For a smile: "Musical Heads" - Watch the "Neurosonics Audiomedical" video (via Chris O'Shea)

Chris O'Shea's Pixelsumo blogs is one of my favorites. His recent post,  "Musical Heads" featured three different takes on the theme.  The one I liked best was Neurosonics Audiomedical, created by Chris Cairns.


I didn't see the video when it was set loose on the Internet about four months ago. The musical heads in the video include Shlomo,  Foreign Beggars, and The Scratch Perverts.


I usually don't search on the internet for disembodied musical beat boxing heads!

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Website  (More about the video)



RELATED
Who is Chris Cairns? Johnathan Wells, Flux 9/15/09
(Interview- includes some information about how the video was made.)
Partizan Website
Chris O'Shea's Pixelsumo Blog

(Link will take you to O'Shea's visual blog index.)


Thanks, Chris O'Shea, for your blog, full of interesting, creative, and sometimes very unusual things.
Thanks, Chris Cairns & musicians, for sharing your creativity with the world.

Jonathan Jarvis: Crisis of Credit Animated Short; Interactive Oracles

Jonathan Jarvis created a series of animated shorts as a project for his work as a graduate student in the Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design. He started exploring the concept of system diagrams and integrated them into motion interactions.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

(Note: Someone commented about the negative way the family who represents sub-prime mortgage holders was depicted in the short.)

Related Economic Sounds:
The short was influenced by information from the following "This American Life" radio broadcasts.

Click on the following links to listen to the broadcasts:
Another Frightening Show About the Economy
Transcript (pdf)
The Giant Pool of Money
Transcript (pdf)


More about Jonathan Jarvis:
Crisis of Credit Project Page
The back story behind Jonathan's work on the Crisis of Credit Project, with story board scenes and his research sketch of the Crisis of Credit system diagram.
Jonathan's Website
Jonathan's Global Storytelling Project (pdf)

Jonathan worked on concept development, interface design & content development with a team for a multi-touch project, Interactive Oracles, for Acura:


(Some of the information is cross-posted on the Economic Sounds and Sights blog.)