Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
There’s a heavy ‘Tron’ vibe running through this music video by the band Muse. Yeah, that makes for a good FNMV.
Smooth, sensuous, and slightly psychedelic makes this old-school soul track by Breakbot an instant favorite of mine. The animation goes with the flow and makes it a perfect addition to the day-late FNMV collection.
Breakbot and Ruckazoid merge, creating Breakazoid, a cosmic pimp, who distributes his love to humans by taking them across the galaxy on the planet love.
Directed and animated by Olivier Lescot.
I really like this 2-plus-1 color animation – simple, stylish, brutal. While I suppose it could be a sort of love story, everything about it shouts addiction to me. A song I know all too well. The eyes floating out of his drink, the wolves chasing – it all resonates.
Whatever the story, it’s great animation and a a catchy tune by Siames and perfect for a Friday night music video.
A bit longer than usual at 19 minutes, but well worth the time.
The film was created using ‘old-school’ technology: 35,000 hand-drawn and hand-painted pieces of artwork, shot directly onto 35mm film with a rostrum camera, to achieve a traditional ‘cartoon’ feel. via
Directed by Neil Boyle, music by Stuart Hancock & The Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
I am a big fan of Tool‘s animated videos and this one comes from their most excellent album Lateralus.
The videos are created primarily by Adam Jones (guitarist), often in collaboration with artists such as Chet Zar, Alex Grey, and Osseus Labyrint. via
I’m posting this as a Friday night music video (FNMV) rather than a straight up vid due to the soundtrack which is some killer glitch.
Animated and soundtracked by Sang Hyoun Han (aka DOMCAKE) and produced at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Excessive competition between countries has created a perfect artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has excellent learning ability, but they have no imagination ability. Therefore, A.I. plans to steal the human’s as imagination makes everything possible. But at the same time, A.I. concludes that it is a human error as the ability can limit people due to the over imaginative mind. It makes humans to be afraid of death and leads people to believe in God which becomes a religion. Thus, A.I. creates a new religion by combining the characteristics of all gods so that every single human being can worship. All that faith has become energy sources that gives a power to A.I. to absorb the imagination ability from humans. Finally, artificial intelligence becomes perfect. In the end, the excessive desire of man toward information and technology causes the destruction of a mankind.
Created at TinSpider Studios (Kenny Frankland), who we’ve seen here before, for a great bluesy jam by London Elektricity.
While I admit that only part of this day-late-bonus-FNMV is animated, in it’s defense, it is Bootsy, so the live action parts are closely related enough to qualify.
Bootsy Collins is a bassist and a veteran of both James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic. This tune is with Bootsy’s Rubber Band. I’ve always had a taste for heavy funk and he knew how to bring it. Drop some Johnny Guitar Watson and Ohio Players into the playlist and I’m set.
In 1976 Collins, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson (1953-2018), Gary “Mudbone” Cooper, Robert Johnson and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy’s Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton’s P-Funk collective. The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. via
It’s Friday of a particularly brain-melting week for me, so this FNMV is how I’d like to get my weekend underway. (pun intended)
Released in 1968, I think this film opened the door for animation; from children’s cartoons and trifles, into serious adult entertainment. Soon after we saw Fritz the Cat hit the screen, and the The Dirty Duck, Wizards, Heavy Metal, the list goes on.
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