Streetartist blublu.org made an amazing video, that will let you ask foremost one question: How much time did the people spend to make this video? “Motu” basically shows an animation, that was entirely filmed outside or to be more precise: on walls or abandoned places. With chalk they animate morphing figures all over walls in the city. Each frame leaves a white trail, that was the “animation frame” from the picture before, resulting in a very interesting visual effect.

The whole movie is somehow based upon surprise and there are scenes, that simply will make you wonder, because the play of light, animation, spacial situation and camera perspective is simply awesome! Thumbs up for the idea and the work invested. A unique piece of art.

Another piece called Livorno by blublu.

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Today I discovered a great pictureset on flickr, that deals with under-appreciated architectonic elements, that are often associated with “transport” und “wasted space”. The talk is about “Interchanges”. Ken Ohyama takes pictures in Japan of this motorway-elements from the foot passenger point of view. Most pictures were taken at night with long exposure and reveal the magic of this forgotten spaces within the city body. The pictures remind me both on a mystical game world, as well as the unlimited imagination of toys with the ability to think anything, in order to build it. The streets look like moody rollercoasters, while the ghostly pictures somehow talk.

May is a lazy month! That’s why the Round-Up will be short. I had also lots of stuff to work and mostly wrote my thoughts directly in here. Besides… we had two highlights this month with the Flex-Actionscript-tutorial and the Winamp-Interview with Justin Frankel.

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A short movie, that played right into my heart! Musicotherapy is wicked day at a therapists-center. In this cartoon the doctor is very sensitive against noises, while the inhabitants of the house can’t stop to play music. This movie is also a contribution to the Bitfilm-Festival 2008 in the category 3D space award, feel free to vote!

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Another short movie with similar color-scapes. Not as brilliant as the work above, but something nice to entertain. The characters expressions are somehow… cute?

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Okay, this is old stuff, but it blasted my mind! The Yellow Magic Orchestra and their view upon the technopolis city Tokyo. Sometimes… I just love the 80ies.

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The Toriton Plus is a very interesting music controller. It transforms movements of water into sounds. The motion of the water is detected by lasers. The sounds in the video give a nice Oval-like drift, making this a very smooth music instrument.

This is original and some different way to “do” homebrew instruments. It is an orchestra that manufactures and plays instruments, they made 100% of vegetables. It’s interesting how many different things they build out of this garden fruits. Not only things to knock upon, but also flutes, trumpets and many other interesting things. After the show you don’t need to stay hungry: you simply can eat up the stuff you played.

Robert Hodgin aka Flight404 does creative code for really a long time now. I don’t know how long ago, I guess it was about two years, he dropped most of his experiments and only concentrated on visualizing music mostly with processing. Well, what’s so special about it? I’ll tell you: the works of Robert Hodgin reached a very high level of originality. With no problem you can tell this artistry.

Robert documents his progress on his weblog. This is a good example of the artistic practice to constantly repeat a challenge that you set yourself, in order to grow and grow and reach a level very high. Or would you disagree, that you haven’t seen something like the “Weird Fishes” ever before?

PikaPika is a refreshing project from Japan, that use “long time exposure” pictures of the city at night. With colorful lights they draw characters and animations, some a little bit like games, into the night. Finally they make videos and little stories out of it. Cute colors, drawn into the night. I also enjoyed the videoclips with this uplifting music.