The Greatest CGI Ever: Alex Roman & Architecture as Art
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
The following piece is 12-minutes long and is the greatest FULL computer generated imagery (CGI) I have ever seen… The piece is purely architecture based and makes Avatar look 5 years old. It’s 100% animated and was built in 3ds Max, V-Ray, After Effects and Premiere. This is Alex Roman’s “The Third and the Seventh.”
Tags: 3, 7, alex roman, architecture, art, CGI, furniture, gehry, graphics, third and seventh
Daniel Merriam
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Thanks to Ms. O’Neill for the tip on this guy. I don’t know if I want to lick his paintings, build them into birdhouses, or just eat mushrooms and stare at them. Beautiful. Also available at Visions Fine Art Gallery in Sedona, Arizona.
Tags: arizona, bubble, castle, daniel merriam, house, mirriam, painting, sedona, visions gallery
Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear and Allison Schulnik
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
We featured Allison Schulnik on QuenchPad exactly a year ago, thanks to a tip from our friend Shannan Hayes. Allison was commissioned by Grizzly Bear to do one of their new videos for the song “Ready, Able” off their new album Veckatimest based on the previous QP post that Edward from Grizzly Bear found, so we thank Shannan again for this tip and the amazing work both Grizzly Bear and Allison Schulnik create.
Tags: allison schulnik, grizzly bear, hobo clown, Shannan Hayes, stop motion
Artificial Paradise
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Belgian Director Jean-Paul Frenay directed the following short film. While his explanation doesn’t really pan out until the very end, it doesn’t really matter because the animation and sound design are so top notch. Here’s the description from JP: “Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?”
Tags: animation, Artificial Paradise, future, Jean-Paul Frenay, nature, virtual reality
8 Bit Trip
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Yachts, Gadgets, & Bling
This is in the top 5 coolest online videos I’ve seen. Apparently it took 1500 hours to make, mostly involving stop motion lego building. Stop motion seems to be coming back, as I think this is the third or fourth QuenchPad post featuring it. I guess it’s the ridiculousness of setting up one frame, shooting it, and then doing that thousands upon thousands of other times with only the slightest change in image per shot. The music on this one’s pretty awesome too.
Tags: 8 bit, 8 bit trip, daniel larrson, NES, nintendo, pacman, stop motion, tomas redigh
And Everything Was Alright
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Tags: bear, Placeholder Films
Charlie Allen
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
This guy is my favorite new illustrator… Found him through a blog that references Mad Men and it’s accurate portrayal of 50’s advertising biz. Props to Jonah for original link.
Tags: advertising, AT&T, Charlie Allen, illustration, Mad Men
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
His newest film, stop motion… Can’t wait.
Tags: bill murray, fox, george clooney, mr. fox, stop motion, wes anderson
mmmm, chewy
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design, Food Glorious Food
Artist Simon Decker has created a series of sculptures in Venice that are made to look like huge wads of chewing gum. Check it out.
Extreme Shepherding
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Thanks to my buddy Fang for pointing out this one…
Atmospheric Architecture
Posted by Coupon | Filed under Art & Design
So recently, I came across this nifty little exhibit called Cardboard Cloud by designers Fantastic Norway from, um, Norway. Based on the “thrill” of unpacking (having moved 10 times in three years, I would strongly disagree with this sentiment), the installation is comprised of 3000 hanging cardboard boxes that creates a pixelated cloud above the exhibition space:
Seeing this got me thinking of other projects/buildings I’ve seen that use an atmospheric motif as a conceptual basis for design. After the click through are a few that stand out.
Tags: architecture, atmosphere, cloud, rain, sky, storm
Skinner is Nuts (Genius)
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
I don’t really know what to say about this artist I stumbled upon. All I really know is his email’s alias is skimmerdog and his site http://www.theartofskinner.com suggests his name is Skinner. I often connect art like this to specific types of music, so I’d place his work somewhere between Talking Heads, Animal Collective, and Mastadon. OR it goes “WUGGUH-WUGGUH-WUGGUH-WUGGUH-SCRAAAAAAAAK-CHEW! WUGGUH-WUGGUH!”
And again speaking of Wolves
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design, Yachts, Gadgets, & Bling
Thanks Jigga…
These reviews from amazon for the shirt below are amazing.
REVIEW 1
This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that’s when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to ‘howl at the moon’ from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn’t have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn’t settle for the first thing that comes to him.
I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.
Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the ‘guns’), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.
REVIEW 2
Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather.
Tags: apparel, more wolves
Phosphorescent - Wolves
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your nose
Here is a great Song by the Brooklyn Band, Phosphorescent. The Song is Wolves, performed live for KEXP. The album version is pretty good, but I think this live version is superior.
and speaking of wolves….
Tags: kexp, phosphorescent, wolves
Tortoise & Chicago Architecture
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
The new Tortoise video “Prepare Your Coffin” highlights a bunch of still and moving images of Chicago architecture. The most noticeable from my knowledge of this city include O’Hare International Airport (the terminal, the underground area, the parking lot with circular driveway), The Hancock building, and the double semicircle sculpture in Grant Park. I wonder if they’re saying we’re all gonna die in this concrete jungle. Yikes.
Tags: architecture, chicago, Grant Park, Hancock Building, O'Hare, ORD, prepare your coffin, tortoise
“Still Run” by BrotherSister
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
Short film direction company Shilo (shout out to Mitch who works for them occassionally!) just released this video for group BrotherSister. Some pretty sick paralax goin on here, but be sure to check out Shilo and BrotherSister’s site. Amazing work.
Still Run from DANTE NOU on Vimeo.
Tags: BrotherSister, motion, music, paralax, Shilo, Still Run, video
Kids these days
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
They just love that T-pain auto tune
Tags: Auto Tune, babies, T-Pain
GeoSpaces
Posted by Coupon | Filed under Art & Design
German artist Hubert Blanz has created a series of photographic collages that create surreal landscapes that seem to serve as a commentary on the tangibility of the virtual world from the likes of Google Earth and that “internet” the kids are talking about these days. Similar to Filip Dujardin (whom we featured earlier), Blanz has taken the recognizable elements of urbanity, infrastructure, and technology and morphed them into organic landscapes that, while being foreign in their complexity and form, have a discernible familiarity in their content. There is much more at his site, so be sure to take a look.
click images for larger
Tags: airport, computer, Filip Dujardin, google earth, highway, Hubert Blanz, infrastructure, technology, transportation, urban
Soundsuits
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Off the beaten path, Yachts, Gadgets, & Bling
An artist and fashion professor for School of the Art Institute of Chicago known as Nick Cave (not the same as the musician) has created these amazing manifestations to act both as still fine art sculptures as well as fully wearable suits for humans, allowing “the work to transcend preconceived notions of class, race, and sexuality.”
View the full SAIC gallery of his Soundsuits here.
Tags: african ceremonial costumes, fashion, nick cave, SAIC, school of the art institute chicago, soundsuit
Deer Head Art
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design
Checked out an art show the other day at EFA Project Space, that our friend Shannan worked on and was blown away by a huge deer head made of candy. (1st image below). Decided to check out what other kind of deer head art was out there. Enjoy…
Tags: candy heads, deer heads, hannes bend, hunting
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