December 2009
37 posts
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Nouema Desire, an eclectic animation by Jessie Rose Vala and Eric Nordhauser.
The Dramatic Chipmunk Attacks!
A Monty Pythonesque chipmunk with an evil eye. Moral of the vídeo? Don’t mess with Chipmunks. It’s a remake, here’s the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTisy5gmP7I
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Quirky and disturbing animated short by Run Wrake. Everything is labeled! Moral of the story? Don’t kill rabbits. More at http://www.runwrake.com/
Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel
Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel, a Siamese twin couple, forced to share only one brain. They try to work together, but things aren’t that simple…
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Sound Sculptures & Installations compilation by Zimoun (I wonder how that’s pronounced?). More info at http://zimoun.ch/
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Ingo Schiller’s excellent stop animation film “Der Bettnässer” (The Bedwetter). More at http://www.ingoschiller.net/
The Power of Words
“The Power of Words”, new video for Amnesty International, featuring Morgan Freeman. The animation is from Curious Pictures.
All India Radio - Lucky
Lucky by All India Radio, animated by Australian based company ‘Dee Pee Studios’. Painstakingly, the animators paint in the air with glow sticks, one frame at a time.
Kung Fu Bunny 3
More at http://blog.sina.com.cn/gongfutu.
The Green Screen
The many uses of ‘Green Screen’ technology in popular TV shows and movies. Appearances can be deceiving.
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Taken By Trees’ rendition of Animal Collective’s “My Girls”, entitled “My Boys”.
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From Black Mold’s debut album “Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz”, animated by Chad VanGaalen. Find out more at flemisheye.com
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Designer Stefan Sagmeister gives a talk at TED about “The Power of Time Off”.
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Massive Attack ‘United Snakes’ directed by United Visual Artists.
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Recruitment video to “Join The Empire”, a scene from Something Something Something Darkside, the Family Guy Starwars Episode.
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Video for MTV by Universal Everything. Audio by Simon Pyke / Freefarm
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Bits & Pieces
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Makoto Shinkai’s “Other Worlds”. Music by Eric Satie - “Gymnopedie” 1st Movement
Pac Man vs. Mario
Pac Man vs. Mario: In my opinion, the plumber never stood a chance.
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Video for Ascii.Disko with direction & production by Johan Bring and David Strindberg of PUNX ( punxsthlm.com )
Thom Yorke in Copenhagen
Here’s an interview with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke in Copenhagen.
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“We are not living through an economic recession, but a reorganisation of our society.”
More from Benoit Massé: http://www.vimeo.com/user240005
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Excellent song and video by Pomplamoose: http://www.myspace.com/pomplamoosemusic
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“You can make more words with your face than with your mouth. So you’ll hear more with your eyes than you can see with your ears.”
Promotion video for the title track off of the “Open Your Face and Make Words” EP by Impactist. More info: impactist.com/mainpages/audiopgs/IMPopenyourface.html
Here’s another promo video:
“Going across country to...
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“Let’s Enhance” - a montage
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Franz - Animation project from Jessie Amadio, Corinne DeOrsay and Brett Angelillis of Drexel University.
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The Known Universe - a voyage through our atmosphere and the inky black of space, from the Himalayas to the Big Bang.
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The Story of Cap & Trade - a look at the climate solution discussed at Copenhagen this year. Annie Leonard reveals the flaws in current cap and trade proposals. Check out more videos by the same people at: http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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Gran Torino Mashed-Up With Up - Are Pixar’s “Up” and Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” the same movie? This trailer offers pretty solid evidence…
Real Transformer
This costume actually transforms. Wait for it…
Techno Jeep
Wow, dance music made entirely with car sounds. More at http://JulianSmith.tv
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Zombie Kittens! Check out more animations by creator Cyriak: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/
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These guys used 3D animation to make an installation, which, according to the Vimeo entry, uses “matchmoving and compositing techniques”. The music combined with the animation is very realistic, until the end, when the boxes get out of hand. Visit the creator Jordan Clarke at the Cargo Collective: http://cargocollective.com/jvc
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Video painting. This technology allows artists to “paint” video onto any surface. Shooting in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, this filmmaking duo spent weeks documenting their work in urban settings to create “The Landing”. More info at: http://www.sweatshoppe.org/
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“J” by Virgilio Villoresi. Stop motion and rotoscope printed on paper, more information at http://www.virgiliovilloresi.com.
Rwandan Grand Prix
This stop motion short was made by students from the Orphans of Rwanda school in Kigali, Rwanda. Surprising to find Matt dancing at 0:55, or maybe it isn’t so surprising…
Greedy Boy
Greedy Boy, a beautiful animation with a serious message. To me, it looks as though the creator was influenced by Adam Phillips, whose animations you can find here: http://tinyurl.com/mplpd