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String Art ‘Listening Posters’ with Tin Can Telephones.

Yesterday we went fly-postering with Dry the River. Putting up these great pieces that Sophie our resident craft/build geek lovingly made.

Following on from the giant 3D horse posters we made last year for the same band, these ‘listening posters’ are made using string art that depict animals… The string ends in a ‘tin can telephone’ which plays a song. It provided a novel way for the band to debut their album in full for the first time.

They’re up around East London on certain streets, Rough Trade East, and other cafes and galleries.

Each poster was made using the same screen prints used for the last posters, sealed onto MDF, nailed with the outline of the animal.

An Arduino running a Wave Shield sends the audio through wires hidden in the string to a concealed speaker in the bottom of the can… Nice and simple!

Whilst randomly searching for Mount Rushmore, for no particular reason. I discovered on Wikipedia that it was never actually finished because they ran out of money.

The photo on top shows the model they made with the original design, and the actual mountain carving below - you can see where they must have just started on Lincoln’s hand.

I thought that our papercraft project to make some giant paper 3D Horse posters last year was ambitious, then I read about this guy Jonathan Brand

Not only does he do loads of awesome model making / craft, his latest project was to build a full scale replica Ford Mustang 1969 entirely out of printed paper including engine and wheels, down to the smallest detail. 

Must have taken aaaaages.

Giant Cinemagraph for Tanya Lacey:

Working recently with two Creative interns here at Foam, Mathew Markham and Thomas Evans (a team from SoCA), we were tasked to do something with RCA artist Tanya Lacey.

We wanted to create something visual that represented her roots in the Bristol music scene.

Inspired by some of the lovely cinemagraphs we’ve seen around the web recently, we decided this concept on a much larger scale would make a really interesting visual narrative.

We shot the Cinemagraph as the full length of Stokes Croft Road in Bristol (around 140 meters in length) and have rendered it for HTML5 and YouTube:

HTML5 version is at: http://tanyalaceyofficial.com/cinemagraph

Props to Phil on this one as this project has caused him considerable pre Christmas pain in the post production! He’s off to France now for a deserved break.

New experimental music video w / Easter Egg.

A little low budget experimental promo video for EMiL, an artist signed to B-Unique.

Normally we wouldn’t take on straight forward music video jobs, there was just about enough budget for a camera, some lights, and a dancer… but I really liked EMiL and saw a nice little opportunity to use the dancer to put a hidden easter egg into a music video.

Using one of YouTube’s features to create a hidden animation within the video itself… one which is a little nod towards someone that EMiL told me was one of his biggest music influences.

Watch the video on YouTube in standard res… and once the grey bar at the bottom is fully loaded, mute the volume and press the number keys on your keyboard in turn from 1 to 0 to see the easter egg.