today and tomorrow

The Persistence of Sadness by Rafaël Rozendaal. Turn up your volume and click on the rocks!

ASCIImeo is a project by Peter Nitsch. It’s a video player which renders Vimeo videos in ASCII. You can choose between 3 different modes, but the block mode is definitely my favorite. Here you can see the ASCIImeo version of Scintillation. The screenshots below are cropped, I didn’t want to scale them down, the color patterns are just too nice.

These aren’t some half abstract landscape paintings but photos manipulated with Flash. Quasimondo describes it like this: “automatic subdivision based on details in the underlying image. Areas with more detail get divided in smaller pieces.”

A detail from the first image:

found at WOWGREAT

On Growth and Form is an animation by Daniel Brown and it is part of the exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. These flowers are generated with Flash actionscript code and look amazing. The petals are have textures derived from works from the museum archive including William Morris textiles and Kimono fabrics.

video by artkidtroy

POLYHEDRON or EYE CANCER IS EASY is one of the PANORAMIC DIORAMAS by Mitch Trale. This is an excellent start in the new week. GO!

From The Dark Past, once again a great animation by Rafaël Rozendaal. Don’t forget to click on it.

Volcano, an animation by Rafaël Rozendaal.

Explosion by Rafaël Rozendaal.

Tonight was the award show of the Cannes Cyber Lions 2009, one of the most well-known awards in the advertising industry. This years winner of the Grand Prix was Fiat eco:Drive by the agency AKQA London.
Fiat eco:Drive is system that is very similar to Nike+. When you plugin in an USB stick in to your Fiat, all the data of your drive will be saved on it. Back at home, you can upload that data to a small piece of software that analyses and visualizes it. Then you’ll get tips how to drive more efficient and save fuel to be more eco friendlier. Etc etc … I just love projects like this one, an excellet combination of the online and offline world.
All the other winners of the Cyber Lions will be online in the morning.

If you want to know more about this, then you should watch this video where Adobe talks to Fiat and the agency about the whole process.

Uniqlo Calender is the latest Uniqlo website to browse their apparel collection. This time they used those popular tilt shift videos to select a color. When you click on the video, a mosaic of Uniqlo apparel appears on top of it with the main colors matching to the video. When you click on an item you’ll get a detail view where you can click again to get to the next mosaic and so on. But the videos are the definitely the best part, the music is actually quite cool too. Like with every Uniqlo website, the attention to every little detail is amazing, just have a look at the little step by step guide to customise the widget. The Uniqlo Calender is not a groundbreaking website, it is just executed to perfection.
And while you’re at it, check the Uniqlo Tokyo Fashion Map too.