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Gamer’s Paradise: 5 Creative Gaming Trends That Defined 2012
In this recurring column, Leigh Alexander visits exciting new creative frontiers in the video game space, which is seeing a period of incredible growth and diversification, attracting new talent and...
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Make Your Own Shout Out Louds Ice Record (For The Ten People That Got One)
Hey! Do you love the Shout Out Louds? Me either! But just because you and I prefer the soothing sounds of Korky Buchek doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the clever way in which this Swedish indie rock outfit...
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Play Music And Create Fiery Visuals With A Stretched Piece Of Spandex
Aaron Sherwood, whose previous achievements have included merging a glockenspiel, a guitar, and projection mapping, has recently created another experimental audiovisual instrument Firewall, this time...
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Spastic Dancing Microbe GIFs Star In Cokiyu's "With My Umbrella" Music Video
As December 21st inevitably approaches, you might find yourself daydreaming more than usual, meditating on crazy ideas like the aftermath of a potential Nibiru cataclysm, or other post-apocalyptic...
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The AP Includes Li Wei's Gravity-Defying Spectacle In The Top 150 Photos Of 2012
Beijing-based artist Li Wei likes to capture unseen forces in his epic gravity-defying photography, working in the space between reality and fantasy. He typically uses heavy-duty wires to create his...
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300 Interactive Paper Boats Light Up A London Dockyard
London’s Canary Wharf dockyard is under attack by a fleet of boats. And when I say attack, I really mean illuminated, and the boats aren’t typical boats either, no, these are the glowing miniature...
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Best Of 2012: The Year's Dopest LAYERS
Every year, sound tools get more powerful, more versatile, and more ubiquitous, and 2012 was no exception. Not only did we see new ways to control sound, now possible without even touching anything,...
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An Odd Season's Greetings Message From Grizzly Bear
If you love all things holiday related, you might have watched this Grizzly Bear video expecting the same warm feeling you get when the gang helps Charlie Brown decorate the tree. Instead, what you may...
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How Award Trophies Get Made: Snarkitechture Show Off Their Architizer A+ Designs
Our friends at Architizer celebrate the best in architecture and design on a daily basis and have been doing so for years, but this is the first time they’re doing it with an award show. The Architizer...
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Chris Milk's Home For Postcards To Our Past Selves
Well before Arcade Fire and Chris Milk collaborated on light painting the Coachella 2011 audience, thousands of people experienced the interactive personalized music video for Arcade Fire’s “The...
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"Lego From Mars": Interactive LED Crystals Light Up When Touched
There’s something about glowing crystals, they just hold a mysterious power over people—maybe it’s all those magical adventure kids movies or maybe it’s Christopher Reeves Superman films, but no one...
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Meet Fleur & Manu, The Directors Behind M83's Epic Video Trilogy
Having worked with the likes of Tricky, Sebastien Tellier, and Bag Raiders, directorial duo Fleur & Manu have established themselves as experts when it comes to creative visuals to complement...
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300 Interactive Paper Boats Light Up A London Dockyard
London’s Canary Wharf dockyard is under attack by a fleet of boats. And when I say attack, I really mean illuminated, and the boats aren’t typical boats either, no, these are the glowing miniature...
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Music History Gets An 8-Bit GIF Makeover
Finally! Music history, 8-bit, and GIFs come together (right now) for some moments from popular music that are seared into everyone’s memories. From PSY’s horse dance that you probably haven’t seen...
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Experimental Light Painting In Bullet Time [Video]
OK, so this video might only be 55 seconds long, but that’s more than enough time. Called 24×360 it’s a collaboration between Patrick Rochon, Timecode Lab, and Eric Paré, and what they call a “purely...
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DARPA's Terrifying BigDog Robot Can Now Follow Voice Commands
In DARPA‘s continued quest to create terrifying machines that edge us ever closer to a need for John Connor to come through one of those fizzying time-travel portals and save us, they’ve released a...
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Reinventing The Bonsai Tree Under Water
Underwater plant life moves with a captivating serenity that your houseplants just can’t muster. That doesn’t mean that you should start drowning your peperomias in your fish tank. Japanese botanical...
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Best Of 2012: The Most Inventive Music Videos Of The Year
There was a time when the idea of a music video itself was novel, and every one that came out was some amalgamation of Mungo Jerry’s “In The Summertime” video. But as time went on, people began using...
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Co-Creator Of Vimeo Harnesses The Power Of HTML5 For The Average Animator
When Vimeo came out, it filled a certain void for filmmakers, amateur and professional, that sought a high quality platform to present their work on without as much of a social media focus as YouTube....
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Google Creative Lab And BERG Explore The Future Of Computer Interfaces As...
Since it’s launch Google has become an integral part of our lives, used everyday by most of us for good or ill it’s hard to imagine how we’d cope in a world where we didn’t have lots of the world’s...
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