Friday, March 29, 2013

Beeeeeeer.

You beer guys need one of these Handmade Ceramic Growlers

Plazzo.tv Refresh

There is a LOT of great work on this site. One I want to call out is the Bank of America - Feeding America piece. Chris, this is what we were talking about when we were talking about different and better ways to illustrate a simple data/numbers story.

Take a look for yourselves. Plazzo.tv

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Motorville

Don't know if you guys have seen this but it's a clever animation.  I love the use of the Google Maps elements throughout (the refresh rate and scaling, swimming through the ocean, etc.)

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The History (and Future) of Rotoscoping in After Effects

God I love the time we live in. Seriously cool things coming for rotoscoping Adobe After Effects. You NAB guys are gonna have to check this out and let me know if it's as cool as it looks.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Wire Tap


Chad's Larry King post inspired me to post this animation from one of my favorite radio programs...

Django Django - "WOR" (Official Video)

I've heard a few tracks from Django Django recently and I like what I'm hearing. They're music reminds me of a modern day Spaghetti Western. The band is apparently obsessed with the infamous Indian Well of Death riders in Allahabad. So, naturally, they asked Noisey if they'd be up for travelling over to India and standing right in the middle of large lumps of precariously speeding metal for a day, to film a video for their track "Wor".

This video reminds me a lot of a photography book , which is probably why I'm drawn to it.  For example, I'm crazy about the portrait shots that intro the riders. Great photography direction in this one.

Brew Day

Some photos from the Brew day that Dave and I attended. We learned a whole lot about brewing and even saw some emus.
Fresh hops grown in someone's backyard.
Malt after grinding.
General brewing area.
Giant cooker made from an old keg.
Drill powered malt grinder.
Emu...




Larry King on getting seduced - Blank on Blank

This illustrates the power of a good story and how simple animation can help bring it to life - think RSA, the good ones. BUT, if your story is crap no amount of animation can save it - think RSA, the bad ones. It's also a fun story.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

120 BPM

Jean Brochefort created this for the Vimeo Weekend Challenge "One to One hundred", but really it's just another one of those simple and effective ideas that I wish I had thought of first.  I love how our brains only need a second of audio to recognize a song, and how all the songs put together almost create a new song.