Inflatables in Public Space

Posted on November 6, 2007 by brittany

JooYoun Paek – Self-Sustainable Chair (2007, 4.2MB, 1:37)

Joo Youn Paek demonstrates how to use her
self-sustaining chair on a walk down the street.
This and several related excellent related projects
originate in the NYU ITP program.

Real DMB TU – Life Dress (2007, 5.2MB, 0:33)

From Anna Maria Cornelia (also known by pseudonym
Ann De Gersem), a Life Dress which allows a person
to create instant personal boundaries in public.
As a woman often bothered by unwanted attention
in public – not to mention a lover of profound design
– I am so pleased by this concept, even if the end
result might be even more unsolicited scrutiny.
The dress is featured here in a commercial for
South Korea’s mobile broadcast service, TU Media.

Thank you step ladders

Posted on November 1, 2007 by brittany

Richard Hogg – Thank you step ladders (2007, 23.2MB, 3:51)

Richard Hogg is best known for his work as a designer and art director, but he’s made a few contributions to the world of film over time, including this quirky piece from his days at Airside.

Kanye West, Zack Galifianakis & Will Oldham

Posted on September 27, 2007 by michael

Can’t Tell Me Nothing (2007, 23.9MB, 5:00 min)

How good is this?
Alternative vid for Kanye West’s ‘Can’t Tell me Nothing’ with
comedian Zack Galifianakis & the wonderful Will Oldham. Exhilarating!
Found here.

2 gigabytes of ipod Mary?

Posted on September 25, 2007 by michael

Ipod (2005, 5.5MB, 1:11 min)

Rather unusual, this: a clip from the BBC’s putative yoof
channel, BBC3, that is both funny & smart.

Mark E Smith Reads the Football Results

Posted on September 18, 2007 by michael

Mark E Smith Reads the Football Results (2005, 12.7MB, 7:14 min.)

God-like genius & professional curmudgeon Mark E Smith
of The Fall reads the football (OK – soccer to
about two thirds of you) results on the BBC in 2005.
The full glory of this possibly only totally comprehensible to
Brits of a certain age but stay with it – the last third is
a hoot.

Ice Hockey with Max Herman

Posted on September 14, 2007 by michael

‘Perseverance (fragment)’ (2006, 35 MB, 3:05 min.)

The Rhizome mailing list became a more predictable & somehow
less exciting place when wit, polymath & provocateur Max Herman
hung up his mouse for a while. He’s back there now & he’s here too,
with some ice hockey action for your delectation, being a section
from a longer work entitled Perseverance.
Says Max, “If I can choose keywords, can they be ‘hockey, millennium,
glasperlenspiel, perseverance, history?’ ”
Of course they can, Max, of course.
(PS Watch the movie, it’s quite lovely)

On Screen Chemistry

Posted on September 11, 2007 by michael

Protein (2006, 0.9MB, 22 sec)

‘This is a cartoon representation of the process
used to link amino acids to make a protein.’

Flavoprotein (2006, 1.3MB, 4 sec loop)

‘This is a model of one of the proteins used
in the electron transport chain. Basically, where
we get most of our energy to survive as living organisms.’

Bilayer (2006, 3.3MB, 3 sec loop)

‘This is the general structure of our cell membranes.’

Beautiful animations -teaching materials- of chemical
processes & structures by Professor James K. Hardy
of the University of Akron. Thanks to Professor Hardy for
the accompanying explanations of what each animation
actually represents.
The whole series is a delight.

Guthrie Lonergan

Posted on August 27, 2007 by michael

#3 (2006, 0.3MB, 4 sec)

#5 (2006, 0.3MB, 7 sec)

#6 (2006, 1.9MB, 4 sec)

Says Tom Moody: Recommended: Guthrie Lonergan’s 9 Short Music Videos.
Reminiscent of BEIGE’s cheesy blue (green?) screen vids,
each is built around some corporate sound
(ringtone, Microsoft boot-up noise, DVD intro)
that craps up our daily lives. Also good:

Bricks (2006, 5.9MB, 1:12 min)

atmo – The Voice

Posted on August 22, 2007 by doron

The Voice (clip) (2004, 7.9 MB, 1:36 min.)

atmo was founded in 2000 by a handful of friends who shared years
of free-lance filmmaking and reporting from places like Bosnia, Beirut and South Africa.
Johan Söderberg has lip-synced some of the most hated and loved people in history.

Beating Google

Posted on August 20, 2007 by doron

beating (2006, 4.8MB, 46 sec)

Rudy Adler piece on the excellent gaaagle.com,
protesting Google’s spineless policy of assisting
Chinese government censorship.
Check out this site, there’s some great stuff there.
Even better, make a short & relevant movie & send it in.
Now.

Holographic Wainscoting again

Posted on August 17, 2007 by michael

phoneface (2006, 14.9MB, 28 sec)

Red ball (2006, 2.27MB, 38 sec )

More holographicwainscoting.

Holographic Wainscoting

Posted on August 2, 2007 by michael

The Butter Skin Outtakes (2006, 12MB, 1:16 min.)

Haloweb (2006, 14.2MB, 2:04 min.)

Work from Carl Burton, trading as holographicwainscoting.
I love this stuff. It’s strange but not simply strange, you know,
not just something you grin or raise an eyebrow at and then move on.
There’s substance & there’s an austere lyricism (if that ‘s not too much of an oxymoron)
to the substance too.
We’re going to do three posts on this work & you’ll see an interesting evolution
from the first two to the final one.

Joseph Farbrook – Simulacra

Posted on July 31, 2007 by doron

Simulacra (2004, 24MB, 7:06 min.)

‘Shot from within a gaming environment, Joseph Farbrook takes a critical look at games that we continuously play. Just as virtual-reality is a consensual hallucination, structures such as money, power, and ownership are also consensual dreams.’
from 312.ca

Telemak – Aegis Breakmix

Posted on July 30, 2007 by michael

Aegis Breakmix (2007, 75MB, 4:33 min.)

Stunning tour de force of editing by telemakfilms.

pay for essay writing

Fascinating how disparate footage can be rendered
coherent & lent such enormous forward momentum…

OK Go in LEGO – Amy Fowler

Posted on July 26, 2007 by admin

OK Go in Lego (2007, 53.3MB, 3:11 min.)

Rather wonderful re-construction in LEGO by Amy Fowler
of the OK Go video for A Million Ways .
Kind of rendering the minimal..er..minimaler.

By Mica Scalin.

Anthony Rousseau

Posted on July 25, 2007 by michael

Bodyparts (2006, 5.6MB, 1:00 min)

Visualcut#1 (2006, 6.8MB, 1:15 min)

There seems to be a very lively experimental online video scene
in France. There’s lots of widely varying work but much of it seems to
be characterised by an enormous ‘confidence in the image’
& a concomitant richly visual & unbuttoned approach to dealing
with said image, free of conceptualist trammeling.
Anthony Rousseau’s work exemplifies these ( in my book at least) virtues.

Sarah Garmisa

Posted on July 13, 2007 by michael

Pan (2006, 10MB, 5:04 min)

Lesbians (2006, 5.7MB, 2:34 min)

Interesting work from young artist Sarah Garmisa.
I’m personally not entirely convinced by Pan although it clearly
cost serious thought & effort & doesn’t lack technical merit.
Lesbians though, is an unqualified success:
witty, precise & executed with no little panache.
I look forward to seeing more.

After You – Christopher Cordingley

Posted on July 5, 2007 by doron

After You (2003, 12.2MB, 2:24 min.)

Christopher Cordingley is a character animator at Disney Feature Animation.
‘I liked the idea of conveying emotions through subtleties in posture
and facial expressions. In the end, After You is mainly about the virtue
of patience and thoughtfulness, and the futility of acting out of frustration and anger.’

Moon & People Watching

Posted on June 26, 2007 by michael

Millie Watching Martha Watching Moon (2007, 18.7MB, 26 sec)

Millie in SUV Watching Martha and David Watching Moon (2007, 1.67MB, 10 sec)

Does exactly what it says on the package & poetry too.
See more from Millie & Martha.

Train Coming

Posted on June 14, 2007 by michael

The Smith Family/Train Coming/surreal.mov (2007, 1.12MB, 56 sec)

Edward Picot/traincoming.mov (2007, 31.9MB, 2:38 min)

The Smith Family/Train Coming/surreal2.mov (2007, 1.11MB, 57 sec)

I’m going to sign this one, because it’s marginally self-promoting
though not, I think, in a terrifically self-serving way.
I’m currently running a competition on my personal site to either perform, remix
do karaoke versions of, or do basically anything with, a short
(33 sec) song.
To date I haven’t exactly been inundated with entries, but
curiously three out of the current five are little movies &
great they are too.
Don’t think The Smith Family have a website (correct me if I’m
wrong folks) but Edward Picot can be found here & here.
Also – please feel free to have a go yourselves! -details from the competition link above.
–Michael

Kev Flanagan

Posted on May 22, 2007 by michael

Talking Heads (2003, 12.8MB, 1:09 min)

Ain’t Nobody Got It (2006, 18.1MB, 1:35 min)

Two movies from Irish artist & curator Kev Flanagan.
I like them both, but there is something so utterly fuck-off mad
about the Aguilera cover, with its fine disregard to boot for any known
production value, which totally does it for me.
The performers in that are Cian McConn & Stephanie Hough
who as Margaret and Jim have their own neat line in performance…

Quick, Quick, Slow – the Sex Pistols Remixed

Posted on May 9, 2007 by michael

Anarchy (Jim Punk) (2006, 8.2MB, 52 sec loop)

reresex (Abe Linkoln) (2006, 3.5MB, 16 sec)

Anarchist (Szpakowski) (2006, 1MB, 26 sec loop)

Pistols remixes, from JimPunk,
Abe Linkoln & ..er.. me.

Send us yours & we’ll post ’em.

Patrick Lichty Season – #1: 8 bit videos

Posted on April 19, 2007 by michael

a wristful of bits (2002, 6.19MB, 4:26 min)

8 bits or less (2002, 5.58MB, 4:47 min)

close vision (2002, 4.79MB, 3:33 min)

for a few bits more (2003, 6.29MB, 4:59 min)

Patrick Lichty, artist, writer, curator & wit, the man responsible
for the excellent Intelligent Agent, has donated a decade’s worth
of his video work to DVblog.
We’ll be showing it all over the next few months.
We start with these wonderful pieces: smart
& delirious, made mostly with images from a
Casio WQV-1 WristCam watch which is B&W with a resolution
of 100X100 pixels, ‘both the embodiment of technological determinism’ ,
Lichty comments, ‘and its antithesis.’.
I mostly have the urge to run fast from stuff which is fashionably
self referentially about the technological, often so worthy but oh-so-dull.
Thing with Lichty is, dull it is so not, rather, simultaneously
light (in a good sense..not dumbed down & simplistic,
but playful & engaging) possessed of genuine humor,
& just chock full of ideas & joyous invention.

Do the Dew

Posted on April 12, 2007 by doron

Do the Dew (2006, 14MB, 2:29 min)

from Mountain Dew.

Dancing in the Sun

Posted on March 2, 2007 by michael

Dancing in the Sun (2006, 16.7MB, 1:09 min)

Does what it says on the tin, & nicely too.
Made by Gareth Jordan.

Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat on Republicans

Posted on February 27, 2007 by doron

borat on republicans (2004, 9.1MB, 4:10 min)

“Lunch with Arizona Republican Committee”

More Borat.
Official Borat Homesite.

Open Sesame

Posted on February 22, 2007 by doron

open sesame (2005, 23MB, 3:09 min.)

“a rare non “youtube” homemade video…these are
slowly going extinct…nice music”
from – del.icio.us/cory_arcangel

Rupert Howe – FatGirlInOhio -2 cell phone movies.

Posted on February 16, 2007 by michael

Falafel (2006, 1MB, 43 sec)

ShotCutScoredAndPostedByEmailFromMyNokia93Phone (2007, 2.4MB, 2:41 min)

I’ve been reflecting a lot recently on how, whatever is the ostensible
subject of movies, they are all in some sense ‘about’ everything we see
in every frame. And with the passing of time how this often becomes
more true as if, like a dog from water, the meaning is shaking itself out.
The Bas Jan Ader ‘falling’ movies exemplify this ( & how poignantly!) for me –
their conceptual motor aside, I remain most haunted by their background landscapes..
Rupert Howe of FatGirlInOhio brings this sharply to mind –
the subject might be a morning jog or Falafel but the totality of each movie
contains some of the best evocation of the glory & the grime that is
2007 London I’ve yet seen. That doesn’t exhaust it, of course, which is why this
work is deft & it is fine.
He is gravely mistaken about the Falafel though – undoubtedly the
best Falafel in London is at Gaby’s on the Charing Cross Road…

Untitled Iowa

Posted on February 13, 2007 by michael

Untitled Iowa (2007, 31MB, 5:57 min)

Gorgeous & deft chunk of Americana from Aaron Valdez
with all the Hoppery, Wyethy, Portery &c nods
but nonetheless standing nicely on its own feet
For my taste that high reverby modal piano(?)
tiptoes along the border of clich

Extreme Skipping

Posted on January 29, 2007 by doron

Extreme Skipping (2006, 15.7MB, 2:36 min.)

This short was made a little while back, about one of the most
underappreciated universal sports: extreme skipping. If you are a skipper
and have footage of yourself skipping, make sure to submit it to us.
We would love to check out your moves.
Music by Blink 182. Edited by Ajit Anthony Prem.
Directed by Marc Miller and Marc Levine.
from – squigglebooth.

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