This brilliant concept shows how light and color can be used to fool the eye. These animations take advantage of the architecture, using the building's facade as a screen for a three dimensional animation.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Projection on Vimeo.

We're not sure if this is real, but we enjoyed watching it.

Click the table to see the galleryI am writing to encourage everyone to keep working, and searching. As we begin our transition to a new facility in ATX and the beginning of a new year. we would like to put a gallery together for you, a "sort of" snapshot of some of the projects we worked on in year one.

This week in Austin is the annual Open Architecture East put on by AIA Austin.  The tour is a self-guided walking/biking/bus tour of some of East Austin's up and coming architectural firms.   Tickets are $5.00

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Where does it all come from, where is it all going?  This is an interesting animation about our relationship with Canada through means of oil, water, and energy.  Sure its one sided, and perhaps the other side isn't given their chance to speak.  Either way this video is done well enough to have kept my attention the whole way through, so even if you don't buy into its message, perhaps you can enjoy its content.

I stumbled upon this video while looking for cool things on the internet.  While I was watching the video it made me think of something going on inadvertently here at Orphan Studio, our coffee table.  Here are some images of what it currently is looking like.

Come out and support your favorite local artists at the East Austin Studio Tour The tour covers over 100 art studios, and is completely free!

Christopher Payne, graduate of Penn U & Columbia University Architecture programs, spoke at UT about his most recent project "Asylum" a look into the world of state mental institutions

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More and more people are questioning our methods of transportation. For years now the issue of public transportation has come up in virtually every realm of discussion. Whether in academic groups, city planning commitees, or the automotive boardrooms, one common reality surfaces. Transportation, how we get around town, and across town...But thus far little to no attempts have been made to remedy the problem, with the exception of the recent out cry from various private sectors, and of course the Danish, who've been leading the movement for quite some time.

Recently, as you may know, OS/ATX finished their first competition. The Bath, England ULTra PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) System competition, http://www.atsltd.co.uk/Bath/, images can be seen at the works page above, and learn more about the system at http://www.ultraprt.com/cms/.

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