Bright, looney 3D animation coming from Yum Yum London. It's bursting with details. Look closer, with HD on!

These recent photos of Saturn and its system of moons could as easily be viewed as graphic compositions. Seems there must be somebody with a great feel for aesthetics at NASA.

Another shot from my on-going mission to see what all those iPhone photography apps can produce. This time: Swankolab.

Interesting minimal video for Issey Miyake by japanese team Euphrates. From a short loop of 3D tracking data from a model walking, this gets really playful and surprising, although it sticks to just white points and lines on a plain black background.

The ISO50 blog pointed me to The Soft Moon a young post-punk band from San Francisco. Especially the lo-fi black-and-white abstract video for Parallels (above) got my attention. It turned out that the band just added the audio to an existing very old piece of expressionistic movie history: Rhythm 23 by Hans Richter from the year 1923. Inspiring!

Such a simple idea, yet so much Awwwwwwwwwww!

Done with iPhone 4 and Camera+ cross process.

Little stickers to put on newspapers and the like, to warn of bad journalism. Great idea, making a very valid point on the written word these days.

Sweet sweet animated clips of only 3.5 seconds each. A bit dark, because – despite of the title – it only shows various deaths of birds. But it‘s executed in such a minimal and elegant style, that it‘s a pleasure to watch. The sound design supports it perfectly.

Animated clay forms an abstract/philosophical view on the cycles of matter. Super-fun, great music, lots of phantastic details. Watching in HD is recommended!

Not only is John Carey of fiftyfootshadows.net an excellent photographer, he is also kind enough to bundle up 33 of his images optimized to use it as a background on a iPhone 4 high res display. Sweet!

Just a little heads up: I am currently on family holiday in a sweet spot in the Allgäu alps. We took our Nikon D90 and of course my iPhone 4 with us. Some fresh photos of mountains, trees and the occasional baby photo might hit my flickr account this week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlman/

I just bought a copy of this fresh new print magazine. (Yes, these days you need to mention that it is a PRINT magazine.) The designer and publisher Elliot Jay Stocks asks eight designers what typefaces they would choose if they could use only eight for the rest of their lives. I'm especially interested in Jessica Hische, Jason Santa Maria, Jos Buivenga and Jon Tan. Erik Spiekermann is also among them, he will mostly choose his own fonts. The design of the magazine seems to be up to par with the content, judging from the photos on the site. (Although I personally don‘t like the cover with eight portraits crammed into the negative space of a big eight.)

Johannes Heuckeroth, one of my students at the Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg started a new daily photography blog. Each day he posts a new shot of the sky. Great idea, beautiful execution.

Very unusual piece of 2D animation. Takes some getting used to, but then it‘s hypnotizing. By Carolina Melis, music is Polygene by Efterklang.

This is what music videos look these days. Shot with a DSLR, lots of funky editing, post-production and effects. But all this done in a very tasteful and somehow modest way. It has a lot of style, but is also dark, sweaty and eerie. Extraordinary.

This must have been lots and lots of work: Wall-painted stop-motion animated graffitti by BLU. Wonderfully quirky, dirty and full of neat ideas. Nearly ten minutes of floating, jumping, evolving, growing and exploding paint on various surfaces.

Ok, I'm a space nerd for as long as I can think. But how can anyone not love these photos of astronauts in full space suits in everyday situations. By Hunter Freeman.