Monday, April 25, 2011
Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters
One thing that I love about the internet is that I am able to see art works that I wouldn't otherwise be able to see. A picture of the art work would be different, but the progression from looking like trash on the street into looking like a polar bear due to wind is incredible to actually see. Another thing that I think is great about this video is the incredible creativity that Harris possesses and is able to harness into an extremely unique art form.
LAB by Matheiu Badimon.
LAB.
This website's homepage has a menu that displays 7 different options: ELASTIC SPIRAL, LIQUID FORM, WARPED TEXT, ACTION CHESS, GRAVITY BALL, BLOCK CLOCK, and CORNER DRAG. ELASTIC SPIRAL brings you to a screen where you can spin a grey and white patterned circle to the left or the right and then it snaps back. Let it be noted that on the left hand, right hand and bottom parts of the window you can adjust the angle at which you are viewing the object. LIQUID FORM takes you to a screen where there are two white circles with dark green outsides, and if you move them in close proximity to each other the dark green outsides become attached. WARPED TEXT is the word "FORM" and you can click on buttons and drag to warp the word. In ACTION CHESS, moving the cursor over the small white blocks makes them get big and pink. With GRAVITY BALL, the higher you throw the ball the deeper it falls into the soft ground. BLOCK CLOCK forms the time from different blocks that lay around the time, it tells you in hours, minutes and seconds. You can also click the option chronometer, and then it acts like a stop watch! CORNER DRAG allows you to drag the word "DRAG" over a corner.
I like this website because although it seems quite simple, the amount of work put into creating these seven windows as well as being able to alter one's perspective in three dimensions is amazing. Unfortunately, the artist Matheiu Badimon is under construction, so I couldn't find out much else about him, besides that he is French and his profession is a web designer.
This website's homepage has a menu that displays 7 different options: ELASTIC SPIRAL, LIQUID FORM, WARPED TEXT, ACTION CHESS, GRAVITY BALL, BLOCK CLOCK, and CORNER DRAG. ELASTIC SPIRAL brings you to a screen where you can spin a grey and white patterned circle to the left or the right and then it snaps back. Let it be noted that on the left hand, right hand and bottom parts of the window you can adjust the angle at which you are viewing the object. LIQUID FORM takes you to a screen where there are two white circles with dark green outsides, and if you move them in close proximity to each other the dark green outsides become attached. WARPED TEXT is the word "FORM" and you can click on buttons and drag to warp the word. In ACTION CHESS, moving the cursor over the small white blocks makes them get big and pink. With GRAVITY BALL, the higher you throw the ball the deeper it falls into the soft ground. BLOCK CLOCK forms the time from different blocks that lay around the time, it tells you in hours, minutes and seconds. You can also click the option chronometer, and then it acts like a stop watch! CORNER DRAG allows you to drag the word "DRAG" over a corner.
I like this website because although it seems quite simple, the amount of work put into creating these seven windows as well as being able to alter one's perspective in three dimensions is amazing. Unfortunately, the artist Matheiu Badimon is under construction, so I couldn't find out much else about him, besides that he is French and his profession is a web designer.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Imagination
Show me your imagination.
This link leads to a page called Neave Imagination - Play with beautiful wobbly lines. And that's basically what you do, you move your mouse around, click to change the color, and the lines that come out of your mouse movements differ depending on the movement, and also change color just on their own constantly. It reminds me of the Jackson Pollock website, but with laser-like light images instead of bright paint.
This link leads to a page called Neave Imagination - Play with beautiful wobbly lines. And that's basically what you do, you move your mouse around, click to change the color, and the lines that come out of your mouse movements differ depending on the movement, and also change color just on their own constantly. It reminds me of the Jackson Pollock website, but with laser-like light images instead of bright paint.
Claymation Hell
"Oh dear....our first attempt at being disturbing! I think we pulled it off to a certain extent. We wanted to make the most evil animation we possibly could so we made an animated vision of hell. We set it to some dark ambient music by Nurse With Wound and made horrific sounds by recording screaming and moaning and then altering it to sound inhuman and downright scary. The result was this. Creshton Crayfields (Crust) was excited by our work so he hopped on board and helped us finish it."
~ David Firth on his claymation short "Hell".
David Firth is one of the most famous internet animators currently on the web. You may also know his series of shorts called Salad Fingers, which has gained a sort of cult following. In this video however, Firth uses claymation, a stop motion video which must have taken weeks upon weeks to film to perfection. The result is an unnerving sequence of scenes accompanied by shrieking music which to me sounds and looks exactly like how I imagine hell...if it were made out of clay.
~ David Firth on his claymation short "Hell".
David Firth is one of the most famous internet animators currently on the web. You may also know his series of shorts called Salad Fingers, which has gained a sort of cult following. In this video however, Firth uses claymation, a stop motion video which must have taken weeks upon weeks to film to perfection. The result is an unnerving sequence of scenes accompanied by shrieking music which to me sounds and looks exactly like how I imagine hell...if it were made out of clay.
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