Mesmerizing

I first saw Robert Longo’s images on FFFFDOUND a few weeks ago and I’m hooked. What startled me about his YINGXIONG (HEROES), 2009 series was how engrossed I became in the beautiful death. I mean, this guy is about to kill you. He has a target lock on you right now with an AIM-120 and it’s all about to be over. Yet the levels of detail and beauty in the clouds, the lines that draw you eye into the distance make you forget about your impending doom. he image just takes you past the bad stuff and into whatever calm beauty lays just off into the distance. It’s a real great metaphor in a lot of relevant ways.

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Cool 3D Portfolio Visualization

Saw Matthias Dittrich’s portfolio on lookom and wanted to link it up. Nothing too crazy here but I really like it. The simplicity of the layout and the interactions – particularly the dragability of everything – kind of gives the site an environmental/tactile feel. Check it out:

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AntiVJ & Crea Composite: Nuit Blanche Bruxelles


AntiVJ & Crea Composite: Nuit Blanche Bruxelles from AntiVJ on Vimeo.

Stamen Design Continues to Impress

Just stumbled upon this article from Ad Age and found the SF MOMA Art Scope project Stamen Design did:

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Stamen keeps impressing with the narratives they’re able to put together by visualizing and manipulating data in new, interesting and engaging ways.

Go Play With Fonts

Using letter-forms from the Asian character-set, Yugo and Tha Ltd. have created a fun and playful way of making images from fonts. Make, view and share your own.

Painting With Light

(via ColorLovers)

Like many of her peers and fellow ‘light painters’ or ‘light graffiti’ artists, Vicki DaSilva was inspired by the blooming hip-hop and graffiti culture that surrounded her while living in New York City during the 80′s. What differs about Vicki’s work from other artists, like LICHFAKTOR, as one example of many talented artists who work with time lapse photography, is her creation of geometric shapes and colorful patterns. While some of her photos are created in the more usual way of light movement by hand, many of her more impressive photos involved complex pulley systems and tracks for the light source to travel down.

This is Almost an Amazing Idea

Getty Images now has an interactive mood board generator. It’s a great start of an idea but isn’t precise enough to be totally useful. Whereas I appreciate a more general approach will facilitate the unexpected, when I tried to use this tool to generate for me mood boards for a project I’m working on it came up flat. I also would want to be able to provide feedback and refinement while the stream is playing – to kind of set it loose and calibrate on-the-fly…

I recommend playing with it though – I think it’s a great start to a great idea – it just needs more strategic and feature-filled refinement.

The Work of Pitch Interactive

Pitch Interactive, from Madison Wisconsin does some really nice Data Visualization work. The above image is from a spread they had in Esquire Magazine (the issue with the E-Ink on the cover). Check them out.

Natzke has Prints For Sale

More Christmas gift ideas for Victor. Go buy me one of those too :)

Joshua Davis Designed Shoulder Bags

Anyone looking for a Christmas gift for me this year need look no further. I also love the pocket notebooks. Go buy me one.