Interactive installations

That terpsitone was cool. Camille utterback had some interesting things, like the pong game. The problem is most of them don't have much purpose to their interactivity, you stand their, the lines connect you, sure it's cool for a minute or two, but then it's just boring. Well they do open your eyes to new possibilities, I guess.
On one of the other sites, the big eye creature on the building was a cool concept, but the actual pupil was just bad.

Indie game

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/02/the-misadventures-of-pb-winterbottom.ars

And other things from that site are good.
I'll throw these here too,

http://arstechnica.com/
http://www.designiskinky.net/
http://www.watim.com
http://www.lostateminor.com/

Homework oh yay

oh&s    -   http://georgeholt.riverinainstitute.wikispaces.net/19243+Cert+III+Media
1-10   3 and 4/5
11-20 8/9
 21-30

Find incidents of workplace accidents relating to digital media... somehow...
http://gdidm.com/luke/
Early bird gets the worm composite

Idnworld things

I browsed through most of the pages on that site, nothing truly got me excited or interested to a great extent. There were either videos or artist portfolios/works to look at. Here are some of them that I thought were alright.














Under Armour "Fierce Speed" :30 from Shilo on Vimeo.

It made me go, "awesome", and then it was a shoe, well cleats. Awesome special effects and lighting. One of those ads that has absolutely nothing to do with the product. Still, I'd buy it. If I needed them.




This was a quality coca cola animated video advertisement. Just watch it. Very busy and imaginative. The coin rolling down the hill was good. Well all of it was good. Also ridiculous, I would not wait that long for a coke. Well, maybe if the vending machine was transparent.

Some artists I liked. (We'll count this as one entry, as all I have to say is "I like the style")

http://idnworld.com/creators/?id=KahoriMaki

Concept and design artist, I like the style. The website is a little confusing to me. No stupid shapes with flat colours, all flowing and shaded and what not.

http://idnworld.com/creators/?id=Kamanwilliam
http://www.kamanwilliam.com/

Artist, web designer. Made a 3d facebook application?? I like the imagination and creativity of the images. Love the high quality of the images. Very nice.

http://idnworld.com/creators/?id=MortenRowley
Love the style. Various looks and feelings from the illustrations.

http://idnworld.com/creators/?id=BionicSystems

Graphic design company, with the usual random shapes and colours and splatters and blegh that I hate about design, but that rodent hugging that... thing, made me smile. Their actual site has animations, videos and other things they've done. Pretty good.



It's a little ad for a game. Very interesting style of game I've never really seen before, combining standard 2d platformer with a 3d function. Well it changes the view/angle, so it's different at least.



Very strange milk advertisement. Pretty funny, very well animated. Style reminds me of Shrek. But who goes to so much trouble to advertise milk? People with too much money! And that get the glass site had a lot of money thrown at it too. Hmm, I'm buying a milk cow. $$$

Oh and one more,

A music video. Terrible music, but I liked the animation. Why? No idea, maybe because it was different and strange. Or maybe it was the eyes.

Garageband fun... well, fail.

I couldn't figure out how to have an audio player on the blog. Anyway, I wouldn't listen to it if I were you...


http://www.zshare.net/download/72454920d42d4093/ 

Get the glass review

I found the game to be quite boring, as I did not care for the plight of the adachi family. The game is luck based, too random, little skill involved, and ultimately unrewarding. The American based knowledge questions didn't help. Putting the flowers in the girls hair was awkward. Very nice visuals though, good use of shadows and light. The environment looks good. Best part was rolling the dice, yay for physics and the thrill of chance.

It has been a while... QBN things

See if this still works.
Some exciting things from http://www.qbn.com/
Nifty site for Jim Carrey http://www.jimcarrey.com/

Tutorials and the like.
http://timedsg.com/blog/tutoriais-semanais-1/

Fake HDR photos tutorial http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-easy-hdr-technique-cristian-iancu

Handy photomaniptricks
http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/design-a-surreal-desert-scene-in-photoshop/

Adobe Lightroom looks interesting - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/resources.html

http://www.davidmascha.com/
Graphic designer, normally I don't like most of the design work I see, but this is nice work, well some of it is, 'freestyle' and 'just for you'. Website is a bit weird, navigate at the bottom.