If you only have one shot to shoot your music video, what would you do? The following video makers and bands have restricted themselves to this this rule, resulting in explosions of creativity, as often is the case with very restricting rules. The one shot music video is now more popular then ever! Watch the … Continued
Hackerspaces, Makerspaces, and Hacklabs? Whatever name they’re given, they represent a growing wave of community-led workspaces where people with similar passions and loves can come together and collaborate. From New York to Amsterdam, they’re popping up everywhere! With that said, consider this your international tourist guide where we’ll take you on a tour of the very best of … Continued
The ever-growing collection of interactive maps as part of the You Are Here project is a thing of beauty. But more than just this, these are maps that can act as agents of social change. We spoke to the project’s initiator Sep Kamvar of the Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab about how these maps tell their … Continued
One of the best parts of the SXSW’s Interactive Program last month was surely the SXSW Interactive Awards, highlighting the most inspiring and boundary-pushing interactive projects of the year. Which ones were honored? Well too many for this article! Without further ado, we pick out the coolest of the cool for you.
When Bob Dylan’s interactive video ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ went viral last November, it was very clear that interactive music videos were on the march. And with the latest brilliant entries from Aloe Blacc and Night Bus, it’s unstoppable. With the aid of interactive video-making tool, Interlude Treehouse, everybody’s doing it, or is at least … Continued
Canadian photographer Alexi Hobbs tells how an intimate story like a hunting trip with his grandpa turned into a gorgeous NFB produced interactive documentary. It’s easy to experience. It’ll only take 20 minutes.
Heavily gendered music videos are boring. The music videos in the boy/girl department that really stand out are coming from directors who are not afraid to mix it up a little and make a brave statement about gender. Though simple and low-budget, The Knife’s ‘A Tooth for an Eye’ directed by Roxy Farhat and Kakan … Continued
Let 2Pause take you on a sentimental journey through 2013 in music videos, the year of crappy 3D video game animations, retro science fiction, pre-cinema animations and the big bang of interactive music videos. These are the 5 best music videos of 2013.
We’ve all seen music videos produced in a documentary style but ‘Hidden Wounds’ is a whole new experience. Made by director Tomas Kaan and creative producer Arnold van Bruggen, it’s inspired by a dEUS song of the same name and it manages to creep under your skin like nothing else. We spoke to Tomas Kaan about the … Continued
One of the most fun and catchiest (in an artistically appropriate way, mind you) videos of last month was ‘Barkie’, a song taken off the new album from Dutch electronic four-piece De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig. Directed by Opslaan Als productions together with visual artist Thomas de Rijk, the 3D animated characters seem to come straight … Continued
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