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So here’s another thing you can do in Russia

If you’re done sightseeing in Moscow, why not leave the city and hook up some DIY bungee jumping from an abandoned building. And in case you missed it, the previous thing you can do in Russia.

By Christopher on December 9, 2010 • russian stunts

We Have Band: You Came Out

We Have Band: You Came Out stop motion music video faces creepy colors animation

Stumbled onto this 2009 stop motion video for You Came Out by We Have Band, it’s lovely if not slightly bizarre.

The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members lying still for two consecutive days in a studio.

In order to animate the singing bit, lip movement was created by animating a painted mouth on the singer Dede. This involved breaking the lyrics into phonetics and giving each sound a specific mouth shape. To make this as realistic as possible all the mouth shapes were painted on Dedes face individually and then shot. All 4,816 frames of the music video can be found on Flickr

If you’re lucky enough to live in Italy they’ll be in Milan tomorrow night and Bologna on Friday. (via polkadot)

Karolina: Smile 2 Me

Karolina: Smile 2 Me video art music video animation

Directed by Kutiman and shot in locations around Tel Aviv. (via booooooom)

By Christopher on December 7, 2010 • animation music video video art

The Magic Carp-Pet

The Magic Carp Pet optical illusion home fish

A concept rug designed by ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects that is probably the most awesome carp rug with an embedded moire effect I’ve ever seen.

When the rug is viewed through the specially designed glass coffee table, an animation of carp appears through a moire effect providing a surprise element of natural liveliness to the interior. The graphic apparition, replacing the traditional fish tank, is also a nod to the decreasing abundance of our most precious natural resource – water. Mythologically, the carp symbolizes bravery and fortune. Linguistically, the “carp” becomes a humorous extraction of the “carpet” that reveals this intriguing little conversational piece on the floor.

(via mocoloco)

By Christopher on December 7, 2010 • fish home optical illusion

New Stop-Motion Ad for Moleskine Mini

The 2010 cavalcade of incredible stop motion films continues with a great new advert for the Moleskine Mini by Rogier Wieland based in the Netherlands.

For the new extra small planners/diaries series from Moleskine I made a stopmotion animation, focussing on the bright colors of the diaries and trying to add some surprises to them. The video was made using the original extra small planners. Only the 533 animated pages have been reproduced in Illustrator, printed out on Moleskine paper, cut out and glued inside the planners for each single frame to shoot.

By Christopher on December 3, 2010 • advertising animation books paper stop motion video art

Kurz und Schön opener

Kurz und Schön opener weightlessness video art stop motion german film

Another great video short today by Feedmee Design, shot as an intro for the German film competition kurzundschön (Short & Nice). Another ongoing Colossal theme in this video: my unabashed love for weightlessness in film. (via fubiz)

By Christopher on December 2, 2010 • film german stop motion video art weightlessness

I Hope This Gets to You

I Hope This Gets to You music video love hands faces

Classic girlfriend moves across the country, guy secretly creates elaborate hand-puppet viral music video set to a song he wrote to woo her back. (via egotist)

By Christopher on November 30, 2010 • faces hands love music video

Hand-Cut Typography

Hand Cut Typography typography paper abecedarian

I’ll go with what Margot from Pitch said: this is simultaneously stunning and mind-boggling. Hand-cut typography from artist Bianca Chang commissioned as a birthday present.