Creative Inspire 100206

This clip of Exile (of Blu & Exile) rocking his MPC has my jaw sitting on the floor.  The MPC is so instilled in hip hop culture as the industry standard weapon of choice for producers.  That said it's not taken out of the studio all that often.  Not a lot of big name producers ever show their process, chopping beats together and getting the sequence to bang right.  Almost like it's a secret art form that they keep under lock and key like the recipe for KFC's 11 herbs and spices.  The ones that do let you in on their creative process often only show brief glimpses of the meticulous steps taken to bang out a head nodder.  Usually with every element in the beat sequenced one step at a time. So it's really inspiring to see a dude like Exile taking the machine out of the studio and using it to pull of well crafted routines in live performances.




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Creative Inspire 100205

This is my first post on web design.  Websites are getting a little crazier and crazier as every year goes by.  Sometimes it's for better, sometimes not so much.  This design by Fluid and SS+K really caught my attention though.  It's called Spectra and was made for MSNBC's website.  I think it does a good job of creating an interactive experience for the viewer.  It's a well put together alternative to traditional web page navigation.

Try it out.  I think it's kind of fun but I'd love to hear what other people's thought are on it.  Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/spectra/index.html

Ryan Snider
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Creative Inspire 100204

Alan Becker put together a really fun little animation.  Be ware of what you create, you never know what it may be capable of.

This pic is just a screen capture of the animation.  Click on it or the link below to see the actual animation.

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

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Creative Inspire 100203

Kay Tennemann has some serious Cinema 4D chopps!  Check out this piece that he did with the people over at Parasol Island for Ikea.  Turning random bits of furniture into an epic journey is quite an accomplishment.


IKEA PS from mostyle on Vimeo.

Some style frames for ya.

This is just the jump off though. There is so much more inspiration to be found at his profile site at mostyle.tv.



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Creative Inspire 100202

Oh shit the whole world is under alien attack. Space Invaders are everywhere. This is some fun creative urban art. The classic image of a pixelated alien nemesis is being plastered up on walls, bridges, signs and basically any urban canvas you can think of. It's almost like a global game of where's Waldo with a digital stunt double.

 

  

 

Go to www.space-invaders.com to take a hunting trip around the world.

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Creative Inspire 100201

Ever wondered what your house dreams about at night.  Personally it's a question that's haunted me for years keeping me up at night.  Well that is until I saw this video from the people over at urban screen in Germany.

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

Check out more at:
www.urbanscreen.com

Ryan Snider
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Creative Inspire 100131

Some real surreal creative imagery pours out of the mind of Jochem van Wetten. I'm digging it.  There's everything from swinging donkeys to smoking monkeys in his gallery.  All of his images have this cool dream like quality to them and are worth checking out.

 For more check out:
www.jochemvanwetten.nl

 Ryan Snider
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