Category Archives: Video

Does money make you mean?

It’s amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint: badly.) But while the problem of inequality is a complex and daunting challenge, there’s good news too.

via ted.com

OBLIVION GFX Montage

The mighty Joseph Kosinski invited Munkowitz to the GFX party once again, this time for his spring blockbuster feature film OBLIVION.

One of the most widely seen Graphic elements was Vika’s Light Table, which allowed her to guide Jack Harper through his tasks as a Drone repair man in the field of duty. The table itself was built practically, so most of the visuals were captured in-camera, lending a beautiful optical touch to the design.

via thecreatorsproject.vice.com and gmunk.com

Beauty of Mathematics

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” – Bertrand Russell

via parachutes.tv

15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes

Sorts random shuffles of integers, with both speed and the number of items adapted to each algorithm’s complexity.

The algorithms are: selection sort, insertion sort, quick sort, merge sort, heap sort, radix sort (LSD), radix sort (MSD), std::sort (intro sort), std::stable_sort (adaptive merge sort), shell sort, bubble sort, cocktail shaker sort, gnome sort, bitonic sort and bogo sort (30 seconds of it).

via panthema.net

“Sound of Threads”

An exhibition in Reykjavik, Iceland in june 2013 by Bertrand Lanthiez, where visitors interacted with the immersive work by both feeling and creating music. Visualizing music onto thin strands of Icelandic wool, the black and white piece translates different rhythms through light waves, enabling the sound not only to be heard but also ‘seen’.

via designboom.com

Gray Keys

Elegant synaesthestic explorations by Carlo Vega, inspired by Geometry Daily. Audio by Chilly Gonzales.

via motionographer.com

Kyle Cooper: “Watch the Titles”

Kyle Cooper, the acclaimed title designer, art director and filmmaker discusses typography, his love for the imperfection of handmade things, and his main titles for Darkness Falls, Se7en and Spiderman 2.

In Part 2, Cooper discusses “integrated typography” and three classic main titles that made a big impression on him: ‘The Dead Zone’ by Wayne Fitzgerald, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Stephen Frankfurt and ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ by Saul Bass.

Collider – work in progress (Eyeo 2012)

Robert Hodgin’s “Aphex Twin NYE Show Visuals”: “Surprisingly, I received an email a short while later from WeirdCore who was in the process of working on live visuals for Aphex Twins new years eve show in Rome. He had shown some of the videos to Aphex and they were positively received.

I ended up creating a Cinder app that had 10 preset modes and various parameter controls that WeirdCore could interact with in realtime during the show. The modes ranged from simple 3D point clouds to variations of Body Dysmorphia.

WeirdCore did a fantastic job integrating the Kinect content with the other feeds consisting of visuals created with QC, MaxMSP/Jitter, VDMX, and v002. Here is some footage of the last bit of his set.“

Network

Network is a BFA Thesis project from Michael Rigley that visualizes our interactions with information technology, and the way it affects the information we feed into the network. It’s a very cool video, with a distinct visual style that perfectly highlights and illustrates the information being conveyed.

via webdesignerdepot.com

Hillman Curtis (1961 – 2012)

David Hillman Curtis (February 24, 1961 – April 18, 2012) was an American new media designer, author, and filmmaker. Hillman Curtis was a former rock musician who became a prominent first-generation Web designer and a visionary figure in the Internet’s evolution: from a predominantly text-based medium to the multimedia platform it is today. He made the first ever Flash website and died on Wednesday, at his home in Brooklyn.

via motionographer.com, post-gazette.com and wikipedia.com

APEXvj

With APEXvj you can stream music from SoundCloud and see how they behave visually. Available for desktop, mobile and browser. Uses Flash’s new Stage3D. Awesomeness of it will blow nuts.

via apexvj.com

Lightrhythm Visuals: Av8ion Ep (Ben Sheppee vs Fred Moth)

A palatable AV experience expands into an intellectual approach to some modern issues. Signature sounds composed from Fred Moth’s wooden circuits blend seamlessly acoustic and digital rhythms whilst visually, Sheppee explores some epic imagery with a strong motion graphic aesthetic. A rich tapestry of delicately inter-twined digital expressions stemming from a ten year partnership and greatly diverse practices. Includes mp3s, VJ loops and desktop images.

via cduniverse.com and amazon.com