Category Archives: Spring 2010
Kickstarter Video
I wanted to make a video for the project home page on Kickstarter. There is so much to read on there already that it was suggested something a little more dynamic would be nice. And sometimes it’s just nice to be told a story while you look at pictures. :) So I finally got it completed, up [...]
Submedia | The First Zoetropes
To truly understand how zoetropes work you have to just make one or two. (or twenty :) I started with a simple copypaper prototype fashioned after Josh Spodek’s small plastic example. Not so successfully though; the material was too flimsy and there was no smooth way to spin it quickly. The breakdown of space [...]
Word of the Day
Diorama First came the panorama, a late 18th century word so successful that it spawned two others on its pattern: cyclorama, and today’s word, diorama. The dio- part is from Greek dia, “through,” reflecting the fact that the earliest dioramas were viewed through a hole or opening. The common -orama part is from Greek, horama, [...]
2D Composite Facial Reconstructions
The Rope Walker Gets a Makeover After working so closely with the vintage photography these past months I started to think of them as another possible way to complete the reconstructions while working on the problems with the digital 3d reconstructions. There is a forensic technique of creating a facial composite of an individual using [...]
Impossible Motion | Winner | Best Visual Illusion of the Year
Winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010 http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelat… Koukichi Sugihara Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Japan In this video, wooden balls roll up the slopes just as if they are pulled by a magnet. The behavior of the balls seems impossible, because it is against the gravity. The [...]
The Sketchbook Project 2011 | Art House Co-op
I signed up for The Sketchbook Project 2011 some time back. I had actually forgotten about it until today, when I got an email telling me my sketchbook is on the way. And then a few hours later, the mailman delivers it. :) Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they [...]
Motion Graphics | Fixing the Roosevelt Island Animatic
The reworking of the video turned out okay. I think the music really adds the right feeling. I’m thinking of replacing some of the drawings with photographs. It still needs a lot of work but it’s getting there.
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Final | Heavy Rain Review
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Two of a Kind Ring by Frederik Roije
What a great wedding gift! This simple porcelain ring is delivered as a single piece to be broken in two like a wishbone– creating a crack between pieces that is as unique as a snowflake. No other ring in the world will fit yours as perfect as the other piece will, and that’s what makes [...]
Modern | Contemporary Art