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IdN reaches its 100th issue… that’s some staying power for a very niche magazine. Understandably, they are celebrating quite wildly with animations like this one from Kultnation.

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  • abstract, graphics, idn, magazine, video

 

Beautiful and abstract, this enchanting three and a half minute opening titles by The Mill encapsulates the celebration of brave new visual culture that is the OFFF festival.

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  • digital, festival, OFFF, opening title, video, visual

 

A phosphene is the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye. The phosphene video by Benjamin Ducroz will bring lights of beauty and tears of joy to your eyes.

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  • 3D, abstract, beauty, geometry, motion, phosphene, video

 
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  • art direction, cartoon, dj, instruction, pacemaker, sound, video

 

A fun, retro clip that shows you what you need in order to think and come up with ideas.

Smashing.

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  • font, retro, short film, video

 

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  • minimal, sonar, sound, video, visualization

 

Pretty clever work, though it’s a little bit weird using video to talk about publishing.

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  • clever, copy, future, publish, video

 

Good thinking by the British think-tank, Demo and good animation by Airside.

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  • infographic, politics, power, video, visualization

 

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Beautiful macro video shot with a Lumix GH1, backed up by an excellent Clint Mansell track.

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  • macro, video, zoom

 

So which came first, the advertising idea or the editing technique? Does it matter?

Really?

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  • commercial, graphic, honda, tvc, video

 

Seeeeeee ittttttt onnnnn www.yooouuutuuube.com

Weirdly brilliant, yooouuutuuube.com takes a YouTube video and cuts it all up into some bizarre lomo action sampler-like strips. I used the Doves‘ excellent Black and White Towns video to try it out but I think it’d probably work better with psychelic or cheesy 80s videos.

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  • action sampler, flash, video, weird, youtube

 

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  • 3D, beauty, dj, short film, trailer, video

 

This is one of many hilarious crash reports for Adobe After Effects from a guy who works at a post house

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  • adobe, after effects, application, crash, funny, video

 

YouTube as your website — clever!

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  • agency, interactive, interface, tubesite, video, web, youtube

 

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