Tag Archives: Creativity

Light Painting + Bullet-Time = A Fantastically Immersive Visual Test

Posted on April 24, 2012 by in The Digital Visual Picks

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It only takes a few minutes of roaming around the interwebs to encounter some fantastic displays of creativity incorporating the use of light painting or Matrix-esque bullet-time wizardry to produce unique, and more often than not, compelling visual imagery.

With that being said, however, it’s rare to see both techniques used simultaneously – a visual feat Richard Kendall was able to accomplish in the video above. Kendall lined-up 96 cameras, each containing 30 second sequential exposures and, as he calls it, “a lot of running around with lights.” The results are nothing less than stunning, take a look.

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Filmmaker Surprises an Incredibly Creative-Minded Kid With a Facebook Flashmob

Posted on April 13, 2012 by in The Lighter Side

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When independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick walked into Smart Parts Auto in East Los Angeles looking for a used door handle for his car, he was unexpectedly greeted by an enthusiastic and creative-minded little boy operating an intricately crafted arcade made entirely of cardboard. Naturally, in an effort gain a customer and make some money, nine-year-old Caine Monroy asked Mullick to play:

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Dain Fagerholm’s Creative Twist on the Animated GIF Through the Use of Fantastic Stereographic Sketches

Posted on March 29, 2012 by in Culture

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Last month, we covered a story concerning the history of the animated GIF, where we all learned an interesting little factoid in that GIF is pronounced “Jiff”. The post, which can be viewed in its entirety HERE, focused on the graphic interface format’s early days and discussed how its resurgence has allowed for a different clan of contemporary digital creatives to express their vision in original and innovative ways.

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Hiding in the City: Liu Bolin’s Incredible Series of Images That Reinforce His “Invisible Man” Moniker

Posted on March 20, 2012 by in The Creative Photography Corner

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In early February, as many of you may recall, we covered a story on Chinese photographer and visual creative, Liu Xia. For those of you who might have missed the post, Liu Xia’s photographs were recently on view at Columbia University in New York. Her images depicted “ugly dolls” that were representations of her fellow Chinese citizens, victims of the injustices that stemmed from China’s political ideologies.

As we’ve experienced from learning and reading about Liu Xia, China’s political ups and downs have put their citizens in frustrating positions, many of them fearful of expressing themselves verbally and forced to rely on other measures of expression. Like Liu Xia, fellow Beijing-based artist Liu Bolin uses photography to explore the national Chinese personality in an effort to protest his nation’s government.

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Animated GIFs: A Brief Look at the Medium’s History

Posted on March 11, 2012 by in Culture

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The GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format, was first introduced back in 1987 and hit it big in the early 1990s, when the bitmap image format spread all over the interwebs. Chances are, if your reading this post, or if you have a Tumblr, you’ve seen thousands upon thousands of them as their resurgence has brought with it inventive, and innovative new ways for the web 2.0 generation to express their creativity.

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Enchanted to Down: Photographer Thomas Czarnecki’s Twisted Take on Iconic Fairy Tale Characters

Posted on February 13, 2012 by in Photography, The Creative Photography Corner

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In a series of images that surely isn’t for the Disney fanfare’s faint of heart, comes Enchanted to Down, a photo-set from French photographer Thomas Czarnecki, depicting everyone’s favorite childhood fairy-tale characters in a rather beautiful, but disturbing and troubling light.

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Doing A Lot With A Little: Creating Compelling Images With LEGO Star Wars Figures

Posted on February 8, 2012 by in Photography, The Creative Photography Corner

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Vesa Lehtimäki, or Avanaut for all our Flickr friends, is a prime example of what making the most of what you have can yield. Evidence of this only takes one trip to his Photostream, or a pass though a small sample of his work below, to appreciate what Lehtimäki was able to accomplish with just some time, creativity, inventiveness, and everyone’s favorite childhood build-a-block toy.

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Allan I. Teger’s Bodyscapes: A Creative Take on the Female Nude

Posted on February 5, 2012 by in Photography, The Creative Photography Corner

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Self-taught photographer, Allan I. Teger, didn’t draw upon his interest of photographing nudes, nor his love for studio photography for inspiration to create his unique series of images entitled Bodyscapes. According to Teger, it was rather an evolution from his studies as a social psychologist and a demonstration of the ideas he taught, being put to practice in an incredibly inspiring way.

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Challenging the Impossible: The Performance Art of Li Wei’s Photography

Posted on February 2, 2012 by in Photography, The Creative Photography Corner

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A few things initially come to mind when you first take a long look at one of the Beijing-based artist Li Wei’s gravity defying, borderline-unbelievable photographs. Thoughts such as “that can’t be real” or “how is that possible?” tend to matriculate down to the a question I feel everyone must have asked themselves after spending a few moments dissecting one of Wei’s images: “It must be Photoshopped.” And to tell you the truth, the images you see below are Photoshopped, just not in the way you think.

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