As we approach SXSW 2010, let''s celebrate by revisiting a stunning video launched at the festival two years ago. Wonderfully imaginative work....read more
Foreign shapes envelop and blend with London's landscape creating a surreal unity. A wonderfully visual confection with a great track to accompany it. The piece is by Irrum K and Jeremy C. Music by Beach House - Take Care (Sub Pop). ...read more
Wind power may be clean, green, and renewable, but it doesn't come without it's problems. Turbines are noisy as hell and they pose serious risks to flying wildlife and sensitive shoreline habitats. So Cornell University engineers have responded with a brainy new way of drawing electricity from moving air. The prototype technology, called Vibro-Wind, involves oscillating wind pads that......read more
The video for The Walkmen's "On The Water" begins innocently enough, with two cute bunnies hopping around a farmer's field. But the dark hues suggest foreboding, and the narrative takes a bleak turn before long. Some fantastic CGI work from director Nir Ben Jacob. ...read more
One of Spain's most prominent artists, Joan Fontcuberta is known for exploring the ground where illusion and reality meet. For Landscapes Without Memory, Fontcuberta co-opted computer software developed by the military to render map data into 3D geographic images. But instead of inputting maps into the Terragen software, he fed fragments of landscape works by Turner, Cezanne, Dali,......read more
In the new video for Belle and Sebastian's version of "Crash" by the Primitives, the bandmembers shape-shift into adorable animated versions of themselves, surrounded by a world of fast-moving big people. Director Stephen Tolfrey leaves no detail untouched -- who knew a Fred Perry shirt could look so good in miniature CGI? "Crash" is featured on the band's new LateNightTales compilation, and is......read more
Norwegian electronica project Pjusk enlisted German digital artist Till Nowak to create this brain-melting video for "Sus." Using some aerial footage as a base, Nowak's mesmerizing visuals distort and ooze across the screen. Says the artistd: "The video shows earth and nature, but in a dreamlike, manipulated version, playing with the sense of scale by creating a confusion between immense and......read more
Mathieu Gérard worked in collaboration with European creative agencies EXOD-US and Fuse Collective to create this experimental short film compelling us to reflect on the nature of earth's most precious resource: water. Seamless in execution and set against Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack to Terrence Malik's 'The Tree of Life', this is the kind of visual poetry that moves us in ways......read more
Edun continues its working relationship with everyone's favorite photographer, Ryan McGinley, with the release of these two limited edition women's T-shirt designs featuring oversized prints of McGinley-shot photos of an African Elephant. All proceeds from sales of the shirts will be donated to WildAid, an organization working to preserve the endangered animal, which is threatened by poaching and......read more
Are we majorly late on this? Ah well, the latest collaborative art vid for Sigur Ros's Valtari Mystery Film Experiment is a must-post. This one comes courtesy of NYC photographer Ryan McGinley, who follows a young girls skipping around Manhattan in blonde wig, before stopping everything around her and turning the bustling streets into a frozen backdrop for the surreal sounds of "Varuo." "This......read more