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Kseniya Simonova is a sand animator, an amazing artist and storyteller and the the winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent for 2009. Her YouTube video has become an internet phenomenon as millions of people watched her Amazing Sand Drawing. Via: Guardian.co.uk
Sand animation
Visualisation of earthquake analysis globally
7.2 quake in Japan, analysis of current situation globally - March 9, 2011
March 11, 2011 - Earthquake analysis/ update- a geologic record setting day
Via: http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/
Visualisation of earthquakes is made with Earthquake 3D, a freeware program possible to download from download.cnet.com/
3D API Molehill and Flash Player 11
On Sunday, February 27, Adobe provided general access to the beta-version of Molehill 3D API and Flash Player 11. Molehill uses GPU for rendering, allowing developers to achieve modern graphics in browser applications. You can download public builds, documentation, and Flex SDK from AIR and Flash Player Incubator on labs.adobe.com.
But to see the true value of these new technologies you need showcases. Alternativa LLC presents MAX Racer demo, built on proprietory Alternativa3D 8 graphics engine. First the video of this showcase was shown at Adobe MAX 2010. Info via: Flash and Flex Developer’s Magazine
Multicolr Search Lab
Idée Inc. extracted colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our Piximilar visual search technology you can search the collection by colour.
The Google Art Project
Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project.
“You’ll find a selection of super high-resolution images of famous works of art as well as more than a thousand other images, by more than 400 artists—all in one place. And with Street View technology, you can take a virtual tour inside 17 of the world’s most acclaimed art museums.” via: Google’s Official Blog
Games and music
Saturday 19th February Mediamatic is organising the Opening Arcade Level 4: Handhelds, which introduces you to over 200 handhelds, and to a group of musicians who turned their Game Boys into musical instruments. See the source info at Mediamatic
The power of visualization
Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998" is a Multimedia artwork by Isao Hashimoto
It is a visualization of the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 in various parts of the globe. Beautiful, and scary at the same time.
About "1945-1998" ©2003 by autor:
"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world." via ctbto.org
"HOME" Time for reflection!!!
This fascinating film caring through the camera in bird's eye view, and through the beautiful song/sound a massage against the depletion of natural resources, and FOR the change of the way we living. "HOME" released 2009 is produced by EUROPACORP (Luc Besson) and ELZEVIR FILMS (Denis Carot), directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and supported the PPR Group as a non-profit film with the purpose to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. You can watch the full version at YouTube
More information about "HOME" at the official website: http://www.home-2009.com , about the Planet at: http://www.goodplanet.info and
"HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Web & Interactivity
What is Web Interactivity? and How does one achieve it?
Curious? Check "Importance of Web Interactivity: Tips and Examples" by Poonam on
Hongkiat.com (Online Web and Interactivity tips for designers and blogers)
Picture: Magnivate Interactive Boutique Agency, one of presented examples.
Dance animation by Ryan Woodward
"Thought of You" is a project of Ryan Woodward, animator/designer and storyboard artist, where in very creative way he mixes figure drawings in with animation. According to him self inspiration to the project stems from years of teaching creative gesture drawing:
"The birth of this animation came from a desire to unite several of my passions into one art piece. Figurative works, 2d animation, EFX animation, and contemporary dance. Put all three of these forms together to support a theme centered around the complexities of intimate relationships...and whalaa!"
The background story, the animation and the behind the scenes documentation is available on Ryan Woodward's project blog: Conté Animated.
Ryans website: www.ryanwoodwardart.com (don't miss his storyboards to the"Where the wild things are")
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
Via YouTube/theRSAorg Channel: "This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award."
Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation
Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8. See Dot. The movie and Dot. The making of
3D, realtime, multiplayer engine for Flash
During the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles on the 25th of October a new possibilities of new Flash player were shown. Showcase called MAX Racer created by AlternativaPlatform presented technology for multiplayer browser games with possibility to draw more than 3 millions of polygons with high performance. Alternativa3D is Flash 3D engine for realtime, multiplayer games, virtual words, demos and promotional projects....and is now for free to download. Info via: flashflex.com . For more information about the project see the video.
Toy Photography and Photo Tips and trix
Photo by Zelevol
Great collection of toy photography and plenty of Photography Tips and Trix you wiill find on hongkiat.com/blog. Read more on: Bokeh Photography
Action Sequence Photography
Tilt-Shift Photography and High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography. The site provide plenty of information on "How to" in different areas, more on photography you will find in: Five Photography Tips for Amateur Photographers, Five tips to better Group Photography and in Five Vital Black & White Photography Tips
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