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Q. Is this a music video or an interactive experience?
A. Both!
Control the timelapse with your web cam: Dark Bubbles music by Graveface and experience by Radical Friend.

Polynoid : Mindplotter

In the works since ‘07, the collaborative group of film makers and vfx artists Polynoid launched their personal project Mindplotter; developed as a symbol for what they feel is the essence of creative process.

Quimby The Mouse

More animated goodness from Chris Ware for This American Life. More info on the Vimeo page. Animation by John Kuramoto.

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Coca-Cola ‘The Organ Player’

Coca Cola – The Organ Player Whacky new spot from Director Dougal Wilson @ Blink, London with The Moving Picture Company for Mother.

1st Ave Machine: Samsung “New Species”

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1st Ave Machine’s latest project for Samsung is a delightful throwback to their early days (by which I mean a few years ago), when co-founder Arvind Palep cranked out photorealistic mechano-organic CG imagery that wowed everyone with its surreal beauty.

Like their “Sixes Last” promo from a couple years back, “New Species” is set in a forest of the imagination. I could decry agency Cheil Worldwide for forcing a repeat performance from 1st Ave, but it’s just so damned beautiful, I really don’t care. I feel like Arvind has created a universe—or rather augmented our own—with his work. You can’t contain that kind of potential in a couple of projects.

Check out 1st Ave’s portfolio here. For those who attended F5, note that Asif Mian’s new Mute Math video is now online as well.

By the way, I found this amusing old post from the Tween archives.

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Selgas Cano

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In theory, it would be AMAZING to work from a 2001 style hobbit villa. For sure. Until, at about 3pm, you realized you couldn’t get any more coffee without taking a zipline from your pastoral forest back to civilization. At this point you’d be all like “no thanks”. But maybe it’s different for Spanish architect, Selgas Cano

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Passion Pit: The Reeling

Sam Stephens, Ariel Danziger and John Hobbs sono tre registi americani legati alla casa di produzione Humble che lavorano singolarmente o insieme come collettivo artistico dal nome Hydra. Ed insieme hanno firmato il video musicale per il brano The Reeling del gruppo electro-rock Passion Pit (del precedente video del gruppo, Sleepyhead, abbiamo parlato anche in questo articolo).

Il film è stato girato e poi stampato fotogramma per fotogramma su carta per creare l’effetto strappo e squarcio.

Record Label: Frenchkiss/Columbia
Production Company: Humble
Director: Hydra
Director of Photography: Aaron Philips

Articolo redatto da Sergio Damele

VES Awards coverage

Production Tek Tips’ coverage of the 7th Annual VES Awards. Also, fxguide mentions that the Awards will be broadcast on US television this weekend.

Special fx pics

Collections of on-set special effects and greenscreen pics at the Hollywood Backlot LATimes photo gallery.

Lorcan Finnegan

Lorcan Finnegan – New reel from Director Lorcan Finnegan @ Lovely Productions