Archive for September, 2006

Filter - P2P Art

“Art made for — and only available on — the peer-to-peer networks. The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it. There is no original.”
P2P Art - Filter: An Experimental film concerning ephemerality

Soderbergh’s experimental build

Building No. 7 is Steven Soderbergh’s experimental short, a homage to Godard’s Alphaville. Amateurish iTunes visualizer shots spoil an otherwise intriguing urban-oneiric short.
YouTube - Building No. 7

Cornelius goes all sensuous

Arty montage and teaser clip for Sensuous, the eagerly awaited album by cult Japanese musician, Cornelius. Can’t wait to see/hear more. [via jeansnow.net]
YouTube - Sensuous flagments

Tate Modern A New Renaissance lectures

Supernatural studios are in the middle of curating a series of lectures at the Tate Modern on visual effects, and computer animation. Inc. Johnny Hardstaff, Joe Letteri, Glassworks.

Cinema 2.0 vote

A Swarm of Angels is having its first voting day, as we ramp up the participation in the project and near the current 1000 member target.
Summer has seen a lot of behind the scenes work in terms of project evolution and media production. And we’ve made our first event bookings, doing a Remixing Cinema presentation [...]

Top 20 VJs Vote

The poll for DJmag’s Top 20 VJs 2006 is now open for voting. The annual contest is a great indicator of who is currently popping the most eyeballs in AVland. You have until September 25 to vote for your Top 5. The results will be in DJmag on the 25th October.
This year DJ Yoda and [...]

Democracy unleashed

Awesome open source internet TV and video player Democracy is nearing the first full 1.0 release with version 0.9 of the player launched this week. To celebrate they are having a Sheeps Week, announcing new parts of the Democracy ecosystem - features and helpful sites - each day. Check out How to Make an Internet [...]

Hyped $3M music video

Ridiculously shiny clip for Janet Jackson featuring Nelly, Call on Me. I’ve never really been a fan of Hype Williams, whom I see only excelling at squeezing record company budgets. Okay, he has a few redeeming seconds every promo clip or so; here, it is the bizarre apparition of a superbly incongruous pirate ship. [via [...]

Woof Wan Bau webbed

Received an email from the enigmatic Nexus director Woof Wan Bau, to tell me his new site is ready for public consumption. Feast on videos for Four Tet, Mogwai, and Coldcut at woofwanbau.com.