Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
What’s that saying? Oh yeah: Location, Location, Location.
Resonance is a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.
Abstracted, repetitive animation moves rhythmically to a violent score in this computer animated critique of modern society. ranks of faceless workers hammer the unyielding earth as a mechanized apocalypse seems to strike. although theros means harvesting in ancient Greek, there is nothing organic here.
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Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten, what is he searching for?
With apologies to the folks that are stopping in for a daily animation, but in addition to a full weekend working on Seafair stuff (more on that next week, perhaps) a Seattle icon died yesterday.
My son was almost apologetic when he brought me the news that Chris Wedes had succumed to the blood cancer that had plagued him for the last five or so years. Like many of my generation that grew up here, I had to sit down for a few moments and I will admit to tearing up again as I write this.
I wrote about J P Patches last year just after he retired from public appearances. During the 1960’s and 1970’s every kid I knew (including me, of course) watched JP’s show. We loved JP, and that’s not exaggeration.
Anyways, today I offer you a video of the clown’s last public appearance as well as one of Chris Wedes’ last interviews
Thanks, JP. It was our priviledge to have grown up with you, or rather, thanks for being a kid’s best friend whatever our ages.
A rather simple 3D animation, but it does have an interesting visual premise and a good tracklist; both on my ‘shiny things’ list.
This animation visually demonstrates how the bass [track] is being transformed and reacts from each certain genre-oriented dubstep track to another.
A contemporary reinterpretation of JMW Turner‘s painting “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway“. This short animation examines the concept of the Technological Singularity, the point in human progress after which predictions become increasingly difficult to formulate. Industrialization and computational innovation are re-imagined in a minimalist environment, drawing from video game and runtime aesthetics.
Enchanted by a pixie, a child called Yorick enters a magical kingdom, but when Yorick returns he finds his world ravaged by time.
The music video is set in a hand drawn pen and ink world inspired by Edward Gorey and animated in a cut-out style.
Music by Ceri Frost
The machineries of life…
Music by Tomohiro Nagasaki
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The Ruffled Crow 