In Norway the Norwegian music industry has launched a campaign called "Piracy kills music". A short documentary in black & white created by McCann, explains the history of music piracy so far and analyses the effects on the industry.
Welcome to the third in a Google Earth Sightseeing series that has seen competitive homeowners across the globe vying to emulate the affluence of their immediate neighbours - Keeping up with the Joneses! Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3. Check out neighbour copy behaviour - tennis courts, trampolines, and...airplane landing strips...
Actress Uma Thurman and director Kathryn Bigelow are the two stars involved in the second Pirelli online movie. Last year the tires brand debuted in branded online entertainment with The Call, starring John Malkovich and Naomi Campbell. The new movie, "Mission Zero" has been created to promote the P Zero tyre and features a car chase with Uma Thurman driving a yellow Lamborghini.
The "Forests Forever" project has been featured here many times before. Apparently this new beautiful forest photo exposition is the last part in the series. So check out Forests Forever, and take your time to slide through The Forest of Everlasting Admiration in the hidden valley of Shangri-La.
The Think Tank is a kinetic installation created in collaboration with the artist known as Trimpin. A system of 24 bobbing chickens triggers MIDI pulses, a typewriter controlled by a solenoid array types text, between the two, a computer generates random text based on President George Bush speeches analysis, and chicken pecking activity.
Another great Google Earth sightseeing tour. In Chile’s Atacama Desert, there are many examples of ancient Incan geoglyphs, similar to the Nazca Lines in neighbouring Peru, but spread over a much wider area. In the northern desert the Chiza geoglyphs were made by carefully arranging the dark stones on the light sand to create figures of humans, birds and animals. Further south, we find the geoglyphs at Tiliviche - which is a huge drawing of a whole herd of Llamas being rounded up by a fat guy and a skinny guy. See for yourself.
Jeep Patriot Comics site. is defined as "the first interactive collaborative creation the comic world has ever seen". Yes it does sound very American, but it also seems to be kind of true. Jeep and Marvel drafted the first pages of the story, and now it's up to the users to submit ideas and see them converted into the real story by the pencil of Bing Cansino. The interactive comic is also supported by a tips&tricks section in blog-style, a good idea to catch-up with the project.
If you love pop-up books and trashy pulp-fiction book covers, then you're sure to love these pictures by Thomas Allen. By taking an X-acto knife to the pages of vintage books and manipulating the images, he is able to make two-dimensional characters come to life by playing with lighting, angles and focus. The books’ wrinkled and worn pages, as well as their crumbling spines only help add to his constructions. These little paper dioramas are colorful, melodramatic and playful.
With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present - The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth!
Life thru X-Ray specs. Another wORTH1000 photo editing contest.
For some other type of ice-art Rich DeMary mixes food coloring into gallon jugs of water and then pours them over icicles hanging off the rocks along U.S. 19 near Rivesville, W.Va. to create “Street Art”; Colored Icicles in West Virginia.
Check out the YouTube video of Takeo Okamoto, a master ice carver . Or check out more pictures from the 23rd Harbin international ice and snow festival in China.
Always glad when I see online marketing applied to social campaigns. The site is called "I see I see what you don't see") and it has been developed for SIRE (Stichting Ideële Reclame - Foundation for Non-commercial Campaigns). ... "Open your eyes on violence on children" . Well done.
Endless zooming navigation concept - originally done! Check www.enter.tv. The details form into pictures, which details form into new pictures etc - whatever you choose, you just go deeper
A cool community art site for young creatives to show and share their work. Its like mixing YouTube, MySpace and art school together in one site and watching the visual party reveal itself. If you know any creative young people who may be interested, have them check it out. Fruitopia - the fruits of imagination.
Great stuff!! Another Forest Forever gallery. I always (!) go here whenever another beautiful photo gallery of a beautiful forest comes out. This time it's the Amazon. "It is more than just a forest. It is a veritable sea of trees.This carpet of dark green velvet covers the earth, An overwhelming number of strands of biological chains are woven into a tapestry that depicts the cosmos: a mandala of life. Why not go and explore it with us?" - The Green Cosmos of Life
Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium . Beever gives to his drawings an amazing 3D illusion. Scroll down slowly and stop at each new frame.
I've linked to him before, but he's well worth linking again: Shaun O'Boyle's photographs of abandoned buildings. Eerie and quite well done. Modern Ruins Photographic Essays.
Designish flashy Lexus Hybrid Living explores new ideas of how we can experience our lives in such a way that minimizes our impact on earth without sacrificing comfort and luxury. This involvement is the way forward for advertisers, the way to really make a difference. Lexus Hybrid Living
Beautiful photography Fron the Ground, From the Air, spend some time here viewing incredible artworks. See David Zimmerman Photography
One of the world's most talked about videos of the moment is The Free Hugs Campaign. An inspiring story. Brings joy. (with music by sick puppies). Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of The Free Hugs campaign became (is becoming) phenomenal. Imagine all the people....
Incredible pictures. Aerial formations of flocks of more than a million European starlings (ehm..those are birds...).
The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These are The Unrealised Projects. Like The building of the People's Соmmissariat of Heavy Industry, The Аrch of Heroes, The Рalace of Soviets and The Рalace of Technology
You have to take a look at these pictures, great artworks! For some nice Photos & Visual Art by Christopher Gilbert check out this page.
Great images of sexy trees, sexy fruit, sexy vegetables, sexy plants, sexy rocks....what's on a man's mind...
INCREDIBLE STUFF. Developed at MIT, Hyposurface™ represents the world’s very first ‘digital architecture’. This stunning, new media technology is considered the most technologically advanced ‘experiential marketing’ medium in the global exhibition and events industry. It creates 3 dimensional movements (like water drops), on a pannelled wall - which has mechanical construction on the back. It moves to sight, sound, touch and movement. Forget video screens - this is certainly the single most visually stunning presentation that anyone could possibly imagine.
La Linea is an Italian animated series created by Osvaldo Cavandoli back in the old days. The Character is created of one single line and have a temper of a 5 year old kid, so the basic for a fun cartoon is layed down here for every wannabe cartoonist to follow - Learn from this guy!
Create a unique "collage" from a single photograph. Choose one of two styles: a "joiner" style image without frames or an image created from simulated Polaroids. Every generated image is unique. This toy was inspired by the photo collages of the artist David Hockney. Works with your photos hosted on Flickr or anywhere else. Check out Hockneyizer.
Type the name of a CD/DVD or artist in the searchfield and Albumart.org will find lots of high quality CD and DVD covers within seconds! Find it at AlbumArt
Please enjoy browsing these original film and digital photo galleries of photo animations of the young moon setting, deep space, night skies, lunar and solar stuff, cloud rushes, moonshadows, or low-lying clouds. See Time-Lapse Photo Animations at Cosmotions..
Another beautiful Worth1000 Contest. In this contest you will swap beer for everyday objects or vice versa. Any kind or any form of beer product, from liquid to bottle, a keg or a can, anything beer-related is fair game. Think of a giant beer bottle blasting off for the moon, or bottle cap jewelry. The rules of this game are thus: Take any object and replace it with any kind of beer-related product (or vice versa).
Scott Wade, who lives out in the country near San Marcos, may be the only artist in the universe who should have nightmares about a car wash. Scott uses his finger to draw amazingly intricate illustrations in the dirt that builds up on the rear windows of his Mini Cooper and his wife's Mazda. That's right, the man does artwork on the windows of filthy cars. Among his works are the Dogs Playing Poker and the Mona Lisa.
From the first Monowheels in period 1869-80 to extravagant designs until the middle of the 20th century, like the Monowheel Tank (1933); the Brazilian Wheelsurf monowheel and the Gyro-Electric Destroyer: (1918). See great images and stories of Monowheels, and other vehicles with insufficient wheels.
The turmoil's ignored, but never forgotten. See this impressive photo exposition about the forgotten war in Democratic Republic of Congo. Makes you think....
Head Magazine issue 35 is full of photographic goodness.
A series of short animated films consisting of three sections by three different design teams. The artists worked sequentially, linking up their animations to create a single piece over the course of about 9 weeks. The films feature a variety of styles and methods of production including live-action, stop-motion, 3d & 2d animation. Psst! Pass it on ...
Pleix is a virtual community of digital video artists based in Paris. Some of them are 3D animation artists, some others are musicians, VJ's or graphic designers. This website is the place where they share their latest creations. Click here to check out the site. Some very nice contributions: from computer animations to weird experimental.
The North South Project is a new model of viable design and craft collaborations in the developing world: bringing design collections from the South to Northern markets. They design, manufacture, and market products fromBotswana in Africa and Guyana like beautiful wooden furniture and woven baskets, lights and garden furniture . It also takes into consideration the impact on the region's community and economy. Great initiative!!
Impressive experimental combination of music and flash animation. The jazzy sounds of John Coltrane's Giant Steps accompanied by 3D-CAD images. Dizzying & hypnotising visual effects and trancy free jazz.
Uber jeans brand, Diesel, is tapping into a vast network of artists and designers with a range of creative initiatives including the Diesel Wall Award.
Check out this 100% spacy adrenaline videoclip with music by Boards of Canada! The clip features these incredible images from the first man in space, Joe Kittinger, jumping from a balloon at 30 km (!) height in 1960, (also see my earlier post & video about this) as well as some beautiful and extreme Point Break watery surfing shots. Watch the videoclip here.
Another great example of beautiful photography and the immersive web. "There is a vast, silent world. The largest forest in the world is locked up in coldness, but is a hidden treasury of diverse forms of life. Mind-boggling eons of time and frigid temperatures are the constant companions of this forest." Visit the new forest at Forests-Forever.com: the Boreal Forest in the Russian Ural mountains.
The Art of Modern Rock is a projection engine creating a continuous random collage from a pool of over 40,000 posters. Surprising- and beautiful stuff.
Check out Life Magazine's 100 Photographs that Changed the World. You'll recognise many of these pics, but what was the context?.
The Blue Sea and Sails is an ongoing photographic project. Great pictures in a nice flashy environment.
The name says it... this fella drew a picture of everything, and you can spend hours clicking on different parts of it to find out what's what. (Click on various parts of the image for a larger view)
Check out the latest addition to the Forests Forever website: the Sarawak Rainforest right on the equator on the giant island of Borneo. This thick forest of overwhelming volume is filled with an unimaginable number of living things. The oldest rain forest in the world has continued to live to this day, untouched by the ice ages. Beautiful images. Beautul Flash. Beautiful immersion.
Check out freaks and circus attractions through the ages: this is Freak Show.
A beautiful gallery with pictures of extreme Landmark Houses built by the most innovative architects. Just to show that if you let creativity follow its way, the results can be stunning! I will take an option on buying any of these house showcases: great stuff!
The infrastructure of a lost metropolis. Unusual sights on the streets of New York City, from Victorian mansions in Staten Island and Coney Island ..remnants of long-forgotten streets ..ancient cemeteries ..cobblestone streets ..subway and train tracks and much more. See The Forgotten New York.
