Vertical Features Remix (2006, 5.35MB, 1:01 min)
Faux collaboration with Tulse Luper whereby I remix his notes for
Vertical Features according to the notes themselves.
sources:
watercolors by Peter Greenaway.
audio by My Bloody Valentine.
peace
from curt.
Killing Lena (2007, 37.42MB, 2:13 min.)
Jamie Allen sent us a link to this Processing-utilizing piece
of work by him after having seen the post we did on Processing recently.
He explains it very clearly & cogently on his site so I’m just going to lift his text:
The “first lady of the internet,” was Playboy’s Miss November 1972.
Her turn-offs include “Men who wear shorts with white socks and black shoes.”
Lena’s issue was the most widely circulated issue of Playboy ever, selling 7,161,561 copies.
A single scanned image of Lena’s Playboy appearance subsequently took up favor
amongst digital imaging researchers. It has been used as a comparative standard
in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of image compression tests, publications and shoot-outs.
“Killing Lena” is a rendered video series in which Lena’s most famous photo is repeatedly
exposed to the compression algorithms she unwittingly helped to develop.
The videos presented are compression pornography, the suggestion of a
“compressivist art”, and a poetic digital demise.
Not much to add, dear viewer, except to observe the close kinship with
Alvin Lucier’s tremendous sound piece “I am Sitting in A Room”
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
Aegis Breakmix (2007, 75MB, 4:33 min.)
Stunning tour de force of editing by telemakfilms.
Fascinating how disparate footage can be rendered
coherent & lent such enormous forward momentum…
Basic sound techniques involve pruning (2007, 3.53MB, 52 sec)
On interference fringe patterns (2007, 11.5MB, 1:38 min.)
From the excellent Spacetwo:Patalab of Sam Renseiw.
Smart, wry poetry.
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.
Diffraction (2006, 22.3 MB, 5:23 min.)
Scratching & video: two good things in one package.
DJ GKUT & Brendan Dawes of Manchester, UK, based
outfit magneticNorth run mN’s video-control-by-vinyl tools
through their paces at FACT in Liverpool.
More than neat.
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.
Josef Müller-Brockmann (2006, 30MB, 1:57 min.)
Wicked little animated tribute by Gary Butcher for the
Swiss graphic design legend Josef Müller-Brockmann.
The movie was made for the forty-eight posters exhibition
being held at the Image Now gallery in Dublin.
Anarchy In The UK (2007, 45.4MB, 4:44 min)
Anarchy In The UK has been a bit of a theme of late here on dvblog.
Now, from the indispensable Rupert Howe comes this breathtaking version.
Not only is it extremely funny, with an off the meter chutzpah quotient,
(witness the animal terror in the eyes of the guys on the tube towards the end)
but like a lot of Rupert’s work it’s a kind of contemporary London travelogue
(of the best sort: hard edged, eyes wide open truthful & hence beautiful) too.