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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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)

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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