The works from Amit Pitaru are minimal, technological and conceptional challenging, as well extremely beautiful and poetic. Since many years he is spending this time and passion into videoclips and interaction audiovisual pieces, that are just plain fun to play with or to look at. He almost always crosses the bridge between illustration and sound. This new work called Sonic Wire Sculptor also does. And it is besides a very great audio-sequencer tool.

Basically you use an pen on the monitor to draw lines, that represent the tones. They are played at the same time. The sequencer itself is a sphere, that keeps on turning around. Just look at the video and you will instantly get the principle. The best part comes at the end of the video: you are able to rotate the whole sphere around, to get some sort of “shifting” effect. Me would like to play around especially with that feature a little bit. I think the work was made together with James Paterson, who is minimum as fantastic as Amit Pitaru.

I am not sure if this work is a little bit older now. Nevertheless it is a fascinating one and worth to be shown.

Just a quick note: Over at Pink Tentacle I discovered this excellent video of Denki Groove. An armada of divers just keep on having the flow. This perpetual motion is awesome. Put them green wigs on and the Lemmings would be perfect. I’ll bet Daft Punk are really jealous on that one. The director is Hideyuki Tanaka.

Goto80 and Skuggan had a very interesting live-performance on Swedish TV. They applied for a “idol / talent hunt” kind of show, but with children in the crowd and jury. The show they played is nothing less than a masterpiece. Thank you, thank you for this!

Greg Shegler from Toronto makes collages from old photographs, vintage papers and advertisements, all kind of childhood memories and other things, that makes you shiver somehow. Just look at the works. Don’t you also instantly hear the “Boards of Canada” playing?

Go to the website to really enjoy the works.

Greg writes on his webpage about his own works, that is will be “best described as a nostalgic tornado of awesomeness destined to conquer bare walls and sad faces wherever it goes”. Still not shivering? Well, the pictures at least do no make me smile at all. They make me wonder. I feel more like looking through the works, than at it. I can see empty places though the works. It is like hearing a concise silence. Pictures with meaning, made with a good selection of raw-materials.

via Shape and Color, thanks!

DoctorM64 gives us the joy of a Metroid fangame, called Metroid: Confrontation. This remake is more a technical demonstration of the self-written game engine, than a full grown game. It feels a little bit like a mixture of Metroid (oh really?) with a good dose of Turrican. The true highlights are, just like in the original game, the insanely brilliant pixelgraphics and the complexity and multimodality of the controls of the player (morphing shapes, different weapons etc) and the game-map-structure.

The complex game engine was completely made with Gamemaker: believe it or not. Gamemaker really shows its awesome abilities with this project.

Get the V1.1 of this game at the development-blog of Metroid: Confrontation.

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Yeah, little animal party! I really enjoyed this videoclip and like to see such kind of storytelling on only 2 – 4 layers of animation with the use of basic tools. The clip was made by Divya Srinivasan. You might already know some work from her if you seen the genius movie “The Waking Life“. She did also made a contribution for this great piece of animation art.