DNA animated
March 18, 2013 § Leave a comment
DNA explained in a visually appealing way.
Created by Territory Studio and creative director David Sheldon-Hicks & art director William Samuel for BBC Knowledge & Learning Explainer series.
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Enjoy music
December 9, 2012 § Leave a comment
Even if we do not have to understand music, we surely enjoy it. And we did enjoy this magnificent video animation about the process of learning music by finally., a creative and passionate studio was from Germany.
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In every cry of every Man
July 23, 2012 § Leave a comment
A few days before the opening ceremony of the 30th Olympic Games in London, Alex Robinson remembers William Blake and his poem London, published in Songs of Experience in 1794, to portray Olympic city’s face.
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Tim Burton’s animated filmography
June 10, 2012 § Leave a comment
He did it again. French animator and graphic designer Martin Woutisseth, whose animation on Stanley Kubrick’s filmography we have already admired, created an animated video for Tim Burton’s films, this time. What can we say? We love Stanley Kubrick, we love Tim Burton and now we love Martin Woutisseth.
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The Old Man and the Sea: watch it
April 4, 2012 § Leave a comment
Instead of reading Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, you can now watch it in a beautiful hand drawn stop-motion animation by German photographer and designer Marcel Schindler.
via Brainpickings
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The ABCs of cinema
February 16, 2012 § 1 Comment
A video quiz this time to test our movie knowledge. Evan Seitz created an amazing animation video, where its letter of the alphabet represents a popular film. How many titles can you name?
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The sky turned blood red
January 18, 2012 § Leave a comment
“I was walking along a path with two friends / the sun was setting / suddenly the sky turned blood red / I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence / there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city / my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety / and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Edvard Munch, 1893
Not only poems can be animated, as we have seen in our previous post, but paintings as well. Edvard Munch’s The Scream gets a life of its own in this amazing video, created by animation director and graphic artist Sebastian Cosor.
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There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
January 15, 2012 § Leave a comment
To visualise a poem’s world : what a challenge.
Designer Monika Umba attempts a magical immersion to Bukowski’s world with her mesmerizing animation video of Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Bluebird,” originally published in his 1992 anthology.
The Bluebird
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?
via Brainpickings
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Song of the week
November 21, 2011 § 2 Comments
To die by your side…
October 27, 2011 § Leave a comment
and if a double-decker bus /crashes into us /to die by your side /is such a heavenly way to die /and if a ten-ton truck /kills the both of us /to die by your side /well, the pleasure – the privilege is mine
Especially when you are a fictional character popping out from the illustrated first-edition covers of Macbeth and Dracula.
Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die by Your Side) is a short animation film made of 3,000 pieces of felt, all cut by hand by
Olympia Le-Tan and directed by Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn.
The story is set on a bookshelf of the famous Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company and displays the encounter of two cut out figures wanting to be together.
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Word as image
October 12, 2011 § Leave a comment
The great challenge: to ‘create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself and their graphic elements without adding outside elements’. That was what Ji Lee, former Creative Director at Google Creative Labs (we first met him here), did in his new book Word as Image. Have a first look of his work in this wonderfully animated video:
You can find his book here.
via Quipsologies
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Animated music
August 25, 2011 § 1 Comment
Musical notes have a life of their own and Dan Cohen managed to reveal it in his Animated Sheet Music, a series of beautiful animations of Miles Davis’, Charlie Parker’s and John Coltrane’s jazz songs.
via Laughing Squid
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Your best bits
August 16, 2011 § 1 Comment
When life flashes before your eyes, which images would you choose to remember? Steve Cutts follows one man’s last moments, as he accidentally falls off a tall city building, in his hand-drawn animated short film In The Fall.
via Laughing Squid
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The journey of the English language in time
July 4, 2011 § 3 Comments
How did the English language evolve in time? Ten witty animated videos released by the Open University tell us ‘The History of English in 10 Minutes’, bringing us through 1600 years of linguistic history. From the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to the English of the Internet, the journey of the language goes on.
Watch the rest of the videos: Anglo-Saxon, The Norman Conquest, Shakespeare, The King James Bible, The English of Science, English and Empire, The Age of the Dictionary, American English, Global English.
via OpenCulture
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- Can you take a hint?
- “Pun,ctu.a’tion?”
- Help the semicolon not to become extinct
- The incredible shrinking sentence and other wonders of the english language in the year 2011
Time is of the essence
June 4, 2011 § 1 Comment
Take some of your city’s abandoned buildings and light them up. Director André Chocron created an impressive animated visual for Cold Mailman‘s song “Time is of the essence”, playing with the lights and music in whole building blocks of Oslo. Amazing result!
via Not.cot
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Keeping a visual diary
May 25, 2011 § Leave a comment
I have tried to keep track of my thoughts and write them down in a diary, but I never quite managed to keep it updated more than a couple of weeks. That’s why I got so ‘jealous’ and fascinated by Brooklyn-based designer and filmmaker Joe Hollier‘s visual diary. My visual diary is a beautifully narrated stop-motion film, that captures a month in Joe’s life.
via Brain Pickings
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Kubrick’s animated odyssey
April 30, 2011 § 2 Comments
When Dr Strangelove and Alex met Lolita and Spartacus. Beautiful animation of Stanley Kubrick‘s full filmography, created by Martin Woutisseth.
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Painting with notes
April 28, 2011 § Leave a comment
When notes are not just notes, but have a life of their own. Music Painting, created by Alice Ninni, is a beautiful animation video of the song “Lacrime de Giulietta” by Italian composer Matteo Negrin.
via Laughing Squid
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Do it like Shakespeare
April 22, 2011 § Leave a comment
It happens to all of us, who struggle with words to express our thoughts verbally, with every single writer’s block. Or at least, it happens to me quite often. But to William Shakespeare? But his two good friends, Romeo and Juliet, help him to overcome it.
Animated short film by Jerusalem-based animator Anna Cohen.
via Brain Pickings
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Cinemagraphs: the art of the animated gif
April 21, 2011 § 4 Comments
Remember the early days of the web, before Flash and JavaScript, when the animated gif was the only thing that could move in a webpage (and more often than not to a displeasing effect)? Those days are long gone, and the gif has been de-throned and for good reason: most of them were not only crude, but utterly ugly as well, by definition bordering on the kitsch side. But the gifs you are about to see are a completely different story.
Fashion (and not only) photographer Jamie Beck creates these amazing animated gifs with the help of web designer Kevin Burg. 
These gifs walk the fine line between photography and video, belonging to neither. They are studies on a scene. You might even miss the motion completely if you are not careful enough. But, even if minimal, this motion is heavy with emotion and fluent with meaning.
The artistic duo calls their animated gif cinemagraphs and explain: “There’s something magical* about a still photograph — a captured moment in time — that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.”
You can find all of Jamie’s animated gifs in her tumblr: from me to you. Not only that, but you can also find all of her fashion photography (New York Fashion Week, anyone?), her own styling and street fashion photography (I love her vintage style; it is actually her on the portrait above), her food blogging, her series on NYC and other cities and A LOT more.
*[Speaking of magic, this minimal flickering inside the photograph is exactly how I always imagined the Daily Prophet.]
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