animation
10/26/2007
Zombies in Plain English
Zombies are a growing concern for the modern American, so we can't help but feel thankful towards Lee and Sachi LeFever's The Common Craft Show. By using a style called "papercraft" to literally illustrate the ways in which one can identify a zombie and escape their unceasing onslaught, the LeFevers are providing a much needed public service. Watch it now. Before it's too late...
06/13/2007
Women in Art
From Manet to Monet, Klimt to Picasso, this astonishing animation by Eggman Films beautifully chronicles the most post muse of them all: a beguiling, beautiful female face. Taking as its raw material some of the best paintings in 500 years of Western art, the film makes it clear that while form and execution continue to evolve, the inspiration for its creation remains very much the same.
Maybe this will do for art what what "We Didn't Start the Fire" did for history students. If you haven't yet studied art history, you may want to start after watching this exquisite 3-minute short.
12/15/2006
Me and My Cell Phone -- The Past 25 Years
It’s a fact: web viewers love them some stop-motion. Girl Takes Picture of Herself Every Day spawned a generation of wildly popular time-lapse videos. Following the viral popularity of both Web 2.0 and the Dove Campaign, YouTube must have tipped Verizon off to the fact that you really can’t go wrong with stop-motion.
Currently the most watched video on YouTube, this perfectly targeted ad is actually quite clever. Do you remember those big brick phones from the 80’s? I used to have one in my car “for emergencies” and it was so big that I could barely fit anything else in the armrest compartment. Pretty amazing!
My favorite part of this blast from the cell phone past viral is somewhere in the mid-80s, when beretswere some how cool. Oh and the scrabble pieces, how fun?
