Posting activity has dropped off considerably apart from short ‘Glances’ bookmarking for a reason. I’ve been working hard on a ’stealth’ project, which I have just given a web launch:
Recent press: BoingBoing
A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema
A Swarm of Angels reinvents the Hollywood model of filmmaking to create cult cinema for the Internet era.
We [...]
Archive for the 'Noteworthy' Category
Cinema 2.0 - A Swarm of Angels
Colder and UVA dance To The Music
Colder’s To The Music video by UVA is a striking promo treatment where sound and image are totally in keeping with each other. I’ve worked with and commissioned pieces from Colder’s Marc Nguyen Tan previously (he has a background as an art director, creating impressive graphic and motion pieces as Dotmov and le cabinet), [...]
Hung up on Madonna
I love and hate the latest Madonna video, Hung Up, in more or less equal measures.
Why I hate it:
Performance clichés (couldn’t afford a good location scout?)
Hip-hop meets disco milieux (!?)
Incoherence (false narrative)
Krumping (Madonna trope: superficial use of street fad)
Warped visions
WarpVision DVD | Trailer image (Itsu/Pleix)
Warp Vision, an anthology of cutting-edge videos from the pioneering electronic music label Warp, is released September 27.
Warp Vision: 1989�2004 DVD
WarpVision site
WarpVision Trailer [QT 4.7M]
Warp’s eclectic DVD selection reflects the obsessions, twists, turns and writhings of this label which, although firmly marking home territory in electronica, has never [...]
Precursor motion graphics
A clinical yet grotesque micro-world is explored in Quietus, where renegade motion fragments illustrate a modern bio-vectoral medical experiment. Precursor adds live action and motion controlled camerawork to their sharp motion graphic work showcased memorably in 2003’s Anomaly, a information study of a NASA shuttle flight, which was a Creative Review/Digital Vision finalist. Anomaly exhibits [...]
Pleix Sometimes motion graphic promo
The latest work from Pleix is an indirect elegy to 9-11. Subtle use of motion graphics and compositing in this music video for a Kid 606 release on Mille Plateaux showcase this French collectives versatility. Previous work for Futureshock and Plaid are more shout-out effects driven, but the plaintive tone of Sometimes with its gracefully [...]
Recent Comments