March 11, 2010 | Video | 
by Mike Daly 
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A visually stunning short 3D-animated film directed by Antoine Perez, Celine Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque. Yankee Gal took a year to complete and was produced at the always formidable French computer graphics school, Supinfocom.
May 21, 2009 | New Film | by Mike Daly |
A visually stunning short 3D-animated film directed by Antoine Perez, Celine Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque, Yankee Gal took a year to complete and was produced at the always formidable French computer graphics school, Supinfocom.
April 27, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
This beautiful clip for the Australian band Firekites consists of 1910 individual chalk drawings. It took co-directors Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg six-months to complete the project from start to finish. Every day, after shooting, their bodies and laptops were covered in chalk dust. Looking at the end result, though, I’m sure it was all worth it.
April 10, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
The Take-Away Shows is a series of improvised video sessions with musicians, set in unexpected locations and broadcast freely on la Blogothèque. The project is founded by producer Chryde and filmmaker Vincent Moon, who in the first year, managed to make over a hundred films. Each one is beautifully filmed and professionally sound recorded, creating an important archive of an era in music. This one is a recording of Við Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Rós in November of last year in Paris.
March 30, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
The concept of PSST! is quite simple: a growing collection of films, each comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. It’s a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game of Chinese whispers. Six new films have just been released in the last week under the banner of PSST!3. This one, called Alter Ego Dark Destiny The End, is directed by Takeo Hatai, Bryan Lee and Thomas Schmid.
March 24, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
It’s quite rare to see nice motion graphics that aren’t trying to make you buy something. Here’s a little film about the physics of ping pong called In Motion, by Melbourne design studio 21-19.
March 16, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
March 4, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
The imaginative films of Irish animator David O’Reilly play between so many extremes: sentimental and apathetic, beauty and ugliness, high and low art, technological and human, juvenile and mature. His latest ‘vectorpunk’ endeavour, Please Say Something, has just won the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlinale.
Illustrator Ralph Cosentino has a great series of illustrations mashing up Disney characters with Godzilla-related characters. Me like. Read more
Miwa Yanagi’s Fairytale series consists of very creepy photographic interpretations of classic Western fairytales. Read more
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a reminder of why the medium of film is so special. It features first rate visuals, performances, direction and acting, all of which fits together into one of the most insightful, powerful and touching pieces of cinema ever. Read more
An archaeologist at Stanford, Michael Shanks, has completed an interesting study of the ‘prodigious amount of thought’ given to the design and layout of a casino’s gambling floor, such as the pictured Las Vegas Venetian. Read more
My friend and fine artist Sara Wolfe sent me this link of Chicago based artist Diego Leclery. He created this flash animation Panda, to celebrate the recent Beijing Olympics. He initially said he would take it down after the closing ceremony, but it is still up, so watch this cool one before it’s gone!
We name-checked them as having one of the top five albums of 2007, and with good reason. I speak of Nashville band, The Silver Seas. Read more
Designed by Australian label Das Monk, this Acid Ice Cream features a digital print on white 100 percent cotton tee. Artwork by Zach Johnsen. Like? Yeah.
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Francoise Nielly’s Yellow series
Parisian visual artist Francoise Nielly brings technicolour to the forefront in her latest series, Yellow. Featuring thick impasto palette knife strokes and trippy neon hues, Nielly captures the vulnerable expressions of her muses to a tee. Read more
Michelle Blade’s psychedelic artwork
Michelle Blade’s washed out paintings are deceptively simple, her washy acrylics creating psychedelic textures and conjuring ghostly figures from the past. Read more
The return of the Brionvega rr226
Italian brand Brionvega has resurrected the classy Radiofonografio piece first created in 1965. The updated version is just like the original turntable/radio unit, but also has a CD/DVD player.
Pencils made from recycled newspaper
The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
Sometime in 2010, the folks behind Dirty Dishes had the slightly silly idea of using cheeky vintage photos and putting them on dinner plates. After doing lots of research, talking to lots of people, and receiving loads of positive feedback, they wondered if this idea was so silly after all. And thus Dirty Dishes was born. Read more
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