I was passing through Liverpool Street station and this video advertising screen caught my attention. It seemed to aspire to art. Perhaps it wanted something bigger than it had been given.

Very occasionally, I am partial to a bit of CGI porn. I saw this on the ‘top shelf’ recently. Check this out by Murat Pak

“The Node” is a project of time-image represented as pixels, which is connected to its reinterpretations done by various frequency artists.

“The Node” should be considered as a virtual installation including a collection of recurrences. Each audial redesign of “The Node” will be made by the pure minds in the list below. A notification will be made when each version goes online.

12:31 is the time that Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed. He was convicted of murder in 1981 and his sentence was carried out on 5 August 1993. Before his death he donated his body to medical science and subsequently his body was sectioned and photographed as part of the Visible Human Project.

The video above is a remarkable journey through the 1,871 slices of his body from head to toe.

Amazing as this animation is, this is not where the story ended. Artists Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott used the animation to create light paintings by photographing it (on a computer screen) with long exposures. The results are eerie, yet beautiful recreations of Jernigan’s cadaver ‘floating’ in space.

This animation, created on-the-fly by Processing and reactive to a viewer’s perspective, is at once hypnotic and disturbing. Nice work Onformative

About a year ago I was going to post about David OReilly and his film Please Say Something, but I just forgot. This short is over 2 years old, but if you haven’t seen it, then take 10 minutes out of your day. I think that he is one of the futures of animation. This film has a singular beauty and I found it quite affecting.

If you’re up for something more raw in nature, then check out his Octocat Adventures

Do you like gore? Do you like polygons? Knock yourself out with this video by Flying Lotus

In a quick follow up to my post last Thursday, here’s some more animated trippy-ness care of Today and Tomorrow again. This makes me feel sick on more the one level.

More at Emilio Gomariz

Two things that I like very much. Found at Today and Tomorrow

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This made me laugh, especially at 00:38.

I like Stuff and Things. Doesn’t everyone?

Falling somewhere in the augmented reality category, Augmented Shadow is a really sweet piece of interactive media. This is one of the exciting paths towards growth in how we digest and interact with media. The future not only looks bright, but fun too.

Creative Applications said:

Augmented Shadow is a design experiment producing an artificial shadow effect through the use of tangible objects, blocks, on a displayable tabletop interface. The project plays on the fact that shadows present distorted silhouettes depending on the light. Augmented Shadows take the distortion effect into the realm of fantasy. Shadows display below the objects according to the physics of the real world. However, the shadows themselves transform the objects into houses, occupied by shadow creatures. By moving the blocks around the table the user sets off series of reactions within this new fantasy ecosystem.