“SOS” was the third single from Swedish pop group ABBA‘s self-titled
1975 album. – from Bedazzled.tv.
Monthly Archives: November 2007
3 Beautiful Lumières
Squirrel (2007, 6.8MB, 47 secs)
[ by Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen ]
Bubble machine (2007, 8.93MB, 57 secs)
[ by Brittany Shoot ]
the hubertus hunt 2007 (2007, 4.92MB, 41 secs)
[ by Sam Renseiw ]
Andreas & Brittany’s Lumièree project has been brilliant in so many respects.
Firstly, it has engaged a load of people in making stuff.
Secondly, it has been a huge kick in the arse in terms of reflecting on what one
is doing when one is making video. It has sharpened all our eyes.
(And, curiously, speaking personally, my ears too. I think a lot harder about what
I want sound to do having now forsworn it on 25 or so occasions)
Lastly, there’s been some really great work come out of it.
Here’s one each from Andreas and Brittany and one from the frontrunner
in the productivity stakes (but not simply that – what an eye!) Sam Renseiw.
TRIPTYCH TV – the 3 maestros
chocolate reign (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)
lost highway jam (2007, 500k, 4 sec. loop)
push up worm (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)
From hipdom’s answer to the three tenors,
a little taste of triptych.tv
Fearless (& peerless) trailblazers; continuing innovators:
abe linkoln
antonio mendoza
jimpunk
múm – “Random Summer”
will the summer make good for all of our sins? (2006, 34.8MB, 4:14 min.)
Exquisite music video for the Icelandic band múm.
By Mica Scalin.
Deaf Culture
Volcano (2006, 7.6MB, 54 sec.)
Two beautiful & expressive poems in sign language.
The first is in British sign language
& comes from the deaf arts forum in Edinburgh,
Scotland. There are subtitles for the hearing.
The second is in American Sign Language & is written &
performed by Ellie, a sixth grader at the Metro deaf school in St Paul.
No translation for this one, so non signers should bear
the title in mind & enjoy the volcanic performance.
Pepa Garcia – autorretrato / puesta de sol
autoretrato; puesta de sol//self-portrait; sunset (2007, 5.16MB, 36 sec)
Hallado en una serie de vlogs (la navegación es un poco confusa,
y mi español rudimentario, así que espero haberlo pillado bien),
de la española residente en Chile Pepa García, este
vídeo es sencillamente perfecto: la mezcla justa entre
espontaneidad y cálculo; y hecho con arte,
conjurando una compleja atmósfera donde una especie
de deliciosa melancolía es la nota más predominante.
Simplemente genial.
Found on a series of vlogs (the navigation is a little confusing,
my Spanish is rudimentary, so I hope I’ve got the factual stuff right)
by Chile resident Spanish video maker Pepa Garcia, this piece is just perfect –
just the right mix of spontaneity and calculation, artfully made
and hence conjuring a rather complex atmosphere where a species
of delicious melancholy is the most predominant note.
Simply great.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy Assassination (1963, 300k, 28 sec.)
“The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the
United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas,
at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC).
John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife
Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned
numerous conspiracy theories.” – from wikipedia.
Close-up, extract from the Zapruder Film.
Augmented Body and Virtual Body – Suguru Goto
Augmented Body and Virtual Body (2005, 36MB, 14:13 min.)
“The big idea is to put a human being into a system where many machines act as
an extension of the body. I am a composer and I want to control a robot orchestra,
video images and videotext using a “BodySuit”.
All this within the conceptual framework of Music Theatre and a musical composition.”
Suguru Goto: Concept and Composition.
Steven Ball – Snow Factory
Snow Factory (2006, 6.41MB, 53 secs)
Lyrical whimsy, which sounds lightweight, but isn’t.
It’s beautifully made by Steven Ball and has a strange
gravity not unreminiscent of the less dread-saturated
(I hesitate to say “more playful”) end of Kafka…or
Ben Marcus, perhaps…
Bathtime in Clerkenwell – Alex Budovsky
Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002, 15.3MB, 3:14 min)
Alex Budovsky aka Aleksey Budovskiy created this great animation
based on Stephen Coates ( aka (The Real) Tuesday Weld‘s) song of the same title.
This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos,
who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move
inside the cuckoo clocks.
The Ties That Bind – Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich – The Ties That Bind (1984, 14.2MB, 4:03)
From the classic avant-garde filmmaker; a found-footage,
personal and historical documentary reflection on wartime
and Friedrich’s mother’s coming of age in Nazi Germany,
presented here during yet another period of unrest
in our uncertain world.
Men’s Feilfri Footware
Stunning CGI from royalelastics.com.
RED ATTACK – Computer Virus Project 2.0
Red Attack (2001, 7MB, 1:38 min.)
Joseph Nechvatal‘s 2001 Computer Virus Project 2.0 follows along the same lines as previous viral works by Nechvatal in 1992 – works where an unpredictable progressive virus operates on a degradation/transformation of an image. Using a C++ framework, Joseph Nechvatal and his programmer/collaborator Stephane Sikora have brought Nechvatal’s early computer virus project into the realm of artificial life (A-Life) (i.e. into a synthetic system that exhibits behaviors characteristic of natural living systems). With Computer Virus Project 2.0, elements of artificial life have been introduced in that viruses are modeled to be autonomous agents living in/off the image. The project simulates a population of active viruses functioning as an analogy of a viral biological system.
Jaygo Bloom – O:.O:.O:.
O:.O:.O:.(2007, 47.3MB, 59 sec loop)
Quite extraordinary dance video from Jaygo Bloom.
What I love about it is the wonderfully insouciant way
it both references and evokes early modernism
(Calder is cited as a source/inspiration by Bloom) but is also
(and could not be other than) utterly contemporary.
Great! So great it makes me totally jealous!
Camera: Patrick Jamieson and Anna Druka
Music: Hammerschmidt
The Planets – Toine Klaassen
The Planets (2005, 1MB, 1:07 min.)
Toine Klaassen draws attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small,
and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings
with no predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work.
Often the work is created in the presence of the public
in a performance setting, in which he makes no attempt
to avoid the absurd.
Or as Klaassen himself states:
“If you catch a butterfly in your hands the powder on its
wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”
Philip Thomas plays Morton Feldman’s Vertical Thoughts 4
Vertical Thoughts 4 (2002, 7.7MB, 3:22 min.)
All we composers really have to work with is time and sound
– and sometimes I’m not even sure about sound.
Morton Feldman.
The pianist is Philip Thomas.
Found in Misha David’s excellent collection of
new music performance videos.
While you’re there check out the rest of his site -he has some
great photographic work archived there too.
Brian Gibson – Parabolic
Parabolic (2007, 35.5MB, 4:50 min.)
This bit of intense gorgeousness was made from cell phone
video footage (funny how we still use that word, footage)
by Brian Gibson who sometimes posts here.
If it was simply lovely that would be enough, but it’s very
structured too – Brian has such a great feel for the intrinsic
qualities of the material but also a real editing eye…
Augmented Sculpture by Pablo Valbuena
Augmented Sculpture (2007, 11.5MB, 3:48 min.)
“This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time
not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation For this purpose
two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality.
The first stage of this project has been developed during Interactivos? 2007, at Medialab Madrid.”
Work by Pablo Valbuena.
Inflatables in Public Space
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.
Wim Delvoye, showing skin
Wim Delvoye – Sybille II (1999, 15.8MB, 4:35)
Wim Delvoye, in addition to his main artistic passion of tattooing pigs,
here shows us what could be worms, mutant fungus, or blackheads
(yes, I know which it is – but I’m not telling).
Things are never as they seem.
This is a little gross, but so are most things when scrutinized this much.
Thank you step ladders
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.