motion:art:design

This has a bunch of great stuff going for it:
Cute idea.
An actual story.
Great use of camera angles (notice how the cowboy subtly slides backwards in the frame just as they cut to a close up of the tomahawk.)
Bonus: I love the Kidrobot bumper at the end.  The motion is very [...]

Hey boys and girls: it’s the first edition of the Motion:Art:Design book club. And look who got yanked off the shelf. I’m hoping there are some interesting insights into being a creative person, taking his work seriously. I haven’t really started into it too far, but the first interesting quote:
29 October [...]

I thought this was pretty amazing. Thanks to @rdeal1 on Twitter for giving a shout out to Toxel.com.

This is an interesting article about the technological development of Rwanda. I have to confess that I had the wrong idea about what life was like there. Nice to know that it is recovering a bit from the last few years.
How to Cross the Digital Divide, Rwanda-Style
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My love of basketball combined with my love of cool logos. This is pretty F-ing rad!
76ers take it back to ‘77: idsgn (a design blog)
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Hey, this is a little off the beaten path of motion-related art, but it was too cool to pass up.  The blog Rose La Biche posted this image of a beautiful (and giagantic!) crocheted necklace.  I’ve not seen anything like it.  Check it:
http://tinyurl.com/nthjdy

Hey, I know I’ve gone a little TED crazy today, but this is a pretty amazing lecture on the nature of film making and mystery.  Side note:  I was obsessed with this giant box in grad school.  It was just big enough to fit one person, and I did a whole bunch of crazy avant-garde [...]

This is a cool post on Motionographer.com about motion design for screens.  We see them all the time in movies, but there’s a ton of work that goes into them.  I especially like the Microsoft video at the bottom of the page… it’s really beautiful to watch, even though it is also really pie-in-the-sky (I [...]