Charles Erdman

Design ~ User Experience ~ Curios

Los Angeles Shot Through a Snow Globe

Colin Mika and Brandon Vedder of All Cut Up Films created this amazing time-lapse video of Los Angeles by photographing the city through a “snow globe”. They captured 4000 images with a custom rig, which consisted of a Canon 5D Mark II, a homemade tilt-shift lens, a light bulb filled with water, and paper cutouts for shaped bokeh.

Happy holiday season, Los Angeles. You can still shine.





The World of Social Media 2011

Beyond the fact that the motion graphics on this are simple, smart and appropriately applied, there are some good figures to have at your disposal (when quoting the number of tweets per second at the Christmas dinner table). You're uncle will be suitably dismayed...


Microsoft's Productivity Vision for 2011

The start of this video shows a personal information device that connects with network enabled devices all around you. Once we get to the point of every piece of glass having the capacity to be an interface, the future will be both exciting and possibly overly intrusive.

The video demonstrates highly interconnected, sensory devices that probably use wifi and bluetooth communications along with some kind of radio ID overlay. Fun to think about the possibilities.

Next up, the future of a super electricity grid that can power all our toys; never deliver a brown-out; and be sustainably sourced. Oh, and don't forget a data network that can handle gigabytes of data streaming, real-time all over the earth using satellites, towers and landlines.

That's the vision video I'd like to see next... I know, infrastructure... boring.



Posterous theme by Cory Watilo
​