Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Digital art extravaganzas by Seattle-based web artist and 3D modeler Alan Van Ryzin.

Go to his site (warning: major productivity vacuum ahead if you like this kind of thing) and click the pix for mind-blowingly detailed galleries of vehicles, weapons and statics.

Not image-edited photos – coloured thread, hand-embroidered onto linen by artist Daniel Kornrumpf.

From top: Diamonds on My Neck, Diamonds On My Grill (2007), Austin Texas (detail) (2009) and Brooklyn Bobby (detail) (2007).
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Some really impressive CG animation: a futuristic re-imagining of the 1981 Brixton riots by Kibwe Tavares.

Music: ‘The Great Insurrection’ by DJ Hiatus.

Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.

The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.

Sound up, full screen.

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Zack and Nathan there. Clearly managed by bigger boys, but you have to admire their fearsome Parkour shaping.

Obligatory: We’re calling it Squee Running.

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