dots and spaces

not bad not great by Anthony Burrill

Beautiful film using a John Lennon radio interview, directed by designer Anthony Burrill. It's such a pleasure hearing John talk, and I love the shots of the roberts radio, honestly, go and get one.

They might be giants infographic

seen at Information Aestetics, one of my favourite bands take us on a trip around the periodic table.

This building moves

555 KUBIK_ extended version from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

Imakethings Profile

Artist Profile: Andrew Groves from Stephan Caspar on Vimeo.

Howies film

I have been buying howies t-shirts for years now, they're fun, comfortable and quite expensive. My Cardigan connection means that I've been able to pounce on some seconds and sale items, and I've even had the occasional splurge. I really enjoy the catalogue, which has always got a few interesting things to say alongside the pictures of people looking lively and active wearing the gear. There is this slightly naisal smugness sometimes, and it would be nice to see the human side to them, I like to see imperfections me, it's reasurring. Sometimes they come across badly, indulgent and aloof, but every now and then they do something like this photo project and you think good on ya. Bit sad, as I lost my nice Howies woolley hat, man it kept my bonce warm, but it got half-inched in a restaurant in London. boo. Anyway, enjoy the film, nice print technique.

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SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Just a lovely little experimental film. I'm so sorry, my posts are almost shorter that those on twitter - which is on probation, I still don't know if I like it. I'm a sucker for all kinds of social networking, and I thought this could be fun - but really who cares? Again, the right brainer in me wants it to serve some kind of purpose and the no brainer in me want to turn the internet off and get on my bike. I'm assured my new Conti's are in the post and on their way - come on, let's all track it together - oh, if only we could.

Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

An amazing film from a group that call themselves Semicondutor. In their wonderful films, they tap into science and visualise the incredible shapes, patterns, sounds and images that sometimes can be seen, but more often is invisible to the naked eye. The films have a lovely feel about them, the one above sparkles with magnetic fields, bouncing and shimmering across the screen like tiny mischievous creatures.

one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen

Norman McLaren

I've been looking for a few early animations to keep the troops interested and came across Norman McLaren, who I seem to have missed - he was well known for his work with the National Film Board of Canada.

I suppose I'm rather partial to some dots and spaces...

moo++

Its about time I did a little post about Moo who are clever people who take your flickr photos and turn them into little business cards, greetings cards and now, stickers. They use a clever Indigo digital press which means they get great quality and don't have to make plates (the things that make Litho expensive).

Cleverly, they've managed to create a seamless link from the web to print. Its a proper Web 2.0 company, which for me holds its meaning in making the internet useful and intergrated into daily life. Web 2.O means that the internet becomes a tool for daily use, rather than a big library of references and information. great.