Alex is Speaking at Ignite DC Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night I will be one of 16 “artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities” to answer the Ignite DC challenge: Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say? As it happens, this is what I’m planning on saying:
“How We Thought It Would Happen: Prescient visions of the future from the Victorian past
“People have always been fascinated by the future, but it wasn’t until the industrial boom of the Victorian era that our anticipation of progress was met with the kind of exponential growth that we now take for granted. This talk will focus on what late 19th-century thinkers saw in their crystal balls and how, in a lot of cases, they were’t too far off the mark. You will be amazed at how some technologies were anticipated and what others were way off the mark: Video conferencing, television, telephones, the internet, and of course, zeppelins.”
LJP Consulting Motion Graphics Reel
Last night our good friends over at LJP Consulting had a great launch party that featured the following motion graphics reel from The Duke & the Duck. We have a lot of fun with doing environmental/ambient videos for events and conferences which you can read more about on our Videos for Events page.
Note: This is silent because the client wants to use the video at conferences and other events where audio would be distracting or unpleasant.
If you like this, check out some of the other motion graphics reels we’ve done for other events:
Introducing David Hurley, our first intern
Wow. First we move into a (somewhat) real office and now we’ve hired our first intern! This company is clearly going places. David is an advertising student at the Art Institute of Washington and has truly impressive drawing and digital painting skills. We’re looking forward to his storyboarding/illustration help and hopefully we’ll be able to teach him a thing or two about animation in the process.