swim

Here's a treat. This short film by movie makers Floris Kaayk and Sil van der Woerd from the Netherlands. It is a stark realisation of a fertility clinic and the consequences of playing God for a moment. The two seem fascinated by the world of the minutae and endeavour to explore such tiny worlds. Check out their portfolio site over at Microbia.

exoforce

So with the new agency locale at Clerkenwell I am in need of some new office toys. Luckily being the geek I am I have some lego exo force given to me for Christmas. I hadn't actually opened it until today and truth be told it is awesome :) Based on a manga cartoon style, this range of lego breathes new life into the lego range. It looks really great in a cool transformer way. Might have to get a few more ;)

one over

Mmmmm this portfolio site from Jon Ruppel, a designer/developer from Los Angeles, is just gorgeous. He has focused on a really clean layout that you can fully customize by changing background, layout and content. Interestingly this made me view a lot more of his work. I am loving the motion he has achieved in his tweens and I suspect he has discarded such crutches as the tween class in favour of hard coding it himself. The technique, if I am right, is this: nail your tween on the timeline and tweak it until it is perfect adding all those little extra bounces that make it look great (you'll need a high frame rate to get this looking good, I'd say 31 fps is best); then get flash to trace the x, y pos for you and push those to an array; use that array as the guide for each future tween and discard your timeline work. If anyone is really interested post a message and I'll send you some sample code as to how I would go about doing that. Check out the work here.

jarratt moody

Oh this is just lovely. Jarratt Moody has devised this awesome animation using only typography to deliver 'that' speech from Pulp Fiction. Ok *warning* do not click on this link if you are a bit sensitive to harsh language.

got milk

Some serious production values have gone into this excellent flash site built for the 'Got Milk?' campaign. What is lovely here is the attention to detail with a 3D modelled environment built to look like a miniature island. Tapping into our childhood love of board games you even get to toss a realistic looking die about your screen. Ok so the gameplay is a bit tough and if you are on a laptop with a trackpad you can forget it. But definitely worth a look and a bit of a play.

Play it here

ford womb

Oh this is just lovely. I'm pretty sure this is actual video taken with those new ultrasound techniques as opposed to CG. Amazing to see these creatures in the womb. And that polar bear (wow). Not sure about the message of the ad though. Ford being green conscious and appealing to a new generation of users. What about dealing with their existing gas guzzling market and trying to change a few attitudes? Just a thought :)

milk meets coffee

Check out this superb set of macro photographs. Taken as a drop of milk hits the hot surface of a cup of coffee. The results are spectacular and is a great way to view a normally mundane event. Enjoy ;)

LAB

Mathieu Badimon is doing some truely extraordinary work over at his LAB site. Working with some complex actionscript he is really pushing some boundaries in terms of creative coding. Some really beautiful stuff. I especially like the dynamic clock featured in the picture. Check it out.

dare tagged

In the best nature of GT and all who worked there we decided to send off our old building in a small way. Dave who has been there the longest ceremoniously ripped our old GT sign off the wall of the fourth floor to the cheers of all who were toasting our last day at the old building. Our rival company Dare who moved in next door to us at Great Titchfield St. to swanky offices, much to our chagrin at the time, got a friendly tag by one unnamed employee as the sign got taped to their office railings. He he. Much to our amusement whilst down the pub that afternoon the Dare people started blogging about it. Here is the link with all the comments. Thankfully it was taken in the spirit it was meant as we are now moving to even swankier offices in the city. Farewell Dare and farewell Great Titchfield St.

What is really odd is that someone else has set up a website called weweregoodtechnology with all the people's names who have left or are leaving..... not quite sure what is meant by that????

More to come on this and pictures too I hope....

seb przd

Check out Seb Przd's flickr set here. This guy is a master of using some extraordinary camera techniques to create some startling images. He has some great panoramic equipment coupled with some powerful photoshop plug-ins to create these gems. He has Escherized some pictures to create awesome spiral comped images like this one. His Stereographic Projections like the example pictures I have included can be seen here. And some great cloning work is found in this flickr set of his.