This series of online micro-docs broadcast daily from two war-ravaged Israel-Palestine border towns, should snuff out any lingering doubters of the Webdoc genre. The humour, resourcefulness, and resigned acceptance with which the twelve featured characters go about their daily lives provide a poignant contrast to the ‘suicide bombers vs snipers’ theme favoured by news reporters. … Continued
Walter Robot was programmed into existence by a lonely scientist in the music clip for Missed the Boat by indie band Modest Mouse. Since then, Walter (a.k.a Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie) has gone on to direct clips for acts as divese as Vitalic (lo-fi head-nod) and Underoath (rock-o-rama). His latest instalment for the self-proclaimed … Continued
A conglomerate of attention-seeking individuals both amateur and professional, gathers for Youtube’s first ever live streaming event where superstars like Katy Perry and Akon rub shoulders with bedroom vlogging supremos like teen comedy sensation Fred Figglehorn and Chocolate Rain star, Tay Zonday. San Francisco plays host to the live event which showcases in a much-hyped … Continued
In 2004, Jamie Caliri directed the beautiful animated end credits for Lemony Snicket’s – A Series of Unfortunate Events. “One of the most impressive credit sequences of 2004”, we wrote. The animated end credits for DreamWorks’ Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa are not as epic or as elaborate, nor do they share the same richness of … Continued
Kaltura has cemented its place firmly on the Collaborative Media map, as the world’s first (legal) open source video platform. Promoting active collaboration, sharing and remixing amongst its users, the tools offered by this pioneering startup, boil down to 3 main strands. First, enrichment of video and rich-media features to existing sites; second, user-friendly creation … Continued
United Vloggers treats us to 2 cheeky helpings of Berlin-based video artist and Youtube hedonist, Oliver Laric. In Aircondition, a klutzy dance routine to Laric’s own crisp Bangra-lectro composition, turns into a mesmerizing motion graphic, as myriad frames are echoed in one animated layer. For Touch My Body (Green Screen Version), he cuts out every … Continued
Before cinema there was the zoetrope, an ungainly peephole-pocked cylinder that (sort of) creates the illusion of motion. Luckily for us technology happened, allowing London-based studio Troika to create a live, multi-sensory, digital zoetrope; a state-of-the-art cylindrical output tower from which abstract patterns magically transform into words when lit with the right frquency. Commissioned by … Continued
Have you ever been gripped by the urge to watch an army of kilted, bagpiping Scotsmen circa 1899? How about some 1940s erotica seductively named The Apple-Knockers and the Coke? We’re guessing no on both counts, but with 70% of footage shot in the first fifty years of cinema now lost forever, this user-friendly collection … Continued
20 terabytes of data, 700 hours of processing and a record 200 Gigashot HD camcorders on a half-ton rig, make the world’s first Timesculpture advert something of a trailblazer that will have fans of Keanu’s leather-clad ‘bullet time’ moment in the Matrix dropping their jaws. A giant leap for 3D rotation technology, this custom-built wow-factor … Continued
For a small fee of your choice, and providing you’re a virtual citizen of Second Life, you can commission your very own love letter from the taboo-breaking badgirl of Chinese literature, Mian Mian.
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