Simian Mobile Disco

I love Simian Mobile Disco and their live show is incredible. I stumbled upon a video of a show in NYC from Vimeo contributer Andrew Klein. The sound quality of the video is not great but it perfectly illustrates the weird and awesome DJ setup they have during their live shows. It looks like they are assembling a server RAID at a dance party, pretty freaking awesome.

Simian Mobile Disco NYC 2009 from Andrew Klein on Vimeo.

Field Studio Interactive outdoor installations

I stumbled on the amazing interaction design studio, Field out of London. Here are several amazing interactive outdoor installations that will make you feel like a little kid again.
Photon and Bright Nights.

Photon – Interactive Light Games from FIELD on Vimeo.

Bright Nights, NYC ’06 from FIELD on Vimeo.

Six-Forty by Four-Eighty

Amazing interactive wall installation Six-Forty by Four-Eighty by Zigelbaum + Coelho. Find more interactive electronic works at Refik Burak Atatur Vimeo page.

Keep Drawing

An inspiring animation short by Studio Shelter, this will make you want to grab your drawing pad and Keep Drawing.

keep drawing from studio shelter on Vimeo.

ADCD Paper Fashion Show 2011

This year my sister Ashley and I participated in the Art Director’s Club Denver Paper Fashion Show.  It was a fantastic show with some really, really amazing design. Our little design team set out to create an outfit fit for a female warrior, drawing our inspiration from Moorish and Moroccan tile designs and Roman gladiators. Our model was the fabulous Mia, who rocked our outfit down the runway.

In Illustrator I created 5 tile designs that were cut out and attached together with thread, tape and glue to create an overlapping applique effect. My sister spend days working the applique into a dress, which had the look of armor.

I also created a print design which served as the “fabric” for the vest. I cut out the design in an alternating fashion, revealing a gold painted paper underneath. The gold paint weighted the paper giving it a smooth, almost leather texture.

It was a fun experience, and I can not wait for the next Paper Fashion Show!

Youtube video of all the designs.

Bigfoot

Over the past week I have been working on flip books to be used at the Denver Art Museum. When working digitally animation just happens:

Here are a couple of pictures of the flip book in action.

Click the image below to see the flip book animation!

Kinect Flock | Particles

Beautiful Kinect xbox art piece by Alex Wolfe and Honray Lin. Using motion tracking the particle system reacts to movement and depth placement, creating these stunning animations.

Link to video here

Link to their project page

Part of a series of classes at Carnegie Mellon University taught by artist and programmer Golan Levin. I am so jealous, I want to take this class!

http://golancourses.net/2011spring/

Book cover art

Cover Browser has an awesome collection of classic book cover art ranging from science fiction to campy western. The cover art is great, but some of the titles are even better.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/

Too Cold Outside

It is freezing outside so I will photoshop:)

Stock photo of girl from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1205205

 

Nowhere Near Here

Nowhere Near Here is a light stencil animation, yeah you heard me right, LIGHT STENCIL. The video is comprised of photographs that create a stop motion animation of a little dog running through the city at night. Created by UK street artist Pahnl, Nowhere Near Here combines animation with the ephemeral nature of street art. I would not have made the connection between the two mediums, but the use of light and electronics in street art is becoming increasingly popular as seen with collectives like Luzinterruptus and I am all for it. Absolutely brilliant and the song by Roysopp is quite good too.

 

View video:
here