“The video sets out to amplify the message of the song.
The piece was conceived and created by The Rumpus Room as a multi platform project, having versions of the film for small hand held devices as well as large resolution screens. It is both a traditional piece of film and an interactive portal to online information and campaigns.
The video has over 100 QR Codes that are subliminal when watched in real time, but accessible to interact with if you navigate through the film using time controllers. The QR Codes are organised into sections that relate to specific issues of civil liberties.”
Visit the Pet Shop Boys Website for more information. The Production Company The Rumpus Room is a new division of The Sweet Shop, specialized in non-narrative Storytelling. Sounds interesting? Read an interview with Tomas Rope, founder of Tomato Interactive, and now involved in Rumpus Room, in the german culture magazine Spex. (german only)
The ‘Experience’-website for the upcoming Videogame by Ubisoft. makes heavy use of fullscreen first person video.
It’s already over one week since I returned from the Video Vortex Conference in Brussels, but I’m still deeply moved by the amazing weekend! Thanks again to Stoffel, Maria, Andrea, Bram and the whole team at ARGOS for inviting me and organizing this exciting conference!
I will post some stuff I saw in Brussels within the next days but I’ll start with a selection of abstrakt short films I curated and that was shown at a screening evening at the conference. It’s called “Visual Poems - Abstract video works on the net” and you can see it online at the ARGOS Blog. There you’ll find the short films of the participating artists and some short interviews.
Participating artists are Mate Steinforth, WeWorkForThem, Alec Crichton, Devoid of Yesterday, Curt and Defasten.
“Abstraction has been an important theme in the arts for over a century. Concerning the moving image there has been a strong tradition of abstraction from early experimental films to video art. The exploration of form has always been the exploration of the rules and functionalities of the particular medium.
20 years after the invention of the Internet moving images invade the medium. YouTube is already causing about 10% of the internet traffic worldwide, videos are seen by millions of users. But what is a typical web video? Are there already existing rules and thematical focal points in the YouTube world? Critics complain that you only need someone hurting himself in your video to get the big click on YouTube. Serious content or artistic expressions don’t arrouse enough attention and get lost in the digital nirvana.
So what about abstract or poetic web videos? Aren’t they objecting the rules of the medium by not impressing the viewer with fast food entertainment? Or are they by contrast indeed exploring the rules of the new medium by addressing issues like fragmentation or postmodernity?”
Do you get eye-cancer watching poor YouTube quality?
Vimeo High Def is here and it’s going to change something! And don’t forget to hit the Fullscreen-Button.
Williamsburg Nights in HD from Blake Whitman on Vimeo.
“Dead Bird is an experiment in storytelling & editing.
The same story is presented 3 different ways with each edit revealing a little more about the characters personalities, through their relationship with the environment, each other and a dead bird.”
You can watch the shortfilm either in a split screen edit or two classical edits. You can learn a lot about spatial montage comparing the three edits. In my opinion the classical edits in this case are much more compelling. The split screen edit transfers a certain atmosphere but no dramatic development while the classical edits offer more suspense. The split screen shows you different view points at the same time, but in this case it’s not really leading somewhere.
The Blog/MySpace-Widget of German female rap-artist Sabrina Setlur is a conceptual mix of an audi/video guestbook and a fan mashup/remix of her current single (probably becoming the worlds longest music single ever).
ROOM IDEAS is the third iteration of the well known IKEA Micorsites famous for their heavy and thoughfully use of video footage. This one is pretty sililar to the original kitchen website (Dromkok by Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors) with its use of motion control rig to film the footage and the user controls to zoom/rotate/navigate through the videos in the website. The second website kominigarderobe had much less interactivity.
Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks.
The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it.
After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it.
The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist.
”There’s no original”
P2P Art is an artproject from Swedish artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg.
18 Seconds is a short film by Zac&Mac (Bruno Zacharias and MacGregor), who also did Similio.
Amazing visuals again, and the atmosphere of the film really draws you in. Love everything except the end which is a little bit too predictable.
Via Not Fat Clips.
1000 Stories is a project by Florian Thalhofer and Mark Simons.
Starting in New York on October 1, Florian Thalhofer, a new-media artist and documentary filmmaker from Berlin, will travel all over the United States by motorcycle (generously provided by BMW), while U.S. filmmaker Mark Simon will travel throughout Germany by car. During their month-long journeys, each filmmaker will write about his experiences, collect stories, and conduct interviews, all of which will be posted daily at www.1000stories.com � their video log.
Their route will be determined by interested folks in the U.S. and in Germany who reply to their �Americans wanted�/ �Germans wanted� ad on the web. Readers are invited to get in touch via www.1000stories.com to suggest itineraries and potential interview candidates and to comment on the project.
via Seth Keen.