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This music video was filmed with a Kinect and industrial laser scanner

This is pretty cool: director Sam Peacocke ditched his cameras and used an industrial laser scanner and a Kinect to create this music video for Pacific Heights's Buried by the Burden . It's grainy, ghostly, and downright fascinating. New Zealand-based songwriter and producer Devin Abrams, who performs under the moniker Pacific Heights, offers a few words about the video: "This project replicates the constantly decaying mechanism of memory by way of the techniques used to make it. No cameras were used at any stage in the production; instead low‐resolution, 3D models of environments were captured with an industrial laser scanner. Into these worlds we then placed the vocalist, Louis Baker; his likeness in motion was captured with a gaming interaction sensor, the X‐Box Kinect." [h/t: Nowness ]

Miyazaki meets Warhol

Brazilian-Korean designer Hyo Taek Kim has created a series of posters based on the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki in Andy Warhol 's signature style. Called the Special Soup Series , the posters are of course a play on Warhol's renowned Campbell's Soup Cans. Kim tells The Creators Project : "I wanted Campbell's Soup pieces on my wall, but without the whole branding and everything else. That's when I decided to design my own soup collection with Miyazaki." If you need to get one of these for your wall, prints are available for purchase at society6 .

These mesmerizing portraits show just how similar humans are to apes

Over the past few years, Polish photographer Pawel Bogumil has traveled to more than fifteen zoos throughout Europe to capture images of primates displaying human traits and behaviors. Pawel's black and white portraits are enthralling and profound; sincere in their depictions of reality. His photo series, titled inHUMAN , is being exhibited at the Leica Gallery in Warsaw until April 3, 2016. Curator Rafal Lochowski offers a few words about the exhibit: "Some of the photographs make us afraid of these mighty animals – others make us wonder who the person is and what they are thinking about. We subconsciously forget that we are looking at an animal. These skillfully made portraits by Bogumil make our hair stand on end." [h/t: Resource Magazine ]

Stunning anatomical embroidery by Juana Gomez

Juana Gómez is an artist from Chile who uses thread to weave intricate illustrations on top of images of the human body. Her embroideries remind me of the anatomical drawings made by Italian Renaissance artists; so much detail and craft is put into each piece. More about Juana and her art here . [h/t: @TheGoodDeath ]

Wednesday Link List #2: Akira Kurosawa, abstract graffiti, and more

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Artists honor Belgium through their powerful illustrations

Artists from all around the globe took to social media to express their deep condolences to the victims of the deadly attacks in Brussels that left at least 30 people dead and about 250 wounded. Among the most shared images is a piece by French cartoonist Plantu, published by Le Monde . Scroll down for a look at some of the illustrations I was able to find. #Bruxelles L'hommage de Plantu https://t.co/sBBY9mGViE pic.twitter.com/WNoXNAwCUT — Le Monde (@lemondefr) March 22, 2016 A photo posted by Fernando Volken Togni (@nandovtwork) on Mar 22, 2016 at 6:11am PDT We stand together with Belgium #Brussels #BrusselsAttack pic.twitter.com/r8AgIcIImX — French Government (@French_Gov) March 22, 2016 A photo posted by Adolie Day (@adolieday) on Mar 22, 2016 at 3:28am PDT A photo posted by chorus🎶//run with the wolves// (@jocey.tang) on Mar 22, 2016 at 12:39pm PDT A photo posted by Segolene (@atelier_crenamik) on Mar 2...