The Animaatiokone is a kiosk for making stop-motion animations out of clay: a miniature movie-making studio with a special software for instantly making tiny cartoons. It was ‘designed’ for a movie theater, so that people could learn about making movies and make one while waiting to see one. They posted the resulting movies on-line and […]
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animated paint
Flickr introduced high-quality video to its amazing array of social image sharing functionality – a new medium for the web (see the best videos here). To celebrate here is Orit Zuckerman‘s freshly uploaded video of Moving Portrait 2 (above) and this AWESOME three-dimensional image (if you cross your eyes)(below).
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fictional computing
pierre wellner’s 1991 digital desk is a seminal piece of human-computer interaction research, but it’s also a pioneering video. in today’s interaction world, video documentation is essential to show how a dynamic, responsive system works. in many ways, videos are the documentation media best suited to interaction design. as wellner’s video demonstrates, it’s not necessary […]
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museum lab
yesterday i visited dai nippon printing’s exhibit in gotanda (tokyo) called louvre museum lab – a series of interactive installations built around titian’s madonna of the rabbit. the interfaces are big and beautiful, so even though most of the curatorial content in available on-line, experiencing the museum lab in person is completely necessary. one interface […]
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the first music videos
we may think of music videos and motion capture as recent technologies, but they were all pioneered in fleischer studios‘ seminal betty boop cartoons of the 1930s where popular musicians were incorporated into surreal and suggestive musical cartoons. Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a technique whereby live-action footage was traced to make hand-drawn animations. the […]
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animated label
there’s something about stop-motion animation that appears real, maybe because of its physicality of because of all those smart materials and the promises of nano-technology. i just get the feeling that one day all of the things around us are going to be able to come to life. this beringer commercial uses exquisite stop motion […]
touching robots
i feel honored to break this story: hayes raffle founder of zoob and inventor (along with my colleague amanda parkes) of topobo finally released his work on youtube – and it’s worth watching every movie. not just because i’m lucky enough to work with him, or because he’ll be a free agent in a few […]
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watching paint dry
finally someone has posted the entirety of ‘le mystere de picasso’ (the mystery of picasso) in 13 parts on youtube. the incredible film shows picasso’s painting process by filming a series of paintings as they are made. this clip shows how they are made: by filming through a sheet of glass onto which the master […]
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