+25 Experience

The semester is in its final stretch and I've got a plane ticket home. I also leveled up today by making it to twenty-five.

Turn this one up for me.

Reduce Reuse YouTube

Via Gizmodo

Josh Poehlein's Modern History is a series of collages assembled exclusively from screen grabs of YouTube videos. The result is a bit staggering after considering that YouTube has accumulated such a tremendously high volume of content. It is refreshing to see an artist's interpretation of so many forgotten images and what they can amount to when collected and reused. Click on the photos to enlarge.

 

WTWTA

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

Charmed by the art direction for the new teaser advert from Spike Jonze and the folks working on Where The Wild Things Are. Looks like a theatrical trailer is on its way soon. Hopes are up.

Update: Trailer looks great. Hopes elevated higher.

Prelinger Archives

A few people have asked me where I got the footage used for the K9000 "Dynamo" video. Everything came from Prelinger Archives, a public domain archival film site that hosts over 2,000 films. The collection of content is unthinkable. Browsing keywords and subjects will provide for an untold amount of entertainment. 

Most of what I used came from Computer Chronicles episodes from the 80s.  

Ever wanted to see a side by side comparison of the Commodore Amiga and the Atari 520ST? What's the hottest business application software for my company in 1984? A software pirate? Normally they cut between examples of computer programs and gadgets with a pretty colorful panel of nerds experts and bigger nerds programmers. Nerds Guests usually discuss the business climate of the time period in the wake of evolving computer technology. 

The space footage was from a 1977 Encyclopaedia Britannica special on the Solar System. It is a gold mine.

K9000 "Dynamo" Video

Spring break has opened up some free time on my end. A little over a week ago I discovered some fantastic public domain videos and began sorting through a lot of content between classes. It only took a few images to inspire me enough to piece something together for fun. Fortunately, Karl had already posted some new music earlier this month to help with the creative process. Pretty quickly on into editing I noticed an appropriate marriage between the archival images and his music. Needless to say, this was a fun treat for me. 

Hope you guys enjoy it:

Family Album

Doug DuBois is an associate professor of art photography at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. Lately I've been admiring the distinctly narrative aspect to his photographs. The quality of the work I've seen is more constructed and less invested in capturing a moment or gesture as it unfolds. It lends to a strong cinematic appeal. A great deal of his career which spans nearly twenty-five years features the transformations which have shaped his family. Doug involves more collaboration than manipulation with the members of his family, too, a process that he elaborates on further in a interview found here: Alec Soth in conversation with Doug DuBois

Here are a some selected examples of his technique:

The Eyeborg Project

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society...

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Take a one eyed filmmaker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Rob's eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before. Via The Eyeborg Project

Earlier in the school year a lot of discussion focused on forms of surveillance and measures visual artists, designers, and architects have gone through to subvert practices of discipline technology. We have a long fascinating history of observing personal and public rituals from controlled spaces. I'm interested to see how Rob handles this technological breakthrough. As an artist it's a pretty solid gimmick that's already earning him an audience. Whether or not he can fashion an important statement on surveillance has yet to be discovered.