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

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.

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.

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

Flightpattern from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Got to find that track somehow as well!

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!

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 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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