This short, heart felt documentary reveals the fading tradition of hand painted advertising as told by the painters struggling to keep it alive. The trade is nothing short of amazing, involving a highly artistic touch, inordinate amounts of time, and grueling labor. Up There is directed by Malcom Murray, and is produced by Mekanism with music by The Album Leaf.

Aaron Koblin talks about his use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk marketplace to explore the ‘emergence of new labor systems in the information age’. His largest project, The Sheep Market, entailed paying people $0.02 to draw a sheep facing left. Pointing the individual artists to a custom drawing tool, he captured the drawing process for each one. Accumulating a total of 10,000 sheep, all of the drawings are now visible at TheSheepMarket.com.

Edgar Muller, renowned 3D Street Artist, documented the making of “The Crevasse” at the “Festival of World Culture in Dun Laoghaire, Germany. View images of his other amazing street art at metanamorph.com.

Graffiti artist DAIM chooses colors, brushstroke strength, and textures all virtually to create 3D art. Wearing a head mounted display he is able to see and move within his graffiti as he creates it. Three cameras track glyphs positioned on DAIM’s body which allow the augmented reality software to create the three-dimensional canvas. As augmented reality software and development tools become more robust a new landscape limited only by imagination is being created.

Zachary Lieberman is a performing Artist in NY who specializes in gesture recognition. Zachary performs and speaks about his craft at the See Conference.

World renowned artist and scientist Theo Jansen speaks at TED. Jansen describes how he constructs incredible self sufficient animals using evolutionary algorithms.

A behind-the-scenes look athe Julian Beever, renowned 3D sidewalk chalk artist, creating one of his amazing pieces.

Arthur Ganson, artist in residence at MIT creates kinetic sculptures which rely on beautiful engineering and loads of creativity. Arthur speaks about how he got started and describes his thoughts behind a few of his incredible sculptures.