The Lights That Stop Me

It's that time of the year! Vivid Festival is back and it officially opens today! Huzzah! If you're in Sydney over the next two weeks, you'll definitely come across many of the public events on show but if you can grab a ticket and check out a show. If you're not in Sydney, fear not my child, because through the power of technology you can stream shows on YouTube.
I for one will be tuning in to see Imogen Heap, Temper Trap and also check out Seekae's latest offering. In the lead up to the festival, the band has released this stunning sunrise session.

UUUGH! SO GOOD! CANT HANDLE!

But really now, head on over to Vivid's site to get the low down on events and what's on around you.

Takuya Hosogane makes a Point

This creation is from Japanese artist Takuya Hosogane. He's the featured artist on Pause Fest today. The young talent's work creates a dialogue between flash animation visuals and sound cues.

Vanishing Point in particular, triggers memories of watching Windows Media Player visualisations, except Hogosane's animations are much more iTunes in my opinion. He has a great way of really hitting those nuances in the music using image.

Read Lucy Down's profile on Takuya Hosogane here.

As Down mentions, Hosogane lists video anime series FLCL and Noein among his inspirations. Thoughts? Can you see the parallels in his animation style? Or is has his process drawn him closer to resemble more post modern works?
I can see a definitive line between his work and David O'Reilly's. 

Pause Fest 2011

I'm very sorry for not updating this blog as it should be and as it use to be, but the reason behind it is that I'm organising Pause Fest. Please go to pausefest.com.au for some digital goodness.

Our lineup and all events are in place. If you live in Melbourne or around please come, visit us and join Pause. We are very excited with the program and all events. The opening night is nearly SOLD OUT, so be quick to register for other events before they go.

Thanks for understanding and see you all at Pause Fest next week!

Nike 6.0 | The Pool

The Pool was more than a BMX comp, it was one of the most extra-ordinary gatherings of the BMX community this century.

From the draining of a soon to be demolished local authority swimming pool in Dagenham, East London, into a world class park in less than two weeks was a feat in itself, but to see the diversity and level or riding on display at the launch event was truly remarkable.

40 international riders with a brand new team format saw non-comp riders, veterans, street destroyers and park animals all throw down into something far better than we could have dreamt of.

Pause Fest 2011 | Open for submissions!

Melbourne’s already vibrant cultural and arts scene is about to receive a fresh new feel and perspective with the launch of its first digital festival. Pause Fest, which will be held from the 7th-13th November 2011, is about the new, innovative, interactive, exciting, creative and contemporary in the digital, advertising and creative industries featuring some of the world’s most creative minds of the 21st century.

This exciting addition to Melbourne’s cultural landscape has launched their impressive website which provides information about the amazing local and international artists and agencies that will be taking part in this years inaugural festival. The website features profiles, interviews and show reels from the likes of industry heavyweights such as Tronic Studio (USA), Fantasy Interactive (SWE), Director Kobayashi (UK), Leviathan (USA), Plenty (ARG), Physalia (ESP) as well as talented solo artists making waves in the industry: Dima Grubin (BLR), Andrey Muratov (RUS), Ronaldo Tozzi (BRA), Antonis Zagoraios (GRE), Dante Nou (AUS) and many others.

Pause Fest’s mission is to transform the city into an open gallery and create networking opportunities as well as dazzling visual and interactive experiences for both artists and the general public. That’s why Pause Fest has a number of opportunities for creatives to get involved and welcomes all submission whether from agencies that are looking to expand their scope and be part of something truly unique and innovative, or from solo artists who would like an opportunity to have their work showcased to an international and national audience.

Pause Fest is looking for a range of different types of talent to be involved, from local agencies and artists, production houses to musicians, performers and VJs to truly show off the plethora of creative activity that Melbourne offers. The festival will be an amalgamation of open exhibitions, interactive displays, live musical performances, visual projections, brand and product launches and new technologies.

Submission forms for show reels, animation, anything that moves and is at the cutting edge of the creative industries or blurs the creative boundaries can be found online on the Pause Fest website as well as submission for their world wide open poster contest for graphic artists. Submissions close September 1st 2011.

The type of submission Pause Fest is looking for are:

• Show reels of animations, anything that moves or is 3D
• Interactive displays and exhibitions
• Product and brand launch events to be part of the festival - anything that is new and innovative from concept cars to new technologies and communication devices
• Visual projections that truly dazzle
• Musical and live performances of any kind and any genre
• Poster graphics for the Pause Fest poster
• And anything to that is digital and kick’s ass!

Contact: submissions@pausefest.com.au

Adobe | Photoshop Touch App

Touch, mobility, and Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software—how's that for a creative combination? Adobe and the developer community can now create apps that communicate with Photoshop CS5 via a range of devices and platforms. Explore new Adobe Photoshop Touch apps for iPad, the first to tap into this new connectivity.

Syzygy | GOAB. A TV Experience Concept

New technical possibilities are the mainspring of the today's television. The needs of the viewers seem secondary.

Today, watching tv can mean a lot of things: TV via Internet, web content via TV, video on demand, IPTV, cable, satellite, DVB-T, mobile television, etc.

But, how do we want to watch tv in the future?

In the last few weeks we put together our thoughts and developed a TV experience concept. With GOAB we take the latest trends, bring the loose ends together, develop established ideas further and develop new concepts to provide a possible answer to the question: How do we want to watch television in the future?

Mini | Rocketman Concept

Mini - Rocketman Concept from PostPanic on Vimeo.

Director Mischa Rozema returns with another trademark visually unique mixed media film, combining live action with 2d/3d animation, motion graphics, stock footage and visual effects.

BSUR approached PostPanic to help them create an extra special product launch film to match the distinctive new MINI Rocketman concept. Most staggering is that the whole production took just 4 weeks from start to finish, including two studio shoots in Amsterdam and Munich.

Valpak | AR Coupons

With the Valpak coupons on the junaio app, consumers don't wait to receive coupons, the geo-location coupons are available whenever they want them. The app launches the smartphone's camera and GPS to overlay a set of 3D icons in real-time, showing the available Valpak coupons in the vicinity as the user scans the surroundings, with a radius varying from 5 feet to 20 miles away. The coupons and offers literally "pop up" on the screen. Let's go shopping!

New York by Frank Gehry | Beekman Tower

8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry[2], is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the New York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge. Beekman Tower is the tallest residential building in the Western hemisphere.

BMW and Mercedes Benz | Projections Ads

Sustainable Projection from future:headz on Vimeo.

Mercedes Benz - Transparent Walls (English) from Benjamin Busse on Vimeo.

An innovative, smart way of projection.
BMW used energy mainly powered by regenerative energy storage. The energy was generated by a vertical wind turbine and used for the performance by a new innovative CO2 free energy storage.

For the PRE-SAFE® precrash system from Mercedes-Benz, they made chaotic traffic intersections safer.

Everybody was able to look around the corners into the streets as if the walls were transparent, and could therefore detect potential hazards in time to avoid them. To achieve this, Mercedes used a camera to film what was going on around the corner.

Herbie Hancock | The Imagine Project

Follow Herbie Hancock as he travels the world to record his brand new album "The Imagine Project" with some of the biggest musicians and singers of today - P!nk, John Legend, Seal, Chaka Khan, Jeff Beck, John Legend, James Morrison, Dave Matthews and many more. Herbie Hancock will be performing in Melbourne on 30 April 2011.

Space Fence | Tracking Orbital Objects

We rely heavily on space for navigation, communication, and even health care research. Through Space Fence, the U.S. Air Force is significantly improving its space situational awareness to protect our satellites and astronauts from spinning debris and other orbital objects before disaster strikes.

Geminoid DK | Ultra Realistic Robot Clone

The 'Germinoid DK' robot is part of the Germinoid series of ultra realistic androids from Kokoro, Tokyo and Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan. Constructed as a clone of Henrik Scharfe from Aalborg University in Denmark, the robot's movements and facial expressions are controlled via a pc based motion capture system that tracks facial expressions and head movements. It will be used for research into 'emotional affordances' in human/robot interaction, as well as to gauge the cultural differences in the perception of robots.

Marcel | Repetto Interactive

Repetto - Vitrine interactive from Marcel on Vimeo.

Macel is a communication and advertising agency from Paris, and this is is one of their finest works.

Gilette | Worlds Biggest Shave

New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter's chiselled chops are shaved in real-time whilst covering the entire wall of a building in New York's SoHo district. The idea was developed by BBDO New York for its Gillette client while billboard painters are from Colossal Media (with over 45 years' experience between them.

Apple | iPad 2

Under Armour | E39

"Julio Jones: UA E39" from Shilo on Vimeo.



Under Armour recently introduced the world's most innovative athletic evaluation improvement tool, stating "It's not a smart shirt. It's genius." Beginning last Thursday and running through today, more than 300 top prospects for the 2011 NFL Draft are participating at the NFL Scouting Combine in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Dozens of prospects, including Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Cam Newton and Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones have been wearing the Under Armour E39 compression shirt during their workouts. It weighs less than 4.5 ounces (127g) and is made from the same material as the rest of the company's compression-based apparel. TVC production is by Shilo and ideation by WMIG led by CD Andre Stringer.

Orelha Negra | M.I.R.I.A.M. X Vhils aka Alexandre Farto

Orelha Negra - M.I.R.I.A.M. X Vhils aka Alexandre Farto from Vhils on Vimeo.

When Vhils and Orelha Negra collaborate it always results in creation and fire. Great new technique to make murals these days. Top video!

Immaterials | Light painting WiFi

This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.

A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.