Piercing through the gathering darkness of autumn on Amsterdam’s ancient Dam square, a shimmering screen nestled among Hieronymus-meets-an-oil-spill sculptures, sees into your (yes YOUR!) soul, transforming what lurks beneath into brilliant beams of color as you walk on by. The work of transglobal angel-bots Champagne Valentine for clothing label Diesel, it sets a new precedent … Continued
One of our 2Pause very favorite music video directors, Holland hotsuff Roel Wouters, has just launched a super-fun mega crowd-sourcing collaborative uber project called Now Take A Bow. Described as “a self-portrait of the audience”, it invites the crowd (that’d be you) to take directions from the charmingly Nether-accented Mr Wouters himself, to become part … Continued
Drew Struzan! You may not know his name but we’ll bet our bottoms you’re familiar with the resplendent airbrushed tattoo aesthetic which has graced just about every blockbusting movie poster like, ever! A new feature doc delves into his career as public realm visual communicator of little-known arthouse flix like Star Wars, E.T, Indiana Jones … Continued
Who knew the Philippines was home to a raging boobs’n’bazookas b-movie scene for budget-less American directors of the 1970s? YouTube aficionados may be familiar with the work of little Weng Weng, proud recipient of many millions of hits for his extreme smallness / devastating acting ability… Well, this is his natural habitat! Machete Maidens Unleashed! … Continued
Well if this isn’t cause for celebration, our name’s Aunt Fanny! Our very first MiniMovies, a spectacular documentary shot entirely in the virtual universe about a missing Californian male called Molotov Alva who shows up in Second Life, has been selected for The Animation Show of Shows by Acme Filmworks as one of – and … Continued
Lonesome, autumn/spring/summer/winter (insert as appropriate), afternoons are made infinitely better by sharing a banana and a boogie with a supercute monkey in a nostalgia-drenched, papercut, dreamland. You Were in My Dream is a brand new, big-dollar winning, interactive animation project by Australian artists Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine. The project takes your pretty face and … Continued
It only really works with Google Chrome, but when it works it is OW-SOME! An interactive music video *application* by veteran music visuals uberlord Chris Milk for indie-turned-arena hipsters supreme, Arcade Fire. It’s to promote their new single We Used to Wait, and it’s all about your fond memories. Once loaded – can take a … Continued
Hollywood’s number one enemy and torrent source for the masses The Pirate Bay, has a Court of Appeal hearing coming up to contest the one-year prison sentence (and 4 million fine-bucks!!) of it’s founding fathers. One year in the slammer for some harmless file-sharing? We’re all over that appeal! But the reason we write: there’s … Continued
If the words “interactive music video” are repeating on you while browsing our blawg, it’s not because we’ve been over-indulging – but simply that we keep seeing them EVERYWHERE! Ladies and gents, we think it’s safe to say a new genre is exploding before our very eyes! While the interactive oeuvres of Radical Friend for … Continued
While indulging in the sumptuous Interactive Screens of Banff, Alberta last week, we gleaned some ultra exclusive insider juice about the soon-to-be locative cinema project by veteran interactive storytellers Blast Theory. Mixing documentary material, film noir cliches and the oeuvres of Jean-Luc Godard, it invites you to step inside a film, receiving instructions on your … Continued
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