Beijing Opening Ceremony.

Found some sweet hi-res pictures from the Olympic opening ceremony. There were a lot of representations of 2008 in it, usually by having that many performers on stage at one time. Check it.

the star wars super rock band.

found this while baroozing the internet today. totally awesome.


wish i knew who to give credit to for this amazing image.

god's eye view.

adam & eve in eden.


noah's ark on the mountains of ararat.


parting of the red sea.


the crucifixion.


via the glue society.

the world is my canvas.

i stumbled on a website via the serif about a quarky guy named stavros that creates what he calls "position art." what happens is he walks around with his gps enabled nokia phone and tracks where he's going. the path he walks creates a single line, and with this he can create simple images on the world. i don't even know how he came up with this, but it's pretty interesting. check it out at www.theworldismycanvas.com

believe.

on the subject of well-made commercials, i found this 90 second commercial for halo 3. they created a giant diorama of a battle scene and then filmed it. it's pretty intense how much detail went into it. i also enjoy the use of shallow depth of field to focus on one point and blur the rest, giving it a better sense of a single moment. after i watched it, i found a behind the scenes video, however, it's told from the point of view whereas the battle had already taken place and they're making the diorama as a commemorative in a museum. that in itself is pretty creative.

panoramic.

a guy at work showed me this video yesterday. there's an autistic artist named stephen wiltshire that will draw an almost perfect panorama of a city after flying over it in a helicopter once. it's pretty nuts.


Autistic Man Draws Near-Perfect Panorama of Rome

i also dug a little deeper and found a video on his tokyo panorama too.


Autistic man draws Tokyo from memory

check out the full panoramas. they're pretty spectacular.

the art of versions.

i was browsing the apple homepage this morning and found an article in which two guys named neal ashby and matthew curry designed the cd packaging for a band called the thievery corporation influenced by the black and white line drawings of the beatles' revolver album.


they built a site dedicated to the art of the new cd package for the thievery corporation's new cd versions. it's pretty amazing what they did. check it.