More squishy swarms from Ori Toor. A quote from Ori about his workflow:
The animation is made frame by frame in Flash. Sometimes I replicate in flash too. I replicate and group loops together in After Effects where I also play with the colors (pre colored in Flash and lightly manipulated with AE). I don’t use any special plugin. It is mostly “manual” work.
I’m always fascinated by works of art which look at time in a backwards way. The film Memento by Christopher Nolan (To my mind, still his finest creation) is one of my favorite examples, and one of the most amusing (and very recommended) explorations of the hilarious implications of backwards time is the first episode of the third season of Red Dwarf. This new video which was shot in streets of Jerusalem is definitely a new favorite for backwards music clip.
A video which was done by a friend for our friends’ wedding which took place yesterday, in the longest day of the year. The voice in the background is the groom singing “I love you”. I loved the shooting style, which uses the simple technique of suddenly pointing the camera towards the sun or the illuminated sky again and again, stunning the camera with light and achieving a special transcendent quality, which transforms the singer’s words into a proclamation of love to the sun and the universe itself. The gaze, which is directed towards the sun again and again from various settings in the Israeli environment, makes this into a love song to the sun who is with us everywhere radiating its glowing light. Beautiful.
This quite hilarious video was created for the 12th year old birthday (or Bat Mitvah, in that case) of an Israeli girl called Adi Fox. It was directed by Amit Bar-Sheleg, a video maker who makes birthday videos like these for a living, and became a massive hit in Israel.
I can see why. In my eyes, it is so hilarious and beautiful because it has the perfect and very delicate balance between the polish and the roughness, the precision and the sloppiness, the great talent in which this is all performed and also the sheer amateurism. Plus it has great vibes. I only regret the many commercial logos from Israeli TV shows which appear at the end. Sad as it is, I guess this is what most kids like these days.
But, never mind that, just enjoy the video. It’s really fun and hyperpsychedelic.