Here’s the video the Simpson’s made spoofing Noah Kalina and his Noah K Every Day project. I think it’s pretty cool that Noah got big enough to have a program as massive and socially influential as the Simpson’s recognize his work. We’re currently working on setting up an interview with Mr. Kalina, which will hopefully [...]

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Thanks to Jenn, our wonderful social media wiz, for forwarding this fun video my way. You know that giant keyboad at FAO Schwarz? Well this is the first time anybody has ever put it to good use. These two women either have tap dancing experience in their past or are simply infatuated with Dance Dance [...]

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I’m relatively young, and this project is almost 10 years old, so this might be ancient news to some people. Either way I haven’t come across a project this cool in a long time and I would be remiss not to share it with everyone I possibly can.
On January 11, 2000, photographer Noah Kalina started [...]

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Another day, another awesome animated video. Sebastian’s Voodoo was made by Joaquin Baldwin, an Annie Award nominee, director and animator from Paraguay. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he attends UCLA. Baldwin has received over 40 international awards for this short and another one titled Papiroflexia.
Sebastian’s Voodoo is an ominous tale about a voodoo [...]

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This news is about 10 days old, but it was under-reported and features two of the premiere street artists in the world, so it’s still relevant. On May 13th, Sotheby’s New York held a massive contemporary art auction with work available from everyone from Calder to Warhol to Rauschenberg to, yes, Banksy and Shepard Fairey.
Fairey’s [...]

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Thanks to the good folks over at Toycyte for putting me onto this wicked principal art for The Godfather Marionette. According to the poster above, it seems to be a joint venture between artist and vinyl toy maker, Michael Lau, and MINDstyle. It will be released in July of this year.
Here’s what MINDstyle had to [...]

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This first short was created as a thesis project by a student at the Academy of Art named Aziz Kocanaogullari. It’s titled Masquerade, and actually tells a great story about the emotions of a creature who battles with a fate of masked indifference. Through the character’s attempts at change, it becomes impossible for the viewer [...]

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Café Serré, or Coffee Break, was created by Vincent E. Sousa, Bertrand Avril, Yann de Préval and Denis Bouye, who are all students from the Valencian School, Supinfocom and Arles.
The animation quality in this short blows me away. Maybe not Pixar quality, but it’s definitely close to being that good. If submitted, I think this [...]

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To celebrate their 10-year anniversary, Upper Playground is collaborating with several prominent artists and toy makers. The first such collabo is with the brilliant Alex Pardee, who took it upon himself to re-interpret the iconic walrus that has defined UP for the past decade.
The result is the Walrus Rider—an 11” tall figure with bendy arms [...]

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Short stop-motion animation films are quite the craze right now. We featured the macabre re-imagining of Hansel and Gretel a few days, and now here’s something a bit more family friendly. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy every bit of watching a monster in a blender because I definitely did.
Anyhow, this video is called [...]

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