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Recombinant Rain from Millie Niss

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Recombinant Rain (2008, 7MB, 32 secs)


Source Video #1 (2008, 1.3MB, 10 secs silent)


Source Video #2 (2008, 2.2MB, 12 secs silent)


Source Video #3 (2008, 1.2MB, 14 secs silent)


Source Video #4 (2008, 2MB, 13 secs silent)

Millie Niss is one half of the daughter & mother team behind
the original & indispensable Sporkworld Microblog.
(And if you look at it for ten minutes & you don’t agree
it’s that, please check you have a pulse).
I’m not sure Millie felt that this piece was entirely successful.
(See her comments on the blog, linked above)
I’m posting it because even a borderline success from Millie
is something one can learn from. She has a formidable intellect
combined with a total & fierce independence & a complete
lack of bullshit.( Indeed I’m convinced that she wouldn’t
know how to bullshit, even if she wanted to.)
The last four pieces are tiny little studies of the rain
(delicate & lovely in their own right),
& the first is constructed from frames lifted from these
& worked over in various ways.
This piece (or actually the set of pieces, sources & first pass
at an end product alike) does it for me in a way that a lot of work doesn’t.
Simply, there’s a profound humanity to it.
Sure, it’s about the rain but it’s also about what it is
to be a human being in the world.

Monochrom & the Bolshevik Glove Puppets

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Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan (2008, 74MB, 7:24 min)

kiki and bubu and the shift
Kiki and Bubu and the Shift (2008, 39MB, 4:11 min)

Well, almost.
Marred only by some fashionable end-of-the-working-class-in-the-West
(who collects your trash, checks out your groceries, teaches your kids?)
nonsense, this is on the whole the finest piece of glove puppet based
agit-prop I’ve ever seen & very funny to boot.
In particular the best of these pieces,Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan,
is an absolutely clear & devastating reply to the marketeers…
See ’em all…

PES – Sneaux Shoes – Human Skateboard

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Sneaux (2007, 7MB, 31 sec.)

Sneaux Shoes launched a consumer-generated video campaign
with a stop-motion video of a human skateboard. The TV ad
features a skateboarder using a kid as a skateboard and performing
classic tricks like ollies, grinds and 360s.
PES who directed the video made it entirely in-camera (Canon D20)
and on location through the use of a stop-motion animation technique
known as pixilation. Says PES: “This spot is a great example of the
breadth of stop-motion. If something exists in the real world, it can be animated.”
Editing and sound design was done by Sam Welch at Homestead, New York.

White Winter Hymnal

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White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes (2008, 5.7MB, 2:28)

Beautifully poignant music video from Fleet Foxes,
directed by super talented Sean Pecknold.

PES – Early movies for the web

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Dogs of War (2002, 4.1MB, 50 sec.)

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Skye Bender-deMoll

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Skye Bender-deMoll – Organic Brand Ownership Networks (2007, 9MB, 0:18)

We love moving charts and maps, in case you couldn’t tell.
This one, from Skye Bender-deMoll, features organic food brands
circa late 2007, and their often overlooked connections.
The yellow nodes are food processors, blue are investment firms,
green are organic brands, and red are new organic brand introductions.
via Another Limited Rebellion

Grizzly Bear – Knife

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Knife (2007, 67 MB, 5:50 min.)

“Death Valley is hot. We wouldn

Home of the Twisted Films of PES

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Kaboom (2005, 9 MB, 1:14 min.)

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Fireworks (2004, 6.1 MB, 28 sec.)

PES is a New York based animator and movie maker. His work has been
commissioned by Bacardi and Diesel. His shorts, stop-motion animations
are known for their skill and brilliance.

Diluvio Gallery

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Lucia
Lucia (2007, 48.5MB, 4:01 min)

Exquisite stop motion work from Niles Atallah, Joaqu

Yogin – John Hanrahan

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Yogin (2008, 57 MB, 3:15 min.)

“Yogin is a 3 minute short animation I created for my MFA thesis.
I am responsible for everything but the musical score.
It is the story of a brash young yogi challenging an old master to
a yoga battle. The egotistical challenger thinks he has what is
necessary to take on the master however he fails to realize there
is more to yoga then physical postures.”
Wonderfulness from John Hanrahan.

Get Out and Pay

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Get Out and Play
Get Out and Play (2008, 36.9MB, 1:25 min)

Somebody called Donna sends us a mail ‘writing from a Nokia sponsored blog’.
Donna, kind soul that she is, thought
‘With your stop motion background we thought you might have a
different take on the video than the gamers and
tech bloggers who might normally watch the video’
Aw..bless her!
Nothing to do, then, with trying to use as us a part of an attempted
“virality” strategy ( don’t get us wrong, we’re impressed dvblog even
appears on these folks’ radar)
So..watch the movie..it’s good.
There’s stuff to be learned here, no doubt –
not least that the corporate vultures can clearly buy in time and talent;
but how much better a world it would be if the silly amounts of cash it
clearly cost to make this just went straight to fund new work by artists…

The Vasulkas: Pioneers & Magicians

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Violin Power (clip, 1978, 2.1MB, 1:17 min)

The Vasulkas, husband & wife team Woody & Steina,
have devoted over thirty years to an intensive exploration
of the possibilities of electronic image making.
It

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at the New Museum (2008, 62.5MB, 2:48 min)

If you don’t know them, you should; Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
have been responsible for some of the most spine tingling & evocative work
on the net in the last ten years,
This documentary, lifted from the indispensable Rhizome, gives a good bares bones historical
account of them in the context of a show earlier this year at the New Museum.
I didn’t see the show & whilst I’m pleased they’re getting this wider exposure I wonder
if there isn’t something quite particular about the way their work presents in a browser
(preferably, in my view, with headphones on, ie. as submerged in these delicious
& fractured quasi narratives as only the net experience will allow).
Then, it is visceral and immediate.
On the evidence here, there seems to have been something
a little more diffuse about this multiple screen installation.
I don’t know; it’s a surmise; I’d be happy to be told I’m wrong.
It raises interesting questions, though, about the transplanting of work
from browser to gallery.

TRIPTYCH.TV once more !

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MOON CRASH by Claudia Tomaz and Kevin Walsh

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MOON CRASH (2008, 58 MB, 4:42 min.)

“MOON CRASH is a 360 degree immersive experience using DJ sets
and mutant slides, painted live with video projections.
All visuals are painted on acetate using slide mounts, vitrail glass paint
and drops of water. The paints are solvent based and don

‘Embedded’ – Alan Sondheim in Santa Monica

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restart (2006, 9KB, 4 min. loop)

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shift (2006, 5.1MB, 57 sec.)

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jig (2006, 2.8MB, 32 sec.)

We’re Alan Sondheim fans here at dvblog.
When so much work on the web is banal & lacking in ambition
he is an antidote, a tonic, a reason to hope.
His restless energy & intelligence transmute everything
he engages with into art (remember Picasso & those handlebars?)
Those living in the Santa Monica area might have seen his installation
‘embedded’ (also including work by filmmaker Leslie Thornton)
at the Track 16 gallery in 2006.

Donna Kuhn – Limbo

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Limbo (2008, 26.3MB, 3:08 min)

We’ve shown Donna Kuhn’s work couple of times before.
Look at the trajectory.
It’s always been impressive but there’s a new note here:
a confidence & ambition that is really striking.
It’s a cliche but cliches are nonetheless sometimes true
-here’s someone who has found a very personal
voice & learned how sing with it in a sophisticated
& affecting way.
More here.

Matt Smithson

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What’s He Building? (2006, 6.7MB, 1 min.)

Matt Smithson is a gifted illustrator whose videos incorporate text,
drawing and photography into rich animated collages.
This video perfectly complements the Tom Waits reading it accompanies.

By Mica.

Terminally Ambivalent Over You – Alex Budovsky

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Terminally Ambivalent Over You (2002, 26.1MB, 3:19 min.)

Based on Stephen Coate‘s song from the album ‘When Psyche meets Cupid’,
this animation tells the story of a prisoner who works in a prison’s
gramophone factory and while assembling gramophones thinks of his girlfriend.
Neat stuff from Alex Budovsky, aka Aleksey Budovskiy.

Scenes of Provincial Life – A Generative QuickTime Movie by Michael Szpakowski

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Scenes of Provincial Life (2005, 3.5MB, each loop 25 sec.)

“Well, it does what it says on the box – let it loop and pretty much every cycle will be
different, both image & sound. #87 in a continuing sequence, my first but
definitely won

Rock History

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Rock History (2006, 6.3 MB, 2:34 min.)

Ugly pictures and Man VS Magnet have created a short film play before
the Battle of the Ad Bands at Irving Plaza in New York. (The show is a
charity venue where advertising agency garage bands compete for the
best band and all the proceeds go to help the public schools of New York.)
The result is a funny and hilarious and violent animation about the recent
music history, and especially the design of the LPs.
from its art mag.

Gareth Long

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Gareth Long (2004, 1.2 MB, 25 sec.)

More from Gareth Long.

A Good Joke – Nick Fox-Gieg

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A Good Joke (2005, 18.5 MB, 3:16 min.)

This short is based on an old joke, a perennial in compilations of
Jewish humor. Although the details differ between versions, the
scene remains the same: a priest challenges a rabbi to debate on
the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other’s language.

Commissioned by Project Mosaica, by Nick Fox-Gieg.

Lewis LaCook -<em>Joey</em>

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Joey (2008, 18.9MB, 1:08 min)

A new video from Lewis LaCook comes too infrequently.
He’s one of a kind in his and here too.
There’s a throwing of everything, including the
kitchen sink, going in his movies & it shouldn’t work
but it so does.
We’ll repost another of his pieces tomorrow; a little feast for you.
Just for the record here’s Lewis’s description of the piece:

Joey, or DJ Joey, as he is affectionately called, is a
young man in Lorain, Ohio, who spends most of his day
dancing on the corner of 28th Street and Elyria Avenue
to his boombox, waving and smiling at passing
traffic.

This video was constructed of footage found on
YouTube, all dealing with Lorain, Ohio. This is the
first video I

Seth Kendall – Gnaritas Monstrum

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Seth Kendall – Gnaritas Monstrum (2007, 4.1MB, 1:50)

Adorable, multi-award-winning animation from Seth Kendall.
via GPSFF

Remix – Antonio Mendoza

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State of the Union (2006, 3.7 MB, 1:06 min.)

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Heroine (2006, 7.7 MB, 2:28 min.)

Remix. Bush- “State of the Union”, inspired by Abe Linkoln’s “Isabelle Dinoire”,
and “Comic Strip”, a music video generic cialis 10mg by Serge Gainsborough & Brigitte Bardot.
by – Antonio Mendoza.

Tinjail

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Still Project 07 (2007, 5.7MB, 1:29 min)

Half of the splendid & indispensable MTAA, whose work we feature here
whenever possible – conceptualist pranksters with a rare (for the territory)
& self deprecating human warmth – Mark River makes interesting video stuff
(amongst other things) on his Tinjail site.
A lot of them are kind of multi-channel (go look) & don’t fit the dvblog format.
This one does & is excellent too..
Here’s his preamble to it:

‘The wild blue yonder, the decent, la jetee, fearless, street fight,
loud QUIET loud, a sound of thunder, enemy at the gate, so wrong they

Heroes of the Revolution – Marina Zurkow

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Heroes of the Revolution (excerpt) (2007, 31.5 MB, 3:31 min.)

Marina Zurkow works with character and narrative in animated cartoons,
interactive installations, print and pop objects.
‘Heroes of the Revolution’ is an animation loop for all-in-one aluminum framed wall unit,
using two custom PCs and four widescreen monitors.

from New Frontier on Main.

Boling & Morales – Mad as a Box of Badgers

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Sleighride (2006, 63MB, 4:30 min)

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the church of the future (2006, 28.5MB, 2:39 min)

There’s a rather un-PC expression current in estuary English:
mental. Its semantic nuances don’t lend themselves to easy explanation.
It implies a kamikaze degree of chutzpah, often in a physical
context but also by metaphorical extension to any field of
behaviour & often expressing a kind of stunned admiration.
Well, watch the vids & deny if you can that John Michael Boling
+ Javier Alberto Morales ( collaborators on the visuals, JAM does the music on
sleighride) and owners of
www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
are totally fucking mental

Going Places Sitting Down – Hiraki Sawa

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Going Places Sitting Down (2006, 14.8MB, 2:34 min)

Images from Hiraki Sawa solo exhibition in 2006
at the New York James Cohan Gallery.
‘Going Places Sitting Down’ is a triptych video projection.
(video by Doron Golan)