Taylor Holland

I'm fan of Taylor Holland's geometrical loop animations which are created and animated only using Illustrator and recorded through a video capture. They are animated specifically using the tools this software provides to repeat the last action. Once Taylor has the composition he usually use rotation to animate them, but getting so many different results. As he says the speed of the animation depends on his MacBook's ability to process the effect. Check out this previous post featuring more pieces. See more;

Hexagon. 2013

Wood, 2013

Swimming, 2013 

American football, 2013

Capture by Satoru Higa

Capture is a sound based application created by Satoru Higa. I like how simple and beautiful is and how chaotic it can be, sonorously and visually. It works on the own desktop, making the transparent windows use whatever visual data source from the desktop by transforming it to sound. The colour and the position of the colours below decides the pitch, tone and tempo. You can create as many compositions as you want by moving the windows or moving the content below of them. I really enjoyed to see on the video (below) when Satoru tries it over the a webpage and he scrolls down Google's search while the windows are fixed. It made me think to try it over other art based websites and videos to know how they sound, but the application is not downloadable so far. See more;

As Creative Applications says; "Some time ago Zach Lieberman posted code on the oF forums which allows you to show the pixels directly below the openFrameworks app window in a texture. This little app Satoru Higa uses the same method to create a music sequencer." 

To see more experiments by Satoru, see his GitHub.

via | Creative Applications

Photoshop Skillz by Anthony Antonellis

Photoshop Skillz is a great program-exploration by Anthony Antonellis.  In this case he used and experimented using basic tools and filters from Photoshop to get different visual animated manifestations. 

"Anthony Antonellis is an artist based on the internet. His process is cumulative: copy-pasting between analog and digital states. His recent work experiments with painting as a conduit, short animation, filtering, and doing-it-wrong approaches. He studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, MFA in new artistic strategies, and Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA in painting." See more;

Anthony tells us more about;

On photoshop skillz, it focuses on the back end of the software, the part we all see when we are using it, it’s a lot of the clicking around we do, especially during getting to know period of a new program. I had seen all these amazing works lately, really outstanding 3D pieces from artists like Tabor Robak and Jon Rafman, meanwhile I had only been scratching the surface of new media art. So I wanted to showcase my ‘skillz’, in a sort of naïve doing-it-wrong look what I can do sort of way. It’s based on screen recordings using each of Photoshop’s basic tools and filters. The music is by Alma Alloro aka Bikecore. We were sharing a studio in grad school and she had been working on that 4 July set while I was creating Photoshop Skillz. I’m really happy people liked it, and it's been already  curated into a small number of shows.

This video shows a faster version of, see the slower one, here.

Google Melon by Marco Cadioli

Marco Cadioli usually plays and experiments with Google Earth in many ways to create his artworks. In this case Cadioli has transformed the Earth in something else changing the textures and then he shot the following movie called Google Melon, inspired from "2001: A Space Odyssey". This piece is part of an ongoing series. See more;

More planets


More experiments by Marco Cadioli using Google Earth, here.

Grand Theft Auto IV - Google Street view

Now you can cruise the seedy streets of Grand Theft Auto IV's take on Liberty City from the comfort and safety of your web browser, thanks to the efforts of GTA's most dedicated fans and some 80,000 screen shots.

"All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren't very interesting," writes Adam from GTA4.net. "There's around 3,000 separate panoramas which were stitched together from almost 80,000 in-game screenshots (captured with a script) and the final set of tiles consist of over a million images." See more;

I read around town there are some hidden Easter Eggs scattered throughout the city, I'm curious to know what kind of. In my opinion I think is more nice to see these kind of Easter Eggs on the real life, like in the Jon Rafman's http://9-eyes.com/ where you can see mesmerizing and bizarre situations around the world via Google maps Street View.

Click here to see the Liberty City Map 

via | kotaku

Flying and Floating by Robert Overweg

Apartment two 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

Robert Overweg is a photographer in the virtual world he sees the worlds of games as the new public space of contemporary society and as a direct extension of the physical world.

Overweg dwells either by foot or by air through the outskirts of the virtual world which he dissects through his photography. He makes use of the new possibilities which the virtual world gives him for his photography but he also documents the limitations of the virtual world. 

He exhibits throughout the world ranging from Amsterdam, Cologne and L.A. The press gave his work a fair share of attention from the dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, BBC to Gizmodo and Kotaku. See more; 

"Continuing to photograph in the virtual world I am trying to find new ways to photograph in and through the virtual world. Trying to achieve the image where a photograph becomes more than the game. No editing or collage involved." - Robert Overweg

Flying and Floating is his latest screen-photos series, each piece is a glossy print on dibond with plexiglas in front of photo 72 x 41 cm (limited edition of 5). See here.

Stairway to the sky 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

The Garage 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

Apartment one 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

Hotel 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

The sky in between 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

Climbing (excerpt) by Jesse McLean

Love this piece called "Climbing" by Jesse McLean, I really liked the idea. See video;

About Jesse McLean:

"My work is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, especially as presented and observed through the mediation of found footage. My recent work interpolates the production, proliferation, and consumption of televisual experience, investigating how this transfer of information creates a bind of complex relationships between maker and viewer. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, my work asks the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant."

via | Rhizome