prosthetic knowledge

Brave New Old by Adam Wells

Computer animated short tells a non-verbal story with geometric characters in a revolving three dimensional frame:

Brave New Old from Adam Wells on Vimeo.

Brave New Old is my attempt to make something over ten minuets long, trying to use a different kind of story telling. It runs at 9.30 (disappointing). Its about all kinds of things. It is now available online. I completed work in march 2012 and have been sending it to festivals all summer. Its been in a few and its been a pleasure to watch a live audience react and meet other film makers, but the films spiritual home is the web. Hopefully it will like it back.

Link

Manga-Camera 

iOS app that can convert your photos into Manga-like images:

“Manga-Camera” is the app into comic(manga) whatever photos you take!
Anything will be cartoon. Frames that are available are more than 20 kinds. You can take a piece of your favorite style.

Apple store link here

[Note: Doesn’t work on last generation iPod Touch, but should work on anything iOS 5 upwards]

Art of Kong Byung Hoon (공병훈)

Artist creates series of oil paintings of various cartoon character figurines (both Eastern and Western) which re-enact scenes from classic fine art.

Google Translated Artist Statement:

I am a masterpiece of classical art of four trillion figures by incorporating a comic book character will work. This classic image of each character and the story of the conflict is in order to screen the configuration of the elements of the classics, and several characters in comics Figures consist of this noble and solemn, based on the classic story of the story deals with the light of modern common.

  Cartoon movies we see mainly the configuration of each character’s personality is made by the story, but the character’s history, spatiality and time when the province changed the nature can not evolve any yiyagideun I will use these points. For example, in one of my work with American cartoon characters from Disney’s Tinker Bell Smurfs, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse cartoon Sonic and Crayon Japan, South Korea Pororo cartoon, game Angry Bird character and appearance of the character will range from the contents of a classic encounter. I ‘peuraedeurik Jameson’ means, according to neutral or critical pungjana motives and goals of their own, without any historical nonsense by a desire to work, so my work belongs to the pastiche.

  A canvas of classic and contemporary stories in the stories are different, each very different from each other, the subject of the story and characters, even the markedly different backgrounds can see that, so any story by story of the conflict can not be completed, original meaning is lost. one side of the story when you try to deploy the other side the same way that the story is interrupted, or when one of these two stories at the same time, not just as concentrated. Thus in the works increases, the story becomes more and more incomprehensible. a story that clearly will not be able to deploy. personality is too strong to bring up stories to one story every single one you can not deploy properly, or from where, do not know what the story was going to while everything is meaningless, ie the inner personality of each character is that the lack of.

More at the GAGA Gallery here (Korean)

Feel On 

Japanese Twitter client that turns tweets into cartoons:

“Feel on!” is a Twitter Client of new sense that analyzes your tweet, and emphasizes your feelings. It is a fun and intuitive application program that you can feel “Warm” in “Word”, and which can not be felt by only using text. Moreover, you can chose the most suitable illustration to your feeling. You can enjoy Twitter more by using “Feel on!” like pictograms, and which makes “Tweets” “Communication”.

“Social Emotion Engine(SEE)”, that we develop of our own, analyzes your tweets automatically. SEE clasifies your tweets into “Love”,”Pleasure”,”Interest”,”Expectation”,”Sorrow”,”Surprise”,”Angry”, and “Others”,and expressed them by illustration and color suitable for your feelings.

The English version of the app should be available this month (June) - more info here

Richard Banks: Assailed on all sides by digital/physical bits

The images above are cartoons that were used in this blog post, highlighting some articles about the shift from physical to digital tech:

Three things crossed my screen in rapid succession, all ruminating on the issue of the shift on our lives from physical to digital, and the changing nature of our sense of artefacts.

First up is this article in the NYT by Carina Chocano on “The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg”, in which she says:

This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It’s that we’re collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call, variously, records, accounts, entries, archives, registers, collections, keepsakes, catalogs, testimonies and memories into, simply, data.

More Here

Atari Cartoons From 1982 Envision Wireless Technological Future 

From The Future of the Book:

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan Kay had just become the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work with him to continue the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the idea of an Intelligent Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the (future) encyclopedia might be used and commissioned Glenn Keane, a well-known Disney animator to render them. The captions also date from 1982.

The most interesting thing for me today about these images is that although we foresaw that people would be accessing information wirelessly (notice the little antenna on the device in the “tide pool” image, we completely missed the most important aspect of the network — that it was going to connect people to other people.

More examples can be found here

“I feel, sometimes the walls move … ”

Via Philipp Teister

Cartoon Handbags

Actual handbags look like 2D cartoon objects, yet functional:

This 2 dimensional looking bag plays a fun “trick on the eye” and it’s a cool way to tote your stuff. Cartoon-like outlines and bright and cheerful colors add a brisk and funky flavor. Despite the slim appearance, each JumpFromPaper™ bag has a roomy interior to accommodate personal belongings and even a laptop.

More information, and available from, here

PAC-MAN DAY ON ABC-TV! (via Retro-Space)

Print advert from 1982.

Has anyone seen the cartoon? I imagine it would be pretty terrible … (?)

Adventures In Depression by Hyperbole and a Half

An account of what depression is like in the only way Hyperbole and a Half could do - honestly and incredibly charming.

Full illustrated account here