Visual MediaCoolHunting

Egomedia: the creation of your own image
Posted in Visual, Animation, Design, Illustration, Video on November 11th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

We’ve seen it in contents: Internet is the citizen media and citizens have created the tools that let them express in a variety of ways. We can reflect a point of view, a feeling or even what we are (or what we’d like to be). (more…)

Devil Stripes
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Illustration, Photography, Video on November 2nd, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

Media Coolhunting Visual is a playgroung where we try to give names to visual trends we spot around the web. This is not going to change, but this week the challenge was taking a consolidated visual tendency to try to go deeper on it an explain its roots. (more…)

The Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic
Posted in Visual, Animation, Art, Design, Illustration, Photography, Typography, Video on October 13th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

[Detail of “my toaster” by (ku)nihito]

Wabi-sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic that is sometimes described as one of Beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”. (more…)

Cult of the Amateur Look (Video)
Posted in Visual, Video on September 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

[Frame detail of a “LonelyGirl15” episode]

Video has very varied forms in the Internet, normally depending on why the video was created, depending on how the video was meant to be consumed. (more…)

Mamoru Kano (Animation)
Posted in Visual, Animation, Illustration, Video on August 24th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

Mamoru Kano is a Visual Art Director at WOW, a Japanese creative production agency known for it’s high-quality TV commercials. (more…)

The Tilt-Shift Phenomenon (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Photography, Video on July 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

[Detail of “I live in a dollhouse”, by Himitsu]

Last week we focused on diptychs and how they can help our images get closer to reality (to the reality of perception). This week, we’ll center on how tilt-shifting can make reality look unreal (more…)

Marc-Elliott Pierre-Louis (Sensorial Architecture)
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Video on June 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

Marc-Elliot is a sensory architect and a vusician. A visual alchemist.

We believe that Pierre-Louis’ work, framed in the fields of marketing, entertainment and environmental design, is based in the neurological condition of Synesthesia: that in which two or more bodily senses (more…)

William Lamson (Photographer/Artist)
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography, Video on February 19th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.

Selected as part of the “New Photographers 2006″ in Cannes 2005, William Lamson is much more than a photograpger: he creates unexpected and beautiful “visual toys” from pictures or video.