To follow up on the last post about Aaron Wendel’s “Dwellings” animation: I found his website and spent some time looking at his wonderful drawings and watching his other animated shorts, and came across his Bubble Organ. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBlUST6Qg_0&feature=player_embedded#at=20] The Bubble Organ is an amazing musical instrument conceptualized and built by Aaron himself for a school…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/17448270] I came across this beautiful animation this morning by Aaron Wendel, and was struck by its stunning narrative in such confounding simplicity. If you have a spare couple of minutes, I can’t recommend enough watching this short.
Hooray—my website, jess-smiley.com is up! Comics, books, drawings, and more! It looks like this: What do you think? Building websites is the bane of my existence, but I finally have something decent to share. I’ll probably put up a post about easy web building in the future, but for now I’m just glad to have…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25878089] Peter de Sève is famed for his illustration work and cover art to The New Yorker since 1993. He is also undoubtably one of the leading character designers in today’s animated-film industry, and has created unforgettable characters for block-busters such as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Tarzan”, “Finding Nemo” or “Robots”. Peter was…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/26877221] More proof that you don’t need crazy hard-to-get tools or equipment to make something of value. This was shot with a cell phone.
Sparked.com has a very interesting approach to volunteering. They call it ‘microvolunteering’, where they provide several ways that an individual can help in as little as a few minutes, to as long as an hour, or several days. Once you sign up for an account and select which global/nonprofit…
These aren’t paintings and those aren’t brushstrokes. These three portraits aren’t even digital creations—they’re embroideries. Each line of color is a single strand of thread, carefully stitched by artist Daniel Kornrumpf, completing what looks like a Chuck Close painting. These pictures take me back to a color theory class I took in college,…