I’m counting the last days of 2009, hanging out at my parents place. Between too much food Im busy digesting. What do you do with this in between breaks? Back in the days I would have been playing around with christmas presents and reading a lot, this year I’m spending most of my holidays on VIMEO!
I joined the video hosting and community site in may 2008, but it was only this year when I really started using it. For you people out there who lied under a rock in 2009, VIMEO is something like YouTube’s pretty little sister (german magazine SPIEGEL called it this way). It’s a video hosting website, which is truly beautiful and gives you lots of nice features and customization possibilities. But much more important is the community, on VIMEO filmmakers and all kinds of other creative peole meet to share their work, passion and commentary. Yes commentary. You hate YouTube comments? Share your videos on VIMEO, you will get intelligent, encouraging and differentiated comments.
Ok, enough talking, here’s my top thirteen list of VIMEO videos in no particular order (I’ve seen probably 1000 or more videos this year, so every piece on this list is a must see):
While web videos need one strong idea, music videos and commercials sometimes even need just one strong image. Martin de Thurah’s videos are filled with tons of unique and emotional images, and although he articulates most of his ideas on the scenographic level, his videos never get superficial because he always holds a very human atmoshpere.
See his absolutely stunning video for the new Fever Ray single:
This is already a couple of months old but well worth a look: An 8 minute Short Movie by Johannes Brueckner about the progress and problems of globalisation. Bar & line graphs on world maps, formed by real people become realtime-animated ‘living’ infographics.
English version and german version available on youTube
One theme. Twenty films. One-hundred and twenty seconds a piece. Twenty 120
Truly a world of it’s own, Björk’s new video Wanderlust, directed by Encyclopedia Pictura. The shooting took 9 month, there is a 3d and a 2d version of it.
See the 2d video in high quality here.
For more info watch a NY Times Interview or the Making of.
“Gestalten.tv offers video podcasts on all areas of contemporary visual culture, including graphic design and typography, product and furniture design, architecture, photography, art and more.
Gestalten.tv creates a broad range of documentaries, interviews and features that introduce Gestalten related subjects alongside individuals, projects and companies that are vanguards of visual culture.”
Transmediale is over and has been as always an inspiring experience! One of the most exciting events was the Generator.x project. It’s a project of Marius Watz which deals with the role of software and code in current art and design. The had a very atmospheric performance night, moreover a workshop and an exhibtion. Learn everything about the project on the website or watch the short videofeature I shot.
PROLOGUE, the world’s first adress for title design finally has a website!
Did not post any Motion Graphic Projects for a long time, but this one has to be spread!
Noah Harris does the beuatiful on air design for E4.
Amazing combination of RealAction, Stop Motion and CGI. What I truly adore is the feeling of non-perfection which gives the idents a very authentic but playful atmosphere.
We Feel Fine is an artwork by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar, and it is truly worth exploring!
It is a huge database that collects ‘human emotions’, or one could better say expressions of human emotions, from weblogs all over the world. Every time the sentences “I feel” or “I am feeling” appear in a blog entry, the emotion (sad, happy, etc.) is identified by the system and saved along with all sorts of other data, for example the gender of the writer, his or her origin, even the local weather conditions. This is possible because blogs are largely constructed in standard ways.
