shyscapes from Misha Shyukin on Vimeo.

Take a look at the squares above. Top one is darker, right? In fact, the main block of colour on the both of the squares is identical (I’ve dropped it into Photoshop to test it and they’re bang on the same). I’ve always loved optical illusions, so here are a few new cool ones, along with an explanation of the science behind them.

Taken from www.bbc.co.uk/news

The Science of Optical Illusions – by R Beau Lotto

Currently in the final stages of the editing process, ONEDAY in Woolacombe is the first in an ongoing series of scenic surf & coastal movies from our valued client wavedreamer.

goto11 assisted with second unit camera duties on what turned out to be a long, tiring but intensely rewarding day! We’re particularly proud that we managed to hold focus on the Chinese lantern at the end of the clip, until it faded from view & we nodded off to sleep…

ONEDAY in Woolacombe will be released later this year on DVD and will be available to purchase from the wavedreamer website.

ONEDAY in Woolacombe from wavedreamer on Vimeo.

One of our top clients here at goto11, Paul Kenton, has recently been asked to submit a painted elephant for the Elephant Parade London 2010. 250 leading UK artists and celebrities have been given blank elephant sculptures to decorate as they see fit. Paul was honored to be be a part of this fantastic endeavor and painted his own elephant in the style of his dripped mixed-media cityscapes, choosing to reflect the city in which the elephants will be displayed by depicting iconic London architecture and icons.

As part of our ongoing development of Paul’s website, goto11 created the following time lapse video of Paul painting his elephant. goto11 shot this film over one week in Paul’s studio. Many thanks to Richard at wavedreamer, who kindly loaned us a fantastic Sony EX1 HD camera to create the time lapse.

Unfortunately, time restraints on the editing process meant that we have only edited a standard definition version for now, but we will be uploading the full HD version soon.

A 3D drawing tool (still in development) by Rhonda that lets you draw 3D objects with a tablet and trackball.

If anyone was wondering what to get us for Christmas, now you know….

Pretty cool movie I saw on n.design studio, by Gwen Vanhee

Flightpattern from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Got to find that track somehow as well!

OK, so this is a few years old now, so many of you may have seen it, but now we finally have a platform to share our favourite things, so we’re going to start here!

This amazing animation, based on hand-drawn sketches, created keyframe by keyframe, (no auto-tweening!) was created by Laith Bahrani, of monkeehub animation. He is the creator of the great video for ‘JCB Song’ by Nizlopi, as well as the low morale series of animations, from which this ‘Creep’ character is taken. The low morale series is a must for any office based worker! Laith talks about his inspirations for low morale & the ‘Creep’ video in this post here.

This makes me wish I could pursue more projects like this, so anyone who needs a bit of character flash animation done, just get in touch! Or I suppose if you had the budget, you should probably ask monkeehub!

With a move to new offices on the horizon, we have decided to make the most of our Summer and relocate the offices to the Midi-Pyrenee region of the South of France for a month. Sounds very glamorous, but in reality we’re just going to stay with my mum for a bit!

It’ll be business as usual, as we will be working from her home offices & will be fully available for anything you need. On our return mid-August, we will be posting full details of our new office, still based in Woolacombe, North Devon.

Oh, and for any scallywags thinking of burgling us now that I’ve announced our absence – don’t bother, the whole place is empty. Sorry.

After many years of admiring legendary rock band Spinal Tap from afar, I finally got to meet them backstage at Glastonbury this year, where Nicky & I take a little jolly each year working backstage production on the Other Stage dressing rooms. Not only does that get us a nice private camping spot behind the stage, with oak-panelled loos & showers, all-you-can-eat gourmet food & free booze, but also access-all-areas passes to the Pyramid stage. Result! I was more excited than normal this year when I realised that my heroes Spinal Tap were playing the Pyramid Stage on Saturday afternooon.

After their cracking set, I went to meet them, hopefully for a chat & a bit of a stalk on the way back to their rooms. Eagerly clutching my 1982 soundtrack album, I lost my cool and for the first time ever, approached a band to get autographs. Bass -master Derek Smalls was excited at the site of some vinyl for a change & was amazing, inviting David St Hubbins back for a chat, who then invited me to come through to their dressing room to meet Nigel Tufnel, the man with whom goto11 would have to be called something else!

The guys were amazingly nice & I was struggling not to crack up, as they stayed fantastically in character the whole time (me too, calling him Mr St Hubbins at one point).

The whole weekend was a blast, & we got to see dozens of bands, with a healthy dose of stalking backstage & in the dressing rooms. My highlights this year were, Fleet Foxes, The Whip, Spinal Tap (of course), VV Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand & best of all, The Prodigy, closing up Sunday night on our stage with a belter. The guys went mental on stage & look completely alarming, but were as sweet as anyone you could hope to meet & while their entourage got through 3 cases of Veuve in the after party, Keith, Liam & Maxim went back to their room for a nice roast dinner then went to bed. Rock & Roll!!

Looking forward to next year already!

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