Category Archives: animation

Dr Hairy – Mentoring

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Mentoring (2012, 255MB, 16:01 min)

Final one in the present series of Edward Picot’s Dr Hairy videos.
Great stuff, which we’ve enjoyed a great deal.
We eagerly anticipate series #2, perhaps we could suggest The Return of Dr Hairy,
Dr Hairy’s Repeat Prescription or The Beard is Back.
Glad to see he’ll be putting in an artworld appearance at
the new Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park, London.
Not to be missed if you’re in the area during the run of the show (not only
because Dr H is great but also because Furtherfield haven’t put together
a remotely dull show yet).

Okie Dokie

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Okie Dokie
Okie Dokie (2008, 46MB, 2:47 min)

Neat bit of videoing by Dave Hughes for Dan Deacon’s Okie Dokie.
Sparky & intelligent both (& nice use of Prelinger footage,
cheeky rather than earnest, makes a change)

José Carlos Casado – Agnus Dei

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Agnus Dei
agnus dei.v06 (2006, 11.8MB, 2:53 min.)

José Carlos Casado – Agnus Dei.
OK, a species of satire, clearly,
but such dream-beautiful satire.

Khaled Hafez – <em>On Presidents and Superheroes</em>

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On Presidents and Superheroes
On Presidents and Superheroes (2009, 7MB, 1:15 min)

Another piece from Manchester Cornerhouse’s excellent Subversion show.
This post is a collaboration with Furtherfield – they’re hosting ….

One Step Ahead

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One Step Ahead – Stefan Nadelman (2004, 9MB, 4:07)

Stefan Nadelman is Tourist Pictures, and since I like
his older stuff just as much (or more than) the new,
I’m posting this Nike-commissioned piece from a few years ago.

Takeshi Murata – Melter 02

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Melter2 (2003, 8MB, 30 sec.)

Undermining the traditional notion of televisual viewing by creating a passive,
sculptural work of technicolour beauty.
Clip from Melter 02 by Takeshi Murata.

Alan Sondheim – What Remains

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what remains (2007, 19.7MB, 1:26 min.)

We need no excuse here to feature more of Alan Sondheim’s singular & remarkable oeuvre.
This one caused a bit of a debate on Netbehaviour in 2007 -some baulked, fearing it to be images
of rending, tearing of the body. Alan says not at all, it’s tantric/ecstatic.
The singer is Alan’s wife Azure Carter.
When he originally posted it, it came with this poem (a sonnet?):

what remains

because of the faces and powers among our second lives
and third and others in-between the others; because of
swollen faces thinned back to pages bones and shadowed flesh
that nothing stays what was simple and illusion

and then poetics rounds and fills the world
among lost pages and inscriptions freed
from every symbol and symbols freed and world;
the less are said the farther truth transcends

because of truths and songs and lights and place
where bodies turn; because of bodies churned and stretched
among beams of those lights and those songs; those truths
nothing stays back nothing; valleys fill with jostled things

and things churn symbols; the world
fills silence; skies get dark kiss; welkin

Still Life: Gallery – Gareth Long

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Still Life: Gallery (2002, 3.5 MB, 3:22 min.)

This piece was shot with a still camera. The images are ‘stitched’ together using
a combination of specialized software and by hand; the stills seamlessly joined to
create a new space. Because the space is made up of stills instead of video, any
and all action contained within the frame is arrested. The two major precepts of
video – motion and time – are thus implied but impenetrable.

from Gareth Long.

Charlie Mars – Videomaker from Outerspace

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deux (2006, 22MB, 3:48 min)

by Charlie Mars.

Paul Slocum – Time Lapse Homepage

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Time Lapse Homepage (2003, 18.4 MB, 55 sec.)

‘Paul Slocum‘s Time-Lapse Homepage (2003) signifies through accretion.
This high-definition video is composed of 1,000 computer screenshots
of his homepage. Complete with an upbeat score that could easily be
a corporate jingle to promote a new technology, the stills display the
building, erosion, and occasional complete overhaul of an ever-evolving
Web site. This work provides a layered historical record of something
we tend to see only in discrete units-the appearance of a homepage on
any given day-while attempting to think through Web design in the
language of earlier time-based media.’