“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.