Category Archives: animation
subblue’s animated mandelbulbs
The Formula on Vimeo Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few months ago, we had a hot lead towards immersive 3-D fractals (see Meet the Mandelbulbs) and now we have animations thereof… Music by The Formula (there’s only a … more…
The Third & The Seventh
Alex Roman, The Third & The Seventh, 2009 Full screen display is definitely recommended. This thing brings ultra-realistic CG to new levels. It is possible to forget for significant periods of time that everything here is rendered. UPDATE: there’s a … more…
Peripetics
Peripetics by ZEITGUISED, 2009 This doesn’t get less interesting with repeat viewings, nor any easier to write about. I keep crossing things out. (via, well, a long story. Earliest showing on FFFF in April, then BruceS then MacT, and most … more…
bunny attack
This is one of the very few things that’s made me laugh this week. I have a faint recollection of seeing it before, years ago, but here it is coming around again. The FFFFinder FFFFound it on a music blog … more…
Tomek Baginski’s Fallen Art
Dark, humorous, and well worth repeated views; the subtleties, especially in the soundtrack, become apparent from the second viewing onwards. The site for the film is here (via Posthuman Blues)
The inner life of the cell
Bruce likes the proteins sitting on a raft of cholesterol; I like the zipped up protein microtubules (above). This video is a rich source of outlandish terminology, containing a truly enormous number of words unlikely to be useful in any … more…
Eduardo Recife
Eduardo Recife, Detail from animations for HBO, commissioned by Raygun for Assume the Position, 2006 There’s a short video clip also, with some of the animations in situ. Assume the Position looks like it might be worth looking at, although … more…
links for 2007-11-07: Helvetica, and two kinds of sphere
Strange Metal Orb found in Texas today’s mystery object (tags: weird-shit, Texas) The Official Typeface of the 20th Century Happy birthday Helvetica, 50 years old this week (via 3quarks) (tags: typography, Helvetica, design) Turning a Sphere Inside Out Seriously counter-intuitive … more…
Little Nemo, animated
Winsor Mackay is thought to have been responsible for both the first comic strip, and the original animated cartoon. I have a couple of volumes of the collected Little Nemo in Slumberland that Titan Books put out in the late … more…
links for 2007-09-10: full moons, alarmapathy, agriculture
20 consecutive Full Moons – 20 Pleines Lunes consécutives short vivid flash movie of the Moon, wobbling slowly in its orbit (tags: astronomy animation moon cosmos) Wondering about alarmapathy confused of calcutta ponders the proliferation of alarms and alerts in … more…