More about the talker click here or go to his personal website aaronkoblin.com

Interpol – Rest My Chemistry Video from Aaron Koblin on Vimeo.

“Participants are invited to create a drawing that is woven into a collective tribute to Johnny Cash, set to his song “Ain’t No Grave.” The project was inspired by the song’s central lyric, “ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down,” and represents Cash’s continued existence, even after his death, through his music and his fans. The work continues to grow and evolve as more people participate. A collaboration with director Chris Milk.”

Hakim El Hattab has his creative lab and interactive playground on http://hakim.se/experiments/. He is “dedicated to the exploration of interaction, visual effects and technologies.”
He was involved in the development of the 20thingsilearned.com by Google, which is amazing showcase of what can be done with Html5. Be sure to check out his experiments with a modern browser (FF 3.6+, Safari, Chrome). Keylight is certainly my favourite..
Wanna know more? See who he is on a video feature regarding his first place at the 10K Apart Competition (a competition on building web apps under 10kb) -  Watch now

My former work colleague Pieter runs the great Blog todayandtomorrow.net. Next Wednesday it’s today and tomorrow’s 5th birthday and he is organizing a nice little event. Come along if you´re in Berlin! Here is what he writes about it:

It’s an exhibition format developed by Aram Bartholl, this is the manifest:

Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night. All art works of the participating artists need to be on-line (not necessarily public) and are shown in a typical browser with standard plug-ins. Performance and life pieces may also use pre-installed communication programs (instant messaging, VOIP, video chat etc). Custom software (except browser add-ons) or off-line files are not permitted. Any creative physical modification to Internet cafe itself is not allowed. The show is public and takes place during normal opening hours of the Internet cafe/shop. All visitors are welcome to join the opening, enjoy the art (and to check their email.)

So here are the details for the today and tomorrow’s 5th birthday SPEED SHOW:

Wednesday 21th of July 2010, 21:00 – 00:00
or@nien net
Oranienstrasse 185, Berlin (google maps link)

This is the list with the 18 animated gif artists:
Nicolas Sassoon, Laura Brothers, Xavier Barrade, Francoise Gamma, REED + RADER, MATHWRATH, Harm van den Dorpel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mark Portillo, Petra Cortright, Travess Smalley, teenocide, Jacob Broms Engblom, Princess Hijab, dvdp, Brandon Jan Blommaert, Constant Dullaart, Evan Roth

So I invite you all to come and bring you friends and your friends friends!
You can also join this event on Facebook.

Andreya Triana ‘A Town Called Obsolete’ (Official Video) from Ninja Tune on Vimeo.

I like the video a lot as they used the all so popular stereoscopic effect to simulate image depth. Its been spreading over the web for some time now and animated gif blogs feature many kinds of imagery.  See some on abduzeedo or on gesticulation. But lets not forget about Andreya Triana…she had a huuge year and the Album on Ninja Tune is long awaited, with tracks cooperations by Bonobo and even Mount Kimbie, some of my favourite artists at the moment. Looking forward to it!

Making of

via motionographer

Nike produced a really cool ad for the Nike Free Run+ shoe. The Act Hifana does a live performance by bending the flexible sole of the shoe.  Cool concept for an ad and it looks like they had a great time producing this.

Pieter from todayandtomorrow.com sums up how they did it:

via todayandtomorrow

Cyriak is a freelance animator based in brighton (UK). Here´s a recent clip and Cyriak states: “Worthing is undergoing inter-dimensional difficulties… Bears and cars and pigeons are invovled, though not necessarily to blame”. Great fun! See more of his mad work on his website.