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Tim Burton has animated the MoMA logo as a promo for his exhibition. I wish I could be there. See www.moma.org/timburton.
Linos is a portable USB record player designed by Charles Pyott that is small enough to fit in a pocket. The record is attached to the player, which is then plugged into a USB port or audio jack. It appears that it is only a concept at the moment, but if it existed I’d love to have one, my records have been neglected since I moved and no longer have enough space for my turntables and mixer! More information and photos can be found here.
I wish I owned a house so I could paint fixings using blackboard paint.
(via aristobrat)
Typeface designers put a race car driver in a Toyota iQ and tracked the movement of the car using an application created in Open Frameworks by Zach Lieberman. The results were them turned into a typeface which can be downloaded here.
Apple Pro profiles Digital Kitchen’s work on HBO’s True Blood:
For the True Blood title sequence, Digital Kitchen combined film clips in a myriad of styles to create a morose melange that reflects the show’s darkly comic premise: that vampires are among us, their lethal bloodlust now sated by a synthetic blood drink. The titles blend film and digital footage, along with handmade paper-cut titles that were scanned and dropped into the scene with After Effects.
I love this title sequence and keep meaning to find out more about it.
This intro to The Beatles: Rock Band is a pretty sweet piece of animation.
The new CHANEL N°5 ad featuring Audrey tatou and Travis Davenport (via 5luckynumber)
Is it possible to import my old self hosted Wordpress blog to Tumblr?
I will start using Tumblr again.
Inventor Mitch Altman explains why he open-sourced his TV-B-Gone kit. Via Research & Development.