The WVIL camera is a concept camera envisioned by Artefact design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”

WVIL system takes the connectivity and application platform capabilities of today’s smart phones and wirelessly connects them with interchangeable full SLR-quality optics.

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El Teide; Spain´s highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.

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A Short Animation Inspired by the Works of İlhan Koman.

Plato Art Space presents Candaş Şişman’s video dedicated to famous sculptor İlhan Koman produced for the exhibition İlhan Koman: Hulda Festival, a Journey into Art and Science opening on the 22nd September, 2010.
İlhan Koman’s unique design approach in his form studies also inspires contemporary art works. The video installation Flux by young artist Candaş Şişman can be defined as a digital animation which is inspired from the structural features of some of İlhan Koman’s works like Pi, 3D Moebius, Whirlpool and To Infinity… A red circle, which is colored in reference to the red radiators of Ogre, is traced in a morphological transformation which re-interprets the formal approach of Koman’s works. The continuous movement sometimes connotes the formal characteristics of Pi, 3D Moebius, Whirlpool and To Infinity…, as well as the original formal interpretations of the design principles of the works . In Flux, Koman’s design process in the making of the Pi series has been treated as the emerging of a sphere from a two-dimensional circle by the principle of increasing the surface; and that simple direction is re-interpreted in digital medium. Thanks to this, in the digital animation an entirely different form serial that does not resemble Pi yet remaining its design principle can be followed through the flow of a circle to the sphere. As a conscious attitude of the artist, this work is not designed in a direct visual analogy with Koman’s works. During the animation, none of the moments of the transforming form look like Pi or 3D Moebius, however the subjective reading of Koman’s approach can be observed.

With the integration of the sounds of various materials – which Koman used in his sculptures – Flux turns into an impressive spatial experience. Flux, also exemplifies that Koman’s work can be re-interpreted by the analysis and manipulation of form in the digital medium.

by the courtesy of Plato Art Space (Plato College of higher education)

ilhan koman hulda festival, a journey into art and science exhibition
Ayvansaray Caddesi No:33 Balat – İstanbul
22 September – 31 october

video and sound design by Candas Sisman

commissioned by Plato Art Space

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A collection of time lapses by Simon Christen has taken around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year.

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Superfad’s new in-store campaign for Sony is a startlingly beautiful and surreal homage to Sony’s global brand message of “make.believe” and a tribute to the pleasure of “Eye Candy”. Unfolding in three parts, “Birth of Color,” “Explosion of Color,” and “Release of Color,” the project was directed and produced by Superfad and will be seen in stores and trade shows throughout the world.

The concept was inspired by the idea that from one’s imagination anything is possible. Drawing from the theatrical world of fashion photography, Superfad chose moments of visual drama and magic, with spherical objects representing the dot in “make.believe” as a connecting through-line.

Superfad Director/Executive Creative Director Will Hyde captured a live action, slow motion narrative with imagery that would showcase the picture value of Sony BRAVIA high definition televisions including color fidelity and detail. The project’s effects and animation, completed in just under three weeks, was creative directed by Carlos Stevens.

The project keenly represents Superfad’s methodology; one that eschews a singular signature style in favor of applying project-specific creative approaches to reveal the unexpected. With Sony’s “Eye Candy,” the blending of live action and animation comes together in a seamless marriage of visual intensity and wonder.

Client: Sony Electronics
Video Program Manager: Lisa Gonzalez

Agency: chickINchair Productions
Executive Producer: Kim Tierney

Live Action Production Company: Superfad
Director: Will Hyde
Director of Photography: Martin Ahlgren
Production Designer: Jason Puccinelli
Wardrobe Design/Stylist: Heidi Meek
Make Up: Bryin Smoot
Line Producer: Scott Ludden

Design & Animation: Superfad
Executive Creative Director: Will Hyde
Creative Diretor: Carlos Stevens
CGI/VFX Director: Dade Orgeron
3D Artists: Tom Oakerson, Phiphat Pinyosophon, Andrew Butterworth, Yas Koyama,
Alex O’Donnell, Dimitri Luedemann, Billy Maloney
Compositors: Tom Oakerson, Paulo Dias, Loren Judah, Dorian West, Sohee Sohn,
John Stanch, Soyoun Lee, Dimitri Luedemann, David Holm
Editors: Ryan Haug
Flame Artist: Andy Davis
Head of Production: Chris Volckmann
Executive Producer: Rob Sanborn
Music: Matt Hutchinson

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Zeitguised was founded in early 2001 by Jamie Raap and Henrik Mauler in an effort to channel their disparate interests in art, architecture, fashion and design, and explore and test the boundaries of them all.

Their high-gloss art school 3D punk blends complex geometries, surreal objects, artificial behaviours and the recycling of digital ready-mades into their distinct hallucinatory narration style.

With a repertoire spanning art films, 3D design, installation projects, tv commercials and music videos, they are perfectly suited to the diversified world of modern commercialised creative enterprise.

“Perpetics”, an amorphous architectural art extravaganza, received miles of amorous blog inches last year and toured film festivals and art galleries alike, while their commercial clients have included Toyota, Mercedes, and Napster and Vodafone.

2010 will see Zeitguised spreading their computer-powered love across the symbiotic universes of advertising, art, fashion, design and music.

To see more of Zeitguised’s work visit www.blinkart.co.uk

In the depths of a dark machinery world lies Lolly Jane Blue, exhausted, soaked. As she starts to sing of escaping her situation a mesmerizing world unfolds.

White Swan is Sil van der Woerd’s second music video for singer Lolly Jane Blue. The video was shot in a dead coal mine in Belgium with the Red One camera. The post production was done in collaboration with students from Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

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Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fish eye lens.

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