How cool is this? mapping the location of a video on YouTube to Google maps (you’ll notice the example below is of the Ross-Brand incident from Broadcasting House on Great Portland Street)

This time by a company called Oblong who apparently were involved in advising for the film!

Really more of a photoshop technique, using the vanishing point tool released in CS3 then exporting into after effects essentially turns a 2d images into a 3d space … pretty cool eh? More info on how to do it on videocopilot.net

Lots of great motiongraphics work on Will Goodan’s site, but this piece which pays homage to some of the great eighties cartoons such as Thundercats, Transformers, MASK etc is GENIUS!!

really love James Joyce’s work …

Had a really great evening last night seeing Sigur Ros do a gig in Alexander Palace. As expected the music was excellent, but what I really liked is that the show itself was such a spectacle - some really interesting stuff with cameras and video, huge illuminated ballons in the background, and at one point they even had a giant waterfall between the stage and the audience! Great stuff!

Photos by Glediator

If I was in New York from the 4th - 7th of December I’d be going to this: BLIP FESTIVAL 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge … nice!

Wicked collection of End of film screens on Flickr … found on ComputerLove

Future of Mobile wasn’t amazing yesterday - a couple of nice talks but seemed to be either a lot of ranting about what doesn’t work with mobile or just very techie presentations. Anyway was in covent garden in the evening so ended up popping into the Magma bookstore - got quite a few nice shiny new books, the favourite of which was Playful Type edited by R. Klanten and H. Hellige

On Monday I’m off to the latest carsonisfied event - the Future of Mobile conference. I think it should be pretty exciting (though to be honest I’m not quite sure what to expect) … one thing I thought was quite funny is this guy is one of the key speakers:

If like me you are wracking your brains trying to remember where you’ve seen him before, then this should clear it up:

Another nice example of augmented reality

I love animation. I love how diverse and creative it can be. Really loved this piece composed entirely of machine-knitted frames. The music is by the Montreal band Tricot Machine (which translates to ‘knitting machine’). Found on Drawn!

YESSSSS! This is frickin AWESOME!!

So here’s some of the best music video’s from last nights Bug 10 at the BFI …

My favourite video was this brilliant animation by Laurie Thinot for the band Autokratz:

Funniest video goes to Rogier van der Zwaag for ‘Nobody Beats the Drum‘:

Wierdest / filthiest video is a joint winner by Eric Wareheim for Parisian Goldfish by Flying Lotus and also Keith Schofield’s viral trailer for Diesal.
WARNING: neither of these videos are suitable for work, home, kids, adults or anyone who might be offended … by anything! (which is why I’ve linked rather than embedded them)

Love this video - excepts for the ‘My Secret Heart‘ exhibition, the visuals were created mainly in C++/openGL/openFrameworks (the ribbons, stars, particles) and composited with the silhouettes (shot for real) in aftereffects.