Iain Anderson‘s 2005 short Airport makes use of the copyright free AIGA/DOT universal symbol system to chronicle a journey by air. Click here to watch. Nice bit of inspiration for what you can do with the public domain and a bit of digital manipulation.
Wow. Someone finally made something beautiful and true with blobby lumps of clay.
BLUE: An Erotic Life is a stop motion animation that narrates the life story of a blob of clay dealing with sexual addiction. The piece plays on the contrast between graphic adult content and grotesque stop motion. The combination of the two makes for an absurd, dark humored short film.
BLUE: An Erotic Life is my BFA Student Thesis from Parsons School of Design.
by Tibo Charroppin, via Coilhouse
I found the above Cinemassacre experiment via Make: an exercise in decaying video footage by redubbing it over and over. Maybe I’m weird but I found the deterioration fascinating, watching the colors mutate and the details dropping out until I was following the action by the motion rather than the forms.
A similar tactic but an aesthetically different experience than watching Bill Morrison’s film Decasia, clip below.
You can also see echoes of both in the Very Small Array post where a picture is run through every (default?) Photoshop filter. Shape and form decays while the decay produces accidental new forms. Click here and look at the whole thing to see this man and this cat transform.
Found this via Dangerous Minds.
I have little to add beyond advising you to clear out an hour to watch this Dutch documentary about the collection of people, practices and ideals that came together to form the punk band Crass. With a militantly anarchist outlook and a very DIY devotion to living what they screamed, Crass was one of the very few in art who lived their ideals 100%. A great hit of inspiration if you’re feeling like you’ve got no option but the treadmill you’re on.
This installment of Saturday Afternoon Video Club comes via Dangerous Minds, a fine site of this and that. Here’s Al Jazeera’s look at the people living in Las Vegas’ storm drains:
Much the same territory as covered by Marc Singer’s Dark Days.
New thing, folks. Pretty self-explanatory.
First up, an excellent animated tour through Dock Ellis’ LSD-infused 1970 no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Then, cool off with a tour through the House That Stalin Built: a bunker under Moscow meant to keep Russian officials alive just long enough to guide a nuclear counterattack and end the world.
Thanks to my man Gorilla Face for the heads up.
The “Wilhelm Scream” has been used in over 149 popular movies and counting. It’s the de facto cliche scream of agony. Haven’t heard it? Yes, you have.