, March 25-30 and passerbys can pop in, dance, or stare at whatever ark of color and light scrolls inside.
The Streets (as this year’s fair is named) opens with a preview on March 22nd. The containers will remain on the streets until March 30th.
For a full list of container locations…
Graffiti Research Lab built their own bullet time camera rig for a hip hop video they shot with Styles P, AZ and the Large Professor.
Not only is the video sick, but they left instructions on how to build your own ghetto rig.
Lots more pictures here; and then you have the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfyu-RFWYs
Beautiful/Decay continues to promote evolution in motion graphics with VIS/ED, a sort of visual arts crash-course academy tonight at the Anthology Film Archives.
VIS/ED will feature three 30 minute segments of video curated by some of the most galactic minds in design and marketing: Jonathan Notaro (Brand New School), Josh Rubin (Cool Hunting), and Doug Jaeger (thehappycorp).
The presentations will include commercials, animation, original work, and footage from the curators personal collections.
Q&A sessions will follow each segment.
Get your tickets now $5, as there is limited seating and this is just…
Here’s a video/costume rig that lets you watch yourself run around in the third person like you were in a video game. Apparently it’s also necessary to wear a Rollerball outfit and spiked helmet while you do this in a public park on a sunny day.
The idea is neat (you probably have to be the guy in the helmet to truly appreciate) but could use some mood modifications. It would have been cool to choose a landscape for the demo that fit the motif of the costume, suitably surreal. (via NOTCOT)…
You don’t need more toys. You need the right toys. Toys that make your work easier and your art shine. With a collection of 2 million still and moving images, Getty Images can help with that.
Up until April 30th, if your image purchases total $500 or more you get a free 1 GB USB stick. Also up for grabs, simply by entering your name into a draw, is a brand new Mac Pro and massive 30” HD monitor.
Visit getsomepropertoys.com for more details and sign up for the contest.…
This blog caught our eye–Google Sightseeing. It’s an awkward kind of blog, a compilation of sightings from Google Earth separated into catagories like monuments, crowds, construction sites, movie sets, large type and weirdness. Guys peeing in the African desert, strange airplane patterns over military bases, amusement parks, the Big Duck. Not that the content is awkward–the material isn’t any less relevant than the photos on cobrasnake or Nicky Digital. What’s strange about Google Sightseeing is the delay. What you’re seeing in the pictures–the crowd patterns, French kids doing schoolyard exercises, the SUV tipped…
If your fantasies consist of an uberlarge Donald Sutherland or Cat Power engulfing your entire horizon, then you’re in for a treat: visual artist Doug Aitken is unveiling his new video art installation, Sleepwalkers, at the MoMA next Tuesday. Well, not so much at the MoMA, but rather on its exterior facades. Already smells like avant garde art to us!
Sleepwalkers consists of 8 videos projected on the exterior walls on and around the MoMA, and follows five individuals (namely Sutherland, Power, Tilda Swinton, Seu Jorge, and Ryan Donawho) as they go from…
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