This noir-style short film, directed Arev Manoukian of Spy Films, contains some extraordinary post production work as documented in this making-of video. It takes the feeling of love at first sight, and presents it in a visual form.

Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy

Sean Stiegemeier travelled to Iceland during the most intense volcanic ash activity and produced a beautiful and powerful timelapse. The inclusion of the aircraft serves as a perfect metaphor of what the volcano threatened.

So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). 4 days after leaving I finally made it, but the weather was terrible for another 4. Just before leaving it got pretty good for about a day and a half and this is what I managed to get.

The guys at Adobe have released a sneak peak of a new feature they are developing for Photoshop CS5 called content-aware fill. It is quite impressive in what it can achieve; users are now able to fill areas of an image that are otherwise blank, or replace objects in a photo entirely, with one press of the delete key. The program then analyses all the surrounding pixels and fills the selected area with an approximation of what it thinks should go there.

Users of GIMP are not that impressed as this feature has been possible for quite some time using a GIMP plugin called Resynthesizer, created by Paul Harrison. Professional Photoshoppers are also wary that, while contnet-aware fill will reduce workload greatly in the future, it will probably cause hundreds and thousands of amateur Photoshoppers to add “Graphic Designer” to their resume. Clients already think computers do all the work in design.

A highly imaginative stop-motion animation by Riccardo Crocetta using clay sculpting. The chess game evolves into a full on battle involving Pawns with swords and spears, and even flying unicorns.

The position after 13…Bh3, and the ones that follow, were used in Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” for the game between Frank Poole and the HAL-9000 Super Computer.

Theo Tagholm has devised a new style of stop-motion animation whereby each photograph seamlessly morphs into the next to produce an eerie, almost ghostly drifting motion. He calls it Still Moving – a combination of stop-motion photography, tilt-shift photography and motion tracking. He hasn’t given much away about the technique, but it uses After Effects.