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There is almost no information out about the origins of this video set to Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again.” What appears to be an installation of pine cones surrounding a single light source is controlled in a marionette fashion makes for a playful viral. Enjoy!
It’s always nice to catch a first as it’s happening. We’re sure we’ll see a lot more interactive projects like this in the future, so far we’ve never seen anything quite like Japanese group Sour’s “Mirror” video. In fact, we’re not even sure if “video” is the right word for what this is. It only works in Safari or Chrome, but it’s actually worth downloading a new browser just to watch if you only have IE or Firefox. This is a truly ground breaking project and as a bonus the music isn’t bad either.
via Engadget
Ahhhh, the Kenner AT-AT Walker….
George Lucas hit a Movie Making/Marketing Grand Slam when he released the follow up to “Star Wars”. 1980′s “Return of the Jedi” is widely regarded as the best movie in the franchise, but more than that it created a marketing Juggernaut that swept like a Collosus over the American youth scene. I was there. Come “Return of the Jedi” I was 8 years old and owned significant stock in GEORGE LUCAS Ltd., I can’t remember how many figures and space ships and play stations I owned, but I was not suffering for love in this dept.
Except for one thing.
The AT-AT Walker was the PLUS NON ULTRA of Starwars playthings, and no matter how many times I wished for one to magically appear it was not to be. Thanks go to Patrick Boivin for so perfectly creating the what I can only imagine.
Watching Ross Ching’s short film Running on Empty reminded us of our early days in Los Angeles when downtown was still empty. At the time you could drive around a surrealistic landscape of warehouse lined streets that were completely devoid of residents. In a city as densely packed as Los Angeles, it seemed amazing that there could ever be a street corner with no signs of life, and of course as the housing boom renovated much of the downtown area that quiet night time solitude disappeared.
Ching’s short depicts this on a much larger scale. Seeing the 405 empty and any time of night or day is a little jarring, let alone Malibu, the Promenade, or many of the other Angeleno landmarks depicted. There’s also Radiohead’s beautifully lonely “No Surprises” providing a perfect soundtrack to the scenery.
There is a new video camera on the scene that fits in the palm of your hand and makes your videos and still frame pictures as weirdly lo-rez and awesome as the venerable Holga does for film. The Digital Harinezumi 2++ is possibly the coolest toy for making interesting media content that’s come around in a long while. What it lacks in fidelity it more than makes up for in aesthetics. Take a look at some of the videos it produces:
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It used to be that with digital video cameras and still cameras there was a race to the top in terms of pixel ratio and overall quality. This led to media devices that cost thousands of dollars. It is not surprising that with the change in Independent Music towards more organic and lo-fi sounds that there would be a similar trend in visual media. The Lomography people have pushed that trend in analog photography, and now with the Harinezumi 2++ there is a reasonable counterpart in video. If this trend continues there may be more devices like this being produced.
Everybody and their mom wants to be a street artist these days. There’s a scant few however that can match up with Tant, Unga, Deso, Kip from Broken Fingaz Crew. More crazy amazingness after the jump.
This new MIA video for Born Free directed by Romain Gavras is as intense as is it amazing. Definitely not for the faint of heart and if you start watching this around the office everyone else is going to stop as they walk by. We’ve never seen a video quite like this before and we probably don’t need to see another one, but this one,- well, wow. Have we sparked your curiosity yet? Good, just don’t get caught by your boss watching this. It is excessively violent.
Anyone with an eye for art (and an ear for music) will attest to how the video “Vanishing Point” is a great addition to your mood board.
With a flair coveted by many, Takuya Hosogane uses Flash animation to give his videos an extra oomph factor. His inspirations include John Maeda and Yugo Nakamura, also great artists in their own right. Hosogane (known as Bonsajo among his colleagues) has many other works that make use of math-generated art. Visit his private website, www.hsgn.tk or view more of his works here: www.bonsajo.org.
Takuya Hosogane used computer motiongraphics for this video, his usual weapon of choice. Through the use of math-generated art, he has earned a well-deserved reputation in being a “logical” artist, a living oxymoron of rational expression. Notice how he uses visual artistry to give sound a signature emphasis – or is it the other way around? Bonsajo has shown real relationships through abstract-inspired, math-directed graphics animation in Vanishing Point, showing how even the simplest of items can vividly portray tangible truths in a full-bloom artistic escapade.
Cubesato and Meine Meinung both take credit for the music in this video.
More than just surviving in the cutthroat music business, Cubesato from Japan is earning a not-so-quiet applause among electronica aficionados worldwide. Listen to his works at www.cubicroom.net.
Equally deserving of credit is Meine Meinung, a five-piece band. Listen to more of Meine Meinung at www.meimei-music.com.
Music-wise, the Vanishing Point video track is both modern and refreshing. Despite the avant-garde transitions, Meine Meinung laid down a stable theme for Cubesato to work on, producing a rich background for Cubesato’s art.
As you probably know by now we’re serious fans of math generated art. We’re now starting to see augmentation of processing art ideas combined with something a bit less calculated. This Graffiti Analysis video is a study of graffiti artists hand movements as they write using some trailng and scattering effects to highlight the gesture. If you want to check out more post that explore this sort of idea, here’s a quick list-
Robert Hodgins
Decode
Clayton Cubitt
Paul Catanese
Erik Natzke
We posted some early tests for the new Tron movie a few months ago and we just caught a glimpse of the new trailer. There’s a very “Ghost in The Shell” quality to seeing Jeff Bridges represented as a CGI thirty something that never ages. This looks as though it’s a fitting update to a Syd Mead classic and we highly recommend choosing the 1080p option at full screen (at the bottom of the video player click 380p and scroll up to 1080p, then click the icon with four outward facing arrows).
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