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15 Jun 2009 Monday Morning Inspiration: Dan Stevers’ Christian Motion Graphics

Dan Stevers creates Christian-themed motion graphics. Over the past month or I’ve been watching and enjoying Dan Stevers‘ Christian-themed motion graphics videos on Vimeo. Two of my favourites are The Light of the World and Life With God. Some of Dan’s videos are artistic interpretations of Christian scripture, while others simply illustrate basic Christian principles....

01 Jun 2009 Lou Romano’s Art of UP

Lou Romano shares some of his beautiful conceptual art from Pixar’s Up on his blog (image c Disney/Pixar). Up was the number one movie at the box office this weekend, which is pretty unsurprising since many critics are calling it Pixar’s best movie yet and because, well, it’s a Pixar movie. I haven’t seen it...

25 May 2009

Sita Sings The Blues is an animated feature by Nina Paley licensed under Creative Commons. Happy Memorial Day to all my American friends! (Here in Canada, it’s just another Monday…) Whether you have the day off today or not, find sometime soon to watch Sita Sings the Blues. It’s a feature length animated 2D film...

18 May 2009

Randy Pausch inspired the world with The Last Lecture. I made the oddest, most wonderful (and also tragic) discovery recently and I wanted to share it as this week’s Monday Morning Inspiration. When I first became interested in digital puppetry and started my Machin-X blog, someone told me about a program at Carnegie Mellon University...

11 May 2009

J.J. Abrams understands (and explains) the power of the Mystery Box. I haven’t checked the weekend box office, but I have little doubt that J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek movie was a massive hit. Friends have raved to me about J.J. Abrams for years, but I’ve been a late, somewhat reluctant convert to the cult...

04 May 2009

Fan filmmaking get taken to the next level by The Hunt For Gollum, a remarkable movie made “by fans, for fans”. The Hunt For Gollum may be the greatest fan film ever made. In fact, I hesitate to even call it a “fan film” because it’s just so well done; there are professional movies and...

20 Apr 2009

Chris Guillebeau is the author of The Art of Nonconformity, a blog about personal development, entrepreneurship and unconventional work. Last year Chris set himself the goal of becoming a full-time, self-employed writer and launched his blog. His “overnight success” took less than a year to achieve and he expects to have a (mostly) passive income...

13 Apr 2009 jamie-caliri-dragon

Stop motion animator Jamie Caliri creates distinctive, beautifully crafted stop motion animation for film and television. In my current “day job” I design opening credits and title sequences. When I’m searching for inspiration I often watch the work of one of my favourite animators, Jamie Caliri. His amazing credits include the title sequences of Lemony...

06 Apr 2009 Monday Morning Inspiration: Form and Contrast

Designer Chip Kidd reads Pslalms 23 in the voice of the Wicked Witch of the West as one of his 5 Experiments in Form and Contrast. Garfield Minus Garfield served as Monday Morning Inspiration here a few years ago (see previous post). It’s a web comic that “remixes” Garfield comics by removing Garfield and his...

30 Mar 2009 Monday Morning Inspiration: Minilogue’s Animals

The video for Minilogue’s Animals blends live action with the unique animation of Kristofer Ström. I really love this video for Minilogue’s Animals. It’s a fantastic fusion of animation and live action directed by Swedish animator Kristofer Ström, who first gained a lot of attention on YouTube for his white board animation. Visit Kristofer’s Vimeo...

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