version3.0 » Video

Hockey 101

duncan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:56:53 +0000

I stumbled across this video today and it made me smile. The guy behind it, J-Scott, relocated from Vancouver to Seattle and interviewed his new work mates about the sport he loves: ice hockey.

Hockey 101 from J-Scott on Vimeo.

As a kid I always wanted to play (unfortunately we had no ice in Tauranga, New Zealand where I grew up), so watched a few of the Stanley Cup finals series and have a grasp of the rules. Luckily this means that I can now hold a conversation in the bar on game night here in Vancouver, where apparently everyone is a hockey fan.

Possibly Related posts:

The Richard Feynman Series

duncan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:04:35 +0000

The folks behind the Sagan series have created a companion project featuring Richard Feynman. I have been a huge fan of his since reading Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character back at university. He is obviously an incredible intellect, but he has a way of speaking with such easy charm and accessibility you feel like you could be listening to your grandfather, or a favourite teacher from primary school.

These videos pair his voice with compelling images and stirring music. I am delighted to see his thoughts being shared with a wider audience.

(via YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF – which is also fantastic and worth exploring)

Possibly Related posts:

v3 Guide to the Interneat #13

duncan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:15:39 +0000

Pei-San Ng makes incredbile art from matchsticks.

(via Chairman Ting)
A wonderful, short presentation from Kurt Vonnegut, describing the shapes of stories.

(via kottke)
There is something pretty interesting going on just around the corner from my new home here in Vancouver. This Space is working collaboratively with the community to create a new business in an empty building in Chinatown/Strathcona.

They are going to run a voting and feedback process over the next few months on everything from what the business will do, to the employees who will work there. It is a great concept, and I am looking forward to seeing the results of such a long term and ambitious collaboration project.
GoPro make some really cool, inexpensive little HD video cameras that are great for action sports. If you get a whole bunch of them together you can do some pretty incredible stuff:

(via Spoke)
More GoPro cameras put to good use. This beautifully edited short film about base jumping features incredible scenery from the incredible jump spots they use around Europe. I have a huge admiration for base jumpers, and it is something that I hope that I get the chance to do (and have the courage to go with doing it) one day.

(via Infinity List)
Anyone who has been keeping up with the changes at Facebook will no doubt have heard about the influence and input of Nicholas Felton (aka Feltron). Apparently while he wasn’t busy helping out with completely re-imagining the Facebook profile he has been helping one of his relatives, an Australian winemaker, with some unique, beautiful, and fascinating labels. The labels are data driven, displaying data about the process behind making that particular vintage. Things like heat of fermentation, the time the skin is left of the grapes, and the ripeness of the grapes. These are all things that contribute to the final complex flavour of the wine.

You can read more of the story behind them, and check out the labels in more detail on the Between Five Bells site.
Photographer Sam Gellman went on a four day trip to North Korea and took some incredible photos of their annual ‘Mass Games’. Apparently the image in the background is made up of 20,000 ‘pixels’ – each a Korean child holding a coloured card which they frequently change.

(via MyModernMet)
Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro have been collaborating on some pretty cool real time face tracking and substitution. This seems to have culminated (at least for now) in the implementation below, which if you are a Phillip K. Dick fan will probably get you pretty excited.

(via Creative Applications)
Archie Out of Context (the brainchild of Ashleigh Rajela) does exactly what it says on the tin, and is very funny. Who doesn’t like a good double entendre?
My good friend Matt has an incredible talent for making hilarious little video mash ups. David Schwimmer smashes the club with his latest tear out dubstep anthem:

Possibly Related posts:

v3 guide to the Interneat #12

duncan — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:33:45 +0000

Polar bear created from 20,000 zip ties. Yes.
Created by Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S). (via designboom)
In an effort to encourage the citizens Lucerne to make use of rubbish bins Clockworx came up with this fantastic idea turning it into a series of different games around the city.

(via swissmiss)
Japanese photographer AppuruPai has an incredible set of long exposure images from the new high speed train connecting Odaiba to Tokyo.

(via today and tomorrow)
Scottish dude Danny Macaskill does stuff on bikes that will blow your mind. You have probably seen some of his other films, and this fresh one is just as good. ‘Industrial Revolutions’ sees him take apart an old train yard, including an incredible display of tight rope riding.

(via Pinkbike)
Those clever folk at Deep Local have built a concept bike that lets you shift gears with your mind for Toyota Prius. While undeniably futuristic, it was built using readily accessible technology and components. Apparently with 10 minutes of training you can be smoothly shifting the gears of this beautiful Parlee Cycles one off design with nothing by the power of thought. Detailed coverage of the entire project is over on Prolly is not Probably.

(via fastcodedesign)
Berlin based generative design studio onformative has an impressive body of work. The solution they came up with for their most recent project for Actelion, a biopharmacuetical company, is elegant and impressive. They developed a custom Processing application that generates still and animated brand imagery for Actelion. What a fantastic approach to producing a cohesive brand identity.

Actelion Imagery Wizard from onformative on Vimeo.

(via CreativeApplications.Net)

Possibly Related posts:

v3 Guide to the Interneat #11

duncan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:10:08 +0000

Back from my hiatus and there is no shortage of awesome stuff to share.

This beautiful short documentary was shot during the making of the Ritual Project, an incredible large-scale, hand-painted, stop frame animation that was commissioned by Stella Artois. Up There tells the story of the fading art of hand painting billboards, and the people that are keeping it from disappearing entirely.

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

via FormFiftyFive
Guido Tamino wants you to print stuff in his room, via the Internet.
Finally, someone is curating a collection of white people rapping poorly, like our man B-SHOC here.
Ishac Bertran has created a whole series of beautiful images like this one using Processing, in what he calls ‘generative photography‘. The technique he is using is fascinating, and produces some pretty unique results that look more like drawings or paintings than photographs.

via Creative Applications
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz offers sage advice about getting your sitcom cancelled.
Portuguese artist Pantonio is not only incredibly talented, he also has a fantastic sense of humour. He transformed this wall, the victim of a car accident, in downtown Lisbon into a scene from a comic book.

via Designboom
Watch as Bienve Aguado attempts and lands the first ever double front flip on a mountain bike. This dude is determined.
Thom Thom is a French artist doing some amazing work deconstructing this one billboard spot in Paris. Click through to see the different variations.

via TodayTomorrow
Another great little documentary, this one covering an old art form enjoying a sort of resurgence right now. Sean Walling, the owner of Soulcraft Bikes takes us through the process of crafting one of his beautiful hand made steel bikes.

FROM STEEL: The Making of a Soulcraft from michael evans on Vimeo.
I am loving the trend toward more and more high profile generative identities, and the new one for the MIT Media Lab by The Green Eyl (in collaboration with E Roon Kang) is fantastic.

MIT Media Lab Identity from thegreeneyl on Vimeo.

via Creative Applications

Possibly Related posts:

V3 Guide to the Interneat #10

duncan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:56:58 +0000

This is a bumper edition of the guide to the Interneat to celebrate version 3.0 being resuscitated. Enjoy!

I am loving some of the gems that Letters of Note uncovers. The presidents address that would have been delivered by Richard Nixon in the event of the Apollo 11 mission being a disaster is fascinating (as is some of the discussion about the note itself).
Wicked little spot for Smart from those clever clogs at Buck. Love the style of this one.
The work of illustrator Ryan Snook is fantastic. I am particularly digging this ‘whale driver’.
Scottish trials mega freak Danny MacAskill has a new short flick, Way Back Home, shot beautifully in his home country. Danny does stuff that almost no one else in the world can on a bike. Red Bull sure know how to do sponsorship and branded content right.
Forget Avatar. The best use of 3D so far: 3DD - a book of three dimensional boobs. Probably not safe for work if your boss doesn’t like boobs. It’s art, ok.
An exhibition of incredible wallpaper that is made up of three different patterns in red, yellow & blue from Carnovsky. You can view the patterns individually by viewing through a filter.

(via designboom)
Mattias Adolfsson has some of the most fantastic sketchbooks that I have ever seen. There is an incredible amount of detail & imagination in his sketches.

(via bumbumbum)
All round smart/creative/talented dude Evan Roth has created the Public Domain Donor system. Donate your ideas to the public domain on your death so that they may live on. Just print one out and stick it on your license.
My favourite infographic designer Nicholas Feltron whipped up this awesome caffeine monitor dashboard for the Build Conference.
The Underbelly project is an exhibition of street art from 103 artists that was 18 months in the making. Even more interestingly it was held in an abandoned part of the New York underground transport network. Would love to check it out for myself.

(via designboom)
Brush & Spoke is a sweet blog dedicated to cycle related art. It can be a bit hipster tattoo & fixie fixated, but some really beautiful stuff in there.
I have a soft spot for stupid puns. The Narc-whal (from Iain Burke) hits that soft spot with a giant bat.

(via Laughing Squid)
Floating DJ desk made from Lego. I want one.
Aussie sampling wiz kid Pogo has whipped up a couple of new tunes with accompanying videos. Crimson, which samples Dexter, is my favourite.

(via the fox is black)
I have a new favourite stupid thing on the Internet: CAPTCHArt. Terribly drawn comments incorporating the all pervasive CAPTCHA phrases that everyone knows & loves.

(via Rhizome)

Possibly Related posts:

v3 Guide to the Interneat #9

duncan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:37:21 +0000

The crew at Dentsu London have done this incredible work for Canon photographing paint sitting on a membrane that has been ‘activated’ by music. The results (both still & video) are stunning. Also check the making of clip to see how it was done.

(via designboom)
Rip Curl has put together this awesome ‘bullet time’ footage of four of the worlds best surfers in the Sunway Lagoon Wavepool in Malaysia. No less than 52 cameras were used to capture this killer action.
More surfing action, but this one isn’t so much revolutionary as just plain stunning. If you like hearing from people who are totally devoted to something then ‘Dark Side of the Lens’ is for you.

DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.

(via iso50)
More amazing action sports errr… action. This helmet cam footage from Darren Berrecloth in the recent Red Bull Rampage is bananas.

(via Spoke magazine)
Don’t worry if you missed every single animated GIF ever created… you can catch up by watching this awesome video from Evan Roth (featuring music from mashup virtuoso GirlTalk).

Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Beautiful motion graphics work from Colin Hesterly. Seems like a super talented dude.

World Of Motion from Colin Hesterly on Vimeo.
This generative logo for Norwegian city Nordkyn is some of the most interesting identity work I have seen in a long time. The shape and colour of the logo is determined by the current weather conditions. Apparently it is inspired by the snowflake, which is obviously a fairly prominent feature of Nordkyn life. Full details of how it works are over on Brand New.
If you are a music & web geek like me you should definitely check out Seaquence, an ‘experimental musical petri-dish’. Hours of fun. (via Charles Coxhead)
Melbourne dude Buff Diss does some unbelievably rad street art using tape.

(via bumbumbum)

As usual, I post most of this stuff up on twitter as I find it, so follow me there if you want the scoop.

Possibly Related posts:

Being Diplo

duncan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:32:40 +0000

A great little documentary from film maker Wing-Yee Wu, following Mad Decent head honcho and one half of Major Lazer, Diplo, at the Philadelphia Mad Decent block party. He talks about being a big deal DJ, traveling the world, working, the music industry, what he did before and where he would be if he wasn’t Diplo.

Great quote from Diplo on Mad Decent: “We are still very broke, but we are a lot cooler than everyone else”

Possibly Related posts:

v3 guide to the Interneat #8

duncan — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:35:01 +0000

These are getting a bit out of hand, I think I need to start doing them more regularly (or just stop spending so much time on the net).

John Kenn is a Danish guy that makes kids television. He also has an incredible talent for drawing monsters on post it notes
(via Elly)
Wooden sunglasses, why not? Check out the hotness from Schwood. About to put my pair on order
This is a beautifully shot little slide show of some guys ripping at Whistler that makes me wish that I was back in Canada.
More Whistler, this time helmet cam action from the incredible second place run in the Crankworx slopestyle competition.

(via Spoke Magazine)
Choi + Shine Architects recently picked up the Boston Society of Architects award for this project re-imagining high voltage pylons. Unfortunately the Icelandic folk who were running the competition in which they were entered didn’t like them enough to run out and build them. I would love to see these carrying the national grid here in NZ, imagine these set against the rugged central plateau landscape.

(via designboom)
A couple of awesome retro-photo collections: IBM catalogue photography from the 60′s & vintage interiors
If, like me, you a appreciate a good Venn diagram check out the remix Venn from Olly Moss & the you + me = awesome Venn
This multi-touch DJ interface, a senior degree project from Greg Werk, looks pretty neat. Think he may be overstating the problem a little (given any club worth its salt has gear already – never have I seen a DJ have to do a full gear set up while another plays), but still nice to see people pushing the boundaries a little.

(via oneplusinfinity)
If you are a marketing-or-advertising-type-person then you should read this letter, laugh, then actually sit down and think about it. If you aren’t, just read it, nod sagely, and feel free to point and laugh at us marketers.
This image is awesome. I wish I could find out who is responsible for it, but haven’t been able to figure it out. That is all.

(via Feltron)
One day I want to live in this Japanese tree house.
Telephoneme is a hybrid live-action/animated short film about the alphabet carrying secret meanings, based on ‘The Alphabet Conspiracy’ an educational film from the 60′s. Head over to the Telephoneme website and download the press kit to get the full background, or just check the super stylish film itself below.

Possibly Related posts:

Life Cycles

duncan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:53:19 +0000

This week saw the teaser for the highly anticipated Life Cycles hit the web. Billed as a whole new kind of mountain bike film (not a bike movie, a movie about a bike – big difference apparently), this trailer certainly makes is look like they are going to deliver on the hype. Ignore the slightly odd choice of still frame below (flames make it look like one of the Kranked series circa 2002, but the rest of the trailer is nothing like that) and give the teaser a hoon in full screen glory.

The team at Spoke Magazine are going to be hosting the NZ premier sometime soon. This looks like it is going to be one to check out whether you ride or not.

You can also whet your appetite with a few other other little teaser shots from the film over at the Life Cycles site.