A direct manipulation video player lets users drag items within the video frame to move forward and back instead of just via a scroll bar on the bottom of the video.
It’s an interesting technique that surfaced at the start of 2008 and this campaign for Wrangler, although admittedly simple in its complexity, is the first I’ve seen to harness its beauty.
Thanks Chris for the link.
Photographer Brandon Voges came up with a simple and surprisingly novel idea: photograph portraits of people hanging upside down by their ankles. Then invite your closest friends to do the same. The resulting eerie series “Upside Downey Face” is a collection of unsettling, strange images of people flipped the wrong way up.
Looks a bit like there squeezing one out to me.
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This music video for C-Mon & Kypski’s ‘More or less’ is a constantly evolving piece of footage made up from individuals’ webcam contributions.
The music video comprises a series of choreographed dance positions and movements that people mimic in front of their webcam. People can go to the site to make a submission. The site automatically identifies a frame within the video to be replicated. Cleverly, the frame you’re replicating is overlaid onto your webcam feed so that you can line yourself up perfectly. It then count downs to take the snap. Once you’re happy with your pose you submit it and it becomes part of the music video.
People can then send on their version of the music video to friends plus share using all the usual mechanics.
And here’s the current result:
One Frame Of Fame, directed by Roel Wouters & Jonathan Puckey, with tech by Martijn Pannevis.
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Last Friday was Garry’s last day at glue 
The usual glue tradition is a photoshop Friday send off. Here’s his.
“X-RAY ANALYSES OF SPEECH” is a GIF-project by Christine Ericsdotter. The aim of this project was to show the movement inside the mouth when speaking.
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The above image is generated by analysing and extrapolating colour within photos on flickr taken within a particular area.
Interesting stuff.
I collect second hand tourist guides. Within the century of printed photographs that they contain, I search for plates that have been printed at similar scale, taken from a similar view point.
When I find a near match between book plates, I cut and fold the pages into a new single surface. The dates written on each work give the publication dates of the books I have used. Whichever has been used as the ‘base’ image is listed first.
The patterns I use to cut the two book pages into one single surface are such that all of both sheets of paper are preserved. If you were to fold all the flaps in or out, the entirety of each image will be seen. The act of folding one image into the other pushes them out into three dimensions in a bulging time ruffle.
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