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Psychedelic Death Vomit (Slight Return) 3d

29 Nov
Welcome to the first of ‘Fractal Feedback’ – a weekly weekend posting of fractal spaces, feedback visions, generative art  and experimental visuals. Get your anaglyph glasses on! Much more pleasant than the original, Yoshihide Sodeoka is a modern master of analogue video effects, feedback and noise music. (Featured previously 123)
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Los Jóvenes

29 Nov

As this is my first entry in this column, I feel I should explain that MTV was a bitter disappointment to me when I was growing up. As I understood it, it was supposed to be a channel that connected teenagers with what was cool. I also had the wild idea that music videos were supposed to be a bit of a priority to them. Clearly, this is not the case.

Then, a couple years ago, I saw a few music videos that made me realize that some really interesting stuff is going on within this medium. And it pissed me off that the only way for me to find it was to plunge online video archives and click links to related video after related video on Youtube in hopes of making another wondrous find.

Well, I’ve been at it for a while, and MTV, you need to get with it. This stuff is cool, and it’s worthy of our teenagers.

My first selection is a celebration of youth. I can’t tell you how moved I am by this video, as it seems to me to be about the new experiences and crazy little things that teens get up to in their idle moments. To me, it’s a celebration of physical sensations.

And if you’ll permit me to stick with Spanish musicians and this style of filming, allow me to next direct your attention to Bombay by El Guincho. An intro in the style of Carl Sagan, some gorgeous half-nude women, 70’s graininess, visuals that last for an instant but I guarantee will stick with you… What’s not to love? Directed by Canada, who have done quite a few projects that I consider masterpieces, the video for Ice Cream by Battles being among them and already in our archives.

Last one for today, I’ll just let it speak for itself. If you like the music artist though, check out the video for Colombo as well.

 

Digital Dynamic Paintings from San Base Studio

21 Oct

San Base is from Canada and creates video art for interior design purposes.

We Are Dead Stars

12 Sep

IRMA/Save Me

28 Aug

The future is definitely in integrating visual effects into live performances!

[vimeo vimeo.com/95946394]

Digital Life-Forms Responding to Archival Birdsongs

20 Aug

Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds. In this animated short, he visualizes two recorded bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision [beeldengeluid.nl] in Hilversum.

An increasing amount of sounds and images from European archives, museums and libraries are available for creative re-use. For the Europeana Creative Challenge, we’re looking for innovative projects that use archival material available via Europeana (europeana.eu) in a creative way. Send in your own idea to create, for example, a mash-up, an app or a game at ecreativechallenges2014.istart…. The winner will be aided by specialized professionals in realizing their project.

Alejandro Jodorowsky // DUNE

6 Aug

 

In 1973, film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the film rights to Dune but died before a film could be developed. The option was then taken over two years later by director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who proceeded to approach, among others, Peter Gabriel, the prog rock groups Pink Floyd and Magma for some of the music, artists H. R. Giger and Jean Giraud for set and character design, Dan O’Bannon for special effects, and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson and others for the cast.

Frank Herbert traveled to Europe in 1976 to find that $2 million of the $9.5 million budget had already been spent in pre-production, and that Jodorowsky’s script would result in a 14-hour movie (“It was the size of a phonebook”, Herbert later recalled). Jodorowsky took creative liberties with the source material, but Herbert said that he and Jodorowsky had an amicable relationship. The project ultimately stalled for financial reasons. The film rights lapsed until 1982, when they were purchased by Italian filmmaker Dino DeLaurentiis, who eventually released the 1984 film Dune, directed by David Lynch.

Screengrab – Willie Witte

19 Jul

 

Timber Timbre – Beat the Drum Slowly from Full Time Hobby

11 Jul

Animated by Chad Vangaalen

Taken from the new album “Hot Dreams” – out now on Full Time Hobby.

Timber Timbre are playing Shepherds Bush Empire, London, on 14th October 2014 as part of Full Time Hobby’s 10th Anniversary celebrations. Tickets available here: bit.ly/1iOO7nO

For full tour dates, visit timbertimbre.com/

Where To Go – Chris Morphitis

7 Jul

Chris Morphitis – Where To Go
Taken from the album ‘Where To Go’
P+C Village Green 2013
Directed by Alice Dunseath & Annlin Chao
Produced by Blinkink & The Royal College Of Art