Category Archives: Video

beauty

Beauty: a masterclass in subtle digital animation directed by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro who sez:

A series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty are appropriated, (from the renaissance to the symbolism of the late 1800s, through Mannerism, Pastoralism, Romanticism and Neo-classicism) with the intention of retracing the sentiment beneath the veil of appearance.

thisisnthappiness

london

In the mid 1920’s, cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene travelled around  the UK with his (at the time) high tech colour film camera to create a famous series of films called The Open Road, subsequently restored and circulated by the BFI.

Last year, filmmaker Simon Smith retraced Friese-Greene’s journey through London, mimicking the timing, angles and location of the original sequences shot for shot.

If you’re at all familiar with London, the side by side comparison above is somewhat awesome.

colossal/stellar

spice

Filmmaker Chris Cairns’ innovative commercial for Shwartz Flavour Shots featuring the combined talents of musician MJ Cole and pyrotechnician Paul Mann, whose explosions inside bags of peppercorns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chilli and coriander are synched to the music.

colossal/petapixel

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A rather excellent 2010 CG animation about a girl and her dragon directed by Colin Levy and created using the free open source Blender animation software.

It will reward 15 minutes of your time.

iheartchaos/sintel

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In his photo/flesh embroidery series ‘a flor de piel’, Spanish artist David Catá stitches the faces of people important in his life into the skin of his own palm. Sez he:

…their lives have been interwoven with mine to build my history. Every moment lived stays in the memory to finally be forgotten. somehow, this fact is painful, since there are only material things and traces that people leave behind.

designboom

OKGO
https://vimeo.com/65421081

A video that made the top ten for OK Go’s recent music video contest. Directed By S. Palmer, who sez:

My approach to the video was to build a storyline around the lyrics using mainly the Instagram feeds from the members of the band (over 40 of their pics are represented in some manner in the video). I used their online presence elsewhere (Twitter, Youtube, blog interviews, etc.) to help fill in the gaps.

curiousbrain