“R. O. Blechman (born 1930) is an American animator, illustrator, children’s-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 1999. Blechman’s best-known works include the book The Juggler of Our Lady (1953), television commercials for Alka-Seltzer (1967) and other products, the animated PBS special Great Performances: The Soldier’s Tale, and 19 covers for The New Yorker magazine.” (Wikipedia). Visit R.O. Blechman official website.

This short film won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

“A summer’s day is darkened by a sudden rainstorm. Birds seek shelter and activity slows down as time expands. A woman determined to face the downpour tries to open an unwilling umbrella; a car refuses to start. The rain gets heavier and time seems to stand still. What if the sun never came out again? Pedestrians, cars, dogs, everything is caught in the rain, which lashes down on human vanity. Even the blinding bright sign of a bank is dimmed by the moisture. At the windows of high-rises, in traffic jams, under makeshift shelters, people succumb to a sense of eternity. But finally the clouds thin out, a bird takes flight and life continues.

Rains is a meditation on everyday life and our relationship with nature, seen by the acute eye of David Coquard-Dassault, whose simple pencil drawings render all the subtleties of scenes and actions.”

“Remind me won the 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for best music video.”

Another schematic-instructional-design inspired video ? Compare with Tomas Nilson reinterpretation of the Little Red Riding Hood. One can experience something similar while flipping through Open Here. The Art of Instructional Design by Paul Mijksenaar and Piet Westendorp

About :

“An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data.

OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007. During the year, edits were made by some 20,000 individuals and there were bulk imports of data for many places, including the USA, India, Italy and Belarus which are clearly visible in the animation. (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources).

This animation was produced by itoworld.com. It is licensed CC-BY-SA and can also be downloaded if you are logged-in. Various stills are available from flickr.com/groups/itomedia/pool/. The music is ‘Open Electro’ by Vincent Girès’ jamendo.com/en/artist/silence and can be downloaded from archive.org/details/silence-silence”.

About ITO!:

“ITO provides online presentation, analysis and data management services to the transport sector with an emphasis on public transport and sustainable personal travel.”

VisualCulture: “Inlingua” by Optix Kreation. Watch it in better quality HERE.

Tomas Nislon : “School assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little Red Ridning Hood. Inspired by Röyksopps Remind me. Music: Slagsmålsklubben. Animation: Tomas Nilsson.