“Grip is a video clip for the band zZz. Grip is a one take, top shot videoclip with professional trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects. The video has been recorded live as part of the opening ‘Nederclips’ at the Stedelijk museum ‘S-Hertogenbosch SM’S (Curated by Bart Rutten).”
UBU Web Film is the definitive web source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry.
They have pieces from almost all Video Arists like Abramovic, Acconci, Viola, Campus or Pipilotti Rist. Moreover they have films from artists and filmmakers from other backgrounds like Beuys, Warhol or even Banksy.
Via OH!News
Ok, the iphone seems to be a very good mobile phone but all this talking about it bores me. So here is a little video for all iphone haters.
Besides being funny this is one of the most successful viral marketing campaigns ever. The US-Firm Blentec and his charming founder Tom Dickson are blending all kinds of stuff on YouTube for over six month. The Slogan “Will it blend” is known all over the US by now and Dickson had an appearance at Jay Leno’s tv show.
Found this theatrical trailer for the very interesting HBO Voyeur project at Bannerblog. Fits in very well in the hypermedia marketing concept of HBO. Read my thoughts about the campaign here.
“V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands).”
TEST_LAB: PLAY!
EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC-ART GRADUATION PROJECTS OF 2007
Thursday, 12 July 2007, 8:00 p.m.
“TEST_LAB: PLAY! will feature a selection of the best European electronic-art graduation projects of 2007. The pieces have been selected according to originality and quality, and especially the way they use the concept of play - that is, the playfulness evoked by the work. At TEST_LAB: PLAY! these projects will be demonstrated, tested, and discussed among makers, audience and experts.”
This event will be streamed live at: http://live.v2.nl/play.ram
Apnée is amazing new short film on Specialten.tv by Claude Chabol.
It works with an amzing time distortion effect. In the first seconds you think it’s an ordinary time freeze where the camera moves through the frozen scene. But while the camera moves over some details, the characters and props move position and the story continues. The effect is that the time is freezed in the frame but moves on outside the frame.
Thanx to David for the Tip.
The German television channel ZDF together with gosub launched an interactive version of their detective story Rosa Roth.
One interesting aspect is that they show the complete strucuture of the interactive story in the navigation panel. This is probably not that good for the suspense but it really gives the user a feeling for the interactivity.
When the story splits up into two branches, you can see both of them (one in a bigger frame, the other in a smaller one), which is a little confusing.
Another aspect i like about it are the little information icons on the side. When a new character enters the story you can get some information about him by clicking on this symbol.
The HBO Voyeur Project is an Alternate Reality Game which gives you an inside look on different stories happening in different flats in NYC. There are two interesting facts about the project.
First it’s heavily using spatial montage to show connections between the different stories. There is an option on the website, which shows these connections by highlighting certain flats while dimming others. This technique gives some interesting new options for spatial storytelling.
Second interesting aspect is the marketing claim “Do you like to watch?”. For me it seems like HBO uses the Voyeur Project as an research tool to find out more about coverging media usage of it’s viewers. It’s not only the questions if you like to watch but where (or in which medium) you like to watch.
Get some backgrund information on the project’s blog “The story gets deeper”.
“The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of voyeurism.
See what people do when they think no one is Watching
is the tagline that they have used to describe the experience that starts in the streets of New York City, behind the countless windows that we pass everyday. It comes together in a silent film that will be projected on the side of a building, and extends to the HBO channel, HBO on Demand, and online at HBOVoyeur.com. There are also “artifacts” of the characters everywhere, pieces of story which have been sprinkled around the web and in the real world to heighten the experience for those who like to get involved. However it is experienced in whichever medium, the point of the HBO Voyeur Project is to get the viewer to confront the uncomfortable question: “Do You Like To Watch?”
Link via Bewegungsmelder.
The Coke Zero Website get’s updated : Untill July 20th, from 17-21h (CET) people can race Carrera live over the internet, hosted by the �Racegirls� Anna und Aldina.
Outtakes of the (german) Newsletter from agency Scholz & Volkmer: “Im Netz steuern, was im realen Leben passiert. Unsere Wiesbadener Agenturr�ume werden sich vom 2.-20. Juli in einen Carrera Rennparcours verwandeln. Die Racing-Bahn ist mit einem Server verbunden. Und ab n�chster Woche hei�t es an jedem Werktag von 17-21h f�r die User: auf www.cokezero.de anmelden, Motto ausdenken, Warteposition im Auge behalten, und dann, Mann gegen Mann, versuchen �bers Internet das Kommando auf unserer Rennbahn zu �bernehmen. Live vor Ort sind dann auch die �Racegirls� Anna und Aldina, die das Geschehen moderieren, die Modellautos nach einem Crash wieder auf die Spur setzen, die Fahrer anfeuern und sich nat�rlich �ber zahlreiche Fanpost freuen.”
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