Director Chris Cairns has teamed up with Beardyman and holographic projection experts Musion to create a live performance based on his Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs film, which features a number of disembodied rapping heads…
The film below shows live footage from an initial test performance of the holographic heads, with no post-production added.
Last night Flux showed the animated short “Logorama” in their screening lineup at the Hammer museum in L.A. Why is this worthy of a blog?
Logorama is an Oscar-nominated short film by François Alaux and Herve de Crecy and presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks. The characters within it are all composed of corporate logo art, for example there’s a “Pringles” man, and even a villainous Ronald McDonald. Unsurprisingly all of the brands have been used without permission.
Jonathan Wells of Flux tells us,
“The short was created by directors within H5, a French graphic studio renowned for its CD front covers (Superdiscount, Air, Demon…) and artistic direction (Dior, Cartier, YSL…). Members François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain directed many music videos (Alex Gopher, Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, Röyksopp…), and are regularly invited to exhibitions for their artistic talents (2007 Nuit Blanche, Beaubourg, MoMA). Logorama is their first short film, and premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Kodak Short Film Discovery Prize at the 48th Critics’ Week. The short was 4 years in the making, and features a voice cameo by filmmaker David Fincher as the Pringles man”.
Photoshop turns 20 this week, the product that has become the byword for picture editing, and is seemingly ubiquitous in the modern world.
Adobe, the company behind the software, are going to conduct a celebratory broadcast bringing together the team that first created Photoshop to discuss and demonstrate their work.
In a recent interview, Shantanu Narayen, President and Chief Executive Officer at Adobe, said: “For 20 years Photoshop has played many different roles – it has given creative people the power to deliver amazing images that impact every part of our visual culture and challenged the eye with its ability to transform photographs.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that, thanks to millions of creative customers, Photoshop has changed the way the world looks at itself.”
In 1987 Thomas Knoll developed a grayscale pixel imaging program that blossomed into a way to process digital image files. Called Photoshop, it was licensed by Adobe, with the first product hitting shelves in 1990. Knoll recalled that originally Adobe expected to sell 500 copies of Photoshop a month.
“We knew we had a groundbreaking technology on our hands, but we never anticipated how much it would impact the images we see all around us,” he said. “The ability to seamlessly place someone within an image was just the beginning of Photoshop’s magic.”
Here’s a look at how the main tool palette has evolved over the years:
So what has made Photoshop the industry standard?
For one, it integrates perfectly with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and…
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