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I could start this post by pointing out that there’s a new Kanye West music video that uses this technique, but I won’t because it’s been in america’s mothers’ basements for years. In fact, me and my friend Adam through of it nearly five years ago. What made the phenomena popular was Evident Utensil which was up for best music video for MTV’s Music Video Awards back in August.
Since the song is protected by copyright, here it is backwards.
In October I saw a fellow who had data moshed a lot of old movies together with great success and was doing it as a video installation. This is two months later, and it’s being used by a celebrity, so it’s rapidly going to becoming a played out effect just like auto-tuning. Surely back in 2004 it only entertained me and my friends for a short while before we ran out of ideas. Oh how short-sighted we were…
So far it’s proved itself as being just another tool in everyone’s box. In any case, if you’re interested, just watch this tutorial and then you’ll be a data moshing rock star.
I got on John’s case the other day about not having more of his amazing video work online. It turned out he did have some of it online already, but then I talked him in to getting a Vimeo account. So as of yesterday, his 320 short entitled “Magic Boots” is up in 720p HD, and if you have an account yourself, and jump on the link before the 30-day period, you can download the full 1080i HD video at the bottom. (I love Vimeo!)
Beautiful baby Bird ain’t half bad either. I imagine that the future will hold even more IceHorse, and wacky-natured video backflips.
I’m taking a trip to europe starting next week. one of the places i might go is Taunton Somerset where i have relatives. I found this delightful short film that shows off its landscape and what looks like the place where they make apple cider, or maybe beer. It’s hard to say.
Two articles were recently put online, and they have a lot in common, so I suggest you read them both.
First up, “Science for CG” was originally a series of posts made on the cgtalk forums, and were recompiled for ease of reading by someone over at subdivisionmodeling.com. The result is a roughhousing of a lighting and optics physics textbook and a tips n’ tricks tutorial with glossy pictures. The explanation of BDRF with cubes is very cool.
Second, the shader artists who worked on the recently released Cloud With A Chance of Meatballs talk about how they’re expertise in the area of CG shading (like in the first article) combined with previous experience in photography made for a good match when it came to working in CG film.
Next post, I’ll be in Europe rubbing elbows with Blender geeks!
Want a summer trip filled with metal, art, daring climbs, flashlights, and fish? I know I do. I’ve heard nothing but awesome things about the City Museum in St. Louis. Three of my friends have gone and loved it. I hope to go soon. It seems like a good way to take a break from the computers for us multimedia folk. Here’s my favorite quote on the subject from the museum’s site:
“What happens when you mix two Saber 40 aircraft fuselages, a fire engine, a castle turret, a 25′ tall cupola and several 4′ wide wrought-iron slinkies, and the creativity of CITY MUSEUM Creative Director Bob Cassilly and his crew? The result is MonstroCity, the most monumental, monolithic, monstrous montage of monkey bars in the world.”
On some blog, I’ve also seen it called a “Disneyland killer” and an “art theme park … with secret passageways inside secret passageways.”
On Friday and Saturday nights, you can go from 11pm-1am when they turn out the lights and give everyone flashlights.
Here is a list of some of their eclectic attractions:
Enchanted Caves
MonstroCity
World Aquarium
Art City
Museum of Mirth, Mystery, and Mayhem
Tiny Train Town Model Railroad
Circus
Renovated architectural relics
Vintage Opera Poster collection
Wurlitzer Pipe Organ
Ball Pit
Shoelace Factory
The World’s Largest Pencil
Apparently new this summer, they’ve opened up the roof. You can get in the bus that’s hanging off the edge, ride a vintage four-story ferris wheel, and get into what looks to be plenty of other cool stuff.
Have you seen City of Lost Children? Yeah, I’m imagining it as something like that only with happier children.
The photo tour on the City Museum website is nice. Here are some other pictures I found online. Anyone want to go with me? Road trip! It’s only 9-10 hours!
Check out the next Bob Cassilly work here. Who doesn’t love cement?
Check out the City Museum on Facebook, too. Tons of fun pictures.
Youtube’s video player recently got some upgrades and taking advantage of those features in a really cool way, Chad Matt & Rob put on a hell of a good show. Drew, I think you should concider this option and put your 330 project on Youtube!
SUPER NEATO BLOGERIFFIC
http://basic_sounds.blogspot.com
be sure to go through the archives! The links section is a good resource as well.
It seems that our beloved professor Curt Cloninger has made his way onto Digg. This is a wonderful video art piece entitled Cannonball, which I recommend for everyone to see – and Digg. If you don’t already have a Digg account, now is a great time to make one. Help get Curt on the front page of Digg.com and go vote for this video.
This guy has been warping my mind since high school. Eight years later, a new demo reel has emerged from Gmunk and it totally kicked my ass a thousand times over; all the more reason to study the metaphorical foot that did the kicking. No other demo reel I’ve ever seen also doubled as a synchronized interactive CV/resume. Granted, his work isn’t as fast-paced and delightfully twitchy as it used to be, but that may also a sign of more talent to make his works last longer. At the very least, I appreciate that he is still using that tiny beep sound every time you mouseover on a link. It almost makes me wish all links had tiny beeps, like the tiny ticking noise you get from wheeling an iPod… </ramble>
That being said, whenever his original website comes back online from being going over its bandwidth limit, you should check him out frame by frame.
