Nicolas Boillot
Video artist creates looping visual collages in a variety of ways, including sourcing from television and computer game feeds.
More more good things can be found here and here
(GIFs above originally made by the artist - thanks to James Vincent for the heads up!)
PS - the artist also has a Tumblr blog here
GIF-TY
Design concept for a camera that can print out a series of small prints to create a flipbook - video embedded below:
Via Yanko Design:
This unique camera allows you to print out short flipbook animations, so that you can physically keep the memories of precious moments alive in a fun way. GIF-TY’s Animations can be physically edited, and clipped on a separately designed module. Nametags can be attached to those clips just like old videotapes.
Technologically: GIF-TY is a combination of a burst-shot camera, and a ‘Zero-Ink’ Printer.
(Source: fallenamongstthestars, via sarahannloreth)
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Frog Design: The Four Secrets of Playtime That Foster Creative Kids
This is the second post in a new series, produced by Frog Design, drawn from their publication, Design Mind. The theme of the current issue — from which this essay is drawn — is “And Now the Good News.” It presents ideas flowing from the most recent TED Global conference.I still remember an early job interview I had at Trilogy in 1998. Back then, the software maker was dubbed “Insanity Inc.” by Fast Company because of its late work nights and legendary retreats to Vegas.
How come kids are so good at ritualizing daily play? Start here to recover it: hang with Kumar.
Watch.
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Part modern art, part science – mesmerizing gallery of Saturn GIFs captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Pair with these stunning technicolor images of Saturn.
“If there’s anything my mom taught me, it’s that there’s a big difference between being given something and knowing you’ve earned it yourself by working hard, one day at a time.”
Difference between being given something and knowing you’ve earned it yourself
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Our Series on APPRECIATING ART
In this series, we seek to help young art collectors understand the art world, and the mystery that shrouds it.
1. Collector, Love Thyself: Breaking into the Art World is Tough
2. How Not to be Scared when Approaching Artists
3. Street Art & Graffiti - Is It Art?
4. How to Appreciate Art - An Artist’s Perspective
5. How Artists Do What They Do
Why Some Artists Want To Kill Their Babies
Nature Trail by Jason Bruges studio — beautiful work for the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children
Trichoptere by Hubert Duprat
This is the incredible result come from a collaboration between a Caddis fly larvae and an artist. The Caddis flies live near water and produce larvae that protect their developing bodies by manufacturing cases, spun from silk and found objects such as grains of sand and pebbles. However, the larvae are remarkably adaptable: if other suitable materials are introduced into their environment, they will often incorporate those as well.
In this piece Duprat has collected the larvae and relocated them into a tank filled with jewels, gold and precious stones. The larvae then begin to build their cases using the available objects, creating beautifully intricate peaces of jewelry.
“The production of the artifact within nature herself poses a problem—even more so when an aesthetic aspect is involved. Whether the insect is a craftsperson or whether, more generally, nature is a creator of forms, the consideration, within nature, of an aesthetic dimension is the stumbling block of science.”
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Google’s backup tape library, serviced by a robotic arm that you can see in the background. Each tape has a unique bar code that makes it easy to locate.
(via yoctoontologist)
