If you like FFFFOUND, then you’ll probably like Dropular. If you like to save images and compile a library of inspiration, you’ll like ImageSpark. Check them out!

Not sure if anyone has heard of this or not, but it sure caught my attention.

I was visiting my local library, and they have this program, (with no catches or quirks as far as I can tell) that lets you take yourself and up to 3 friends to an exibit of your choice.  FOR FREE.

Detroit Institute of Arts was one location that caught my eye, Cranbrook Art Museum was another.

The website is http://detroitadventurepass.org

The only hinderance I can think of, is you have to visit your local library to pick up the tickets, and they are only good for a week after you pick them up.

Anywho…I’m going to be taking advantage of this cool offer!  Hopefully everyone else will too.

Great podcast series from the School of Visual Arts. Here’s the full list.

One more installment from the recent round of exercises where students ventured into the land of make believe.

eff off billy. from RACHEL AURIEMMA on Vimeo.

I haven’t yet conducted the interview but will soon.

Another installment of featured student work. This time it is Erin Anderson’s exercise for the motion graphics class. The short exercise asked students to explore the theme “it all started the day that the real world met the land of make-believe.”

Untitled from Erin Anderson on Vimeo.

Describe a little bit of your thought process in addressing the project brief, why this solution?
I was looking through the videos at archive.org trying to come up with a solid idea. They had some wartime videos that I was watching and I started to think what it might look like if an atomic bomb was a happy experience rather than a horrific one.

Describe a little bit of you working process.
I’m pretty new to AfterEffects so I occasionally had to look up some things that we had already learned in class just to remember how to do them! I also had this weird problem where I got white squares in my final rendered movie. I looked it up all over the web but I couldn’t find anything. When I got to class, Ryan explained that if you have preview view selected on an effect, it gives you that little square with your effect in it and if you don’t change it to the final view, it’ll render in your final one. Weird. I used a LOT of parenting too!

What are some of your inspirations for your solution?
Hmm, I would say most of it was actually the things that we learned in class. While we’re in demos, I sometimes have an idea of what can be done with what we’re learning. I stumbled on the work of Carolina Melis through Motionographer and I really really love her work.

What did you gain from this experience?
I definitely have a better understanding of motion tracking and parenting. I also had of fun trying to get the new things to blend into the old with effects and playing around with those for the first time. Obviously there’s a little bit of work to do in that area, but I feel like I learned a lot in this exercise.

Anything else you would like to add.
Motion is a learning process for sure, but I had a lot of fun working on this project!

Besides a playable gameboy costume, here is your linky for the weeky:

Noby Noby Boy: a game that is not describable, yet you want to play it.

Madeforeachother.com = an awesome website.

PRINT tells us why we wanted to be artists.

KG does Monty Python (with awesomeness provided by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

Jr’s Fun to Draw.

Scintillation, perhaps the most beautiful and mesmerizing thing I have seen in a while.

Nice collage work by James Dawe.

Figure out that font is with the iPhone app WhatTheFont.

David Carson on design.

The Action Figure Museum.

THe work of Human Empire.

Milton Glaser on Shepard Fairy.

Pretty awesome animation at Special Guest.

This looks like an interesting documentary.

Now you can print on a latte!

OMA’s Television Cultural Centre in Beijing recently went up in flames last week. There are some amazing photos before and after the blaze here and here.

Awesome map/diagram of skies in disaster films.

One of my favorite architects Lebbeus Woods apparently did designs for Alien 3.

How to be a motion designer.

A brief video about Coralie Bickford-Smith’s design of a series of horror book covers.

Oh studious students, get your bookmarks ready for some of these goodies found on the internet this past week!

The typography of comic books broken down for you.

Some nice work by Jeffrey Docherty.

How Pixar hires.

Great motion piece for the Bonnaroo festival.

Interesting campaign for and against religion.

Layer Tennis has returned!

Get to IKEA for these wall coverings.

A great collection of Indian matchboxes.

I’ve always enjoyed the work of HORT, and they just updated their site.

Sagmeister’s Made You Look is reprinted and once again brings about the question of why designers’ are reluctant to tell what their fees are.

The Bansky of Milk Bottles.

Great type in motion for the TED Conference.

The AP tries takes on Shepard Fairey for his use of an AP photo of Obama.

Last week or so it was video games done as classic book covers, now it is movies.

For those who illustrate, here are some notes on inking.

Gary Baseman on his art.

Speakup gives us a handful of links to various Dutch designers.

Maurice Binder’s Charade titles.

Onituska Tiger’s retelling of the Chinese Zodiac. Be sure to watch the making of as well.

Make your own handwriting fonts with YourFonts.

Nice Coldplay video.

Superbowl ads (pt. 1) from Creative Review.

Ze Frank’s voice painting system.

A fickr pool of Joseph Muller-Brockmann’s work.

The Journal of Urban Typography.

Coca-cola’s Avatars.

Some nice work by Barcelona’s Diego Bellorin, aka empk.

New, expanded Metro Detroit movie studios to add thousands of jobs

“An $86 million digital animation and visual effects studio to be called the Detroit Center Studios will set up shop in the former MGM Grand Casino downtown, and is set to open by the end of the year.”

Read the rest of the article at DetNews.com

Monsters: 043 Hond Wassen from Volstok Telefunken on Vimeo.

De Monsters, featured above, is a fun series of monsters running amok in our world. Students in the motion class should watch these as it relates to your current exercise. Also found this week on the webs of information:

Nice work by Raquel Falkenbach.

The Art of Storyboarding.

The Institute of the Musical Paranormal.

The work of Barney Bubbles.

Nice work by Lifelong Friendship Society for Starbucks.

Fans of Radiolab may be interested in the fact that they are now doing visual things.

EverSave is an application for macs that automatically saves files in any program as you work. A much needed invention.

A growing flickr set of classic videogames illustrated as old bookcovers.

Michael Beirut shows the world a bit of his notebooks.

Great spots for a rehab program; the post also contains a bit about how it was created.

The first italic typeface.

Scott McCloud (who lectured here 2 years ago) talks about his theories on comics.

Amazing vinyl figures/toys by Shin Tanaka. His figure for Scion/Giant Robot is pretty great.

Great title sequence by Lobo.

Watching how people work can be very informative, here’s a video showing the creation/animation of Dan Paladin’s game Castle Crashers.

NetDiver’s best of the year 2008 in typography.

Covered: Cartoonists redraw classic comic book covers.

Blurb is another site (similar to Lulu) that allows you to make your own books.

John Carpenter’s Thing remade with Gi Joes.