Argentine street artist Blu made huge waves on the net a while ago with his incredible street art/stop motion vido “Muto.”
His latest is a collaborative piece with David Ellis. It looks like this would take forever. Even if it’s not your aesthetic, you can’t help but be blown away by the intensity of the process…
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Following up on the radness that was “Supernova”, yesterday Siggi Eggertsson released “A Growing Pile Of Work”, a stellar vid made by using After Effects to piece together more than 400 images Eggertsson created between 2003 and 2009.
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I discovered Makoto Yabuki’s “White Box” through two very reliable sources: my boy HXFOUR sent it to me and I also saw it on Kateopolis’ epic Vimeo Channel.
This is like a visual toy box of everything I love: spontaneous colour, pencil crayons, bird song, clean white rooms, and anything to do with Japan.
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I realize that I’m a massive dork. But I can’t help it. Following an important day in the life of a large stuffed bear (named “Bear”), Robert Kilman and Safwat Saleem’s “And Everything Was Alright” is one of the most poignant and lovely shorts I’ve ever seen.
There’s a purity of emotion connected to children’s things. Kids live in a universe so fully realized to them yet still nascent to grown-ups. Sometimes we forget how deeply we felt when we were little. Bear is an amalgamation of a memory and a reality; is he young but living in an adult world, or is he old and continues to nurture his dreams despite his life? I think it’s both. Bear is an adult embodiment of our childhood inner-life. We carry those dreams with us no matter how old we grow or how far away they seem.
The sweet simplicity of this short broke my heart and then quietly fixed it again. I have been this bear. I know this bear. And I, too, have searched for my rocket ship…
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Part of an integrated series experiences to totally bring the story to life, “An Everything Was Alright” also shines as a children’s book, online, and an art exhibition.
I frequently find myself wishing that I lived in London, for various reasons. Now another major one is just around the corner…
Onedotzero_adventures in motion is back and showcasing some of the world’s most innovative motion design from Sept. 9-13. The incredible lineup of screenings, installations, and more makes me drool. It’s visual Utopia.
For this year’s visual identity and festival trailer, one of my favourite digital motion artists, the bad ass Karsten Schmidt, teamed up with Wieden+Kennedy London to create sinewy, flowing, fluid tendrils of text that eventually link together to form the festival logo . All of the copy was gleaned from onedotzero’s social media portals or pulled from blogs and Vimeo comments, symbolizing the collaborative nature of the festival and of the viewers’ comments and feelings forming its foundation. I wonder if one of mine is in there somewhere…?
The result is nicely symbolic, pertinent, and deceptively difficult to create.
If anyone would like to fly me to London to blog from onedotzero, I’m totally down. Just putting it out there. Anyone…?
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Call me a pussy, but I just cried like a baby watching this. In a similar vein to Chris Milk’s amazing “Last Day Dream”, Radi0lab and Will Hoffman’s “16: Moments” delivers a bombardment of visual poignancy that’s a bit overwhelming. But in a good way. Like being drawn under by an ocean wave. Or blown out of a cannon. Or eating too much wasabi.
See, I get all emotional because at times like this you realize how universal these glimpses are. People really are very much the same. I had a sort of visual-synaesthesia episode watching this: I tasted parts, I touched others. I was only watching a lap top screen, yet I could smell things.
Powerfully engaging. Like taking your whole life and strolling it past a long hall of mirrors. When I looked I saw things I was, things I am right now, and things I will be…
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I have a mild obsession with Japanese vending machines. I also have a mild obsession with things that light up. Throw in some experimental French electro-ambient, and I’m sold. Easy as that.
This was shot in Tokyo; Japanese vids always looks so sharp. The quality of the light is so austere and tight, like the light can cut. Seriously, the Japanese are putting something in their lightbulbs: extra tungsten or awesomeness or something only they know about. Sound artist Carsten Nicolai directed this vid for Alva Noto‘s “UNITXT u_08-1”, featuring the voice of Anne-James Chaton.
Here’s the thing: Carsten and Alva are the same person. Carsten Nicolai is the man, Alva Noto is his musical persona. Thought they both have their own website. Gotta love Germans…
Here is the radness right here. Look no further…
Directed by William Campbell at Superfad.
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Siggi Eggertson kicks some serious ass.
This is pretty high up on the trip-out scale. Sort of like listening to an Autobot/God hybird fill you in on all the celestial happenings you’ve missed out on… at a trance rave. Like I said… trippy.
Created by Siggi Eggertson for Lawrence Cepstral’s “Supernova.”
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I first started following We Love Our Work (the artistic collaboration of Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug) after “CDEFGABC”, their colourful, crystal-rubbing rendition of “No Limits” for MTV Europe.
Their latest, “Revenge”, shows a harrowing day in the life of an egg.
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Continuing on the whole colour-obsession tip, their 2008 short “Color Correcting” compiles into a 4-minute short the 9 hours they spent separating a pile of multi-coloured Discodip ice cream sprinkles into it’s individual colours. They scary part is that after 9 hours the original pile basically looks exactly the same…
I’m sure there are arguments as to why I shouldn’t find this so fascinating, but I don’t give a shit. I’m fascinated.
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