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Wunderkit.com Couch created in time lapse

2011-10-20T18:30:00.001+02:00

Berlin-based software company 6 Wunderkinder is going to launch Wunderkit.com, following worldwide success of task manager application Wunderlist (I use it too and it's very well designed). To create some hype, art director Jan Martin created a time lapse video of the couch used on the splash page.

You can follow Jan Martin on his blog or Dribble. Soundtrack is made by UK sound artists Blank and Kytt, you can listen their set on soundcloud and below the video. Enjoy.

A small collection by Blank and Kytt

6 Wunderkinder means 6 wonderful children. Aren't they? :)

The Vaccines' Wetsuit music video, made of fans photos on Instagram

2011-10-18T02:28:00.004+02:00

The Vaccines launched a contest at the beginning of the summer, involving fans asking them to shot pictures during their live concerts and gigs with Instagram. The social media experiment was so successful as 2344 pictures were tagged with #vaccinesvideo and you can watch the result in the video after the jump, as always.

Vaccines' sound and the pseudo-retro images generated by Instagram's filters create an awesome mix. Enjoy.

More info at vaccinesvideo.com

Dubstep Hands by SaladUK

2011-10-16T23:34:00.000+02:00

Great video by SaladUK, one of the greatest youtubers that provides original animations excellently mixed with dubstep. This time hand follow the music and create unique animations, watch it after the jump.

Follow SaladUK on Twitter and YouTube!

Steve Jobs died: Apple.com's tribute homepage, 3 videos, Twitter trends [updated]

2011-10-06T02:44:00.002+02:00

Steve Jobs has died and Apple.com's homepage is showing a tribute to the iCEO. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

You can measure all the love and respect worldwide following the trending topic on Twitter. Thanks, Steve. Here's a video tribute called The Crazy One after the jump.

The audio is from Apple's Think Different commercial, remixed with images of Jobs' early career. Made by Ken Segall.

UPDATE: don't miss the #iClouds trend on Twitter, too!

UPDATE 2: here's Steve Jobs' keynote in 1983 presenting the famous and unforgettable 1984 ad, inspired by George Orwell's book and directed by Ridley Scott. The ad is still considere one of the greatest of all time. His thumb up at 5:26 is priceless.

UPDATE 3: Steve Jobs' keynote in 1998 introducing the very first iMac. What the "i" stands for? He explains it at the beginning of this video: internet, individual, instruct, inform, inspire.
The iMac was Apple's first desktop computer for domestic use and began changing the way we use personal computers.

Advertising: left or right brain?

2011-10-05T02:12:00.000+02:00

Human brain and art in this beautiful ads by illustrators Gil Aviyam and Lena Guberman for Israeli creative agency Shalmor Avnon Amichay / Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv. Did you know that rationality is based in the left side of our brain and passion in the right one?

Diana Adams on Bitrebels selected some interpretations of our brain activity. Creativity on the right, decisions on the left. But my favorite are the three below for Mercedes-Benz's campaign few months ago.

You can use them as your desktop wallpaper!

source: adgoodness and many more, as I discovered this campaign just now and it was launched in March! :)

Father's sweet dance with his baby in Washington Square Park

2011-09-27T01:49:00.000+02:00

Photographer Senén Llanos filmed this sweet sequence featuring a dad dancing with his baby like no one was watching.

That was not scripted as Llanos was in Washington Square Park shooting people and musicians that usually play in the weekends. Then came this man with his family, start dancing, and the video was quickly done.

Music is an original piece by pianist Colin Huggins that usually plays at the park like other artists. More on Llanos' blog.

Elektrobank - Sofia Coppola's performance in Chemical Brothers' music video

2011-08-26T20:19:00.002+02:00

As a tribute to the beautiful Sofia Coppola, here is her performance in Chemical Brothers' Elektrobank music video, where heavy electronic beats collide with Sofia's elegance and poetry in motion.

Sofia Coppola is going to marry boyfriend Thomas Mars in Berlanda, near Matera, where Francis Ford's grandfather born. The area near Matera is called Sassi (stones), houses dug into tuff stone and where residents lived for decades (centuries?). It's worth a visit for sure.

Elektrobank's video was directed by her ex-husband Spike Jonze but who cares! :)

MOVE - a movie trip of a lifetime

2011-08-03T23:28:00.001+02:00

A trip of a lifetime created by Rick Mereki and Tim White.

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films.....

via The Curious Brain

Mars Airlines, retro-future posters by Andy Rohr

2011-08-02T01:30:00.000+02:00

Space travels came back to life thanks to graphic designer Andy Rohr. Outer space is still fascinating looking at his creations, four promotional posters of Mars United, a flying company ready to bring us to the lovely Red Planet.

These beautiful illustrations remind me 2001: A Space Odissey and Gattaca. Both movies have a sort of retro-future feeling and Mars United's rocket logo, colours, style looks like being part of them.

You can buy Rohr's posters on Society6.

via Buzzfeed and Mymodernmet

Lucas Santtana with Super Violão Mashup brings us nova musica brazileira

2011-07-29T02:35:00.000+02:00

Bahia native Lucas Santtana launched his first album Sem Nostalgia on July, 25th and I discovered him just now via my favourite brazilian records eater Luigi, probably because was played on latest Gilles Peterson's radio show.

Santtana goes beyond brazilian music styles, brings new fresh sounds without leaving his traditions. The mashup il very interesting and I think I'll buy his label's new compilation Oi! A Nova Música Brasileira!.

In Super Violão Mashup music video, two dancers fight in a street competition judged by a severe referee. Who will win? Watch out.

More on maisumdiscos.net

Ifan Dafydd - No Good - Amy Winehouse RIP

2011-07-23T23:08:00.004+02:00

Amy Winehouse died at 27. Here is my personal tribute, a dubstep remix of You Know I'm No Good by Ifan Dafydd.

We'll miss you, Amy. «I cheated myself», as the looped lyric says, it's sadly true.

Thanks to Luigi for sending me this tune, as usual.

More on buffmypylon.co.uk

MC Xander's beatboxing experience

2011-07-22T22:27:00.006+02:00

Uk based MC Xander delights our ears with his art: some loop machines and a microphone. What else? Here is his single Sick Of The Lies, released in his very first all-vocal album Eyeopeness. Video after the jump.

Beatboxing, vocals, looping and effects all performed live by Xander who in the past worked with people like Atomic Hooligan and king of breakbeat Rennie Pilgrim. Enjoy!

mcxander.com

Where the Hell is Munnezza? a video showing garbage crisis in Naples

2011-07-19T17:53:00.011+02:00

Some politicians promised to solve garbage crisis in Naples, including brand new mayor De Magistris. Traditional media (like tv news reports) show a bright clean city, like tons of garbage in the streets disappeared in the name of justice.

Justice in Naples has not yet arrived, watching this video Where the hell is Munnezza? performed and created by youtubers thejackall. He danced in the streets of his beautiful city showing how this condition seems impossible to solve.

Citizens of Naples blame on the City, politicians blame on the Camorra and citizens' inability to react and solve once for all. In the mean time, garbage remain in the streets.

The video is a clear parody of Where the hell is Matt?, one of the most viewed videos in the YouTube era. Both are shown below, enjoy and good luck to all people in Naples and Campania.

Instagram fan photos used in The Vaccines' new music video

2011-07-16T02:29:00.000+02:00

UK band The Vaccines decided to use fan photos uploaded to Instagram for their new video, waiting for new single Wetsuit. Fans must tag correctly their photos with #vaccinesvideo and it's done.

Using Instagram as a promoting tool is not an innovative idea but for sure the result will be a great sequence of pictures taken from many festivals across Europe. Instagram now raised up to 5 million users (!) and 100 million photos uploaded by mid-June so all we can do is watching the teaser below and... looking for a live concert by The Vaccines to partecipate.

via TNW

Album Cover Art remixed by visual artist Christian Marclay

2011-07-14T01:13:00.008+02:00

My dear friend Luigi showed me a few day ago these amazing album covers mixed together by visual artist Christian Marclay. Album covers often are masterpieces - I meam albums by real artist - so it's very difficult to see them "remixed" this way.

Some of Marclay's works are below, how many album covers can you recognize?

Via My Modern Metropolis

Visualization of a melody: Sonar

2011-07-12T01:24:00.006+02:00

Visual artist based in Montreal Renaud Hallée created some years ago this amazing visualization of a melody.

It's basically what a musician see when he plays an instrument, I think. As a comment says:

I do this in my head. Not to this extent, but every song I listen to is laid out in a visual pattern.
I learn and remember everything by picture.

Check him at possiblemetrics.com.

via Reddit

7 time lapse videos for 7 different cities

2011-07-11T01:26:00.002+02:00

Time lapse videos are very popular, so easy to create even with a DSLR and the right software. Even the technique can create very annoying videos, an original idea and a trip to a cool place can tell better than hundreds pictures. In This post I decided to pick seven interesting creations, made in seven different cities across the world.

Some of them are just "static", some are more dynamic as they show us a full trip. Don't forget to select your favourite and write in in the comments. Enjoy!

Abu Dhabi:

Venice:

Las Vegas:

Sydney:

San Francisco:

Singapore:

Detroit:

Anamorphic Typography by Joseph Egan: “it’s a point of view”

2011-07-06T02:59:00.009+02:00

Young creative mind Joseph Egan created these unique photos using the anamorphosis technique.

Egan was looking for a place within his university and found the perfect set in a corridor:

«using the long walls to maximise the distortion of the letterforms»

then moved in a large room for the second shoot and here are the results. Bravo!

Watch the full set on Behance. And here's also a video!

Sugimoto Kousuke's anime videos mix music with great animations

2011-07-05T03:11:00.004+02:00

His last video starts with a boy in his bedroom trying to have some fun with a MIDI controller and some musical instruments. It could be Sugimoto Kousuke's real life, living rounded by his interests and passion for music and drawing.

At my opinion, his best creation is called the TV show: ordinary television broadcasts get crazy and melt together in a colourful chaos.

You can't say he learnt all this by himself since you read this on his bio. Here is the video from which I took the screenshot above. Sing My Own Way.

At least, a Full Moon Party by some musical monkeys. Enjoy!

Beardyman's beatboxing goes beyond your listening experience

2011-07-01T13:36:00.010+02:00

Beardyman is one of the undisputed master of beatboxing, he can be awesome creating sounds and both entertain the audience with his humour. Here are two recent performances in two different Udderbellies, in London and Edinburgh, Scotland.

Darren Foreman (real name for Beardyman) masters the scene mixing different styles of music and with some tools like Korg's Kaoss Pad 3 and Boss RC 50 creates various loops and sound fx. Only with his voice!

Here is the second video, enjoy and I bet even you can't stay still on your chair listening to the mighty Beardyman!

Pixel in motion: a video experiment with pixelated nature

2011-07-01T02:23:00.004+02:00

A music video directed by Daniel Rau & Piotr Dominik Kochalski. Music by Chromix.

More info at second-head-pictures.com