Barbie & Ken wedding photography

Wow, this is super creative, and the fact that I have a 5 year old girl means I’m sure we’ll be setting up something like this soon. Barbie & Ken’s wedding shoot.

Hagrid and “the coolest inventor”

This past week I traveled to Chicago with a few guys from NewSpring to attend the Story conference. You may remember in my previous travels I routinely take along a travel buddy, assigned by my son, and use this object to document the trip. This time my daughter sent along Hagrid to join the trip. G’s contribution was a dude he refers to as “the coolest inventor.” As I’m on the road I send them quick snapshots of what I’m seeing. So much fun. Here are my favorites.

Deadmau5, Tabernacle

This past Thursday I had the great joy to follow an entire day of the NLC Conference at NewSpring with a trip down to Atlanta to see Deadmau5 perform at the Tabernacle. It was both audibly and visually arresting. While the iPhone’s camera doesn’t convey the full experience I was able to capture some of the visuals. There was an interesting stage / lighting display that I would gladly see again. The level of production and creativity was inspiring.

What follows are a series of clips I pulled directly from the show.

Doodle Flix

I suggest you take some time and enjoy Doodle Flix, a site dedicated to the drawing and sketching on Netflix envelopes. Makes me a little sad that I went to streaming-only. Maybe I can start taking screen shots of my Roku and using Skitch to style it up.

Revelation; series promo

I’m a sucker for movie trailers and here’s one we built to promo our upcoming series; Revelation.

USS Yorktown

Spent the week with our family down in Charleston, SC and Meg and I were psyched to take the kids to visit the USS Yorktown. Having been there as Kids ourselves we were really looking forward to their reactions. And being an avid amateur iPhone photographer I looked forward to snapping pictures of assorted mechanical looking things.

wall-e Mecha

G and I created this little “evil wall-e” in a continual quest to raise up a Lego robot army. Unfortunately, he doesn’t move under his own power, but I’m pretty partial to the blue details on the eyes and the rounds of ammo around his chest.

In case you missed the last creation, check him out here.

Jamie Beck: Cinemagraphs

Saw these over at ISO50 and just had to share. How subtle, beautiful. Seems like something we could design to use in a nice iPhone app.

Florence Kick off promo

My first real foray into Cinema 4D for a full promo… this was a quick 1 day build. It’s one of those I really wish I’d had more time to focus on, but in the end I’m sure we’ll end up using the idea again and fleshing out a little more completely.

Electronic visual performance

The only question I have is “how can I incorporate this into Sunday?”

AMALGAM – example from Jacob Lysgaard on Vimeo.

Lego Mech

G and I have been stepping up the Lego creations as of late and we came up with this beast this past week. It’s the first of many, I suspect.

Fuse summer kickoff promo

Quick little promo I built for our upcoming Fuse Summer Kickoff.

MORE: series opener

Heavily inspired by Coldplay’s XY album art I give you the opener for our current series entitled “MORE.”

Turns out animating colorful squares is (1) a lot of fun and (2) requires more effort than I would have thought.

Technical notes: I built a FORM particle system, and that worked for the counter but I ultimately needed more control for the opener animation. Enter painstakingly placed and animated dots. Eventually I did work up to sub-comps (see if you can spot the repeating patterns).

If I were to go PC

If I were to ditch my Apple loyalties and go PC, this is one of the few things that may sway me. I say may. Also, there is a video.

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Analog whiteboard timeline

Sometimes video guys think best out loud. And sometimes they think best in timeline terms.

Here’s a brief conversation between two video/motion graphics creators and one worship leader.

The common language of timelines.

Unleash 2011 opener/counter music

A track listing of music used for the Unleash 2011 media.

Opener
The Insane Warrior – Then You Hear Footsteps, from We Are the Doorway

Counter 1
Ruckus Roboticus – Here We Go, from Playing with Scratches
RJD2 – 1976, from Since We Last Spoke
RDJ2 – Let There be Horns, from The Colossus

Counter 2
Deadmau5 – Some Chords ,from 4×4=12
Tedashii – Make War, from Identity Crisis

Unleash 2011 media

Here’s a little opener and scripture intro from this year’s Unleash conference. Fun stuff.

EF International Language Centers ads

Clean and simple, and the typography is very well suited. I know several artists who would really dig these.

EF – Live The Language – London from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

Norwegian travel

I’m absolutely fascinated with these images of Norwegian travel architecture.

Conan O’Brien kinetic typography

What great piece and slick execution.