From Buenos Aries and Baden and the obviously bent mind of Blu comes this beautiful animation called “Muto“.  But don’t suppose this is just any animation, this is a motion piece done on public walls over what must have been a period of weeks or years.  The soundtrack, created by Andrea Martignoni [^1], is appropriately strange and stilted.  The lack of standing camera work on the animation gives it a very unsettling life, like watching time-lapse footage of slow-moving living artwork.  This is one of the most creative ideas I’ve seen on the internet in months.

[^1:] I’m not clear yet at to whether this obscure mp3 link is the same Andrea Martignoni, but the sound is similar.  I’m looking into it.

I’m gonna’ pick on this guy for two reasons. One, his web site has some UI issues. Two, he’s picking on Pixar’s new film, Cars. Christopher Kelly, the movie critic at the Star-telegram has decided that computer animation is a forumla and that he’s had enough. Read more…

E Ink has made a recent announcement regarding the availability of their flexible digital paper. While I don’t believe I discussed this here at banapana, digital paper has often been the subject of lengthy late night conversations with friends in the design community. It heralds nothing short of a new age for media.

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So you’re designing a banner ad for your web site. What clever idea could you come up that would catch someone’s attenton? Or better yet, what completely annoying, jumpy animation techniques could you use to force people to look at your ad? How about you did none of the above and instead created a remote tool? Read more…