RGTV Tiny Inventions Trailer by Red Giant Software Last month I saw posted on motiongrapher a cool short feature animation called Something Left, Something Taken. Twelve minutes of creative bliss. The story is original and so is the animation process developed by the duo Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter from Tiny Inventions. The characters and the sets are all made by hand with found materials, then photographed and taken into the computer for compositing and animation. As if the film itself was not enough, the authors are very open to sharing their unique process and techniques. Above is a trailer for the making of video produced by Red Giant Software. See the full video just released on their website and vimeo. I think I said before how much I love making of's...

RGTV Tiny Inventions Trailer by Red Giant Software

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Last weekend was the Renegade Craft Fair, for the second time in Los Angeles, but for me it was my first experience. It took place outside in a large park north of Chinatown, apparently known as "the cornfield". Events of all kinds easily go unnoticed in a large city like L.A., and I don't remember how I learned about this one, but I'm glad I went, it was quite a huge event with over 200 artists!

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When I moved in my little bungalow three years ago it was much less colorful than it is now. I don't know how the previous tenants did live in there with so much bulky furniture and dirty mini-blinds on the windows, but as long as there was wood floors and nice moulding throughout I was pretty sure I could do something with the place.

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The Small House exhibit by Czech architects A1Architects, 1:1 installation for one concept Isn't there a maxim that says "the best things come in small packages ?" I think it's true most of the time. Small things are more manageable, we can manipulate them, we can observe every sides and corners, it brings out the kid inside. Imagine if the mini cooper was the size of an SUV, would it be this much fun, huh? Since mini things are so great, I've decided to make a weekly post about something mini. This week, I want to share a cool article I saw in this month's issue of dwell, big ideas for... small spaces, about an exhibit called The Small House by Czech architects A1Architects.

Exhibit The Small House by A1Architects, installation 1:1 for one of the  concepts

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I don't always look through deals daily candy sends me but I'm glad I did for these tile tattoos from Mibo. They were on sale at 2jane.com. I had seen them before it seems, but this time they caught my eye. It's super easy to install, and I love the results! You would think these have been painted on. All I needed for this border is 3 sets of 6 tattoos, not bad for a such a transformation!

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Here are a few drawings of a house I did at a time I was learning about perspective and redesigning the layout of an existing house, thinking about my ideal house. Few years later, I would still like to live in it!

Entry of the house

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Amy Butler is an artist and designer who creates fresh and colorful patterns for just about anything: fabrics, wallpaper, rugs, wall art, paper crafts, and home accessories like pillows, dishes and towels.

Sunset color palette from the fabric collection August Fields by Amy Butler

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No one will deny painting is a great way to experiment with colors, but there's nothing like collages to reconnect with the childhood pleasure of cutting with scissors and gluing things. I get my colored paper from Color-aid, they have up to 314 colors available in various sets and sheet sizes.

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After making the cards I got inspired to use the geometric forms to make other characters. At work we were doing sites for extreme sports magazines and I liked the motion connected to it. Instead of making cards I drew these in illustrator and made them into magnets. Later on I animated a couple snowboarders in flash.

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At some point after making a project out of japanese paper I was left with scraps of triangles, squares, rectangles and half circles. They accidentally overlapped and that gave me the idea for these cards.

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