Music video created by Paris- based digital artist collective Pleix, for the French music duo Discodeine.
The entire video is made of CGI. Motion capture was used for all animation and rendered as colored solids. This technique is used in 3D post production to easily separate objects from one another (one color per object).
Spooky ex-votos (votive offerings to a saint or to a divinity) illustrating people that have miraculously survived the fall, due to Saint Mary that was present at the scene of the accident.
Check the full collection and more info in original post.
Check some more ex-votos here and here.
Guillotine children’s toy made during the time of French revolution (ca. 1794), from the book: Children’s Toys of Bygone Days: A History of Playthings of All Peoples from Prehistoric Times to the XIXth Century by Karl Grober, published in 1928 by B.T. Batsford ltd.
“..the nineteenth century it was the custom in Italy to tie a string to the leg of living birds or big cockchafers and give them to children as a toy to play with. The custom was so universal that we even see such living playthings represented in the hands of the Christ Child, especially in pictures of the Italian Renaissance. A curious example of a similar kind was to be found among the usually so simple and harmless German toys, as a Nuremberg catalog of the eighteenth century proves (image bellow). These were comic figures with space inside to hold a bird which in its struggles gives to the figures all kind of motions. As the catalog says: ‘No one would imagine that a living bird was inside, but would suppose that it was clock-work which made the head, eyes, and beak of the bird move.”
Read more @ 50watts
Images of crime scenes created with google sketchup, by Crime Scene Interactive, an open source project that uses a variety of free software to prepare demonstrative 3D exhibits for court presentations.
Check the full presentation here.
Also check interview with Albert Schade, the man behind Crime Scene Interactive.
he couldn’t believe how easy it was
he put the gun into his face
bang!
(so much blood from such a tiny little hole)
problems have solutions
a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash
everything’s blue
in this world
the deepest shade of mushroom blue
all fuzzy
spilling out of my head
(Nine Inch Nails, 1994)
On decay and abandonment: a Russian Missile factory, a theater in Chicago, the House of the Communist Party in Bulgaria, a power plant in Ultrecht and a dreamland in Japan are going down the downward spiral.
Listen to the downward spiral here.
Images via the Idialist.
Short video directed by Sam Taylor and Bjorn Aschim and/ for the Line Studio, that tells the story of two friends, their dog and an alien visitor..
via the fox is black
Single flower vase by designers Castor Bours and Wouter Widdershoven of the Dutch studio Toer.
Previously: Spring lamp by Toer
drawings by Jackson S. Wingate from his Blood Factory tmblr, featuring fleshy, disfigured, twisted, darkly-humored creatures that are often in a philosophical mood.
click HERE for one more…
Limps teaser animation by Berlin based graphic designer Hélène Baum, made for artist/model maker Cat Johnston.
“So long, so long, you kept me waiting so long, so long, Read the epitaph, ring the bell, you’ve got a one-way ticket to hell.”
No need to add a word to Chumbawamba’s statement:
Let’s make it clear: This is a cause to celebrate, to party, to stamp the dirt down [...] If we must show a little reverence and decorum at this time, then so be it. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher’s victims.
Works of Italian street artist Borondo from his solo exhibition Isterofimia, Gallery 999 Contemporary Rome 2012.
Photos by Simone Coletta
found @ tumblr
Interactive installation titled Nature Trail, created by lighting designer Jason Bruges, for the corridor walls of Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in London.
Designed to distract children from what awaits, the installation is formed from 70 LED panels integrated behind graphic wallpaper. Motion sensors detect the presence of visitors and patients, activating the screens to display silhouettes of animals meandering through the woodland.
“The benefit of taking this kind of approach to distraction is a really positive experience for children and their families,” says Natalie Robinson, deputy director of redevelopment at the hospital. The scheme has already had such a positive effect on patients that it is being extended across the rest of the walls by 2017.
via guardian
Proposal for a Vertical Necropolis in Delhi, India, designed by architect Annkit Kummar.
The project aim to provide a “substantial amount of ground space for the living and ..create a space where diverse groups can feel comfortable grieving together.”
Check out the hypothetic Euthanasia Coaster by Julijonas Urbonas here
