Erik Natzke

Erik Natzke on Vimeo.

I came across this video through a ffffound hunt which linked me to a site by the name of Raketenblog which itself is very nice, it's just a shame I don't understand it at all cos its all in German! Full of good links though. The video and art is created by Erik Natzke, who from what I have read creates the majority of his work through ActionScript 3.0. There's a nice image of a quote by him, here. Turns out Erik was at Flash On The Beach this year, I'm a bit annoyed that I missed him, hopefully next year! I think I'd like to meet Erik and steal his brain while he's not looking. Erik if you ever read this get in touch!
Check out his personal site, for a good look at his playtime work.

Notwist

Notwist is a website for the German band The Notwist. It's quite a creepy site, especially with the sound on.. actually change that, it's only creepy with the sound on. On my first time I found it confusing to navigate which also added to the creepyness (not a real word but like it). I really like the little games and puzzles where you have to find the correct thing to click to progress you to the next puzzle. Have a play, I think you'll get what I mean from just playing, don't get to scared.

NYTE - New York Talk Exchange

The New York Talk Exchange, is a visualisation of when the population of NY 'dial out' of the city and call the rest of the world. I like all 3 of the projects here but the third one, 'the world inside new york' contains the most information and shows data that I've not come across before, compared to the other 2. The world inside new york shows the diversity of each section's calling habits. Each square represents a 2 kilometre square block, within that block the different countries dialled are represented by colour coded percentage bars. I really like the shade of black used for the background colour along with the palette used for the map in the top left. I don't like the blurred gradient which points to the chosen square, although it is a good method of pointing to whichever square has been selected. Watch the video here, ogle at a high-res image here.

Bored? Feeling down? Considering growing a mustache? Have a secret giggle at this.

The Holy Grail Of Information Design

I've found it! The mother of all sites, Elasticmind! Elasticmind is part of the MoMA site and is what my dreams are made of! It's amazingly smooth, beautifully built and full of information! And I love information! I really like the circles that house the preview of the link (image above) and the category lines that flow from the circular rings.

From the Elasticmind site I've come across The Dumpster which is definitely worth a giggle. It's a visual portrait of romantic breakups collected form blogs in 2005, so I guess its ok to giggle at it now! This kinda reminds me of wefeelfine but personally think wefeelfine is much sexier. If anyone wants to get in contact and teach me how to create works of beauty like these then please please do!! I need this in my life!! email me at pkamaze@gmail.com

iso50.com - Today's Favorite Blog

www.iso50.com, The Visual Work Of Scott Hansen. Loads of sexy sexy things on here, the colour schemes used in some of his posters (found on the right of the page) are really nice. Visually the posters are beautiful anyway, but I'm all over the colour. He's got a really nice post on a photographer by the name of Ryan Fitzgerald. The night photography of concrete does it for me.

Interactive US Box Office Chart

This is beautiful.. check it here.

Yet more information graphics that fills my brain with the stuff it loves to see.. colour! I don't think this piece even needs explaining which proves how good it is at its job. I think what I like about it the most is the way there is no x-axis in the sense of a 'zero'. Instead the week's data is centrally aligned spilling out of the top and bottom on a week when the box office made its millions or contracting inwards when all that week's films were flops. Also check out the 1998 chart and let your eyes pop out at the Titanic facts.

Google Knows You

I found this on ffffound.

Will write something later when I'm home from work.