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Be Linen 2 is a short film directed by Benoit Millot of Le Potager Design, commissioned by the Linen and Hemp Community. It highlights the advantages of flax fibre as an ecologically sound alternatives to other composite materials. The subtitles are a little hard to read at times, but it’s engaging and beautifully shot, so well worth a watch.

- Via The Strange Attractor

I’m not sure what is going on in the macabre work of Umo Moralez. Needless to say it reminds of some demented, pixelated ero guro, like graphics from an Amiga-era video game adaptation of one of Hideshi Hino’s works. Probably not safe for viewing at work, depending on where you work.

- Via Colt + Rane

For those that don’t know, GoPro specialise in rugged, nigh indestructible video cameras that you can mount to nearly anything, allowing anyone brave enough to make videos that make us very, very jealous.

Rip Curl and TimeSlice (the surf brand and camera array experts respectively, not two 2nd generation Decepticons) have teamed up to produce Mirage, a short but hypnotic surf film. Using a rig of 30 GoPro HD cameras, the team were able to capture shots of surfers frozen in action from multiple angles. It’s The Matrix meets Point Break, with nary a Keanu in sight. It’s all a tad extravagant for promoting a line of shorts, but it is impressive to watch nonetheless.

If you prefer your action on land (and on four wheels), be sure to check out TimeSlice Films’ previous team-up with DC Shoes – the frankly mind-boggling Gymkhana FOUR: The Hollywood Megamercial.

- Via Core77

It’s not all work with us. In-between projects this week we have mostly been…

…enjoying this recipe Golden Lentil Dal…

…disappointed to find that the original Tron movie does not hold up well when revisited…

…discovering that certain songs not only rock just as much as the originals but that they also make us long for an 8 bit version of Guitar Hero on the original NES. Bonus points if it uses ROB the Robot, the most singularly uni-purpose videogame peripheral ever…

I’ve been a sucker for projection mapped installations every since I saw Tony Ourseler’s as a student. The Christopher Henry Gallery recently held a solo show of the work of Californian artist Dev Harlan, showcasing his latest installation Parmenides I. At 8’ wide, the hybrid work amalgamates video projection, sculpture and installation. Named after the Greek philosopher, it suggests a duality between an unchanging, underlaying reality and a mutable, ever-changing perception.

- Via The Fox is Black

It’s not very often I get to use the word moxie, so it was serendipitous that I happened upon this portfolio site for Cornwall based A Little Bit Of Something.

How’s that for moxie?

I do love me a good process video, especially one that has a bit of old-fashioned, pencil-and-paper drawing. LA based design crew DKNG Studios recently produced a lovely poster for Texan post-rock instrumentalists Explosions In the Sky, and made a time-lapse process video which shows the creation of the poster from sketch to beautiful end product. More images can be found on their blog.

Alas, this two-coloured beauty is no longer available, but there is a veritable bushel of other delights to be found in the DKNG Store, so go check it out, forthwith.

-Via Grain Edit

One Dot Zero commissioned United Visual Artists — the go-to guys for mesmerising light-based installations — to create an indent for the upcoming Adventures in Motion festival. Shot in a evocative industrial setting, the sequence features flickering typography formed entirely from lasers. Lasers, people.

As part of the festival UVA will also be showing their new installation Horizon, which will project data “onto the visitors retina.” Hopefully with more lasers.

The festival runs from 23rd to the 27th of November, at the BFI Southbank.

- Via Creative Review

It’s not all work with us. In-between projects this week we have mostly been…

…checked out the finalists for the Threadneedle Prize

…mesmerised by Ben Rubin’s and Mark Hansen’s installation Listening Post at the Science Museum

…lazily took in some Raphaels while lounging around on the Bourullec Brother’s upholstered installation Textile Field at the V&A.

Once a month, California based Signal Snowboards take to the factory floor to build whimsical boards the likes of which would make B.A. Baracus proud. Conceived and constructed within 24 hours, the boards are then taken to the slopes for a thorough thrashing, and the resulting videos posted on their site.

This month the crazy foo’s merge a bass guitar with a board and present it to Duff McKagan. Alas, we don’t see Duff taking to the slopes but still, it’s goddamn Duff McKagan, people.