Archive for the 'art' Category

The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009


Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

 

Swiss artist Zimoun creates kinetic sound sculpture installations which often use repetitive elements to magnify the impact of the sound characteristics.

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Amazing clocks of Clayton Boyer

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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Clayton Boyer has designed and built a number of exceptionally beautiful and artful wooden clocks – and sells the plans to make most of them. Some of the videos are made by customers who have completed his designs and I can assume that Clayton is not personally responsible for their choice of music.

Clayton’s youtube channel with more videos

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Kinetic Steam Works tests Pappy

Thursday, May 21st, 2009


The Old Engine That Could from Gaelle Faure on Vimeo.

A few weeks ago my industrial arts collective Kinetic Steam Works tested our traction engine, Pappy. Yours truly makes several appearances and is seen far right in the preview image above.

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Kinetic Sculptor and animator John Douglas Powers

Thursday, February 5th, 2009


Field of Reeds from john douglas powers on Vimeo.


Lullaby from john douglas powers on Vimeo.


Work-Family-Self from john douglas powers on Vimeo.


I am the Crescent Moon from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

John Douglas has produced a number of wonderful kinetic sculptures and animations available on vimeo

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Beautiful, working wooden Vespa

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

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Carpenter Carlos Alberto of Portugal has made an absolutely stunning vespa out of wood. Links to lots of great shots here.

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“This Is Where We Live” papercraft animation

Thursday, January 1st, 2009


This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

UK book publisher Fifth Estate made this wonderful video to celebrate their 25th anniversary. They write:

The film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators; you can see time-lapse films of each sequence being prepared and shot in our other films.

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Astounding papercraft from Haruki Nakamura

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008


See more of his creations here

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ABC3D – best pop up book I’ve ever seen

Monday, October 20th, 2008




Abc3D – video powered by Metacafe


Watch the video and then buy it here

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Glenn Marshall’s Metamorphosis and Music is Math videos

Thursday, October 16th, 2008



Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.



Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Glenn Marshall writes programs that (sometimes) take music as an input and produces spectacular results. From the page for the top video:

Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to my Music is Math video. I developed my ‘zeno’ animation system a bit more to allow for nebulous additive blending as well as a few other things. The music is by Boards of Canada again – the track ‘Corsair’ from the Geogaddi album.

He writes about the second video, Music is Math:

I just let the program run till the end of the music, I felt reluctant to interfere too much by trying to sculpt an ending, and just let the code run its own natural course.

see all his vimeo videos here and more information on butterfly.ie

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Phonographantasmascope

Monday, October 13th, 2008

An interesting variation of the zoetrope principle where the camera shutter is used instead of slits or strobes to freeze the motion. The downside (or potentially part of the attraction) is that the viewer needs to watch through a machine to experience the desired effect.




Jim le Ferve of Nexus Productions writes:

In March 2007 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London we hosted an evening of animation related events which I took as an opportunity to make some more examples of my Phonographantasmascope, an extension of the Zoetrope principle.

It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use.

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