Gravity, Meet Your Archenemy

This ASICS commercial is pretty cool, almost a process video for showing how they put together this contraption to combine air and ping-pong balls to convey the message about their athletic shoes. LINK

Office Basketball

Okay, I'll admit that I never did figure out how to shoot a basket, but I did giggle at my failed attempts. Try your hand in this online waste-paper basket ball game. LINK

Gravité :: Renaud Hallée

A simple concept but still fun to watch, sports equipment synchronized to create its own rhythm. LINK

Skateboardanimation :: Tilman Singer

Though the animation is rough, I have to appreciate the amount of effort put in and cleverness of combining photographic prints with other everyday objects to create this at-home skateboard animation. Watch for yourself. LINK

Mumbai Skateboards

What do you get when you combine a dozen woodcarvers from Mumbai and skateboards? Boards so pretty you wouldn't dare take them for a spin. Read more about it and see more pictures. LINK

Fingerboarding

I suppose we no longer have head injuries to use as an excuse not to skate board, but perhaps hangnails. Check out this Hermes ad featuring fingerboarding. LINK

Or this ad for a school that is a little more low key. LINK

Esquivel

You may not guess that watching shoes being made would be all that interesting, but this is way cool. The soundtrack is the sounds of all of the tools being used, put together in a good rhythm. And the video is beautiful too. I just wish it were a little longer. LINK

Seaweed and Forest :: Tell No One

At 25 seconds, these may be the shortest videos I've ever linked to. Referred to as "experiments" by the artist, Seaweed and Forest use video editing to create new forms from simple hand and arm movements.

Seaweed: LINK
Forest: LINK

Bird-Shoe-Houses :: Christian Bermudez

This idea for birdhouses is pretty clever. And I can't help put think that being suspended on wires is also a great way to avoid predators such as snakes! Unfortunately, like most art installations, it has now been dismantled. But there is nothing stopping you from creating your own! Read about it and see more pictures of this project over at the iGreenSpot site. LINK

Or visit the artist's blog directly and track the progress of the installation and the birds who called it home for a season in posts from the summer of 2011. LINK

Fingerings :: Judith Ann Braun

Artist Judith Ann Braun creates all sorts of projects but is included here for what she call "fingerings". Though they aren't all that impressive at first glance, I have to remind myself that what appears to be really simple at first, actually takes some practice to do well. Her website is a bit of a pain to navigate as well so you'll have to go to art, then find the fingerings group. LINK

Les Souliers :: Arno Fabre

Though I certainly wouldn't want to work in the gallery all day as this installation piece stomped away, I do have to give points for an original idea. I can imagine that it was quite thrilling to put together the selection of shoes too. Watch it for yourself over on vimeo. LINK

V Water :: Jenn and Sara

This fun animation incorporates the animator as a character, making an impact on the hand-drawn character's progress through the day. Short and originally created as a viral video to advertise v water, it is a pleasant little diversion. LINK