Words is a great short film that will brighten up your day. After recently watching it I was propelled to share. So sit back and take a few minutes to watch this video created by Everynone (in Collaboration with WNYC’s Radiolab & NPR). Have a great Friday! …Read the full article at www.zeitgeistudios.com.

I came across this nice animation by Dongzhen.Li, a student from the Beijing Film Academy. What grab me was not just the short film but the well crafted making of video where Dongzhen.Li shows us how he created some of the elements within the film. Here is the film. Read the full article at www.zeitgeistudios.com.

I spotted this gem this morning via Dept. of Non/Architecture. Sound Sculpture artist Zimoun has presented us with a breathtaking display of installation art. I am intrigued not only by the sound produced by the installation, but also the stunning spaces and photographs produced by his body of work. The level of craft and pain staking effort to produce these visuals is impressive. A successful effort that crosses boundaries of the interplay between space and sound. “Zimoun’s sound sculptures and installations are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the artificial and the organic.” – From his video description. More can be found at zimoun.ch. Slideshow and video at www.zeitgeistudios.com.

Introducing episodes I and II of our stop-animation penguin series. Because design should be fun we created a series of 30 second videos to make you laugh. If you like them, please send them to your friends and bring them a little humor as well. Enjoy!

Ok, I didn’t win, but I won’t let that stop me from congratulating the amazing finalist to this event. The platform of the contest was to invoke the discussion and display of ideas that our effecting our ‘Personal Infrastructures’ on a daily basis through the built world. These fine winners will have there work displayed at the MAK Center in Los Angeles and at the Graham Foundation in Chicago. I appreciated flipping through all of the entries for this years contest and look forward to the theme for the 3rd annual event next year. Here are all 10 of this years finalist listed below. Read the full articles at www.zeitgeistudios.com.

This aerobatic art form is formally termed freerunning, and is said to claim its origin from the French word parkour, or ‘the art of displacement’. The American Parkour site defines it as “…the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.” More at www.zeitgeistudios.com

If you haven’t already- click and drag in the movie below to scroll around the video. Immersive 360 panoramic photos are nothing new now that we are all familiar with Google Street-View. Or if your into any first person video games this is no shocker. But to see that same first person control in immersive video is a bit surreal. I came across the video below by Steye & The Ottowanians via Dept of Non/Architecture and was blown away with the creative use this technology has. The ability for live action video to be controllable from a first person camera, rotatable in 360 degrees, opens amazing possibilities.

There are a few contest floating around out there in the interweb that we at Zeitgeist Studios find worth the effort. Now this does not mean big prizes and fame, but more along the lines of exposure, ability to complete, and satisfaction of making.

Apocalyptic? Yes. The new series on the National Geographic Channel, titled Aftermath, goes through several scenarios of a post-disastrous world. One episode of the series called Population Zero describes a world where humans disappear and the world continuous without us. After 10 days our nuclear plants explode, several decades later satellites fall from the sky, and in only a century our skyscrapers and cities fall to the ground.

Keiichi Matsuda, currently studying under Nic Clear at The Bartlett, has put together a sweet video about virtual/augmented reality. His video gives a glimpse of a possible future where our current technologies become integrated to our visual surroundings.