today and tomorrow

I really like the 2D animations in the music video for Animals by Minilogue. I was made by Varelsen, the animator Kristofer Ström also did that Hitchhikers Choice video for Minilogue.

Limits To Growth by Mitchell Whitelaw, made with Processing.

Renate Buser is a Swiss photographer. This project is called ‘Tower Piece’.

The building has two identical sides, one reflecting the other. This symmetry will be visualized by putting two monumental photographs of the façade of the building on each side of the north west tower. The idea is to open up the solidity of the building, to split it in half, with two photographic images and make it transparent. This will create tension between the photographed spaces and the real space around it, between illusion and reality, and between the inside and the outside. When driving by in a car on Alton Road, the relation between photographed and real perspectives will constantly change. Therefore the installation will be seen best in movement.

Indeed, you’ll have to go and see this video on her website.

found at designboom weblog

Claude Lothier is a French artist who works with paper and color, to create amazing 3D compositions.

found at wrongdistance.com

Karsten Schmidt (a.k.a. Toxi) was commissioned by PRINT Magazine to create his own generative letterforms for the August 2008 cover. He used the Gray-Scott reaction diffusion model in a Processing sketch (an open source programming language) to generate a 3D typographical model. That 3D file was then printed with a 3D printer and photographed for the cover. You can read a short interview with him at the PRINT Magazine website. In this Flickr set you can find more photos and images of the whole process.

Here is a video of an early Processing sketch, the 2D frames where later stacked to a 3D model.

found at cpluv

This is short clip from a live set by Etienne de Crécy, a French house producer, during the Transmusicales festival in Rennes, France, last year. 10 years ago he was quite popular with his Super Discount album, but apparently the French filtered house is still not dead … But the only reason to watch this clip is his stage show, or to be more precise the projections. He stands inside some sort of half transparent Rubik’s Cube on which some very nice animations are shown. Exyzt, an architectural collective form Paris, was responsible for this unique light show. (Their website doesn’t seem to be available now.)
So watch it now and don’t forget to turn down the sound!

‘Adaptable’, a flat structure can become a 3D sculpture, by Gemma Smith. You can find more of her work at the Sarah Cottier Gallery.

‘My Paper Mind’, not your average stop motion animation, made by Javan Ivey.
found at swissmiss

‘You Don’t Matter’ converted a plotting machine into an output device, that can draw, scratch or cut with almost any traditional drawing technique, in order to achieve aesthetics looking neither drawn by hand nor produced with only a computer. Most interesting and inspiring are all the little mistakes this machine produces, because of too much data, too much water, color, pressure etc. There are always gradients because the color gets less and less as the machine draws on. This expansion space describes the machine’s actual identity. No Image looks like the other.
And if you put a camera infront of the machine and take a time exposure it draws with light in the air like Picasso did with his hand.

found at manystuff.org

Karl Klomp is a Dutch media-artist - vj - theater technician. He knows how to modify video hardware and even build it from scratch. The output: glitch art.

But also hardware tools like this ‘Minimal Video Mixer’. Pure hardware porn.