Saturday Morning Annimation – This is Where We Live
Air Art
A great video of an elegant new twist on the airship. I believe this is an actual timed race filmed at the World Air Games. Get yours and we’ll race!
Metal Heart
Everything comes together beautifully in this short video shot at a monster truck rally. Yes. A monster truck rally. Trust me in the fact that it is awesome. Using time lapse photography and and tilt-shift lenses, Keith Loutit creates a toy-like world out of it. (His other time lapse/tilt-shift videos are worth viewing too.)
I don’t know exactly where this was filmed but I am sure it was on a ‘SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!’
You Missed A Spot
Had to paint the fence these last couple of sunny weekends. It is now done. This is a little time lapse of me doing the last little bit. Warning: watching this video is kinda like watching paint dry because that is pretty much what it is.
Why America is F*cked (Graphically at Least)
(Whole lot of appropriate swearing in the video above. Might not be safe for work if you work in a cube.)
I have been meaning to post this. I have watched it about twelve times. This is a little rant by Aaron Draplin founder and proprietor of Draplin Design Co., North America. He is a designer with a passion for industrial designs of the past and and the designs of blue collar industries. He has a great eye. He knows what has heart and what doesn’t. He has a Dachshund named Gary. He swears like a sailor and damn him if he isn’t 100% right in this video. I am thinking that all designers should make a video like this and fight the idiots who can’t see the art or intrinsic value in a professional designer and have the idea that designers just push a bunch buttons all day without skill or talent. I deal with this crap all day.
Way to go, Aaron. Drop shadows, not bombs.
Cruising to Hubbard Glacier
This is a time lapse video of a cruise we took last month to Alaska. We sailed through Yakutat Bay and onward into Disenchantment Bay and right up to Hubbard Glacier. At about the 5:13 mark you can see some glacier pieces calving off into the water. Shot with a Canon G9.
Google Maps has a nice satellite image of the glacier.
More of my photos from the trip here.
Music:”Si, Paloma” by Sun Kil Moon
Exit Seattle
We took my parents on a cruise to Alaska last month. Here is a time lapse of us leaving the port in Seattle.
Exploding Banana Face
William Lamson does some crazy beautiful stuff. I love it.
Lawn Mower
This is a time lapse video of me mowing my lawn. Yep. That is all it is.
Music: “Hash Browns” by Dieselhed. (Man I miss that band…)
Battles – Tonto
The first post in my two post series about light is musical in origin but is just as much about light as it is sound.
Last years debut album by Battles seemed to go unnoticed by most. In fact, I nearly missed it but I am certainly glad that I didn’t. It has been one of the albums that I have been listening to quite a bit lately and I return to it regularly however it is so unique that I couldn’t find a way to include a track from their album on my yearly mix CD. I just couldn’t make it work.
The band is made up of members of the (now defunct) bands Helmet and Don Cabellero, and you can hear the influences of those bands in the music of Battles. (Video bio here.) I can anyways. You could call it Math Rock or Future Funk or whatteverthefunk you want to call it but, in my opinion, it rises above those categories.
What pushed me over the edge on these guys was the video they created for ‘Tonto’, one of the tracks off their album. They teamed up with United Visual Artists (UVA) who are know for their interactive light installations that they create for museums and galleries. (I highly recommend that you click on that last link and peruse their entire site. There are some amazing videos of their installations as well as photos on how they are are created. They are doing some very cool things.)
UVA and Battles took their ideas to a Welsh slate mine. They created a sound triggered LED light display to match the music. In filming this, Battles played for eleven hours. If you were not aware, that is a very long time to be playing the same song. But the results are beautiful and the intermittent light flashes complement the music perfectly. Near the end they use gorgeous time lapse photography that ushers in the dawn as the song slows down to a crawl (from the 4:30 mark to the end, which is about three minutes). I find it very effective.
I hope you have good speakers and I hope you enjoy it. This music isn’t for everyone but the collaborative art is.
Seven Minutes to Bend
Here is a video I made of our drive Bend for Karen’s Birthday. I used my little Canon G9 point-and shot and added a little Beck. Good times.
Moo
Oh, MAN! I love this! Crazy music, crazy animation with rampaging mutant cattle…give me whatever Cyriak is having and make it a double!
Link to high-res video (via WFMU)
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