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Saw this on Digg today.  Thought it to be pretty freakin’ amazing.  So I share, with you, as I always do.

“Cover the world in Post-It Notes and Paint and I will return to you.” - Jesus

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Photo by roevin, taken from Smashingmagazine.com article, “50 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography

Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I posted a Keith Loutit film a couple weeks ago but feel that a slightly more focused look at his work and method is needed and deserved.  Mr. Loutit specializes in a perspective altering form of photography called tilt-shift.  Tilt-shift photography achieves its effect of making real world locations look like model sets by using a specialized lens and by shooting with a large aperture to achieve an extremely shallow depth of field.  There are a lot of artists doing some really interesting work in this genre.  Smashingmagazine.com recently posted an excellent story covering many of these artists.  Be sure to check it out here.

Enjoy and have a good weekend!

The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Fly On The Wall Productions is a small production company out of Cape Town, South Africa.  They have a client list that includes Nike, Discovery Channel, and MTV.  Their videos are at once fresh, smart, gritty and beautiful and as far as I am concerned they are pretty damn brilliant. The below stop-motion-time-lapse titled “Circular Painting” was shot in a studio over a 12-hour period while a number of artists contributed to a large circular canvas.  Credited artists include Bryan Devlin, Luis Tolosana, Warren Lewis, Ree Treweek, Daniel Ting Chong, Mike Morocco, Toyah Moon Humphreys, Paul Ressel, and Josh Ginsburg.  The film was made for Discovery Channel.

Circular Painting from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.

You can check out Fly On The Wall’s Vimeo Channel, which includes more of their work and a making of the “Circular Painting” video, by clicking here.

The next 2 videos were also made for the Discovery Channel and are part of a larger series of short “portraits” that are meant to celebrate the people and culture of South Africa.

Enjoy.  Be inspired.

Ubuntu B-Boys from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.

“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that’s only if it’s done properly.”

- Banksy -

I wanted to check out Banksy’s Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill in person really badly but due to a shortage in travel funds and a fear of traveling east of Gary Indiana I was unable to make the trip to NYC.  Thankfully the folks over at Notcot made this purty HD video for all of us who couldn’t see it in the flesh.

If you are unaware of the extraordinary, intelligent, socially conscious, and hilarious work of Banksy please check it out… your life and the fate of the world depends on it.

If you are new to Hodus Anseed you can check out a couple previous Banksy posts here.

NOTCOT: Banksy’s Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill from Jean Aw on Vimeo.

BeeeeLow are the Top 3 photographs from this years Nikon Small World Contest.

I also included the 6th place photo.

Why you ask?

Well, I say, because I am the king of this cyber-castle and I do as I please.  It also happens to be a pretty cool picture that simply represents the insanely small size of the subjects in these photos.

These pictures, much like Sachiko Kodama’s dynamic sculptures featured in a previous post, are a beautiful synthesis of Art and Science.  A fusion that I hope will continue to evolve and be encouraged in both fields.

I was introduced to these photos and the contest last week on Scientific American’s website. Which featured a story covering the top 20 photos.  You can read the Scientific American article here.

I also recommend checking out Nikon’s contest website.

1st Place
Michael Stringer
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Pleurosigma (freshwater diatoms) (10x)
Polarized Light

2nd Place
Paul Marshall
National Research Council Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Carbon nanotubes, post growth (30x)
Stereomicroscopy

3rd Place
Albert Tousson
High Resolution Imaging Facility
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley) (1300x)
Confocal

6th Place
Klaus Bolte
Stittsville, Ontario, Canada
Chrysolina fastuosa (Micro leaf beetle) on a pin head (40x)
Stereomicroscopy

If you are interested in seeing more incredible images of all things small you should check out a fascinating documentary that I recently saw called MICROCOSMOS.  Microcosmos’ is a french doc that takes a blow-your-mind-drop-your-jaw-close-up look at the life of insects (goodness that was a nerdy sentence).  Here is a description of the film from NetFlix, I recommend reading the description in your best Professor Frink voice - “Critters of the small kind are featured in this interesting look at the seldom-explored world of insects, snails and other undersized creatures as they go about their daily lives. By using unique microscopic cameras and powerful specialized microphones, this highly praised French documentary gives new meaning to “a bug’s life.”

… This post is totally going to get me laid.

Over the weekend I read a post on Digg from a blog called Wellmedicated, that introduced me to the wonderfully weird and often brilliant world of Polish film posters.

Before reading the post I was completely unaware that Poland produced such artistically brilliant posters.  These examples truly blew my mind and reminded me how ugly, obvious, and downright boring American film marketing usually is.

I recommend checking out the rest of the Blog (a top 50 list of Polish film posters) on Wellmedicated here.

Below are a few more examples that I found to be inspiring, clever, and perfectly strange.  These are from www.polishposter.com.

Weekend At Bernies

Escape From Planet of the Apes

Mullholland Drive

Star Wars

The next couple posters are from Polish Exhibitions.  To see more click here.

From the filmmaker — – –

Patterns in nature, patterns in life, patterns in you, and patterns in us.
Are you seeing a pattern?

Hive explores the relationship from the individual to the collective. At what point does one end and the other begin? You’re made up of trillions of cells, and society is made up of billions of you. How can we use the patterns we see below us, to infer understanding on the levels above?

This concept could be called “Fractal Understanding”. Using the self-similarity in the universe to help us project what we can understand onto what we cannot.

If you liked the video check out the The Movement.

I also recommend you read the The Movement’s blog, Prototype here.