Dance (2006, 9.8MB, 2:24 min.)
Travelogue (2006, 14.6MB, 1:21 min.)
This Spartan Life is a talk show set in the multi-user
combat game Halo 2 featuring actual interviews with
guests in the live game online.
These two ‘music videos’ are made using material from the game.
Infinite Smile (2005, 10.1MB, 2:43 min. loop)
Self-portrait of MTAA smiling and blinking.
(M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc.)
VlogHistory1 (2007, 15.5MB, 4:07 min.)
from the excellent Richard Show.
Exciting Prizes (2006, 36.8MB, 4:38 min)
The challenges continue, as special guest challenger, Dr. Donut,
takes the stage.
Now our contestants must satisfy Dr. Donut’s insatiable donut
lust by jumping into the air to eat donuts from a clothes line!
With your hosts: the Great Fredini and Julie Atlas Muz.
Performed before a hungry theater audience at the Belt theater,
NYC, January 21, 2005.
From – this or that.
waiting on bob (2005, 5.7MB, 1:56 min.)
move this rock (2005, 12.5MB, 3:56 min.)
stick like snakes (2005, 5.5MB, 1:54 min.)
Chapters 1,2,3 from the DVD ‘A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness’
by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir.
This is very smart work indeed – it references, or better evokes, ideas & precedents
& techniques from all over world culture high & low & I’m sure this is conscious.
The thing is, a bit like the effect of C5’s short history of virtual hiking,
featured here last year, the rather knowing formalism of it all & the dry
keep-your-distance wit ironically somehow create a space for a deeply traditional
romanticism about nature & the landscape to sneak back in.
Not a criticism. Me, I love it.
Wonder Women (2002, 3.6MB, 1:30 min.)
This wonderful clip of a live performance by The Glamazons,
a New York based dance group created by video artist and
burlesque performer Alison Ward, will make your day.
By Mica Scalin.
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.’
the karate date (2007, 19.2MB, 3:50 min.)
It’s Jerry Time!, winner of the 34th Annual Emmy Awards for ‘Outstanding Broadband Program’.
A collaboration between writer and composer – Jerry Zucker and animator, director Orrin Zucker.
tues. three. (2007, 49.2MB, 2:06 min.)
‘I really didn’t even want to make an experimental video today
but with all this rain and a wandering mind I really couldn’t avoid it.’
by Brian Gibson.
Ice Age 1 (2002, 6MB, 1:56 min.)
Ice Age 2 (2006, 8.1MB, 1:26 min.)
Computer-animation extravaganza – Ice Age from 20th Century Fox.
Ice Age is directed by Chris Wedge, founder of Blue Sky Studios and
Ice Age – The Meltdown, by Carlos Saldanha.
Gotta Catch’em All (2006, 21.2MB, 3:50 min.)
‘A fun little short film I did at CCS with the help of my cousins Jack,
and Kaitlyn. This is CG character animation composited over video..’
by Mark DeRidder.
Hekje (Fence) (2006, 4.2MB, 1:52 min)
If Maurice Bogaert tried this in my local Sainsbury’s
he would be dead meat, so points for a twisted kind of courage.
Amusing, if frothy, item found at BasementArtProject.
Treehouse Kit (excerpt) (2005, 2.3MB, 1 min.)
Excerpt from a single channel video installation and sculpture by Guy Ben-Ner.
“Treehouse Kit” consists of a large wooden tree created from recombined, generic furniture.
The sculpture is presented along with an instructional style video in which Ben-Ner
(in swim trunks and a huge beard, a cross between Robinson Crusoe and an archetypical Israeli settler) converts the pre-fab tree back into a rudimentary home.
Originally commissioned for the Israeli Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005.
Knights Of Arcadia (2006, 26MB, 4:20 min)
Rudy gets kidnapped and Casey sets off on an 8-bit quest
to rescue him. from Galacticast.
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…
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.
Borat on Politics (2004, 25MB, 3:31 min)
Official Borat Homesite.
The Phil Collins Singalong Hour (2006, 96.5MB, 9:17 min)
Art Pt. 1 (2006, 52MB, 8:50 min)
Utterly wonderful & deranged work from Jamie O’Brien.
Up there with the best – well… er… entertainers
in terms of comedic edge & timing & chutzpah & derring-do
but at the same time this work has the imaginative
breadth & the sheer smarts that lots of wannabe
performance artists could only dream about…
16 Military Wives (2005, 30MB, 4:48 min.)
Aaron Stewart-Ahn’s video for The Decemberists.
won the Music Video of 2006 at the Plug Awards.
By Mica Scalin.
Amerikuh (2006, 6.88MB, 1:32 min)
Neat satirical mash-up by Brian Liloia,
made for ( &, I gather, a semi-finalist at) the
stockstock film festival, so doubly impressive
when you consider he was allocated
the footage.
Nice work – hats off!
Silas & Mange (1927, 14MB, 4 min.)
I have always had a thing for silent films.
Rob Sosin and Kevin Maher star in these twisted vignettes,
the restored (1999) films of long dead silent picture stars Silas and Mange.
from Thrillomedy.com
Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003, 6.2MB, 2:08 min.)
A deliciously dark and twisted French comic animation film
in which a “Tour de France” cyclist is kidnapped by the Mafia.
Directed by Sylvain Chomet.
House of Cosbys (2005, 10MB, 5 min.)
from Channel 101.
This video should recieve lots of attention because it is really really
funny. Instead, it made the papers because Bill Cosby’s lawyers
threatened Channel 101 and their video hosting service with
cease and desist letters.
By Mica Scalin.
MTAA in The Studio (2006, 33MB, 5:49 min.)
MTAA’s ’10 Pre-Rejected, Pre-Approved Performances’, was included in
Performa05. The work, selected by an online voting process is described as follows:
An installation is created with $100 worth of materials bought at the nearest
24-hour ATM-enabled deli or convienance store.
The materials are purchased at midnight.
In this video, Mica interviews MTAA in their studio &
gets the lowdown on this project and more.
By Mica Scalin.
from ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935, 1.6MB, 50 sec.)
from ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935, 1.7MB, 1:19 min.)
From the excellent & mind-bogglingly comprehensive
‘Night at the Opera’ treasury, two clips from the Marx Brothers classic,
the first of which includes the best punchline ever, no argument, the best.
Suicide Jumper (2005, 8MB, 4 min.)
Improv Everywhere strikes again.
This is a video of a sketch performed,
unannounced, on the streets of NYC.
By Mica Scalin.
borat on republicans (2004, 9.1MB, 4:10 min)
“Lunch with Arizona Republican Committee”
Dance, Motherfucker, Dance! (2006, 7.4MB, 3:22 min)
Epiphany (2006, 1.9MB, 11 sec loop)
From the town that brought you Boling & Morales here’s more,
this time from John Crowe of ‘plural medium’
Is it something in the water or just that unrelenting Southern sun
that seems to make Athens a crucible of weirdness?
Be afraid, be very afraid &c.
Music for the delicately entitled Dance, Motherfucker, Dance! by the
Violent Femmes.
The Adventures of Confucius (2006, 8.5MB, 36 sec.)
Heartbroke’n and Gaaagle’d (2006, 1.9MB, 52 sec.)
Couple of movies from gaaagle.com,
a site thhat was set up to protest & satirize Google’s
decision last year to see, rather than do,
no evil.
