Maxim Zhestkov - Optics

September 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Talented Russian media artist Maxim Zhestkov released his long-waited film "Optics". It's an experimental art film exploring the behavior of artificial light and color in digital environments. Blending architectural gallery space with computer-generated digital glass sculptures, we encounter animated refractions, chromatic aberrations, colourful reflection and other conditions which are impossible in reality. A series of tests and explorations guides us through different optical conditions of the bright and colorful digital universe.

The film was initiated as an experimental series of tests in Zhestkov.Studio. After some research, the studio realized that the beauty and visual power of these explorations could be transformed into an art film rather than remain a series of tests. For a couple of months, programmers and artists at Zhestkov.Studio developed different approaches and played with the infinite visual possibilities opened up by refractions and reflections with sound design by Marcelo Baldin.

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“We developed over 1000 tools and principles of working with light and refractive/reflective surfaces. Coders wrote dozens of lines in Python to achieve some of the effects and behaviours of light. In the end, we produced some truly amazing results. Light and refraction, in reality, can behave only in one way in one condition, but in the digital world, where we don’t have real-world restrictions, we can animate every condition and step further into the understanding of light and colour”

— Zhestkov Studio

Design and Direction - Maxim Zhestkov
Production - Zhestkov.Studio
Sound Design - Combustion.Studio

@zhestkov

Parks Perdue

September 03, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, Portfolios, USA, 2018

Sticking to a dark colour palette that utilises the eccentricities of certain typefaces in neon colours, Parks' Perdue work has certainly stepped a gear in terms of a graphic design aesthetic.

@metal_worldpeace

Illustrator Sophia Miroedova

August 30, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia

Saint-Petersburg based illustrator and founder of self-named art school Sophia Miroedova recently has shared her long-terms skills in portrait sketches on Behance profile

@miroedova_illustration

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Cinemagraphs by Tim Tadder

August 29, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in USA, Photography, Portfolios, Advertising, Fashion, 2018

Photographer, director and motion video creator Tim Tadder shares a lot of visual overdose on personal Behance profile. Here is his personal selection of Cinemagraphs styled by Julia Reeser, with hair and makeup by Victoria McGrath

Beyond No Man's Land

August 28, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, 2018

Jan Erik Waider photography

“This place is beautiful to me, even now.
To see it, with eyes as a child’s.
There is wonder here, Captain.”

— Henry Goodsir (The Terror - Ep. 10: "We Are Gone")

@northlandscapes

Aeroglyph by Reuben Wu

August 27, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2018

"Reuben Wu (previously) uses long exposure techniques to capture light traces formed by a moving drone equipped with a lighting rig. In his latest group of images the paths create illuminated symbols such as a square, plus sign, and triangle from straight, narrow lines. The shapes hover just above the horizon with an abstracted reflection projected in the water below."

“The project name Aeroglyph describes what I see as large temporary geometries created in the air, only visible in their entirety through the capture of a camera”

— Reuben Wu

The project is an evolution of his ongoing Lux Noctis series which focuses on specific light paths, rather than entire illuminated landscapes. The plus and minus symbols were shot over the Pacific Ocean at night, while the square and triangle were captured over the bright blue waters of Lake Michigan.

@itsreuben

Portraits by Rezania

August 24, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Iran, Photography, Portfolios, 2018

Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Rezania creates 1001-nights-fairytale portraits inspired by the power of women beauty

@rezaniaofficial

Insta Novels by New York Public Library

August 23, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Mobile Applications, Instagram, Illustration, 2018

NYPL comes with a pioneer initiative to use Instagram Stories as a visual storytelling for a book. Baked by Mother Agency and talented artists and illustrators they created a brand new Insta Novels

“Instagram unknowingly created the perfect bookshelf for this new kind of online novel. From the way you turn the pages, to where you rest your thumb while reading, the experience is already unmistakably like reading a paperback novel. We have to promote the value of reading, especially with today’s threats to American system of education.”

— Corinna Falusi, Mother’s partner, CCO

The series kicks off this week with the Instagram story release of Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations by designer Magoz (@magoz).

In the coming months, look for two other literary works that will be released on the Library's Instagram account: "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrated by Buck (@buck_design) and The Metamorphosis, a novella by Franz Kafka illustrated by César Pelizer (@cesarpelizer).

Dubbed “Insta Novels,” each piece has been chosen for their highly visual nature. To increase the project’s reach, designers and artists with large Instagram followings have been tapped to create these digital novels, - via Artnet

How it works

First, go to the Library's Instagram account (@nypl) and tap Part 1 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the Highlights section, right under the bio.

Rest your thumb on lower right part of the screen to hold the page, and lift your thumb to turn the page. (The lower right thumb holder is designed to double as a flip book: if you lift your thumb and let the pages flip, you'll see an animation.)

As more stories are added, the NYPL Instagram account's Highlights will turn into a digital bookshelf.

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@nypl

Refik Anadol for NVIDIA

August 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Germany, Portfolios, USA, Motioncollector, 2018

Media artist Refik Anadol well-known for his immersive projection mappings has shared his latest "phygital" project made in collaboration with Nvidia during GameCon, Cologne.

Watch below

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“By using real-time ray tracing RTX we augmented 3-dimensional Cornell
Box and used real-time audience reflection as an input which has never been done in the computer graphics history in this level”

— Refik Anadol

Cornell Box Legacy
3.6M x 3.6M x 1M
4K 30.000 Laser projection, Unreal Engine special built with RTX, quadraphonic sound @unrealengine

@refikanadol

Plastic Rain by Andres Reisinger

August 21, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

Plastic Rain is a serie of non-standard retail spaces created by Andres Reisinger. Each zone presents vividly different stories and objects.Visitors can immerse themselves the installation aesthetic in dramatic totality. Spaces that offers time for meditation. A gentle inside/out travel

@reisingerandres

Digital Paintings by Leo Jimenez

August 20, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Colombia, 2018

Colombian self-taught digital artist Leo Jimenez shows his best series of portraits that he shared on Instagram and Ello profiles

@leojimenezart

Imaginary Soundscape

August 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2018

Nao Tokui is a Japanese media artist and DJ working on different projects researching soundscapes within visual systems. His latest "Imaginery Soundscape" web-based installation originally started as an exploration of how AI "imagines" a sound of any Google Street location using deep learning models.

The research went further and currently runs as "Imaginary Soundscape" machine where you can upload any image or photo to get the generative sound map created by AI. You can find beautiful examples of how "deep mind" hears the art masterpieces on Qosmo website founded by Nao

imaginarysoundscape2.qosmo.jp

Ocean Rift 裂痕海洋

August 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, China, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2018

"This series of works takes the ocean crisis as the topic, based on the Installation to present the ecosystem destruction by human activities. The singular mutation and death of marine life caused by Radiation and genetic modification, also involved elements of natural, polluting and synthetic." - Kim Yeonhee

The design combined with the destruction of raw materials, plastic, metal, and the dark heavy colors and the emotional impact of the destroyed scene, to interpret the "Ocean Rift".

Dina Khalifa

August 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Egypt, Portfolios, 2018

Cairo-based art student Dina Khalifa approached digital painting with a classic background. Thus makes her portraits stands out and depict female beauty from the place where it is quite limited

@dina.mkhalifa

Skin Patterns by Mattia Faloretti

August 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Italy, 2018

Young Italian digital artist Mattia Faloretti shows off his skills in CG and Photography

@mattiafalo

Worth Its Weight in Gold by Dillon Marsh

August 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, South African Republic, Digital Art, 2018

South African photographer Dillon Marsh has created ‘Gold’: his fourth project (previously) that utilizes CGI techniques as part of the photographic series titled ‘For What It’s Worth’.

"The series explores a significant part of South Africa’s history; the mining of natural resources such as copper, gold, and diamonds, and the effect this has had on the land over time. In ‘Gold’, Marsh uses CGI to create a scale model of the total amount of gold extracted from each of the seven Witwatersrand Basin goldfields. For context, the Witwatersrand Basin is a geological formation responsible for almost half the world’s gold reserves. Marsh’s enormous gold spheres are juxtaposed against the land from which the gold is produced. The result is a poignant series of photographic images that speak loudly about our capitalistic demand for gold." via iGNANT

@dillonmarsh

Designed by Garage Italia and Pininfarina

Fiat 500 Spiaggina

August 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Cars, Design, 2018

It's been a while since our last post in "Cars" flow and we really like to keep it clean for beautiful examples of automotive industry. Here is another eye-catching sample worth for being outside, near the beach.

Marking the 60th anniversary since the unveiling of the first special edition car based on the model 500 - the 500 Jolly, known as "Spiaggina," Fiat showcased their new limited edition of the latest Fiat 500. Called the Fiat 500 Spiaggina ’58, the new model is limited to 1958 units. A number which is an homage to the year Fiat showcased the original 500 Jolly, a car adored by rich and famous of the time.

The changes Garage Italia made to the Fiat 500C in an effort to convert the car into a true Spiaggina are, frankly, astounding. The job was so work-intense and perilous that Garage Italia partnered with famed Pininfarina to bring the job to a close. With their expertise in the creation of show cars, Pininfarina and Garage Italia came up with a 500 featuring a lowered windscreen, a rollover bar instead of a roof and only two seats.

Santuu Mustonen

August 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Finland, Portfolios, 2018

Santuu Mustonen interested in visualizing the emotions of suspense, excitement, distortion and the surreal through painting, movement and new technologies. The outcome of Santuu's work is manifested in many different forms: installations, printed materials, and the moving image.

The Other Day in Colors

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@santtumustonen

Sweet Galaxy by Ruslan Khasanov

August 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Russia, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2018

"It's been exactly 5 years since I created experimental video «Pacific Light» (2013), where I first mixed oil, water and ink together in a bright dance of colors. Since then, I’ve developed my style by experimenting with graphics and adding new ingredients. I used metallic paints in the projects "O D Y S S E Y" (2015) and "Sweet Dreams" (2016), and worked with neon colors in "NEON 4K" (2016)."