It doesn’t get much geekier (in THE best possible way) than this. Taking the age-old tradition of Youtube a capella one step further, a time-rich Frenchman has recorded an instrument-free version of Thriller with his own voice – on no less than 64 tracks! Equipped with the essential viral video kit (laptop, mic, headphones, webcam) … Continued
About 3 weeks ago we wrote about the 2008 Mackie Winners – the Machimima Filmfests’ awards for the best Machinima films of the year. We loved the winning video – a beautiful, moving, surreal short film The Ship – so we got in touch with the guy who made it: Egils Mednis. The Latvian machinimaker … Continued
This tasty clip for Beck’s new ditty “Gamma Ray”, features downtown darling Chloë Sevigny as a tattooed ringmistress run amok, shimmying her twisted lil’ heart out against an animated collage of neon-hued, psychadelic steampunk. Directed by fashion designer/collage artiste Jess Holzworth – who, notably, cites Keith Richards as her inspiration for just about everything – … Continued
Damaged Goods brings to life Barnaby Barford’s much-loved ceramic figurines, in a 9-minute love story that has (drumroll please) shattering consequences. Made possible by Animate Projects, this short film merges the boundaries between art and animation and would, like many others in the Animate repertoire, sit as comfortably in a contemporary art gallery as it … Continued
Several things about the story of travelling salesman-turned-record archivist Paul Mawhinney are remarkable. Firstly, this charismatic Pittsburgh protagonist is in possession of the world’s largest record collection, with over a million albums and over 1.5 million singles. Secondly, 83% of his inventory is unavailable to the public. Thirdly, and heart-breakingly, absolutely nobody seems to care.
This little lady sure loves her watermelons! She slips into her finest lingerie and bathes in pink juice before deigning to eat of her beloved fruit. Such goings-on are run-of-the-mill in the spellbinding world of London-based director Woof Wan-Bau, where film and animation cohabit in perfect harmony: an irresistably dreamy suspended reality which will have … Continued
Remember the days when you would tune in to MTV hoping to see one of those original MTV idents in between clips? (by the way, where are they now?). You can tune in again now, because Australian motion design studio Umeric direct 12 smashing new Channel Idents for MTV Australia. Apparently MTV loved the idents … Continued
Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit montages thousands of tilt-shift photos and throws in some time-lapse trickery to create short films featuring Sydney Harbor and its environs, which confuse your brain into seeing souvenir-size miniatures of the Made-in-Taiwan-snow-dome school. His work follows on from a technique coined by Olivo Barbieri, the Pioneer of Pocket-size, who creates photos … Continued
Every year TENT. – an art space in Rotterdam – presents the TENT. Academy Awards. This is a competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animation from the Dutch art academies. This year the winner of the Public’s Choice Award was Edward Cook with his short documentary on a hotdog stand. Yael Assaf … Continued
Getting verbally abused has never been so funny. You suck at Photoshop is a very successful and absolute hilarious parody on those thousands of home made tutorials on the web showing you how to do all kinds of tricks with Photoshop. In this series, Donnie the host, is a rude and self-righteous swank who uses … Continued
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