Simple and beautiful animation and music by Renaud Hallée.

Sonic Branding done right.

Flickr user Eric Fisher created these maps using the GPS information of images in Flickr, combined with the home city of the user taking the photo. The red spots show the most popular photo subjects, where every tourist goes “oooh” and “aaah”, snapping images which will serve to torture family and friends back at home. The blue spots show normal photos, taken by locals, while the yellow ones are undetermined.

Visit Eric Fischers Flickr Site for more Info and 79 other Cities.

via [Gizmodo]

The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution, democratized access, and completely re-imagined the scope and scale with which an artist can create a vision and reach an audience, The Creators Project is a completely new kind of arts and culture channel for a completely new kind of world.

Check out this inspirational videos, from all type of different areas, here.

HTML5, Javascript and WebGL are going to change the way we use the web browser. have you ever thought of using the browser to create music or visualize music?

Check out Peter Kirn’s post for more information here.

Cosmogramma Fieldlines is a free augmented reality application to celebrate the imminent release of the new Flying Lotus album ‘Cosmogramma’. It can be controlled with your webcam or mouse.

Cosmogramma Fieldlines was developed by Aaron Meyers with sound design by Flying Lotus and harp by Rebekah Raff.  Based on the artwork by Leigh J. McCloskey.

For Mac and PC.

Get it here.

LastHistory allows you to analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive visualization and to explore your own past by combining the music you listened to with your own photos and calendar entries.

via [Lifehacker]

Heavy metal has evolved visually as well. Gone are the fantasy illustrations of radioactive zombies and band logos composed of overlapping swords. After a generation of sprouting subgenres, the heavy metal field is littered with a diversity of styles that even the most hardy metalhead will have trouble encompassing.”

Read the full article on printmag.com.

via [swens weblog]

Acoustic Botany, by David Benqué, extracts Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering from the usual context of health care, food and environment and examines instead the role they could play in the sphere of culture and entertainment.

via [we make money not art]

Wired has some nice videos about the making of avatar: Sound Design, Score, Pre-Production, Post-Production, Motion Capture and so on…

check out the videos here: Wired