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Some of you might already be aware of Scott Pagano’s work with his fucking incredible collaboration with Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) on the Umfeld release or the videos to BT’s last album, Binary Universe. This then is his latest visual delight, providing the video for Tritonic’s new track: Parks on Fire.

This is some next level vivid styled beauty.

Parks on Fire is the latest short graphic film creation of digital artist Scott Pagano. It is an exploration of the complex, interpenetrated, and reflective relationships of structure, form, and motion that both bind and conflict the natural and manmade worlds. The experience is a visual and aural expedition through a series of uniquely explicated environments. Stunning synthetic worlds of micro precision evolve and meld in to landscapes of natural forms evoking the achingly unknowable sublime that is here captured, redefined and expressed via intensive digital reprocessing. Sound and image drive each other to create the uncanny sense that both are emerging from the same dammed-but-divine ethereal engine. The lush cinematic soundtrack is by Trifonic, and is available on their debut release Emergence.

I came across this stunning BAFTA winning animation from Marc Craste.

Jo Jo in the Stars is a story of love, self-sacrifice, and jealousy played out against a black and white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful. This film plays out the heart-wrenching tale of two unlikely lovers: Jo Jo, a silver-plated trapeze artist, and the nameless hero who worships her.

Multiscreen setup for the ending party of the Scopitones’ festival 2008.

Real-time motion graphics made with vvvv.
VJ : Digital Slaves and Desaxismundi.
DJ: DJ Pone, Yuksek, Surkin, Dj Orgasmic.

This is some other work from Digital Slaves and Desaxismundi, enjoy. Please can we see more of this in clubs in the UK, rather than the stereotypical video clips you sometimes get lucky enough to see when UK club nights bother with booking visuals. (there are of course exceptions ;))

Oct 2008 – Manufacture des Tabacs – Nantes

Real-time generative HD motion graphics broadcasted on 3 screens, using vvvv’s clustering system on 3 PCs with a final resolution of 3840 * 1024 and fully audio reactive at 60 fps.
Gfx : Desaxismundi and Digital Slaves

Stunning engineering as I’m sure you’ll agree.

At the Swiss Center of Technorama, artist Reuben Margolin worked with museum staff to suspend some 450 aluminium rods by 256 wires and connect 3,000 pulleys and sliding bars. The resulting specimen uses pure mechanics—not computer-controlled servomotors—to create almost limitless figurative shapes.

Found over at Cool Hunting.

UVA  (United Visual Artists) recently performed their latest work on their 4th tour with Massive Attack. Being a fan of their work it’s only fitting I highlight this to you lot.

UVA created a new stage set, with a wide, sculptural LED screen as the centrepiece

You can see more pictures from this on the fabrikproject website.