Christian Marclay's "The Clock"-24 hour film

This recent piece by the British artist, Christian Marclay, is a 24 hour video collage that uses thousands of film clips that reference each minute of the day AT THAT MINUTE as it plays in the museum/gallery.  Amazing!

"The Hours" A terrific article about Marclay from the New Yorker (03.12.2012) by Daniel Zalewski

The BBC takes a quick look:

What is Motion Design? An animated overview.

Nice piece about motion graphics with lots of examples and an historical overview.

"Motion Plus Design" Center : "What is Motion Design ?" from Motion Plus Design on Vimeo.

Controversial Cartoons of Pi San

NY Times article on Pi San, a contemporary Chinese animator who has created subversive work despite governmental censorship. This went viral (3 million hits in one day) in 2009.

Despite strict censorship, the Internet is flourishing as the wittiest space in China due to a humorous subculture of coded languages and ironic animated shorts from netizens. Watch the Chinese Internet animator Pi San’s most viral and politically satirical series, Kuang Kuang. --NY Times, Oct. 26, 2011

check out his videos here
The New York Times article about Pi San and the writer Wen Yunchao is here.

Check out how this animation uses a large powerful hand to represent the government.  This is similar to Jiri Trnka's "The Hand" produced in 1965 about the censorship of artists under the communist rule.

Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation

Nicely written overview of the history of stop-motion animation with some terrific examples.  Written and compiled by Kevin Kelly. Slashfilm.com blog.

One early example by Thomas Edison: Fun in the Bakery Shop

Michael Langan-Hypnotic sequencing of stills

Michael Langan is an up and coming, award-winning animator, and was a guest speaker in Fall 2010 for Time class.  Check out his mesmerizing use of still photographs in Dahlia and others.
He also created a trailer for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and a "how it was made" film.  Both are excellent:

"Road Trip" - Ann Arbor Film Festival from Michael Langan on Vimeo.


The Making of "Road Trip" - Ann Arbor Film Festival from Michael Langan on Vimeo.

This is where we live: Stop motion using books

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Gorgeous piece created for the anniversary of a book publisher.
Wonderful city of books comes alive in a whiz-bang animation.
See the "behind the scenes" videos as well for all the contraptions they created in order to shoot the piece.

The Museum: Timelapse from 4th Estate on Vimeo.