Brillant Stop Motion Videos

Always and forever my favorite music video EVER! And also one of the most spectacular stop motion videos I've ever seen. Done by Oren Lavie, the singer, along with a few others. The video is composed of 3225 still images and took only two days to shoot, but 4 weeks to plan.



Similar is style, this Amazon Kindle commercial was done by gallantandkeen. I love how the narrative is created using the shot-from-above stop motion technique.



And lastly, the other most spectacular stop motion I've ever seen. This video is actually one stop motion within another - CRAZY! The printed image storyline was shot first and then the photos were laid out to create the secondary stop motion. Brilliant

The Wilderness Downtown

If you have Google Chrome, go to the website and do it yourself, its so much better! http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

This video explores the capabilities of Chrome and does lots of things I've never seen before. Before the song starts, the site asks for your home address. During the video, Google imagery is used of the location you type in, showing both aerial views and street panoramas. Its quite impressive.

Also, you are asked to draw a postcard during the song about 3 minutes in. The lines you draw grow tree-like roots and when you connect a shape a wispy sort of grey color appears. The best part is that little birds then fly in and land on the lines you have drawn.

Later in the video, trees are seen growing in Google views (your home imagery if you do it yourself). The postcard you draw is later printed and sold/given out at concerts on seed paper, so that it can, in fact, go trees in your hometown. Pretty elegant connection of all the elements.

BIG - Bjarke Ingles Group

8H - The 8-House from BIG on Vimeo.

For this blog, I want there to be a wide variety of types of design covered. With all my work, I am striving to attain a multidisciplinary view on the project and to bring all my background experiences with me. With that said, here's an amazing architecture video on the process behind the 8 House by BIG. I'm pretty obsessed with most everything this studio does, from their website to their models and now this. I've never seen anything like this done before. You can not only see the design process for this building, but hear the thought process and see the changes made because of certain considerations. I'm not entirely sure how they even did certain parts of the video, but I think its pretty great.

Seen in the ArchDaily article called "In Progress: 8 House/BIG" by David Basulto.

Stranger Than Fiction Intro

This intro sequence is probably one of my all time favorites, ever. The overlay of graphics on video functions as essentially moving infographics. Since I am focusing on information graphics in my thesis, these sorts of visuals really blow my mind. I'm hoping to learn enough basic digital design skills to be able to pursue this sort of imagery somewhere down the line. For now, I'll drool over other people's amazing skills.

Why didn't I know about this?!

On August 18, 2010 the Standard Hotel NYC, an anchor of The Highline and one of my personal favorite buildings in the city, was transformed into an amazing light show. The installation, funded by Target, was created by Mother NY & LEGS. LEGS is the studio that created the shockingly strange, and recently nominated, music video for Dog Days are Over by Florence + the Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU&feature=related

The event was called the Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular and Target went the distance in my opinion by handing out 1500 binoculars and also setting up a toll free number so that you could hear the music if you watched the show from far away...genius.

I think this is an extremely success instance of many design fields merging together to create something awesome. It reminds of the Blinkenlights exhibit from Berlin, but because I've spent so much time on the High Line, I'm even more drawn to this one. Hopefully The Standard will continue to bring media attention to the High Line area, which just so happens to be my one of my favorite parts of NYC.

Oh and the video is pretty long, so if you don't watch the whole thing...I recommend the first few minutes and then around 7:35 in and also 9:35 in.

Based on an article by Matt Lambert called "LEGS & Mother Take Over The Standard NYC" on motionographer.com