The V Motion Project from Assembly on Vimeo.
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall.
Short documentary about two art installations by London-based art and design practice United Visual Artists. The works are located in Toronto and were commissioned by Lanterra Developments for their Maple Leaf Square development. Video by inkblot media. LINK: Vimeo
"QUOTE" The ethereal, psychedelic visuals (in combination with some Atari 2600-inspired pixel graphics) is what inspired me to create today’s post for “MmmHmm.” Flying Lotus is actually Steven Ellison, a multi-tasking producer, songwriter and “laptop musician” (the first I’ve heard of such a title) who is involved in some very interesting projects. Flying Lotus is responsible for much of the bumper music gracing Adult Swim and has also recently collaborated with the Ann Arbor Film Festival to perform a live score alongside one of their films.
Electronic music really lends itself to visuals due to its instrumental nature, and the references here to space, technology, culture and human connection are beautiful. Sometimes appearing experimental, sometimes whimsical and sometimes heartwarming, this visual interpretation of “MmmHmm” is both calming and contemplative. LINK, Via: Youtube
This sequence of 4085 photo's was patiently created by Nobody Beats The Drum's VJ / visual artist Rogier van der Zwaag. LINK: Youtube
Stop Motion Animation 'Grindin''
Director: Rogier van der Zwaag
Music: Grindin' by Nobody Beats The Drum
A live demo of the Pioneer SVM1000 Mixer and 2 Pioneer DVJ1000 Decks using videos that he created himself and running quite a few of the Mixers audio visual effects.
Tracks include - Natural Born Grooves - Candy On The Dancefloor; Laidback Luke - Break Down The House; Foamo - Alright; White Label - Free Children. LINK: Youtube
Hercules the liger sharpens his claws. This is a good visual reference to the size and power of the claws of the big cat (panthera) family. You can also clearly see how their claws completely retract into the foot, unlike a cheetah.. LINK: Youtube
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Swiss artist Zimoun builds sound installations that create a unique audiovisual experience. This video is a compilation of many of his projects, including listening to woodworms at work using a microphone, an automat with selections representing different cities, and pvc hoses flopping about under the force of compressed air. You can see an archive of project-specific videos at the above video link.
Official Website, Via: Make, Via: Neatorama
On a 7m long LED screen behind the guys, for this year`s tour
the music on this animation is an instrumental version
in cooperation with Toby Jackman (bear dance)
(the original resolution is 1080*288)
check out the music video version: vimeo.com/7373036
LINK: Vimeo
Irving Penn, a renowned master of American fashion photography whose more simple aesthetic, combined with an often startling erotic sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects as fashion design, celebrity portraits and everyday objects, many of them now-famous photographs owned by leading art museums, has died at the age of 92. In 1943, Penn started contributing to Vogue magazine, becoming one of the first commercial photographers to cross the schism that had separated commercial from art photography. He did so in part by using the same technique no matter what he photographed: isolating his subject, allowing for scarcely a prop and building a work of graphic perfection through his printing process. Art critics considered the results to be icons, not just images, each one more artistically powerful than the person or object in the frame. LINK, Via: Youtube
"Richard Hawley - Our Darkness [The Photographs of Irving Penn]"
Readers can read more about the life and accomplishments of Irving Penn in The New York Times here, and in The Los Angeles Times here.
Reader’s can access a wonderful audio-slide show of Irving Penn’s series entitled The Small Trades, which is presently on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum here.
Dreaming of Lucid Living is a short film that’s a remarkable, beautiful performance/animation mash-up by the award-winning animator, designer and multi-media artist Miwa Matreyek. The film is a performance/installation piece constructed like a shadow puppet theater, integrating Matreyek’s solo live performance, nicely composed visuals and animation in a way that is both poetic and quite quirky. It combines live performance with both pre-made animations and semi-autonomous, rule based animations that appear to update based upon what a camera is viewing. The film’s presentation of deceptively simple, deliciously playful illusions, a high-spirited sense of wonder, and creatively unexpected mixtures of live action and animation is just incredible. LINK, Via: Youtube
Created (upgraded) from the previously made visuals featuring Lightspeed Champion. LINK: Vimeo
A BW mythical music video for Land of Talk’s “It’s Okay,” directed by WeWereMonkeys. Quite stunning visuals!
Notes about the project from directors:
The idea of the Antiope came from our amazing producer Marcella Moser. Together, the three of us built a story of the last Amazon Queen riding her horse to her doom. We saw her riding through abstract, lonely landscapes, and finally launching from a cliff to disintegrate into nothingness. We saw the piece in super-slow motion, with dramatic lighting and little or no colour. To us, this idea melted perfectly with the sad, slow, feeling of inevitable doom that we got from the music. LINK, Via: Vimeo
If one looks closely at the construction of this figure, it quickly becomes apparent that something is just, well…wrong with it.
This initially-baffling video exhibits how the human visual system can subconsciously interpret and thoroughly "see" a three-dimensional object even though it is impossible for such an object to exist. Thankfully, the creator reveals how it was constructed. LINK, Via: Youtube
One of the most unique and common forms of art on the Internet these days is called concept art.
Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.
The concept artist generates a visual design for something that doesn’t yet exist.
Most of these pieces are created with Photoshop as well as using more traditional means such as oil paints, pencils and others. The two most common themes are science fiction and fantasy. LINK
It's pretty cool how wallpaper backgrounds really add to the visual effect of body art; it almost looks 3D. LINK
Visual Acoustics is a concept for interactive expression. A canvas to paint reactive music and vision as a real-time artistic performace.
Brushes are painted across the screen, each consisting of an instrument (piano, violin, flute, guitar, harp, strings, bass, tenor sax) and accompanying visual. The position of the mouse pointer on the screen determines which instrumental note the brush paints onto the screen. LINK
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