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Guest Writer
4/2/2016
4/2/2016

Problem Areas by Oneohtrix Point Never, directed by Takeshi Murata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDzaQOSZ3E

Mindfighter by Retro/Grade, directed by Weirdcore
https://vimeo.com/25711157

Lifeforms Part 1 by Future Sound of London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVpWQcLZzIY

SUR-FAKE series by Antoine Geiger
http://antoinegeiger.com/filter/art/SUR-FAKE

Saturn Submerged by Gabriel Pulecio
http://www.creativeapplications.net/derivative-touchdesigner/saturn-submerged-infinite-boxes-of-infinite-space/

Behind The Google Doodle: Lotte Reiniger - Nat And Lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK1P6RGs6U4

Women Animators from the 1800's- present
http://greatwomenanimators.com/

Kseniya Simonova, Sand Painting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOMgDbcA84A

Faig Ahmed Glitchy Carpets
http://www.lostateminor.com/2016/01/27/gorgeous-and-glitchy-carpets-we-speak-to-the-azerbaijani-artist-behind-them/

Bosozoku by BRDG. Warning: this video contains a crazy barrage of flashing colors
https://vimeo.com/126823642

Find the Invisible Cow
http://findtheinvisiblecow.com/

In Your Arms by Kina Grannis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0

A really cool site full of interactive JavaScript art.
http://js1k.com/

Guest Writer
3/12/2016
3/12/2016

Box by Bot and Dolly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo

BMW Museum Kinetic Sculpture design by Joachim Sauter
https://vimeo.com/8554267
http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/bmwkinetic.html

Sonia Falcone Installation Art at the Biennale in Santa Cruz Bolivia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDRFDdhdxvI

Otto Piene, Light Ballet, 1961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3Q9VYtTWw

Barbican's Rain Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkvazIZx-F0

Stellar Cave by Julien Salaud
http://www.be-street.com/julien-salaud-the-stellar-cave/

Historical women in the film industry
http://mentalfloss.com/article/66924/15-women-cinema-history-you-should-know

The Deep, by PES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK18bdUEWSs

Chase Me: A 3D Printed Stop-Motion project by Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLS_jA9s8J4

Kris Tate, Graphic Design
https://www.behance.net/kristate

Nick Briz, Programmer, Web Designer, and Interactive Artist
http://nickbriz.com/

Qlimax- this is an electronic music show in the Netherlands that looks pretty intense. It's surprising that having that many lasers in one place is even legal. Then again, this is the Netherlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npaIH2mEBok

XKCD by Randall Munroe
http://xkcd.com/

Guest Writer
2/6/2016
2/6/2016
Don't use boring loading screen gifs for your websites. Check out these cool loading bar animations
http://www.owlhatworld.com/72-beautiful-loading-bar-design-animated-gif/

Stephane Halleux, the sculptor behind the award-winning animation Mr. Hublot
http://www.stephanehalleux.com/EN/stephane-halleux

Carter Goodrich, illustrator and concept artist
http://cartergoodrich.com/

Poulette's Chair by Hiroyasu Ishida and Yōjirō Arai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg9JGIiSSsQ

Cows and Cows and Cows by Cyriak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY

Rosa de Jong
https://www.instagram.com/byrosa/

Hari and Deepti
http://www.blackbookgallery.com/artists/hari-deepti/
BoredPanda: Designer Problems
http://www.boredpanda.com/designer-problems-comic-seth-roberts-brian-hawes-creative-market/

Guest Writer
1/24/2016
1/24/2016

Limitless by Sofles. A Graffiti timelapse music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-Do30-P8A

Ornitographies by Xavi Bou
http://www.xavibou.com/

Piper Thibodeau Cryptid-Creations
http://cryptid-creations.deviantart.com/gallery/

SonUmbra Solar-Powered Trees by Loop.ph.
http://loop.ph/

Three Mobile UK- starring Socks the Shetland Pony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekr05T9Iaio

Ty Mattson posters
http://tymattson.com/

Sue Nichols
Women Artists in Animationhttp://io9.com/see-the-beautiful-poetic-artwork-by-the-ladies-of-disn-1746256156

Guest Writer
1/3/2016
1/3/2016

Pixar technology advancements
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/inside-pixars-technological-evolution-from-toy-204900060.html

Francis- Directed by Richard Hickey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9xX6lQ_gdY

Monsterbox by Team Monster Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLAoOkG5gY

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Passion Pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JoliFXH74

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello Directed by Anthony Lucas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM

Destiny by Fabien Weibel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKLEeY_WeQ

The Engineers by Julius Horsthuis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfH6pJGNTI

Imagination by PermaGrinFilms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8Aqpt93O4

Madame Tutli-Putli by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. This animation is a little bizarre, but it won a bunch of awards for the technique behind how it was made. An actress's eyes were composited onto a stop-motion puppet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGyLP6R4HTE

Mari0- a Mario/Portal mashup creative commons game created by stabyourself.net.
http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

Forms in Nature in-depth process with Chromosphere and David Kamp
http://motionographer.com/2016/03/01/forms-in-nature-in-depth-process-with-chromosphere-and-david-kamp/

Minecraft Mona Lisa
http://deskbg.com/view/8528/

Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins. The music video is a nice little tribute to Georges Méliès' 1902 Le voyage dans la lune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo

Disney Live Reference Actors compared to Animated Counterparts
http://www.visualnews.com/2013/05/01/1950s-disney-live-models-combined-with-cartoon/

Simone Giertz is a Swedish inventor who uses Arduino to control many of her hilarious contraptions designed to improve our daily lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2evC2xTNWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki7lqI6XE2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcW70-6eQcY

Colin Furze is a very enthusiastic inventor who makes some very dangerous toys. Don’t try this at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcGek-NoFQ

Boston Dynamics has succeeded in creating some of the most advanced mobility systems in robotics to date. Their lineup of robots are each an amazing feat of engineering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

UPS Gladiator, part of an animated cardbord commercial series by Psyop
https://vimeo.com/76653198

Métamorphy by Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKPrqlGlBa0

Follow the Leader by Paul Strohmeier, Cameron Lapp, Kaja Swenson, and Rejean Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_gkuWVEVAg

CineFix- Most influential VFX innovations of the 21st Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0cPeEAhzWU

TED Talks: Can you really tell if a kid is lying? | Kang Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6diqpGKOvic

Marble Machine by Wintergatan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

Resonant Chamber by Animusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toXNVbvFXyk

Anthony Howe, Kinetic Sculpture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RshSaF_juGs

Guest Writer
3/12/2016
3/12/2016

Lisa Keene
ScreenCrush- You Think You Know Movies (Frozen)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCZEhuCSWc
Minimalist posters
http://walyou.com/minimalist-disney-villain-posters/

Don’t Walk by Dan Angelucci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkiLN1-_FKA

Waneella pixel gif art
http://www.visualnews.com/2013/05/30/pixelated-gifs-are-out-of-this-world/

Waterside Graffiti Artist Sean Yoro (Hula)
http://byhula.com/

Joaquin Baldwin, 3D Printing, Photography, and Animation
http://www.joaquinbaldwin.com/

BURNS - When I'm Around U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkWrjeCNGI

Glen Keane draws Ariel and Pocahontas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN-3IVVXEls

Glen Keane sketches Beast and Tarzan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUzHT_3GBsU

Warhammer at War: How Home 3D Printers Are Disrupting Miniature Gaming
http://www.tested.com/art/makers/452866-how-home-3d-printers-are-disrupting-miniature-gaming/

Let Forever Be by Michael Gondry, Music by The Chemical Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0

SOLIPSIST by Andrew Thomas Huang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j98KD5E5KDs

I Lived on the Moon by Yannik Puig, Music by Kwoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6aDiOeOEUI

Evan Roth
http://www.evan-roth.com/shows/

Needing/Getting by OK Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c

MUTO by BLU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

FALLING by Adriano Cirulli, Music by Antonino Chiaramonte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fKpPr2GGwY

NMAC
12/28/2015
12/28/2015

New Media Department Featured in UNCA Newsletter Spring 2013
http://rocky4.unca.edu/cm/mag-archive/vol5no2/feature1.html

New Lincoln Photo? Published Sept 24,2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/24/abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-address-smithsonian-photograph/2854811/

{Re}Happening 2011 video installation piece by Lei Han and Lorraine Walsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FGAn91k1kc

GLI.TC/H 20111 Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hBARzlmXTI

R.I.P. Multimedia Arts Council Web blog. Site retired 2010
https://uncammac.wordpress.com/