Mekanism’s lead motion graphics editor Emmet Feldman drove the creation of this kick ass opening vid for Creativity’s upcoming inaugural Creativity and Technology (CaT) conference this Wednesday in NYC. It’s organic, prismatic, glassy, and digital and definitely gets my creative juices on the move.
Click here to watch the 2009 CaT Conference Opener.
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Released earlier this year, “Beautiful Losers” is an inspiring and honest documentary about the nature of creativity and the lives of artists. It harnessed the pure joy that should spring forth from the act of creation. I was so totally inspired after seeing it that I thought my body might convert into light or just float away forever.
If you haven’t seen it yet or aren’t familiar with it, check out the trailer. You’ll be hooked:
Vodpod videos no longer available.In the spirit of the documentary, “Beautiful Losers” teamed up with Nike to throw art workshops for youth in L.A. and New York. They’ve released short web vids showing us the energy and buzz that obviously filled the air as young people got to be inspired by working with some of the biggest artists in the world. Directed by Arlo Rosner for Blacklake Productions, who said:
“The inspirational element of the whole thing wasn’t just about the artists inspiring the kids to get out there and make things, but it was the kids inspiring the artists” says Barlow. “The appreciation was flowing pretty heavy in both directions.”
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Vodpod videos no longer available.Jesse Leyva
Vodpod videos no longer available.You can check out all of the workshop vids here.
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How I’ve lived so many years of my life without COLOURlovers I’ll never know. This site is mental candy. Highly addictive creative mental candy.
Described as a “Colour + Design Community for Creative Inspiration”, the site lives up to it’s name and delivers inspiration in spades. Simple to navigate, you can discover new artists in it’s extensive blog or create your own colours, palettes, and patterns. Spread them around, search through others’, send them a love note if you’re into what they’ve done, or create your own palettes and patterns from other people’s work. The site links everything together seamlessly so credit is always given where credit is due and you can also follow a line of creativity and design between different people from around the world.
To me, the best part are the palettes. Not just from the formations of colour, but because each one is named by it’s creator. Like the world’s most succinct poetry, exploring the various chromatic connections between the names inspired by the colours (or the colours inspired by the names) is frighteningly addictive. We’re talking Tetris-addictive.
When I signed up , there were already a whopping 234,097 palettes. A side-bar on the page shows the latest palettes and patterns as they’re created, and several new ones are added each minute. It’s a constant stream of creativity and you can’t help but jump in.
This is my first palette, bleu comme le ciel:
Yeah, I like blue. I was only able to make it through 500 of the palettes, but keep reading to check out my ten faves (in no particular order):
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