Filmteractive 2013: Russian Motion Design

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Have you ever wondered how things are on Russian Motion Design scene? Alex Frukta with a support from Designcollector's editor Arseny Vesnin prepared a huge showreel that will blow up your mind and you will set a new record in watching video without breathing.

The Russian Motion Design reel was prepared for the FILMTERACTIVE Festival that happens on 25-26 of September 2013 in Lodz, Poland. Arseny Vesnin from Designcollector is going to speak about the hidden power of Russian artists and help to raise the bar of their recognition outside Russia.

http://vimeo.com/75110594

Filmteractive 2013

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I am going to hit the Poland ground this week to present Russian motion designers for international audience of Filmteractive conference and festival. The presentation "Russian Motion Design" is prepared by Arseny Vesnin and the showreel is compiled by Alex Frukta and will be available on his Behance portfolio this week and we also will announce it online this Thursday. The blog is not going to be updated this week, but please follow the Visual Overdose on Tumblr. Filmteractive is an international event devoted to innovative audiovisual content, such as: interactive film, cross media projects and second screen solutions. Filmteractive takes place in Lodz Film School, 25-26 Sep. 2013. The new formula of the event connects three modules: business conference (Filmteractive Conference), market of audiovisual content (Filmteractive Market) and artistic festival (Filmteractive Festival).

Filmteractive Conference will be visited by the speakers and representatives of the biggest companies and media from France, Germany, UK, Finland, The Netherlands, Israel and Poland. Filmteractive Market is the first content marketplace in Poland and Central & Eastern Europe. Eight interactive and cross media projects from Poland, Denmark, Sweden, and Estonia will pitch live in front of international producers, content buyers, and video experts. The best project will receive the HBO Award. Filmteractive Festival will feature guests from Russia, Austria, Poland and the UK. You can also listen to the authors of “The Trip”, this year's Webby Award winner in the "best use of interactive video" category.

My Presentation at FILMTERACTIVE 2013: Russian Motion Designers

http://vimeo.com/75110594

The Quarterly

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Founder of The Creative Book project, Sanj Sahota, who works as a designer for ORB Brand Agency UK by day, has turned to the popular crowd-funding website, www.kickstarter.com to raise funds to cover printing costs for the second issue of his latest endeavour, The Quarterly Magazine, which he describes as: "A creative journal with a focus on the photographic medium which aims to do things ethically and fairly".

In October, Mr Sahota and the team will also be hosting a 3-day exhibition in London to celebrate the launch of issue 2 of The Quarterly and further promote all of their contributors exclusively featured work from the printed magazine. "We're going to put together something amazing where people can meet our talented contributors and have a chance to see all of their work up in lights. True talent deserves recognition and we want to make sure we shout about it from the rooftops."

http://vimeo.com/73617249

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Myosis by Gobelins students

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The students of Gobelins strike again. “Myosis” is an existential love story, a lyrical tale of passion and the creative destruction sometimes necessary to stay in touch with it.

http://vimeo.com/73617382

Full credits at the film’s end. Primary creators:

Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart Ricky Cometa Guillaume Dousse Adrien Gromelle Thibaud Petitpas

Vinyl Skulls by Ted Riederer

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An avid lover of music and art, Ted Riederer created these skull forms by placing vinyl records atop a plaster skull mold and melting them down. The record label molds perfectly around the curvature of the frontal bone giving each skull a unique identity. The series, titled Primal Sound, "…aims to explore the symbols of music, and music communities, for their redemptive power. When I was 16, my life fell apart, I joined a band and was saved. The vinyl skulls are based on a nonfiction essay by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke entitled ‘Primal Sound.’ In this essay he ponders what sound the coronal suture would make as it closely resembles a sound wave. He proposes that this process of combining what seems like disparate elements initially to create something that the world has never heard, is a model for making good art." –Ted Riederer

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Phonebloks

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A phone only lasts a couple of years before it breaks or becomes obsolete. Although it's often just one part which killed it we throw everything away since it's almost impossible to repair or upgrade. But Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has another view on this problem. He just rethinks the way a phone may be constructed taking in account bricks based system Phonebloks. With functional modules you can construct a phone that can fit your needs of the moment, or the needs of particular audience or whatever you want.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c

Danielle - Aging experiment

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"Last Thanksgiving, Anthony Cerniello traveled to his friend Danielle’s family reunion and with still photographer Keith Sirchio shot portraits of her youngest cousins through to her oldest relatives with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Then began the process of scanning each photo with a drum scanner at the U.N. in New York, at which point he carefully edited the photos to select the family members that had the most similar bone structure. Next he brought on animators Nathan Meier and Edmund Earle who worked in After Effects and 3D Studio Max to morph and animate the still photos to make them lifelike as possible. Finally, Nuke (a kind of 3D visual effects software) artist George Cuddy was brought on to smooth out some small details like the eyes and hair."

via Colossal

I wanted to make a person, I felt like I could tell a story with that, but it ended up feeling slightly robotic, like an android. I’m OK with that. Things never come out the exact way you plan them, but that’s the fun. The score I imagined would tell this woman’s life, with events speeding by as she aged, but in the end I thought it would be more interesting to go with an abstract piece of sound, and my friend Mark Reveley really came through because I love how it sounds.

http://vimeo.com/74033442

Vogue and Google Glass

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When technology meet fashion the new elite product is born, so that what I think Google is trying to do with its overestimated cult gadget Google Glass. I think most of you remember the first appearance of "real" G-Glass on catwalk for Diane von Furstenberg Spring 2013 last September and then a First Google Glass Porn video. Okay you have seen a lot about Glass last year and they are not yet on sale. They are still a sort of futuristic way of thinking about the gadgets and Vogue just splash some fuel on its marketing fire with its latest photo-session. Shot by Steven Klein on location of architect Roberto Bruno's house the session is spiced by Vogue's short message "Beyond the blue horizon lies a futuristic vision of fashion—a beautiful minimalism tailored for the brave and the bold." vogue-google-glass-6

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