Tech Digest highlights UK newcomer DigiFusion who are continuing to introduce accessible and no-nonsense innovation into their moving image products. Their new pPVR sports a 3.5 inch screen and 20 Gig storage (enough to hold 40 hours of video), but most significantly can transfer video direct from their other products, cutting out the usual link [...]
Archive for June, 2004
ARS Electronica NYC
Starting on 24 June to 18 July, a special Digital-Avant-Garde-NY preview event by Austria’s Ars Electronica festival complements a New York exhibition celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary, and includes screenings of contemporary digital imaging work.
I dream electric sheep EYEBEAM programme
Silicon stories & other selected animations at American Museum of the Moving Image
E3 loves PSP
Ironic that PSP wins best in show at E3, as with its high specs and hefty price tag it appears to be targeted as a slick high end, ultra portable multimedia device. It’s not the accessible portable games machine some wanted (Sony look like leaving that area to Nintendo and new entrant pretenders). PSP [...]
2004 Music Vision Award Winners
The CADS Music Vision Awards were recently announced in London. Dougal Wilson cements his rapid rise, being named as Best Video Director. Alex & Martin picked up yet another deserved award for their ever-increasing triangular Seven Nation Army, as did Julian Gibbs at Intro for his simple, memorable commercials treatment of Radiohead’s Hail To [...]
New Warpfilms site
Warpfilms has a new site. Highlighting an initial roster that is determinedly unclassifiable, featuring as it does projects by Shane Meadows, Chris Morris and Chris Cunningham, the site is now geared up to feature updates on these projects where news has been traditional sparse. In particular look for more information on Chris Cunningham’s feature development, [...]
Robota science fantasy
Robota, the side project of Star Wars prequels design director, Doug Chiang, recreates those warm childhood memories looking at lavishly illustrated science fantasy books. The atmospheric animated teaser for the sequel publication to his original illustrated book set in a feudal robot milieu makes me wish for a longer-form realization.
AVIT 2004
AVIT, the North America International VJ Conference and Visuals Festival, starts today in San Francisco. The event launches with a highlight theatre event that features elite UK VJ crew, The Light Surgeons, performing Z-Axis a visual remix of the cult classic The Fountain Head. The event ends on the 12th with an audiovisual all-nighter of [...]
Chaku-motion: mobile music video
J@pan Inc’s Music Media Watch highlights the new and growing trend for downloading these distilled music videos superseding passé audio-only ringtones. Interesting implications for the form to see how this forced distillation develops…
“The most common featured well-known Japanese pop singers or bands waving or strumming a guitar and saying something clever like “You’ve got [...]
2004 Annecy animation festival
The 2004 Annecy Animation Festival takes place 7-12 June. Highlights at this prestigious event include Bob Sabiston’s 15 minute short, Grasshopper, the Mesh short, Welcome to Glaringly by Grant Orchard, and Korean feature animation, Oseam” href=”http://www.asiandb.com/browse/movie_detail.pfm?code=5444&mode=stuff”>Oseam, an adult fairytale by Baek-yeop Sung.
Grasshopper | Welcome to Glaringly
Daniel Levi promo no freak
“This is going to make you freak…”
The recent best debut award at the 2004 MVPAs, and a bronze Clio, has cemented Daniel Levi’s status in the top tier of current promo directing talent. His visualisation of Asian glitch-hop schoolgirls becoming more deformed both physically and emotionally by the fearsome electronic pulses of [...]
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