Back in late 2014, Datarock (a norwegian electro rock band) were invited by their friends at Bergen based computer game company Turbo Tape Games to write the soundtrack to their upcoming game Full Cycle. Realizing you could complete the game in 30 minutes they decided to make a 30 minutes song which would come to be called In E (you can get in in amazon or iTunes or your streaming app of choice). They had contributions to the song by other norwegian bands like The Megaphonic Thrift, Barter & Ungdomskulen. Then, in 2015, they reached out to broadcast design company MYRESE, to make a 30 minutes video for the song. Aiming at creating a psychedelic ever evolving chaos they started from nothing but the game itself and incorporating glitches and layers into it until all you have is epilepsy inducing video.

The video premiered as part of a sort of video advent calendar Datarock made in 2016.

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So, which one is it, youtube?!

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COS has just launched a new minimalist T-shirt and announced a collaboration with Sou Fujimoto - a "transformation (…) of that indispensable basic". He will also be collaborating with the fashion line in an interactive installation title "Forest of Light" for the 2016 Salone del Mobile.

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I can't help but thing about one song when I hear the other. Maybe it's the dissonant saxofones, the bass line and piano chord progression (specialy the outro for Timber Timbre's "Do I Have Power"); maybe they just bring the same atmosphere alive.

Besides that, the videos I post below for these songs are both amazing. Rjd2's is the official one for its "Work It Out" and feature a choreography by Bill Shannon in a circular narrative. Born with a degenerative hip condition, Shannon developed a unique expression based on dance and skateboarding on crutches.

The second one is a video spontaneously directed by Carlos de Carvalho.

Rjd2 - Work It Out

Timber Timbre - Do I have Power

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Written, Directed and Animated by Egmont Mayer
Producer: Flora Grolitsch
Effects TD: Stefan Habel
Animation: Michael Schulz, Wolfram Kampffmeyer, Sonja Kumbarji
Character Modelling: Egmont Mayer
Modelling: Paul Stoll, Wolfram Kampffmeyer
Sounddesign and Mixing: Michael J. Diehl
Music: Chris Bremus
Foley Artist: Marcus Neuberger
Textures: Sonja Kumbarji, Frederik Ring
Lighting: Rendering and Compositing Egmont Mayer
Titles: Online Frederik Ring
Created at: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction Read More

This video for Dan Deacon's "When I Was Done Dying" was created by Dave Hughes as a special episode of Off The Air. The creator invited nine different artist in order to create a cadaver esquis of sorts.

In order of appearance: Jake Fried, Chad Vangaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood, KOKOFreakbean.

Off The Air is television series created by producer Dave Hughes for Adult Swim. The series showcases a blend of footage, "animations, short films, music videos, viral videos, film and TV clips, stock footage and morphing psychedelic imagery", arranged around a single loose theme in the manner of a videoclip. Each episode is edited e manipulated often employing data-moshing techniques.

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Who can't remember Aha's Take on Me (you millennials you...)? Take on Me was the first song Morten Harket heard from Magne Furuholmen e Paul Waaktaar-Savoy. It was still called "Lesson One" at the time. After several re-recordings it became an international hit in 1985. Sales were surely aided by the videoclip which alludes to the climatic scenes of Ken Russell's Altered Sates. The videoclip used a new technique called rotoscopy which combines animation sketches and video.

Much later, in 2002, the band would release the video for Lifelines. This one is based in an award winning short movie by norwegian director Morten Skallerud (1991) called "A Year Along the Abandonded Road" or Året gjennom Børfjord in the original language. It took 105 days to shoot the short's 12 minutes compressing an entire year in the Børfjord in Hasvik passing by at 50.000 times the normal speed. The short was edited for the videoclip - shortened to 4 minutes and the band's elements introduced in post.

Året gjennom Børfjord used a technique now called Hyperlapse - a timelapse movie in which the camera moves creating a tracking shot. The term itself was coined by American filmmaker, Dan Eckert. The technique though dates to 1986 when Guy Roland experimented with it in Super8 film camera. His Spacer movie shot in 16mm film - an elaborated version of 1991's Pace shot in Super8 in Montreal -  is claimed to be the first hyperlapse movie, even though having been release 4 years after Året gjennom Børfjord.

Canadian design agency teehan+lax have crested in 2013 a UI you can use to make your own hyperlapse movie using google street view images as source material using its full 360º scene capture capabilities.

Now you can use the Hyperlapse from Instagram app to easily create your own movies. It uses Instagram's stabilization technology and the mobile device’s camera app so you can capture handheld while walking, running or jumping. You can select your speed. The app allows you to share your videos directly to facebook and instagram but you don't need to sign up to use it. Here's an example of what you can do with it:

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Cyriac's an amazing artist. A true digital renaissance master. He dwells in animation using "photoshop and after affects", illustration, comics and even photography. He might be best known for a surreal animation of bovine inspiration.

Animated gif which can be tiled horizontally.

I found him out thanks to a video made for a remix of the band Hooray for Earth by Cereal Spiller. "Its a journey through fractal isometric geometry".

 

Be sure to check out his amazing website, a collection of his doings, specially the gif gallery.

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Miguel Endara is an artist. He makes incredibly realistic images using only dots made with a pen. He also directs videos. Go to his website to see some awesome closeups of his work. Also check out my exposé on hyper-realism on a previous post.

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Vídeo (below) by Kogonada explores centrality in the work of Wes Anderson. Go to his vimeo page for some more explorations on author ticks like Fire and Water by Malick, views from below by Tarantino or one-point perspective in the work of Kubrik.
Om a side note music is by Alexadre Desplat who has an impressive and heterogeneous resumé.

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Antes Era Assim é a primeira amostra do regresso de Blac Koyote às edições com o album Quiet Ensemble. A partir da música com mesmo nome de N.A.C.O. ( Nunca Acordo Como Ontem, ed. Turbina ), esta versão explora as micro texturas e quase silêncios ganhando vida num novo suave embalo. Pelas imagens de Miguel C. Tavares e Rui Manuel Vieira, Antes Era Assim guia-nos pelo desconhecido. Uma viagem sem destino, marcada pelo ambiente inóspito e a incerteza no seu desfecho.
 


Antes Era Assim is the first sample from the Blac Koyote’s return to editions with the album Quiet Ensemble. From N.A.C.O.’s (Nunca Acordo Como Ontem, Turbina ed) song, this version explores the micro textures and silences giving life in a new gentle lulling. From Miguel C. Tavares and Manuel Rui Vieira camara, Antes Era Assim guides us into the unknown. A journey without destination, marked by the harsh environment and the uncertainty in its outcome.

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One more video by Onionskin, this one for doit science's "city planning" from their information album.

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The first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, also called Nazca Lines, is testament to that with Lovett's voice layered to create a dense sound that sucks you in further on each listen. Beneath the vocals is a joyously 80s electro-pop melange of pogoing beats, synchopated hiccups and weird synth sounds that seem to engulf and then snap shut in an instant.

in THE GUARDIAN

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HUB footwear (see last post) sponsors the Chalenge the Obvious project - a series of documentaries "about the beautiful minds who 'Challenge the Obvious' every day." The first episode of the series is a film about Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas, two dutchmen "who use art in their quest to help change the lives of people who live in socially troubled neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro and Philadelphia" with their project Favela Painting.

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Sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album valtari. the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers are ramin bahrani, alma har'el and john cameron mitchell.

The last in the series, film #16 come out today. You can check them all out in this page! If you're lucky there will even be a screening on the weekend of the 7th december near your house.

Here are my favorites. #3 - Fjögur píanó - is directed by Alma Har'el featuring Shia Labeouf. #5 Ég Anda is directed by Ramin Bahrani.

 

I also recommend #2 by Inga Birgisdóttir, #9 by dash shaw and John Cameron Mitchell and #10 by Nick Abrahams Read More

来来来チーム - 天国 from ONIONSKIN Read More

Fond this "Pronunciation manual" with some creative pronunciations of words and names. No matter how bizarre it goes, the choose of words / phrases and names is really interesting. Here's a list of my favorites.

Hermès

Macaron

Escargot

Cartier

Haute Couture

Comme des Garçons

Möet

Architect

Slavoj Žižek

Oeuvre

Champagne

Bête noire

Croissant

Maître d'

Skrillex

Rendezvous

Cabernet Sauvignon

Hors d'oeuvres

Wittgenstein

Papier-mâché

Vichyssoise

Bidet

Robin Thicke

Veuve Clicquot

L'esprit de l'escalier

Jean Dujardin

Dulce de Leche

Caipirinha

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" by Trent Raznor and Karen O. From the "Millenium : The Girl and the Dragon Tattoo"'s soundtrack, the video uses reworked images from the movie trailer. Read More

Reruns! Like them or hate them, one thing is for sure: they make you look at the details. If you have already seen a TV show a long time ago, you are more likely to leave the story in the background and focus on the details. That is when you discover how lame some of these details were and question how could you have missed it in the first place.

That is not the case here. It was not so much a detail nor a lame one for that matter. I'm talking about Miami Vice, specifically about its opening sequence. How could you miss the big hole in the Atlantis building? Well, I did. But then again, I wasn't really looking or educated. It was now in one late night while working with the TV noise in the backgroung to keep me company that I really noticed it. A building with a hole poked in it. And me thinking MVRDV/Blanca Lleó's Mirador was the first - my naivety about the primes carries on.

The Atlantis Condominium was created by Arquitectonica, an international architecture, interior design and planning corporation headquartered in Miami. Arquitectonica began in 1977 as an experimental studio founded by Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Spear, Hervin Romney, Andres Duany, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The later two would end up founding Duany Plater Zyberk, also in Miami, becoming a leader in the New Urbanism movement.

Foreshadowing "culturalist" aspirations, the Atlantis building is described as a "modern version of a village, but in a vertical context". It is not even curious, then, that MVRDV would years later visualize this concept again for its own hollowed out building. Even so, here it is.

Mirador building concept

Watch this small promo about Arquitectonica:

Also, check out Jan Hammer's "Crockett's Theme". It's a great example of the "instrumental New Wave", popular during the 80's that seem to be inspiring today's 80's revival - (Radio Dept, M83, Twin Shadow, Wild Nothing, etc). Read More