New Snowboard Design - Coldplay Edition - Nicholas Patten's Work/Life :)

New Snowboard Design - Coldplay Edition

This is a snowboard that I created and only contains images from the Coldplay concert I saw last night at All Points West. I took well over 50-60 images with my iPhone. To get crazy blurry style images I faced my iPhone towards bright lights and moved my arm a little while taking a picture. This is a good way to come up with original images/art. My friend Melfi has several videos of the Coldplay concert. Specifically the "Lovers in Japan" where they released a lot of paper butterflies and we happened to be right underneath all of them. This was amazing being underneath all of the falling butterflies, it seemed like it was never going to end. Some of these layers are of those butterflies, the stage lights, and random lights in the crowd.

Software Used:
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe After Effects CS4

So here is a video of each layer of the snowboard, one image at a time.

Let me know what you think. :)

Other videos from the concert (posted by Melfi):
Coldplay - "Billie Jean" (Michael Jackson Cover) Live at All Points West
Coldplay - "Fight for your Right" (Beastie Boys Cover) Live at All Points West

Aug 03, 2009

Michelle said...

Wow that's amazing how it transformed!! and I loved the video too! Definitely do more time comps like that!

Nicholas Patten said...

Hey thanks! :) I will do more time comps on my other projects so it can help show some of the process. Thanks for the compliments, much appreciated.

brad jackson said...

Very nice. I love it. I never thought of using iPhone pics due to it's low res for print but good idea.

Aug 04, 2009

Fenty Fahminnansih said...

Is it people on the concert ?? great design :)

Thanks :)

It's 16 different layers of images (shown in video) with 1 layer of shadows/lights to form the snowboard look, and 1 layer for the binding holes. All of the photos are of different objects, lights, the paper butterflies falling from the sky, no crowds, check out the "Lovers in Japan" video I linked to see what I mean. :)

Gunther Sonnenfeld said...

Nicholas- that is very impressive. Looks like data visualization on a snowboard deck!

Thanks, the next design I do I will make another video for it. :)

sean casey said...

Cool. There's certainly a money oportunity there somewhere...if you could slice thru the red tape. :) Somebody would certainly pay you to do that. Very creative, nice work.

alexis ee-khem aw said...

Inspirational!

Aug 05, 2009

Design Democracy said...

I like your approach. Great use of the latest technologies to create something original. I have so many photographs. People forget that they can create their own textures, patterns and "stock" images. Great job.

Thanks, much appreciated. I have a lot of images that I take around the city, random interesting things that I place in my "Textures" Folder and then use later on in designs.

Aug 06, 2009

teralmc said...

That is some pretty dynamic photography.

Aug 09, 2009

Ben Ullman said...

seems like layer 9 pretty much obscured all the layers that came before it. Still, cool end result, and very interesting to visualize the progression.

Aug 10, 2009

Torsten Kelsch said...

This is what I call creative. Very nice work!

Braden Douglass said...

Amazing board man, I have been riding for 12 years now and have never seen something so dynamic and flowing...much like snowboarding itself, pimp, peace

Hey thanks, Layer 9 has a 75% opacity level. It does obscure some of the underlining layers a bit, but they are somewhat still visible.

I appreciate the kind words. :)

Aug 24, 2009

Rudy Miick said...

Nicholas, great snowboard designs man! Thanks for signing up at moreatmiick.posterous.com

I'm appreciating the myriad art forms in which you're work is being offered! very cool.

Aug 25, 2009

Hey thanks :) much appreciated.

Sep 15, 2009

:) Thanks.

Sep 20, 2009

Virginia Rose Corley said...

Love it, very inventive you have acheived a magical image and have a good eye!!!

:) Thank you very much, much appreciated.

Jan 05, 2010

yapyapok said...

This is stunning! Please consider listing these on our site. You can even put in the embed video link.
I would list under several catagories including collectables and music.
We would really love to have these on our new site as they are so very unique. Its very easy and very quick. Its also free. I will even Tweet these for you!

tell me more, this is out of the blue...VR

Virginia Rose

Ya, feel free to add to your site. Post a link to it in the comments :)

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