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Scratch video: Coldcut vs TV Sheriff - Revolution ‘08

By fpp ⋅ 29-October-2008 at 3:06 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Scratch video has been around for a while and was / is particularly popular in the UK. In this compilation “…Dancefloor hooligans Coldcut join forces with America’s leading audio-visual vigilante TV Sheriff to bring you an election vivisectionRevolution ‘08…”

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Drawings: Calamity coach

By fpp ⋅ 29-October-2008 at 1:22 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Aaron Costain has created a series of 13 drawings with reasons not to travel. The series called “Calamity coach” is a “…sequence of imaginary events designed to discourage even the bravest of souls from vehicular travel…“

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Animation: Swan Lake

By fpp ⋅ 28-October-2008 at 1:32 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

We have reported about Glenn Mashall’s outstanding work with the processing engine “a while ago”. He has created another master piece and made it available online this week. It’s based on the Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake suite, rendered through with his music visualizer and created entirely as a generative/audio reactive animation, without keyframing, manual input or editing.

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Animation: Fische und Schiffe

By fpp ⋅ 23-October-2008 at 23:55 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

An animation short film created as a student work similar to an shadow play.

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Music: Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone

By fpp ⋅ 19-October-2008 at 19:03 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

The official video for Lykke Li’s ‘I’m Good, I’m Gone’

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Science: A Fish-Like Airship

By fpp ⋅ 19-October-2008 at 12:14 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

A research team around Silvain Michel at the Swiss EMPA has created a blimp that moves and steers around like a fish. The airship uses artificial muscles based on electro-active polymers for its propulsion similar to the way fish swim through water.

Here’s a video of the blimp from a competition at the airship convention last week in Germany.

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