Amazing visual installations projected onto monumental architectures. Watch the youtube video below. Easyweb.fr A monumental video show creates a single event using the innovating system of mapping 3D video Neoproj, technique that consists in applying video onto a monumental architecture playing with its forms and its volumes. http://www.easyweb.fr http://www.neoproj.com
Alexandre Orion spent last year doing graffiti in Brazil. However, he was actually doing the government a favour. His style of graffiti doesn't use paint or markers but instead he employs the power of a towel. He wipes scum/soot and pollution offwalls in order to bring out the colour from beneath the grime. A form of reverse graffiti. However, the government, not being keen to allow any form of expression ordered every tunnel in the city to be washed down. It's amazing that it took the work of an artist doing them a favour to realise that the city needed a clean. Something that really grinds my gears. Why suddenly now do they decide to wash their walls? Check out the video below to see all of Orion's hard work washed away in a mater of minutes.
My other half decided to buy this series because it was different and it was cheap, we were both in for a surprise when we watched this anime. Haibane Renmei is a 13 episode series created by Yoshitoshi ABe (a graphic artist), it was originally a dÅjinshi comic series, there was only one produced and there is little similarity to the anime. ABe is also responsible for the character design on other anime series such as: Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze and NieA under 7 (his own creation) which is why they all have the same style. Unlike the norm in Japan with most manga artists ABe does not use a ruler to draw, this gives his work a rough edge to it. Haibane Renmei follows the life of Rakka the newest Haibane to arrive to Old Home in the walled city of Glie (no one in the town is allowed out of these walls). The anime starts with Rakka falling out of the sky (this is her cocoon dream) and Reki one of the oldest Haibane, finds her cocoon. When Rakka finally ‘hatches’ out of her cocoon she is a teenage girl with no memory of her past. She is welcomed by the other girls in Old Home and soon finds herself fitting in. The series takes a dark turn when Kuu takes her day of flight and leaves Glie in a flash of light in the western woods. Rakka doesn’t understand why Kuu left and falls into depression with the grief of losing a friend. Rakka is helped out of this depression and in the process discovers she is there to help someone else.
This is a very good anime but we are never told why the town of Glie exists or even where it is. But I think this is good; the character never finds out either, they can only guess and we are left doing the same. Some have said that the Haibane are kids that have committed suicide (I thought this as well) but ABe disagrees with this interpretation, but he encourages readers and viewers to come to their own conclusions. And I think this is great as not everything needs to be handed to us on a plate and it keeps the mystery of the anime. I would recommend this anime as it is a real gem and I am glad my other half bought it because it sounded different. This is a good trailer but some of it is in German.
Each day, I am forwarded loads of amazing images from ESPV's readers that I thought I'd share them with you in a special series of posts that will be labelled "Random" in our Tag Cloud. If you want more info on each image, jump to the links under each image.
I'm always looking for new and inspiring art and this artist is no exception. Aurel Schmidt is a young Canadian artist who enjoys making portraits of people that don't exist. Their faces made up of trash and everyday objects (cigarettes, dead animals, spiderwebs, pebbles etc.) all subtedly joined together to create highly detailed paintings. The details she adds to her pieces are incredible and really complex which causes the viewer to spend ages looking at each specific part. Personally, I'm loving it!
Earlier this year ESPVisuals submitted a short clip to IdN magazine for their fifteenth anniversary. The brief was to create our interpretation of design 15 years from now, in one media form or another.
With our love of Movies, Videogames and Technology we set about conceptualising a brand new, super advanced form of interactive gaming, including a state-of the art console/theatre.
We understand that videogames are soon to expand into the movie realm, and vice-versa,and with advances in technology, within 15 years it is highly conceivable that the user may be able to manipulate live-action characters within a movie narrative.
Matched with the ever-growing threat of identity theft, which we chose as the crisis within our game, we formulated a product which would give the user a depth of interaction previously unseen in the videogames industry.
With the time constraints of a movie trailer as our foundation, we decided it would be best to illustrate his type of console and gaming experience by creating essentially an advert/trailer, the type you might witness on television 15 years from now.
The Game is called "ANONYMOUS", the status you find yourself in after a brutal mugging leaves you without any recollection of who you are or where you are from. You must steal other peoples identities in the quest to find out who you really are.
Had we had more time we'd have loved to expand upon the concept, and maybe in 15 years, we'll have the time and funding to do so!
The great news is that the visuals clip has made it onto the IdN DVD, and the 15th anniversary book, which features some of our more recent illustration and design work. The DVD and book are due out THIS NOVEMBER. If you can't find where to buy it, you can do so online at IdN, using the link given below.
Remember, the full version of the Trailer is only available on the IdN DVD out in November and we'd love for you to check it out and give us your well respected feedback!
Check out the sneak peak above and be sure to check out IdN It's a fantastic magazine for all sorts of creatives, and their website has tonnes of interesting videos past and present.
Mist the Graffiti writer has been dabling in the toy business for a while and I have loved his previous designs. These new ones were no exception. According to VinylPulse: "Both the Dark and the Original Goldorus vinyl figures designed by Mist have cleared customs and will drop in a few hours @ the Bonustoyz web store. Both the Dark (349 pieces) and the Original (149 pieces) will sell for 119 euros (~ $170) + shipping.
This is one of the premiere releases of the year -- combining Mist's devilish style with a well-done homage to the old-school Japanese Grandizer. Goldorus is mean and lean with an 'exploding' fist (spring loaded) like the old Japanese robot toys plus weapon that converts from two axes to a dual-tipped instrument of death."
This was the original Orus toy by Mist. The flowing graffiti-esque shaped arms made this one of my favourite toy designs a couple years back.
This baby porcupine (also called porcupet) eats a banana. You'll hear tiny squeaks--those are hiccups!
His mother was killed when she was hit by a car and someone got him to licensed wildlife rehabilitator Gail Buhl. He was orphaned and imprinted on humans and is now living at Wolf Ridge Environment Learning Center in northern Minnesota.
A Road-rail vehicle is a self-propelled vehicle that can be legally used on both roads and rails. They are sometimes referred to as a Hy-rail or HiRail. They are normally converted rubber-tired road vehicles that have additional steel wheels for running on rails. Because only one set of wheels would logically be used at a time, a pneumatic, or hydraulic system is employed to lower and raise the rail wheels.
Such vehicles are normally used for permanent way maintenance during engineering possessions of the line. They can be driven on roads to near the site and then convert to rail vehicle for the final journey to the worksite. This avoids both the complex manoeuvres that would be associated with a rail vehicle, and the problem with a road vehicle of accessing the worksite if the worksite is not near a road. Since they are normally converted road vehicles, they would not fare well in a collision with a heavy rolling stock and therefore can only drive on railways under an engineering possession. Their light weight also means they may not correctly operate track circuits for signaling.
