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.