From illustrator Chad Pugh’s Vimeo page:

This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours and I’d add an equal amount of time for concept time and readying the print. A screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full 18 minute video. I’ll upload that for posterity later.

Incredible. Check out more of Chad Pugh’s work at thebigpugh.com.

Thanks to Charlie Trotter , who I can always count on for quality stop-motion, for the link.

This week I’m in Poughkeepsie, New York visiting a client. This morning Ross, one of the guys I’m working with up here, told us this awesome/traumatic April Fools story:

This 30-second video is a mind-slap. Our attention can only stretch so far, you know:

(Seen on Seth’s blog and Drew’s Marketing Minute)

Please click here to view/interact with moving video taken in 360 degrees at once. It’s all the coolness of Google Street View times a thousand.

(via Critical Mass on Twitter)

On April 7th, the always awesome and sometimes snooty music reviewers at Pitchfork will launch Pitchfork.tv, an online video music channel dedicated to indie music:

As a visual extension of the music coverage Pitchfork has provided for more than a decade, and a means of updating and advancing the music television format, the online channel will bring you closer to the artists you love, through original mini-documentaries, secret rooftop and basement sessions, full concerts, exclusive interviews, and the most carefully curated selection of music videos online. (from pitchforkmedia.com)

There goes any productivity I had left in me. I cannot wait.

If you’d like to read Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber get grilled on his true business motivations (“Q: If you had to make a comparison, would you say that Pitchfork today is more like MTV when it pushed the button in 1981, or are you Jann Wenner in 1970, building up the Rolling Stone media empire?”) check out this interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.

(I don’t know who took these pictures, but they were emailed to me by my Lego fanatic buddy Carter Martin)

I’m completely enthralled by the work of Barcelona-based graphic designer Máximo Tuja, aka max-o-matic.

(via we-make-money-not-art’s review of “ESC: Enter Spanish Creativity“)

I want to hang out with this guy:

David Armano was right on in calling this “The Best (and Cheapest) SuperBowl Ad.”

My buddy Zach is studying architecture at the University of Texas, Arlington. Last night he told me their department has a new printer that prints up their renderings as 3D models. Unbelievable.

Here’s a video demoing a 3D printer developed by ThingLab in London:

Not only does this have large implications for design and prototyping, this could really take the Knick-Knack Industry by storm.