Supervideografen

Would like to take a minute to show you how we drive fast cars.

Poster by CD Ryan. Gets your free here

(via Grain Edit)

“Cocotte-Minute” is an animated movie directed by 6 students from Gobelins,
l’école de l’image (Paris, France). Fast-paced, well animated, and pleasing.

As you may know, a zoetrope is a circular device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. Mark Simon Hewis used this technique on a human scale to a quite interesting effect to tell the story of a man’s life. The film happens fast but images last just long enough to have an effect on the viewer. I’m not sure if they did any time remapping in post on this, but if it was all in camera that is quite amazing indeed. The use of The Books driving sound collages for parts of the score only increases it’s effect.

I recently saw this short film by Tibor Banoczki in London and was quite amazed with the style and technique. It’s a beautiful blend of hand drawn animation in what seems like an after effects world. It’s quite compelling, and though I’ve tried to find it online, I believe it is circulating the film festivals now, so this short clip was all I could find. Be on the lookout for it in the next few months though…

One of the best animations I’ve seen recently. Made by Rafael Sommerhalder at the Royal College of Art.

Created with flickrSLiDR.

Last night was a blast! Thanks to everyone who came to the show, and all the artists who contributed work to the project. And also thanks to Joel & Justine at the Cairo Gallery. It’s such a beautiful space, If you’re ever in Seattle I highly recommend stopping by. We hope to have another volume sometime in the spring. If you have interest in contributing work send us a note hellografen@gmail.com

Love you!

It’s finally here! Our first show! Please come to the Cairo Gallery in Seattle on October 22nd at 8 pm!

Supervideografen Presents: The Universe and You
A collection of animated explorations and visual interpretations of our place in the big unknown.

Animations by:

Justine Ashbee
Impactist
Britta Johnson
JJ Walker
Emanuele Kabu
Paul Maupoux 
Sean Pecknold
Bill Porter
Matt Smithson
And many more!

Poster by Toby Liebowitz!

And check out the short trailer here!

The beautiful work of Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

Recently watched this vid again from Jonas Odell , brilliant how it remains interesting throughout from the single vantage point.

I remember loving this music video by Nagi Noda at Resfest 2005, and i’ve been a fan of her work ever since. She passed away on Sunday. A sad and sudden loss of a great japanese artist.

Eduardo Recife over at Misprinted Type updates his site to version 4 with new typefaces, collages, and beautiful illustrations.

Just one of my favorite animations of all-time by the great Yuri Norstein.

Although it’s an homage to Tapeheads, it’s still pretty hilarious and relevant in today’s video industry. Let’s get into trouble baby.

I remember how much I loved this short by Kwok Fung Lam the first time I saw it a couple years ago. Glad to see it has resurfaced online. Wonderfully simple characters, story and animation.

(via No Fat Clips)

Nice flickr set of images here.

According to a study by the American Management Association, U.S. workers spend an average of 1 hour and 47 minutes per day dealing with email. Eight percent spent more than four hours a day. If that time was spent looking up into the sky and spinning around, perhaps we would be more productive as a planet.

William Kentridge is the brilliant South African born artist known for his animated films involving drawing and erasing a single drawing over a short period of time. A master of this method, a solid impression im sure to this animated film making its rounds online by the artist Blu.

RCA grad Luke Best has some nice print and illustration work.

Check out the beautiful and very fun animations and illustrations of Asako Masunouchi.

Gigapan: An inexpensive robot that takes vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras. Named for the billion or more pixels it can marshal for a typical panorama.

This site is a work killer for sure. More info about it here.

I really enjoyed Werner Herzog’s new documentary.

Amazing photos from the first world war.

The Control Master is a new short from Run Wrake, creator of the widely acclaimed short film Rabbit.

Check out the amazing illustrations and collage work of Sophie Kern.

A great print project out of London.

This short film called Tuesday by the talented Asa Arnehed draws you in with it’s subtle beginning. It gives you room to breath and pay attention to the little details of an average Tuesday morning.

Robert and wife Shana ParkeHarrison “portray our polluted world in disturbingly stark monochromatic photographs.” Check out The Architect’s Brother and some of their other work as well as info on upcoming exhibitions here.

The classic short film from Three Legged Legs.

Boxes upon boxes. Some spectacular images of people driving from 1989 to 1997 here.

Men + Women + Capitalism = um, you’ll see. Brilliant film here by Yusuke Murakami.

Jetpacks. During World War II the germans developed a jet pack called the Himmelstürmer. It allowed a pilot to take giant jumps up to 180 feet in the air and would allow them to cross bridgeless waters, minefields, and barbed wire obstacles. I think that would be pretty nice to have at some point.

A great collection of Dutch posters from the ages.

Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

This has made a splash this year for good reason. It’s a very smart and sad interpretation of the popular Radiohead tune.

This is one of the most amazing video works i have seen in a while. It’s an animated epic of The Dirty Projectors entire The Getty Address album. Created by James Sumner in 2006. The themes are rich and the animation is fantastic. A perfect companion to the music, and a great example of how effective it can be to create visuals for an entire album rather than just one song.

Watch the entire thing here.

(via Pitchfork.tv)

A bit odd in many ways, but c’mon it’s the first post.