Friend and fellow design man Mark Champkins has the honorable title of ‘Inventor in residence’ at the Science museum. As unofficial back-room design and CAD support I’ve seen these projects come and go, so wanted to blog them up.
Below is the Black Hole Lamp - A gift from the science museum to Prof. Stephen Hawkins
I was asked by Mr Joe Banks to create a necker cube animation – of course i didn’t have to look it up…
Anyway, it was tricker than i first thought, but eventually created this. Joe plans to use it in an up-coming exhibition, more details when i know them.
The important thing is that the cube is always rotating in one direction – the rest is down to your brain and what it wants to see…
Read all about it here, and watch below
The new Twinings advert came on TV the other day and I have to admit I was slightly mesmerized by it.
The character movements were so delicate and realistic with a refreshing visual style it made a beautiful change to the in-your-face pop-up CG adverts that always bombard us around Christmas. Well done Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, and Psyop LA.
Click here to see the making of video and here for the final piece
I came across this the other day, deep in my archives and I still thought it was funny.
Dreamt up by Alice Garland many years ago and carefully created by a younger version of myself, we present to you the Swiss-Nokia, the inappropriate product mash-up with a tin-opener and SMS abilities.
Price on application . . .
Everyone knows the TED talks and just how brilliant they are. Some however are on another level and this one is. It’s a robot bird which flaps and glides and everything! I think it is amazing… Have a watch and if you don’t want all the tech and science skip to the last minute. WATCH HERE
Tilt shift photograph has had a recent boost in popularity all over the web, iphone apps have jumped on the band wagon as well as photoshop filters and tutorials. The aim is to make regular vistas look like model villages. During the Laptopsandlooms event in Derbyshire last week, I stumbled upon a miniature train set in Cromford.
What a perfect moment to use my tilt-shift app to make this model village look just like a model village.
I can’t remember when i last loaded a celluloid film into a camera, the last time I waited hours/days to see the results, the last time my stomach sank at the irreversible fuckup i’d made with my exposures. I can however remember when i last felt the tactile beauty of a manual SLR, the satisfying clik-clunk of the slow shutter and the analogue elegance of the wheels and knobs.
Sadly this is becuase i’ve just decided to sell my FM3a Nikon. I’ve spent the afternoon trying to think of a good reason not to cast it into the hands of the nations ebayers and failed. Records show it’ll sell for a couple of hundred quid!
The only way i’ve thought of to commemorate a much loved object is to blog it. My heart sinks, but really what else can i do.
Incase you’re in the market… http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140592659457
As a pre-cursor to a project i’m currently working on I came across this lovely video on the making of pencils. Watch it all as the best bits are at the end. The voice-over is pretty annoying, you don’t miss much if you mute it…
Stumbled across Crayonfire and the work of Neil Stevens this week and especially his LeTour series – best described by the man himself
The Tour de France rolled off this weekend and below I will be showing an illustration for each stage of the event. I’ll try to include some geographical features of the landscape of each stage the riders encounter and the relevant team colours of those winning the individual stages.
Last year a group led by Dutch performance artist lepe B. T. Rubingh cycled to an intersection in Berlin and dumped 500 litres of different coloured paint onto the road, effectively turning the street into a giant canvas, with cars acting as paintbrushes. The piece of guerilla street art was named “Painting Reality” and, in case you’re worried about the after effects, all the paint used was water-based and was completely environmentally friendly.
