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Sure, this was all over the interwebs a few weeks ago but it has taken me time to re-post because I needed to process it a bit. There are some obvious limitations, first of which being the large scale required in order to make this effective, secondly the battery life in order to make it feasible for long enough to create discernible formations, and third, environmental variables such as wind complicate things. Computing power (insert cloud pun here) wouldn’t really be an issue since the signals would include not much more than: x/y/z coordinates, light intensity/color, battery life, and motor strength/speed.
http://www.vimeo.com/9681874So what about the Flyfire project bothers me? It’s the limitations, at least in the near future, for this display system to be used for anything other than entertainment purposes. Each LED enabled helicopter acting as an independent pixel is remarkable, although it requires precision and synchronization. I did see the perfect application in the next 3-5 years; fireworks which require little precision and can be viewed at a distance which allows the helicopters to be much larger in size which affords greater control. Still a sweet little concept project from SENSEable City Laboratory, as seen on various sites including Giz and Cpluv.
http://www.vimeo.com/10458544
Basically camera experiments with some nicely sync’d up sounds. Seems to have a foundation rooted in random objects interacting with gravity. Puzzlingly effective and yet bare bones minimal.
http://www.vimeo.com/9451511
Forget the watches (not quite my style), I’m in it for animations like the one above. Via Kronikle.
http://www.vimeo.com/8079100
I love the fact that to people in product development and marketing this is what an ‘unboxing’ should be like. Sadly, this isn’t the case for any manufacturer other than Apple. Awesome ad work for a somewhat ‘uninspiring’ client.
http://www.vimeo.com/10435821
Clocking in at just under 2k individual photographs this new 3D stop motion trend is impressive but the thought of the amount of time required to create these makes my brain hurt.
http://www.vimeo.com/9842123
Much more than 3D animation, this is video from an installation art piece by Kit Webster,via todayandtomorrow.
Remember how awesome this scene from 1995’s Johnny Mnemonic was at the time? I mean, you could surf the internet with the exotic combination of the Powerglove and Geordi LaForge’s visor. Plus the web was an immersive 3-D experience, which we can only hope it will someday be. Or not.
Hackers and it’s montages competed with Keanu in ‘95. Their vision, much less future-focused but no less 3D, was driven more by adoration of the young Angelina Jolie than non existent tech hardware. Zero Cool+meatspace automation+sunglasses= success. Just wanted to share a slice of the past and what the internet promised to be in light of it’s present-day state.
http://www.vimeo.com/9856705
Love the lighting and rendering, plus some slick physics in play with regard to dealing with liquids in motion. Turkish motion artist Onur Senturk also receives bonus points in my book for a baaaaadassss title sequence at the end. Also, if you have the time check out his showreel set to a hipster-light soundtrack here.
This is the music video for Nobody Beats The Drum. It’s astounding to me that this is actually a stop motion piece comprised of 4085 photos as opposed to being computer animated. It syncs perfectly to the music and was worth the countless hours it must have taken to capture enough images. The making of video is a piece of work to boot. Via TodayandTomorrow.