Luke Painter is a Toronto artist with some nice simply styled flash animations. I really liked the Fortress of Solitude animation. The green circles are great. I’ve been working with circles like that in my own art as of recent. See all of them and some wonderful drawing as well on his site.

Atomic bombs, puppets, dogs and a great song. This video looks poorly done at first and is seemingly random, but if you watch the whole thing it’s amazing. I don’t want to say too much. Make sure you watch it all the way through. It’s worth the eleven minutes. Keep you eyes peeled for  small details. You may want to watch it more than once.

Meg sent me this video last night. I really enjoyed seeing people’s reactions to what was going on. I wish I were there. What’s great is that you can’t really tell who is a dancer. It could be the person next to you texting on their phone. If something like this happened it would be worth arriving a bit late to your destination to watch. I hope you enjoy it.

Addition/Subtraction from flight404 on Vimeo.

Older Magnetosphere/Turbulence/Nebula render from flight404 on Vimeo.

Robert Hodgin is a Coder/Artist living in San Francisco and a founding partner of the Barbarian Group where he worked until late 2009. Robert’s work goes from simple 2D data visualizations to 3D terrain simulations. His about page states that he has interstes in theoretical physics, particle engines and audio visualizations. Seems like a pretty intelligent guy to me.

The first video above is a field simulation Robert created as an exercise to learn more about C++ vectors and lists. I really don’t know what that means. Here’s an excerpt from his explanation: “It involves 20,000 particles which react to external forces and can be reborn locally if they should happen to stray too far. Into this mess of particles, you can place either an attractive force (gravity) or a repulsive force (orbital). The attractive forces pull every particle towards it based on the laws of gravitation. The repulsive forces spin either clockwise or counterclockwise and any particles nearby would be thrown away from the center of the rotating force.” All in all it makes for a really interesting abstract video. Make sure you watch it in HD even though it takes some time to load. The second video is an audio simulation called Turbulence he created that is simply mesmerizing. You can see more of his work on his site.

Chris Greenwood photo by Jaime Poulin

Chris Greenwood’s album Igloo was recently released on iTunes and amazon.com. I had the opportunity to work with Chris on the album artwork and during that time did an interview with him. In the interview Chris talks about what it was like to make the album, why he fell in love with making music and what some of his plans are in the future. We also had strange moment in the middle of the interview. Click the read more to get read view the interview.

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Here are a few places you can donate to relief efforts in Haiti.

World Vision
Samaritan’s Purse
American Red Cross

Feel free to add more in the comments.