Category Archives: Video

VJ Amoeba (artist profile)

3rd March 2012

“When acid house + techno kicked off in the Uk around late 80’s early 90’s I was finishing graphic design college in Glasgow, and was ideally placed to incorporate and embrace the new emerging design, creative typography, computer, vj and electronic music scenes with a gonzo influenced approach and a creative design based background.”

via resolume.com

Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer

19th February 2012

“Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I’ve done in 20 years of snowboarding,” says Hughes of the charged salopettes. “Luckily there was plenty of vin rouge to keep me warm, and Jacob’s enthusiasm kept everyone going through the cold nights.”

“The shoot was really challenging. Not only were we using experimental technology in terms of the suit, but we were shooting in deep snow at night and the temperature was -25C. We were shooting for between 6-8 hours a night for three nights.”

via nowness.com and interviews via facebook.com

Whiz Kids

20th January 2012

“The adventures of a group of young kids, who are amateur computer experts and detectives”.

via wikipedia.org and imdb.com

CellDNA 2.5: One Line

21st December 2011

What can you do with one line in Livid Instrument’s CellDNA? Using a PNG file with a white line and a transparent background, putting that into CellDNA’s Clip Bank – creating a real-time video to Mad Zach’s “Carazan”. Livid Instrument’s CellDNA builds on the standard Cell interface for video designers looking to alter and composite images in realtime. Integration with Ableton Live makes CellDNA one of the most advanced and flexible video tools.

via Livid Instruments

Limitless Infinite Zoom Lens (Fractal Zoom)

17th October 2011

Limitless opens with a continuous, seemingly endless zoom shot that starts as if the camera had been dropped off a skyscraper balcony, then weaves through the streets of New York, past pedestrians, under construction scaffoldings, though blocks and blocks of blinking lights and hubbub, through the back windows of taxicabs and out through their front windshields, through Harlem, into Times Square, and then right into a glowing Jumbotron. You are gliding at street level right through solid objects, and the shot reveals little visual evidence of computer-generated trickery.

via pcworld.com

Tempo and typography

21st August 2011

This is a short song by Moondog called “Fog On The Hudson (425 West 57th Street)”. Moondog was a blind American composer, musician, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. He lived on the streets of New York for 20 years, and recorded over 18 albums.
via jango.com and Wikipedia

The Creators Project – Intel & Vice at Coachella 2011

20th July 2011

The Orchestrion – UVA’s standalone light and sound sculpture with experimental music provided by fellow Creator Mira Calix.

via thecreatorsproject.com

Summer Into Dust by Arcade Fire (Dir. Chris Milk) – during Arcade Fires last song “Wake Up,” cascades of beachballs were released into the crowd. With the help of ESKI and Moment Factory, Milk was able to control the LEDs and IR transmitters, embedded in each ball (provided by Tangible Interaction), to light paint kaleidoscopic patterns all over the unsuspecting audience.

via thecreatorsproject.com

Summit Against Violent Extremism

12th July 2011

On July 26 – 29, 2011, Google Ideas partnered with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tribeca Film Festival to bring together more than one hundred attendees from a diverse range of backgrounds to address a common goal of understanding how technology can be part of solutions that counter violent extremism. A group of more than 80 survivors and ‘formers’ – former violent extremists ranging from inner-city gang members and right-wing militants, to violent nationalists and religious extremists – came together alongside more than 100 other attendees, including non-profit organizations, academia, technology companies, government, media and the private sector, for three days of debates and workshops.

via contagious.com and google.com

Daydreaming with… St Michael’s

28th April 2011

Doug Fosters film installation The Heretics Gate, with music by UNKLE
Daydreaming with… St Michaels is open to the public from Weds 27 April — Thurs 5 May, every day from 12—6pm. Entry is free. St Michaels Church, Camden Road, London NW1.

via daydreamingwith.com

Emergency Broadcast Network (EBN)

20th April 2011

Josh Pearson, EBN’s charismatic front man and principal performance artist, was also EBN’s music composer and main video editor. The music and video editing techniques he personally developed and refined have been hugely influential on a generation of advertising and music video editors.

The first EBN video project was a musical remix of the Gulf War, created in 1991 as the war was still ongoing. The VHS tape of the remix project, which contained the George H.W. Bush “We Will Rock You” cover, became a viral underground hit, and was distributed widely by fans as bootleg copies. In the summer of 1991, EBN traveled with the first Lollapalooza tour, distributing tapes and showing their videos on a modified station wagon with TVs on the roof. The group also became well known for their media sculptures and stage props which were created by Gardner Post.

via EBN Official Site

Conan O’Brien // Farewell to NBC

5th April 2011

This Kinetic Typography project was created from dialogue from Conan O’Brien’s final episode of The Tonight Show on NBC. In this dialogue he describes his feelings about NBC and the situation at hand. His personality exudes positivity and humor and this dialogue describes his character very well. Even through the hardships of leaving NBC he promotes hard work and kindness.

via behance.net

Oops

19th December 2010

Sequence of dropped cameras, seamlessly edited into a single film.

via vimeo.com