What is this? Notes are monthly posts of curated content, featuring articles, websites, exhibitions, projects, and personal experiences that I find worth sharing. Think of it as a blend of a newsletter, bookmarks, and a public journal.
Discover
Microwaver59
This fun game made by PinkYellow has a lot of great visuals effects made with THREE.js and makes great use of the WebAudio API. My score is far from the leaderboards though but give it a try!
Microwaver59 https://microwaver59.com/via Cassie Evans
Curiously Minded with Anna Lucia
If you’re into shaders then Curiously Minded is a must watch. Ilithya and Eliza live stream on Twitch the making of a shader, sometimes with a special guest. I make sure to watch their live streams or to catch up later on Youtube as I really love what they’re doing here. The pace is great, fun to watch, you always learn new tricks…
Their latest stream was with Anna Lucia and should be available on their Youtube channel in the future. They all make incredible work so make sure to follow the 3 of them!
- Eliza: Website , Twitter , Instagram
- Ilithya: Website , Twitter , Instagram
- Anna: Twitter , Instagram
John Massey: Cartón de Venezuela
It might be obvious that I like geometric stuff and these posters by John Massey in the latest AisleOne issue are just striking! I love the shapes and the colour palettes. It would be fun to try to reproduce them with shaders!
John Massey: Cartón de Venezuela https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=Carton+de+Venezuela+poster&artist_ids=John+MasseyRead
Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects by Maxime Heckel
Maxime Heckel has written yet another great tutorial about refractions effects which is a must read! His articles are a great balance of text, code, previews… I hope to write tutorials like that one day.
Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/refraction-dispersion-and-other-shader-light-effects/Women and Weaving at the Bauhaus
The episode of Curiously Minded was discussing about women in arts and more broadly about the lack of visibility of women’s work in various research fields. At some point in the discussion, they shared this article that shows the incredible works of women artists in the Bauhaus movement, such as Annie Albers, Margarete Köhler, Marli Ehrman, and Gunta Stölzl.
Women and Weaving at the Bauhaus https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/women-and-weaving-at-the-bauhausWatch
makemepulse showreel
makemepulse has a new showreel and much like their projects it is…excellent. Made by my friend Romain Passelande
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Life
Étienne + Robial
I went to this great exhibition at Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, which featured a lot of sketches by the graphic designer Étienne Robial. He has made iconic identities for french press and television in the 80s which are still relevant and in use today!
I also really enjoyed his work on typography with his series of Alphabets.
Étienne + Robial au Musée des Arts décoratifs https://madparis.fr/ExpoRobialMagnetic flow
I spent the end of the year in Brussels and visited the “Magnetic Flow” immersive exhibition with some friends while I was there. I discovered and fell in love with the work of Collective Scale .
Avatar 2
I also saw Avatar 2 while in Brussels. As expected the vfx are just amazing, and the scenario is well…patriachal and Manichaean. The variable framerate was a bit disturbing for someone who spend his work days watching and solving framerate variations though! The scenes under water were just visually amazing and I could have been fine if the film would have been 3 hours of Na’vis swimming underwater.
Paris et nulle part ailleurs
I visited the Palais de la Porte Dorée at night for the exhibition “Paris et nulle part ailleurs”, which featured works from various immigrants artists who lived in Paris between 1945 and 1972. I was motivated to visit by the presence of some works of Vera Molnár and Victor Vasarely, and also really liked the work of Carlos Cruz-Diez.
The place itself is quite something. Originally built to represent the history of French colonization, it is now the Immigration History Museum.
