we are currently working heavily together with our mates from A38 to create some hot motion graphics and combine them with crazy shots we did the other day in a late night shoot for a new community online yet to come.
thanks so much to all the helping hands and stay tuned for this awesome piece of work.
lots of work, lots of fun, lots of happy clients. we finished off MBFW Berlin SS12 and we did well. watch some of the results on the official Mercedes-Benz youtube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MBFWBerlin
Fashions gonna be flashy 80ies and cool simple as well. crazy highlights like iris van herpen brought the typical variety of berlin fashionweek. we also shook hands with DJ Hell again – such a nice guy – who did an excellent and fitting mix for Patrick Mohr again this season.
already looking forward to next season in good old Berlin.
AV PLAYGROUND 2011
Water in plastic bags – enemy of the flies – heavy visual improvement by Mr. marküs triebl through live kinect input.
meeting nice people at the sakog – fantastic location in the middle of upper-nowhere. madmapper-modul8 firsthandtraining, arduino-tinker workshop, experimental vj-software and partey – all there together with inspiring people ( Eva and Gerry, nikita visuals, Armin, Robert, Tim, Decollage). thanks 4youreyes for this gathering.
LINK: AV Playground 2011 @ Sakog
VIDEO:
not to forget our first ever kinect-live visual-set. one of many many many more to come. yeah.
trimmelkamm we thank you
Since we are playing around now with our brand new iPad 2, we decided to share our wallpaper-artwork with you:
BAM!
offf + sonar = high quality information overload
2weeks barcelona = 2 years of inspiration
after the offf here`s a mash-up of our sonar 2011:
sonar by day:
besides the classic and famous acts and music there was also place for the experimental and new. gilles peterson, apparat, fourtet, zinc and then there was the sewing orchestra, openreel ensemble and the barcelona laptop orchestra. highly experimental soundscapes, patterns and rhythm.
as for the visual aspect – everything there was up to the artist – apparat had small but efficient installation on a dark stage, Global Communication played their set behind semi-transparent screens projected with fitting ambient-esque abstract forms. sonar by day just didn`t care about visuals.
inspiring people in this years business talks – meet the pro concept really makes sense for anybody related to music and creative business. for us it was the possibility to spread the network and work internationally. we made the experience that although barcelona brings such amazing motion-designers to life like bungalow (with whom we had the chance to have a little chat), physalia studio, dvein, etc… the club scene doesn’t really care that much about the visuals – some clubs just let some random dvd running through the night.
tine to change that!
sonar by night:
well kind of disappointing visually speaking. even though the sonar provided led walls spread trough the areas – it generally lacked a sense of being one idea. beside the custom made footage some artists like paul kalkbrenner (simple abstract 2d-3d animations matched the speed of the music / steamboat metaphor) mary anne hobbes (her, empty roads, empty areas, her, empty parking lots, and her again) or the amazing chris cunningham (i don`t need to explain i guess, i don`t think that i really can… let`s just say that he brought the triptych into the 21st century) the content consisted of 20 clips randomly mixed together, no matter what was going on on stage and a live mixed camera feed displaying the artists…
highly inspiring was also the visual setup of aphex twin, doing his typical face-montages live: a face-recognition software made some of the guests to aphex-twins who immediately started to interact with the projection.
it`s about the music
tendencies were clear: dub step is still a main influence, not only for the many uk-acts. further there were some french artists ranging from minimal to weird, local heroes from spain to japanese craziness, music from the 50ies (the Gasmask Killer) to experimental noise-like sound collages (sewing orchestra), people from 2 -72. anything goes – its all music and worth to hear it out.
xx
After his – again – brilliant presentation here at the OFFF 2011 in Barcelona we have been blasted away, here the talk about happiness and how to approach it, which happened earlier this year.
embed thru TED, http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_7_rules_for_making_more_happiness.html
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
The brain is full and mashed after day #3. And once again full of brilliant inspiration.
Once again was the early bird a winner – today SEEPER amazed us with a shared opinion. Music is the key to memories is so true, as well as if the 3yrs & 90yrs old can’t figure the concept out, it is basically no good public installation. WORD.
And Evan’s future insight is as amazing as the way he sees the necessity to make technology one with nature and not destroying this planet.
I have seen the last bit of LERNERT & SANDER and all I can say is – sterreotypical. But a brilliant way to use the desktop as a presentation space.
The long awaited NICK CAMPELL didn’t tell really new stories. DO what you love, trust yourself, 90% happy is a bitch, be aware. Nothing new, but as always perfect to renew your memory about it and share your ‘pain’ with others to get proper paid 
Even tho some of the EBOYs are living in Vancouver now, their G(erman)english made it hard to enjoy their beautiful work on the screen.
Unbelievable young seemed ERIK SPIEKERMANN with an entertainer attitude full of humor and side blows to stefan. Essential and pure stuff about terminology between artist and designer, what strategies he sees as essential and proper appeal to do your work for the money it costs and not cheaper. Brilliant show!
Expectantly proper pieces from POST PANIC, but the presentation didn’t quite flow. Got confused that the trailer of the event was shown on the last day, but maybe our misinterpretation of that.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER rocked it all. The fellow Austrian designer held an amazing and overwhelming presentation about his philosophy, deep insight into his way to work and really inspirational connections with Buddhism. Knocked us off the feets how long sighted he referred about society topics for a better (designer) life.
OFFF 2011 had some real gems in stock and gave us shitloads of things to work on, brought us with more ppl from Graz together than we thought (and shows clearly that you always have to meet somewhere else) and left way too sudden – Sagmeister done – ppl on the street. No closing, no finish. Maybe cause it still keeps on working in our brain. till 2012.
BIG CONGRATZ to the crew as well, been a chilled out festival, with not much rules around – only the intense queuing up made a bigger prob/negative touch.
over & out.
links:
Seeper – http://www.seeper.com/
Lernet & Sander – http://www.lernertandsander.com
Nick Campell – http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog
Erik Spiekermann – http://edenspiekermann.com
Eboy – http://hello.eboy.com/eboy
Post Panic – http://www.postpanic.com
Stefan Sagmeister – http://www.sagmeister.com
THE PIC-FLICKR-SET IS STILL HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindconsole/sets/72157626800160087/
Hola!
A fabulous day #2 just ended with an amazing sushi dinner cheers to our buddy rick.
Today’s agenda was kinda a blast, with two absolutely highlights.
Highlight #1 smashed us straight in the morning first thing – RUSSIAN PANEL.
The quality and amount of artists in the motion & illustration field, brought on stage by the designcollector-blog was purely insane.
Everything from After Effects to Maya, aged between 18 and 38 has taken place and showed off some magic.
Totally stunned we didn’t left our seats and watched JOHNNY KELLY, where you could see what the benefits of a long-time artist on stage can be:
well-structured, conclusive presentation with a lot of background and insight information about his way to work, kinda missing at lots of presentations here.
Pleasure to get inspired by his words.
Because of the over-crowded festival you have to move with strategy. So we relocated to the BIS-space one speaker before to not end up in the queue, which a lot of people painfully do.
RICK BANKS brought up some nice work pieces and even some insights, but hasn’t been quite vivid.
But we got bombed out of our minds afterwards, thanks to David McCandless and his presentation about INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL.
Still missing words for his way of visualization of data. It almost seems like a little revolution. The possibilities he offers, to see the invisible behind manipulative numbers of any system is unbelievable.
The approach that having less information will make you understand more purely magic.
“Data is the new (s)oil.” was the statement of the day. HIGHLY RECOMMENDEND.
No real comment on JON BURGERMAN. Funny dude with funny stories, but once again a presentation about his work and himself with very little insight.
Interesting to see some bits of DEPTHCORE, no real insight in the work process either, but beautiful artwork.
ANDY CRUZ – alright.
A bit of an experimental guy is VINCENT MORISSON. Seeking more in things as they are, he has adopted to certain media and the problems with it.
Lots of work for Arcade Fire due to their friendship for years, keen to see the new Sigor Ros documentary that he put together.
We left in the middle of MARIAN BANTJES, couldn’t listen to curves and stuff she doesn’t like but to like.
Russian Panel – designcollector.net
Johnny Kelly – nexusproductions.com
Rick Banks – www.face37.com
David McCandless – www.informationisbeautiful.net
John Burgerman – www.jonburgerman.com
Depthcore - www.depthcore.com
Andy Cruz – www.houseind.com
Marian Bantjes – www.bantjes.com
so far so good – ein kleines recap über day #2 mit letzten kräften
SOME PICS OF OUR OFFF TIME HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindconsole/sets/72157626800160087/
lets get ready for the third and last day.
today was day #1 of the OFFF 2011.
A sunny day started with KULTNATION and his ‘Constructing dreams for the future’ and his process for the clips of the festival-partner. A bit too clumsy to make it really enjoyable.
Straight into VASAVA and their Adobe gigs (amongst many others), great stuff, but towards the end a little bit of advertising overload from Adobe’s side.
As the day showed, it wasnt easy at all to get around or even get in somewhere else, if one place was packed. We’ll see if they improve that (as they said today). So our own planned schedule had to be tight and well-chosen, thats what we’ve ended up with:
PHYSALIA STUDIO has been the first highlight of the day. Their own R&D department is amazing and really enjoyable to watch the process from the ultra prototype to a real product.
In your face, would HAN HOOGERBRUGGE actually say at his presentation, despite the fact, that his animations are real fun, there is just not really much information in it for the topic itself.
Same for ACTOP, left earlier to queue up for IGNORE, as the festival wasn’t prepared for the massive crowd (as always?). These guys have been together for almost a year, its only purpose to create the media for this festival.
PENG! Highlight #2 was ONUR SENTURK who rocked with his amazing fluid motion graphics. A down-to-earth guy, full of inspirational words, who is part of the RESONANCE group.
THE MILL made a good closing part with some deeper philosophy of how they work.
Good, exhausting day #1, lets see what tomorrow brings
links to the artists:
http://www.kultnation.com
http://www.vasava.es
http://www.physaliastudio.com
http://www.hoogerbrugge.com
http://www.actop.net
http://onursenturk.tv
http://www.themill.com
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As we are on rotation most of the time, it was impossible to keep track with our website – the decision to transform to behance was made.
all projects will be online on http://www.behance.net/mindconsole – a selection will be visible on the new website.
ENJOY!
