Daft who? In case you haven’t heard, the “it” French duo of the moment is Justice. Sure, they may not have a giant light-up pyramid on tour, but, their new album was one of the records we couldn’t stop listening to in 2007 (as opposed to Daft Punk, still riding the momentum of tunes we haven’t gotten out of our heads in years). Their new video is terrific eye candy for those with fond memories of 1980s bumpers, the sparkly titles aired by movie studios and cable TV networks. Good times.

I enjoyed this enough that I was curious if readers could spot nods to other spots (the UA logo is in there, for one):

From an Age Before CG: Justice Video Recalls Vintage HBO Motion Graphics [Create Digital Motion]

Now, with all of those, erm, words in this video, I’m sure fans will soon be labeling various body parts and doing their own videos.

Tonight here in New York, I’ll be presenting a free workshop on detecting and visualizing motion from camera inputs, which may be of interest not only for those of you eagerly anticipating the new Create Digital Motion site, but also anyone who’d like to use cameras as controllers for music. Full details after the jump.

If you’re not in New York, don’t fret; I plan to organize this stuff and have online examples/tutorials in the near future. But if you are there, say hi! And yes, I finally plan to deliver on my New York CDM get-together promises in June; my schedule will finally allow that.

Still from a recent performance with Eric Dunlap and Mare Hieronimus at Eyewash, the visual performance series in NYC.

Stephen Schleicher has a great tutorial at Digital Media Net for
recreating those slick moving arrows in Apple's iPod Shuffle Ad.
Basically, you need Adobe After Effects and a working knowledge of
paths. See Stephen's site for more AE tutorial goodness.

Tutorial Part I

Tutorial Part II

Which brings up an interesting question — how many of you are doing
your own motion graphics / VJ work for your performances? I've been
getting into it gradually; expect some reports this summer.