Sunday, September 30, 2007

kate moss 3-d projection


I think this is so cool. Its a 3-d projection of kate moss. you can search "cheoptics" and you can find out how they do it.

This is for those of us a little stressed about the project.



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State of America, where do you stand?



speaks for itself really.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

paul mccarthy


um.. i'll write a comment later... it's 6am and i'm going to bed.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Duck vs Shasta

This duck was repremanded for his actions.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

DJ Ted Stevens Techno Remix: "A Series of Tubes"


this one goes out to mark callahan. i like this video because its fun and educational! but seriously... i like it because it confirms the visualization in my head about the internet being a SERIES OF TUBES TUBES T T T T TUBES TUBES. Do you guys ever read a book and map it out in your head? Not just how the main character can go from point A to point B in the city where the story takes place, but rather how the feeling, mood, or sequence of events climaxes and takes a turn in an unexpected direction. Sometimes I like to think about things this way. Like a dance or something. The tubes on the internet are like the dance of life. Get it? No seriously, someone respond...

PVC 1

lovin the free sharing of our generation



maybe some of you haven't seen this yet. it is so interesting how much news now relies on youtube. this story would probably have not reached such a wide audience without it. i think we should all consider getting a phone that takes video-- you never know when you'll feel a sense of social obligation or catch michael richards saying things he shouldn't. youtube doesn't require the media to cover a story. youtube provides its own momentum.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007



stop-motion done with a whiteboard. i love the transitions from one shape/object/animal(?) to another and think this was really well done. i also really enjoy the consideration of what is colored vs. erased

Crank Dat Soulja Boy




Mind-numbing repitition of lyrics, choreography so simple a child can do it. Recontextualizing never seemed so right.

Black Dice - Smiling Off



Trippy Video. Kinda Cheesy, but music makes up for it.

Monty Python Animation



Hey, Kidz!

Heres an excellent example of video collage....Check it!

love,
Star

The Shock Doctrine



A short film by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron (director of Children of Men).

The Book

Martin Arnold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Arnold

Alone Life Wastes Andy Hardy (small excerpt)


My fav Martin Arnold piece is this one::: Passage à l'acte

Peter, Bjorn & John "Up Against The Wall"

Monday, September 24, 2007

Juggs Gotcha



A very classy voice over of an x-men classic. Now an internet fad classic. So popular it even made it into the 3rd x-men movie. Now everyone repeat the catch phrase.

Deal




Great deal on this little Sony cam
http://www.dealhack.com/archives/2007/09/sony_dcrhc32_mini_dv_digital_c.html

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Múm. They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded.

Awesome music video with a new take on stop-motion animation. I dig the nature/death/childhood theme they are exploring in this fantastical video. It's simple but magical. This is the same band whose music I used in my first video for this class. Check it!

Friday, September 21, 2007

Slate Magazine's Rip on Romney



This is all found footage. Well, not so much found as given. But I love how subversive it all is. A campaign donates footage for all of us out there on the web who want to make videos for the candidate. Of course, they assume these video's will be laudatory. Nope, not this one at least.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Fabric of Our Lives. in the FUTURE.

Think of the possibilities! Textile design meets technology. After a while, maybe there could be television embeded in your clothes?? Animated gifs as pattern... it blows my mind.


So, here is a kinda different take on the video collage. I love it and they write the music too. The people on the animal bodies are also members from band. Its really fun. Rad!

love,
Star

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Let's Paint,Exercise,& Blend Drinks TV!

This is hilarious. I've never witnessed such great intentions fail so miserably. Reckless ideas are great.

Warhol at Wal-Mart

This was a project from Michael Oliveri's class. We had to make art at Wal-Mart with out necessarily spending any money. The idea wasn't to buy supplies from Wal-Mart, but to use it as a resource. I went in with the intentions of putting something in the wonderfully lit freezer case, but I wasn't sure of what I wanted. I was already in the food section, I so it hit me that there would be TONS of tomato soup cans literally right around the corner. What better place to relay Warhol's ideas of commodity than at Wal-Mart-- the commodity SUPER STORE!!


Beats Of Boredom from adam deeves on Vimeo.

the music's great. but i think he shows the different visuals to often. towards the middle and end it gets a bit disorienting, but not in a good way. at least that's what i think.

Warhol at Wal-Mart

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The Sultan's Elephant



If I were there, I think I would find myself imagining that the puppet was real. I still have that child in me that wants to believe in giants. Its great to see art that can bring that out. The reality of it is pretty amazing, too. I think they have like 20 people working this thing.

Vote Black Thunder

Commercial Remixin



This is yoko ono's infamous cut piece. the audience was asked to cut off pieces of her dress with scissors. this is totally worth watching all the way through even though it is kind of long. yoko ono's face just seems to translate as victim. there is a pretty important idea here. performance artists, such as yoko, openly questioned gender roles by positioning the artist as both creator and model, maker and muse, active and inactive. the male/female poles are confused in an art in which the body of the artist is used. the traditional notions and assumptions of the artist as male and the model as female are no longer applicable. thank god.


Yeah, I think there's some found footage in this, although I'm not really sure. These guys are pretty funny, that's about all I really have to say about it, though. I'll keep writing, because maybe Rick won't really read this, he'll just gloss over it and be really proud that I gave a shitload of context. Fuck, I'm just gonna' copy-n-paste this shit to make it twice as long. Double Time! Yeah, I think there's some found footage in this, although I'm not really sure. These guys are pretty funny, that's about all I really have to say about that, though. I'll keep writing, because maybe Rick won't really read this, he'll just gloss over it and be really proud that I gave a shitload of context. Fuck, I'm just gonna' copy-n-paste this shit to make it twice as long. Double Time!

Monday, September 17, 2007

How Not to be Seen



An instructional video that makes use of appropriated videos to prove a point and teach a lesson. This partially appropriated video teaches the skill of not being seen. This means that after watching this video one can be more skilled in the area of not being seen. If one is seen after watching this video then they haven't gotten the real point of the clip and should probably watch it again. Maybe watching it while no one is looking at you will help to get the point across. I have learned to make these words no seen by rambling on and on making sure that no one actually pays attention to what is being written. However I have begun to write more so no one can be angry.

Fargo Yeah



Another full movie edit.

Boeing 747-8



The digital media club needs to get one of these. Apparently they are trying to revamp an old plane that sees little use now-a-days. It burns way too much fuel.

Choice Words



YouTube Mashups

Simple mashing of different soundtrack and video to create a new piece


Bob Fosse vs. Dj Unk


Godard vs. Junior Boys


Werner Herzog vs. E-40

Recut



Stanley Kubrik's horror film The Shining re-edited as a trailer for a romantic comedy.

bizarre.

i didn't even finish watching this video because i had to run and open up blogger to post this. i guess it's a little foolish to post something if you didn't watch the whole thing (well i also guess that i did that when i posted freebird). I was on john michael and javiers 52 o's and saw javier post a video for someone/something called mike oldfield so i looked at some of their other music vids and this apparently is one of them???

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Gimme More Chris Crocker.

More pop culture delight! O.K. So this is the kid, Chris Crocker, that has been splashed all over the news for crying (literally) on youtube about people being mean to Britney Spears. This however, is not THAT video, THIS is something else of Chris' (from his youtube vlog collection), which I think is entirely more compelling: Him trying to psychoanalyze his granny. His vlog's are an intriguing mixture of patheticness, flamboyancy, and teenage angst. Check it out!

freebird.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

More awesome animation



Hello.

Heres more great animation...i'm obsessed with the Floyd, so... The ending, i think, is profound...
what exactly is it that goes into the sky? Is it a part of the continuous cycle that we are all stuck in?
Humans are creatures of habit and therefor cycles and patterns emerge as a result.

love,
Star

JFK Movie Intro



Best Editing job I've ever seen. Almost best movie I've ever seen. Not to mention John Williams...

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

pop levi



anyway this is pop levi. he used to be in ladytron and now he's on ninja tunes.
ps: i love that the you tube computer chose to use the frame of his crotch for the thumbnail thing for the video.

State of the Music



Ash and I were discussing this earlier today.. this dude explains it better than me..

Monday, September 10, 2007

Princess Superstar vs Mason "Perfect Exceeder"



Hot music video is like Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction" only cheesy and gayer, in typical Princess Superstar fashion. She doesn't take herself too seriously and she's definitely got the mic skills, but I'd be lying if I said that she was one of the best rapper out there. She's far from perfect, but still one of my favorites. She rhymes about sex but manages to not come off as a Trina or Lil' Kim ripoff. She's also knows her way around some turntables. Check out her site here.

Cycle



A cheerful animation by Guy Bar'ely. A flawless use of the look away to flash back. And some creepy circus music when you get there.

Len Lye's Color Flight

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Chemical Brothers: Let Forever Be


This make me extremely happy. Directed by, who else? Michel Gondry!

Saturday, September 8, 2007

David Blaine Parody 2



What I love so much about these guys is that, from all I can tell, almost everything they do may be easily accomplished without the aid of any real special fx budget. They just draw your attention away like, well, great magicians, distracting you just when they need to make time for key transitions off-screen.

Education in Norway must be Incredible!


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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Sand drawing

This person is drawing with (or "on") sand.
Interesting to see how the image changes continuously.

Morphing Kittens



I've only done morphing on images before...Morphing a video would be interesting too, I guess.

There is also a puppy version:

lil' bit of pop culture america for your diet



words can't say enough. granted, i realize this isn't exactly the "inspirational-video-i-want-to-make-beautiful-work-like-this" kind of thing, but... no judging.

Smokey Brown Eyed Girl :P makeup tutorial



Most Asians don't have creases in their eyelids, this makes applying eye-make up tricky. So fuck whatever advice the magazines here had to give us, the western way of eye-make up application simply does not work as well for Asian eyes due to different structures. African Americans require certain specific processes to style their hair, but at least they had a couple of magazines to guide them. Unless we had friends from the mainland or older sisters, we'd never know what techniques to use. I sure as hell wasn't about to ask my mom how to properly apply eyeshadow. So more recently, the internet has made this information more accessible to those that are curious about make up but lacking knowledgeable sources. Thank you pursebuzz!

Check out Asian Beauty for more beauty tips, and subscribe to Audrey for a magazine that caters and supports our community. AZN pride bitches!

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar



Here is a single take video done in CG.
Hahahaha beat you to it

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

ze gossip



rick mentioned this...

Monday, September 3, 2007

John Sears' Drawing Narratives

John Sears, one of my old students, did these great little one take animations.

Episode 1


Episode 2


Episode 3

Sunday, September 2, 2007

OOIOO




This is a video by Shoji Goto. There is a lot of great stylized movement. There are some really simple things going on in the piece just using colors that can be done with simple techniques to bring other scenes together. It shows that you don't have to have all action footage to bring a video together in an effective way.

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