Thursday 24 July 2008

The Best Thing I've Ever Seen - Number 1

Number 1 in a random series of... um well when I can be bothered really (I'm Pretty Lazy/Busy as you can probably see).

Ok I used to think Blogger Play was really great. This shows random photos/graphics as they are uploaded to Blogger which can be played at various speeds. Some of the photos are obviously personal, some swiped from elsewhere and some graphics. If anything takes your fancy you can click on it and it takes you directly to the blog in question. I believe it was developed as an internal toy for blogger staff to play with.

Go on try it its cool.

However between them Mario Klingemann and Oleg Marakov have created something so awesome that I've officially titled it "The Best Thing I've Ever Seen (until I find the next thing)".

Take Flickr photos that are random, but not completely, as each additional photo shares a tag with the previous one. Do clever flash things so that they fade and warp into each other, as well as other effects such as zooming and scanning. Add a random Ambient soundtrack made up of a series of clever samples that work together to create a never ending song.

What you are left with is an 'Art House' style continuous film which is quite hypnotic in style.

Its called "Islands of Conciousness" and it can be enjoyed by clicking here