Hope you all had a fun, relaxing and safe end/new year break. Look forward to working with you, and making 2015 great!

Only having recently come on to our radar with the faux celebrity impressions vid, this video for Rob’s ‘All I need is you’ is poetic and masterful in its simplicity.

So what exactly does music look like?

And just to prove it was all in-camera, you can see some making of shots here https://vimeo.com/user1852409/videos

From the album ‘Solar Echoes’
All of the science experiments in the video are real — no cgi
Directed by: Shahir Daud
Cinematographer: Timur Civan

An animation test that has become great, lighthearted afternoon viewing material.

After 8 years of owning his own company, Drew Tyndell recently parted ways, moving to the music city of Nashville
to set up his own one-man creative studio. He specializes
in design, art direction, illustration, and animation.

Insanely detailed and stunning work from illustrator Manabu Ikeda. Manabu is Japanese, currently living in Wisconsin. He creates these huge and intricate works — covering themes of civilization and nature … with an epic chaos to them. Apprently, many of his artwork can take up to a year to complete (well worth the wait).

More here

THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement.
Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification.The best of these arrangements are stunning technical feats that reveal the hidden grandeur of some of the smallest organisms on Earth. Klaus Kemp has devoted his entire life to understanding and perfecting diatom arrangement and he is now acknowledged as the last great practitioner of this beautiful combination of art and science. THE DIATOMIST showcases his incredible work.

Soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bernard Herrmann and Cults Percussion Ensemble.

Insane marble puzzle thang! Here is a demonstration of SUPERPLEXUS CIRCLES, a 24″ diameter commission by artist/thinker/puzzle-maker/genius Michael McGinnis. Playtime is about an hour for a player from start to finish, and has the player needing to flip their play axis to reach the various marble stages. ‘Circles’ is meant to be challenging, though doable. It’s made from birch plywood, acrylic, Jatoba, and stainless steel – there’s more info and interesting creations at Michael’s site – https://www.superplexus.com/.

It really gets the cogs turning. Would love to see the challenge in person, and/or collaborate with Michael in future.

Big Hero 6 is an awesome looking, upcoming 3D computer-animated superhero film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.

Set in a fictional called San Fransokyo (a portmanteau of San Francisco and Tokyo), a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his self-created robot Baymax uncover a criminal plot and pull together a team of inexperienced crime-fighters, including Wasabi, Honey Lemon, GoGo Tomago, and Fred, to solve the mystery surrounding the crime.

Aaaaand it looks great!

This work by Joanie Lemercier looks fantastic, and a great use of domed projections. We imagine this is a truly immersive experience – as it should be.

Nimbes explores the ontology of observation and its relationship to cosmogony, notions of intelligence and individuality.
As a universe comes into being, emergent structures arise and determine its unfolding. From the perspective of observation, intelligence is an emergent property of the universe in which we find ourselves. As if from a desire to participate in the process of unfolding, we create both architectures and narratives, repetitions of the cosmogony, microcosms of the universe, in which all our actions find symbolic expression on a macrocosmic scale. But within this process, questions arise, linear continuity is interrupted by the uncertainties of the hypothesis of stability on which we base our solid notions, which have provided the foundations for our architectures, the grounds of our narratives. Observation however, the thread which unites all experience, a lens that can not see itself, invisibly and perpetually remains.

https://joanielemercier.com/nimbes

Well … he’s technically still a work in progress, but you get the idea.