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“4 Givings” Colin Barton

13 Dec

Los Angeles Filmmaker and very groovy friend Colin Barton takes us on a highly textured psychedelic journey using cameraless direct on film animation techniques.

Colin says:

Based on multiples of fours, ‘4 Givings’ moves through the cycle of the day with the central theme of forgiveness, release, renewal, and acceptance. Following an alchemical motif, earth, wind, fire, and water recur and are  represented by archetypes and abstractions.

Animated on fours, this all 35mm direct on film animation was composited in After Effects.

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MOGWAI: TEENAGE EXORCISTS

12 Dec

Into the colorflow

10 Dec

Three processes interact to make this animation. A spontaneous differentiation due to a multi-scale Turing instability causes the development of dots and lines of various colors. Each color is also a movement, leading to a compressible flow which smears and obliterates the dots and lines. The third process is an overall exponential growth or inflation. Small structures expand, and the Turing instability causes sub-structures to form.

By Jonathan McCabe

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Alter Bridge – Cry Of Achilles (Animation by Micah Buzan)

9 Dec

This was an entry to a music video competition, but unfortunately wasn’t picked by the band.

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“Sausage City” by Adam Beckett

6 Dec

The first time I saw an Adam Beckett film, I believe it was “Flesh Flows”, my skin went all  goosebumpy and my head felt like it had detached from my body.  His work is truly psychoactive media. Consisting of hand drawn animated “infinite” loops shot on film and manipulated on the optical printer (this is pre-digital), his films take the viewer on a hypnotic journey into a world of slippery forms and shifting time. Adam Beckett was an experimental animation student at the California Institute of Arts in the early 1970’s. His untimely death at the age of 29 prematurely interrupted a prolific career. Legend has it that Beckett lived in the CalArts Optical Printer room for weeks on end and some say that his ghost still resides there. I hope you enjoy this rare experience.

https://vimeo.com/113578827?utm_source=email&utm_medium=clip-transcode_complete-finished-20120100&utm_campaign=7701&email_id=Y2xpcF90cmFuc2NvZGVkfDczZjZlMDU0ZWMzNDE3MzIwNDc0OGRiZjM2ZmM0MDQzODc0fDM1MDk4NzIyfDE0MTc2Nzc5MDV8NzcwMQ%3D%3D

If you want to see more of Adam Beckett’s work, there is a DVD of beautifully restored films available from the Iota Center. 

http://iotacenter.org/store/videos/beckett_dvd

 

 

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C2C Brings the Beat

6 Dec

It’s hard not to like these guys. If you can dig a bit of hip-hop, their beats are crazy smooth. If you’re an idealist about journeys into the music industry, the group is formed from four high school friends who found a passion in digging through old records and working turntables; now they’re the reigning champions at international competitions for the genre. And if by some chance you happen to have an interest psychedelic videos, theirs are off the hook. Each a very different style, each a joy to watch. They come from France, and so for now they’re bigger in Europe than in the US, but this kind of quality is bound to catch on.

 

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HIFANA “WAMONO”

5 Dec

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Témé Tan – Looper

2 Dec

Lovely astral party with all the forest animals.
Animation by Eve Deroeck and Melanie Tourneur. Song by Témé Tan.

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Spirit Science

28 Nov

Today i want to introduce you to a YouTube show called “Spirit Science”.

This show features 25 episodes that try and gap between the spiritual world and the scientific world using cute animation.

Here is an episode for example – Episode 9: Astral Projection:

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Elephant’s Garden – Felix Colgrave

24 Nov

Animator Flexic Colgrave takes us into a mind boggling multi-layered, hyper-dimensional magical trip in a world of llamas, dragons and big eyed birds.

(Link: Mary Jane Gibson. Thanks!)

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