This bold and exciting mix of 3D animation and projection is in some ways the opposite of the quiet lyrical nature of the Ando projections at Omotesando hills (see earlier post), but inspiring nonetheless. Created by Nu-former.
We were lucky enough to visit Tokyo a few years ago. Whilst there we saw the amazing Omotesando Hills, a shopping centre and housing development designed by Tadao Ando. It runs along Omotesando Avenue one of Tokyo’s premier luxury shopping streets. All down the length of the Avenue the façade is made up of huge LCD panels that come alive in the evening with simple large graphic animations of people walking, ocean waves, abstract patterns or, by using image recognition technology, shadow like reflections of the Zelkova trees that line the avenue in front of the building. The LCD ‘Bright Up Wall’ is one part of the ‘Media Ship’ concept that integrates interactive lighting effects and sound throughout the centre. Designers and artists are commissioned to create works on an ongoing basis and for special events. The scale of the wall, simple graphics and soft and soft focus effect make it truly inspiring and well worth a visit.
An inspiring animation from Zetiguised. Strange, beautiful and technically accomplished it employs scripted animation for some truly unexpected effects.
Rauzier’s “hyperphotos” are made of hundreds of individual photographs, in this case of a hotel in Paris. They are incredibly detailed and massively high resolution.
Rausizer’s work is at Waterhouse and Dodd from the 25th November until 18th December.
Fernando Hocevar creates landscapes that are simultaneously primitive and unearthly. They are peaceful and cool, beautifully layered and “deep” despite being almost free of perspective. They are given scale and atmosphere with simple touches; such as the little squares of light in this peice, suggesting windows.
Polished peices of wood become mechanical pixels in this work by Rozin. shade is created as they twist toward and away from the light. The installation is fed live video of the observer, becoming a surreal, tactile mirror. The artist also notes that the motors make a soothing noise as the pixels adjust.
You can see this peice at the bitforms gallery, New York.
Jorge Suarez was inspired “When taking a picture of my son I noticed a high degree of expression in his face so I decided to try to show this emotion”.
He has created this work entirely in 3D with almost no postproduction.
Alex Dragulescu, Pwslineage, 2002-2008
This peice is part of the series “Malwarez”. Comissioned by Messagelabs, Alex Dragulescu’s software creates virtual organisms in response to the effect that Worms, Trojans, Viruses and Spyware have on a computers internal systems. Below another program generates virtual buildings that respond to Spam Read More »