On the outskirts of Tokyo, there’s a forest that’s very dear to the heart of Hasao Miyasaki, who claims that it was this very place that inspired him to write and produce the most enduring animated feature film, My Neighbour Totoro.
The forest is being encroached upon by urban development, and so the [...]
I can’t quite figure out whether this piece is as creepy as it looks, or if it’s much much scarier than that. You’d have to experience it directly I guess.
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Shadow is an interactive installation that projects a disembodied, autonomous, human shadow on the ground. This apparently living shadow attempts to merge itself with the [...]
Well it’s more of a river, really. Its name is play.blogger, although on the web page it clearly says Blogger Play.
(Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them.)
It’s a continuous feed of all the images that are being uploaded to peoples Blogspot blogs (Blogger). The staff at Google have enjoyed watching this stream of [...]
Sometimes, during a lull in the constant roaring noise of the media storm that surrounds us, we can make out the distinct sound of hammers banging in the stakes for some new and mighty flagpole whose pennant will flutter over the cultural landscape for all to see.
There were some big double handed sledgehammers at work [...]
I stumbled upon this little gem while doing some research for my lecturing gig at Ravensbourne College.
In a couple of weeks time the topic for discussion will be “Compliance and the future of public service broadcasting in the digital age”, and I needed to make sure that I was fully up to speed with all [...]
A few days ago, I was in a small lecture room at Ravensbourne College talking with some 3rd year students about business models in the animation industry, and how they affect the commissioning process for animated television series.
We looked at the difficult challenges facing entrepreneurial animators who want to promote and sell their projects through [...]
This will give you an involuntary shudder sometime during its 5 minutes 15 seconds running time.
Probably at the end.
From Volker Blanz and Thomas Vetter.
This video has been doing the rounds since it was presented at Siggraph in 1999. (It must be the YouTube effect).
It still makes compelling viewing.
Here’s a picture of a holding page I just designed for a local company called Stuffins.
And here’s the real thing.
It makes me feel quite peckish….
This is the 10th year of the One Dot Zero moving image festival taking place in London. (In fact it’s just finished, but never mind.)
OneDotZero is trying its best to be, oh what’s the word? achingly? painfully? hip? even after 10 years.
Their website was certainly a pain for me to navigate [...]
Take one perfectly useful urban train…
Graffiti Archeology is an amazing site. It documents the changes happening to the graffiti in several Californian locations over time and allows us a look into their past in a sort of peelable palimpsest that has been co-operatively documented by many contributors.
My heart normally sinks when I’m [...]
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