Next week starts the 2012 inaugural Parsons Festival featuring undergraduate and graduate work from students across a range of disciplines. I plan to make it to a few select openings (see favorites below). It should be an eventful few weeks of great emerging talent! Here’s details: Parsons Festival 2012 showcases extraordinary work by students from [...]

Congrats to Adrian Bautista, Martha Glenn, and Brooke Tascona! These three students from the Sound & Vision class I taught at Parsons last month, completed a beautifully-crafted documentary on urban beekeeping (in an impressive one week!). Nice job to all three of you, I’m glad it’s getting out there! Watch the video:

What a beautiful use of new media in this interactive video piece for Chase No Face by Bell. The graphics were created in real-time using no post-production effects and were built by FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih. Visuals were created by Zach Lieberman, Francisco Zamorano, Andy Wallace, and Michelle Calabro. View some making of shots [...]

Over the past four weeks I’ve been teaching a summer course at Parsons School of Design called Sound & Vision. This is my (7th?) year teaching this studio for the Summer Intensive Studies program with my colleague and close friend Amy Finkel. It’s always a ton of fun with a talented and diverse group of [...]

The 2nd Annual Kickstarter Film Festival last night was a huge success! Hosted by Rooftop Films at The Old American Can Factory, the event sold out within hours and the range of work screened was impressive. I was there to support my colleague and good friend, Amy Finkel whose documentary film ‘Furever‘ recently raised over [...]

I love this new Lykke Li video, beautifully shot by director by Tarik Saleh and stars actor Stellan Skarsgård.

These three motion shorts were created by Everynone, a filmmaking team located in NY made up of Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante, & Julius Metoyer III. Using themes of relativity and the gestalt laws of psychology, they each artfully highlight the connections found in everyday life. Thanks for sharing Marcus!

Coming home from the Scope Art Fair on Saturday, I came across the work of artist Steven Gagnon in front of Front Room Gallery. His piece Border Cruiser is a mobile video installation in a former police car that presents a Brazillian’s story of entering the U.S. illegally and his struggles once in the country. [...]

Typography (by Albin Holmqvist), beautifully integrated with the moving image to create these pieces for International Language Teaching Company. ~ found via Lost At E Minor

A fun stop-motion experiment by Sean Ohlenkamp.

This 30 minute audiovisual piece was created by Scott Pagano as part of series called “The Reverence Collection.” The slow unfolding of abstract forms and colors is mesmerizing. “The Reverence Collection is a series of sound/image works created by transforming pop music videos into epic slowly undulating audiovisual environments. The source material for the pieces [...]

A great new site has just been launched by Creative Mornings which archives videos from it’s past discussions in New York, LA, San Francisco and Zurich. Here’s a clip from June 2010′s NY talk by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. “Creative Mornings is a monthly speaker [...]

SO inspiring… Last weekend marked the first-ever TEDWomen conference, dedicated to exploring how women and girls are reshaping the future. This AMAZING talk is from Halla Tomasdottir, an Icelandic businesswoman who got her company Audur Capital through the economic collapse by applying 5 “feminine” values to financial services.

Artist Surabhi Saraf’s recent video FOLD premiered at the Root Division Gallery in San Francisco this past September. The piece is a “multi-channel audio-visual installation (that) presents a visual echo of the present instance: it takes an unexamined moment (like folding laundry) and gives it life.” Some notes by Saraf on her process: “I look [...]

I love this interactive art piece by artist Joseph Griffith. Who wouldn’t want one of these in their own home? ~ found via Swiss Miss

My studio partner at Double Triple, Phillip Niemeyer just finished directing and editing this stop motion video for the west-coast-based avant-garde duo Woom. Dan Forbes, an amazing photographer and cinematographer also worked on the project. Kudos guys!

Wow, I was blown away by this film. On the Bowery is screening until Sept 28th at Film Forum in it’s newly restored 35mm version. A colleague of mine, whose father worked on the production, encouraged me to go see it before its short run ends. The film is not yet distributed in the US. [...]

A short documentary about the life and work of New York based designer and artist Milton Glaser. { video }

Back in the city. It’s taken me a while to get settled. What a different pace from living on the farm. I’m excited to get out this fall and see some great work. First on my list is the film We Live in Public now showing at the IFC Center. Check here for showtimes. “The [...]