Destined for viral success, Getty Images have put together an entertaining little flash game where you identify the stock photo which goes with the inkblot. Each inkblot is created from a 2-bit (black or white) section of the image, probably rotated at some odd angle and mirrored. It is quite tough, and some of blots are pretty vague, but it is great fun.
They are also offering $1000 a day as a prize for trying (not winning) the game…but only if you register.
Getty’s creative marketing department seem to be pretty clued in to what motivates people to see their stuff (remember the infinite mosaic? same people…)
[via Advertising/Design Goodness]
An image gallery of various liquids taken with a really fast lens and coloured lights…stunning!
Following closely on the heels of the previous post is this stunning HD video of a (improbably smooth) flight over downtown LA at night. Entitled Rivers of Light, the video was made by the Grass Collective who specialize in making ‘moving art’ to turn any television (or projector, w00t!) into an ambient window. You can actually order a DVD of 2 hours of this!!
[via Centripetal Notion]
This is a pretty impressive HD timelapse showreel from 599 productions, shot (once again) with a Canon 20D. I especially love the timelapse of the planes landing at LAX, watching the lights come down at 10x speed is really something.
I did have a few problems with their HD media page, whichever clod put it together didn’t test it properly and left some broken links for the downloads…tsk tsk!
So here are the direct link to download the video (quicktime format, 84mb).
[via Centripetal Notion]
Some cool images of very well lit leaves by Christopher Griffith. Unfortunately it is a flash site (albeit quite a well put together one) so I can’t give a direct URL. Click ‘books’ then ‘fall’ in the top left menu to see the images.
His portfolio images of ‘things’ are quite nice too…
A fantastic image of the stars over namibia, taken over a 11hr period with a modified Canon 20D. The image was put together using a nifty freeware app called Star Trails which is just a quick way of stacking lots of long exposure images on top of each other (rather than having 200+ layers in photoshop).
There is also an animated gif of the star trails (11Mb), but I must say it wasn’t as impressive as I was expecting…a little post production to put it into a nice flash animation might have gone a long way here.
Some truly amazing digital artworks by a very talented artist called Nik Ainley, showcased at the delightfully titled ShineyBinary.com
