Scientific American magazine approached us to illustrate the theory of digital space, much similar to that of The Matrix. Our original commission to create the DPS for the article was so well received that it got promoted to the front cover.

Over 210 hours, using a variety of Micron pens and displaying the patience of a particularly patient monk, artist Miguel Endara recreated a photocopied image of his father in 3.2 million dots.

You can see detailed, zoom-able, high-res images of the picture on his website http://miguelendara.com/. A making-of video is below

Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.

(via This Is Colossal)

Whether you are a designer, tech head, business owner....if you have 10 minutes, take the time to read this great article from Fast Company on the "explosion of opportunity" that awaits in the changing business climate:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business

"Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter."

(via This is Colossal)

The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery in London is proving to be one of the most successful exhibitions ever, for good reason.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/may/09/leonardo-da-v...

The Guardian Newspaper has created this very cool interactive guide to some of his work, "from grotesque caricatures to sublime nudes", and it is well worth checking out...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2011/nov/09/leonardo-...

And something positive for the holidays. The Holstee Manifesto on film:

(via Brainpickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/11/10/holstee-manifesto-life...)

Just saw this on the New York Times site. Unexpected to say the least. And all the better for that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/garden/ice-cube-on-eameses-and-his-hom...

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." -- Martin Scorsese

If you are interested in film, editing, and in action films especially, then these short video-essays by film Critic Jim Emerson make for fascinating viewing. In the first, by dissecting the chase sequence from Christopher Nolan's 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight, he explores the language of film and how directors and editors will often dispense with visual logic and break the rules of filming in the pursuit of bigger, bolder, but not always better, action.

"Ultimately, everything about the movie -- the characters, the story, the emotions -- all come down to what is inside the frame, what's left out of the frame, and the associations that are made between different shots, as they're all pieced together. Compositions, angles, camera movements -- they take on different meanings depending on their relationships to the other shots around them. So, something that maybe isn't in the frame, something outside the frame, or something that may happen in the cut between two shots, can be implied, depending on how the pieces are put together."

Parts 2 (on Phillip Noyce’s 2010 film, Salt) & 3 (in which Emerson takes on classic chase scenes from Don Siegel’s The Lineup (1958), Peter Yates’s Bullitt (1968) and William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971)) are below, too.

In the Cut, Part I: Shots in the Dark (Knight) from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.

In the Cut, Part II: A Dash of Salt from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.

In the Cut Part III: I Left My Heart in My Throat in San Francisco from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.

The videos and an accompanying essay by Emerson can be found at:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/IN_THE_CUT_The_Dark_Knight_by_Chris...

And an annotated transcript is available here:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2011/09/annotated_transcript_in_the_c...

Another great animation from the hit-parade of Russ Murphy's portfolio. Our animation director has been working on this funky visual mash-up for VERSIS ✖ DIBIA$E - FLY ME T'THE MOON.

VOCALS - VERSIS
PRODUCTION - DIBIA$E
DIRECTED BY - RUFFMERCY
INTRO/OUTRO SOUND DESIGN - TOM GUEST tomguest.tv

LIMTED EDITION VINYL AVAILABLE THROUGH FATBEATS.com

VERSIS: tiny.cc/9bqnc

DIBIA$E
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2011©

Special thanks to:
DuDuf for Duik! & Famos for Translation ..they know

A mighty collaboration with interactive developers BASIK (and a crash course in American college football) made this infographic for Nissan a reality.

Tasked with creating the visuals and building the front-end showing the progress of Nissan’s crowd-sourced vote in the Heisman trophy race, we went straight to the playing field and got the various players competing to make their way up the field.

A little dimensional illustration combined with some 3D rendering all built in Flash makes for a fun application that lets users see how their favorite Heisman candidates are doing. The application updates voting tallies daily and lets users see the progress of the race over time.

Oh, and now we know A LOT more about American football.