Eye Candy
Beautiful images — static, sequential, or moving. Abstract, comic, and conceptual art.
Beautiful images — static, sequential, or moving. Abstract, comic, and conceptual art.
Posted by dave
Ken Wong’s drawings feel more like sculptures to me. I mean, my brain knows it’s 2D, but my eyes say, "Wait…"
Link to: Art by Ken Wong
Posted by dave
We’ve always liked director Toben Seymour . He makes puppets dance, he writes with light, he clones himself… He’s a good guy, that Toben.
In this video for Alphabeat, aerial shots of people spell the lyrics. Sometimes they have umbrellas, sometimes they throw paper… I like it. If you need to, mute the audio.
link to: "What is Happening" on DailyMotion | YouTube
Posted by ted
Nacho Rodriguez, whose Mr. Coo series was featured before , has a Mr. Coo game out — well, it’s sort of a game, but it’s more like an interactive comic. Check it out. I love the way the frames move. It’s in Spanish, but very sparingly.
Link to: Mr. Coo game
Posted by dave
If steampunk is a futurized industrial age, then this is pyramind punk. Or hieroglunk. Like Stargate, but not terrible.
link to: Bendito Machine
Posted by dave
I think the backgrounds of this film are looped real-world video footage. I’m not really sure, but either way, black-and-white-and-weird is hard to pass up. Three cheers for Emiel Penders.
Link to: Angst
Posted by dave
TotemX makes flipbooks. Lots of flipbooks. He then records himself flipping through them and adds foley. Yes.
Link to: TotemX’s FunnyOrDie Channel
Posted by jon
A gallery of oddball, semi-pathetic superheroes. The artist, Danny Zabbal, also does a web comic every Sunday.
Link to: Superheroes Flickr Set
Posted by ted
This isn’t the kind of thing we normally have here, but this speed run of levelHead, an augmented-reality spatial memory game, which was captured with desktop screencap software and as such seems a bit like stop motion, is so cool it’s practically art. (Also, it’s a spoiler. I know, you are so bummed, you wanted to figure out the green cube yourself. tough toodles, crybaby.)
Posted by ted
This is a spectacular, dark experimental short film made in Flash by Danish animator FoXcatO. The music it’s cut to is a pleasing shoegazy track by Mew. I particularly like it when the bunnies at the tea party vomit bile.
Link to: "Then I Run "
Posted by jon
For three years, artist Avid Liongoren has been posting daily visual art to his website. This year, he has been posting daily comic strips. But what really attracted my attention is Avid’s project from 2007: a series of illustrated monsters integrated into real photographs. Amazing. Make sure you go back to January 2007 and check them out.
Link to: Project 365
Posted by dave
If you can’t tell from the story, this film is quite literally an excuse to show you a bunch of odd, beautiful graphics. CSA Images needed showcasing and Run Wrake (author of Rabbit) had animation powers. If all advertising were like this, I’d probably watch tv.
Link to: The Control Master at Veer
Posted by jon
In this video, animator Jeff Chiba Stearns reflects on nine years of film making by exploring his obsession with yellow sticky notes. Though I’m not usually a fan of this kind of self reflexive subject matter, I found this video to be rather affecting in its simplicity. Or maybe I just can’t help liking something in which a rabbit has twin towers for ears.
