Advanced Beauty

In the advance of the long-awaited Advanced Beauty DVD, born from an ongoing exploration of digital artworks influenced by sound and curated by Universal Everything and Freeform, one of the standout artists, Maxim Zhestkov, from Ulyanovsk, Russia, has been producing some incredible visual/sound material.

Outdoor Wired

BBDO New York created this amazing campaign for BBC World which uses wire sculpture to illustrate the idea that the BBC brings events into your home – literally. "Connecting People with the World" is the slogan. It's great when good ideas and good execution come together to produce something truly memorable.

Wanderlust

Another great outing by SF's own Encyclopedia Pictura. Bjork's Wanderlust video, produced in 3D, took over nine months to complete from concept to "us being pulled - kicking and screaming - from our computers." Here's a little about how the film was made.

Chonto

Chonto is an animated short by Carson Mell from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival which follows last year's Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim.

The film is a bizarre and endearing story told by 70s rock star, Bobby Bird, about his fond relationship with a South American chimpanzee name Chonto.

This year, 45 of the 83 short films in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival are available at iTunes, Netflix and Xbox.com.

Camera Toss

You've seen the effect. What looks like advanced motion graphics can be simply achieved with the low-tech and somewhat risky technique of tossing your camera. That's right, tossing it.

Invented by Ryan Gallagher, an entirely new genre of photography has erupted in the last few years—from camera tossing workshops to museum exhibitions to flickr pools. You too can learn how. What are you waiting for? Toss your camera!

Evil Bee

Director/animator Stefan Nadelman, who won a short filmmaking award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival for directing Terminal Bar, created this visually stunning Evil Bee video. Music by Menomena.