Robert Seidel, commissioned by the Nabi Art Centre, developed this immense installation, currently on display at the SKT Tower in Seoul, South Korea. Huge dimensions visualised on several LED screens.
slices of a virtual sculpture, dimension 100 x 125 x 80 meters
In a time of complete virtualisation of knowledge, science and monetary flows the virtual sculpture “vellum” transfers the memory of one specific urban rhythm to another locality.
The video is a documentation and an excerpt of the work.
A promotional video for maptype.com. Using the tilt shift technique, this video has gone for minature faking. A technique which involves selectively blurring part of the image, to generate a very narrow depth of field similar to that found in macro photography. This can give the image of a miniature model
So, I’ve decided in some respects to be a bit more direct with this blog. Those of you who know me and my musical activities (primarily as a DVNT and radio host of MANTIS) will know that I spend an inordinate amount of time on music forums across several genres and probably countries. Back in February I decided to take the plunge into a freelance career (video editing/post production/graphic design etc…) and since then I have been spending most of my time either looking for work, networking (online mostly), and undertaking a few paid jobs (always on the look out for more).
As I’m sure some of you who are working for themselves successfully, or aiming for it, know, it can be a struggle balancing the work side of things against the hobby side of things (in my respect, the music) particularly if you are based at home. The danger I’m finding is that the music is easier to get into, relax into and generally I can even subconsciously avoid the “work” side of things. That isn’t to say I don’t enjoy the work I’m pursuing with my freelancing; quite the opposite in fact, I do. At the moment, the balance is generally spent finding the work, rather than the work itself. lol.
There are so many things that I aim to do in any given day. You spend a while (normally most of the working day at the moment in my case) unable to decide, or flitting between them, that your day flies by. You’re left sitting there going, well, what happened there. For me, it comes down to focus. I focus on one topic, begin thinking about another one, sometimes related, sometimes not, and then begin that topic a little bit, thinking I’ve got it under control. And so on.
Generally I H A V E to over do things. I probably have mild OCD, well I’m hoping mild. So, 3 paragraphs in, and what am I saying to those of you who have read this. Well it’s this. That as well as highlighting creative visual inspiration as I hope I have been on this blog, that I’m going to use it as a soundboard for ideas, and discussions related to my freelance work. Give you an insight into the creative work I undertake on a daily basis, and in doing so I hope that it will give me greater focus and commitment to my chosen profession as opposed to my lovely hobby.
Still with me?
Phew. Ok, so one thing I have been trying to do is read up on video art in more depth than I did before whilst studying a few years back. I’m in the early stages of an ambient project and am looking possibly at a performance aspect of it. If not specifically for the project then as an after process to it. I’ll try to highlight interesting bits I come across.
Good old Wikipedia has a good basic introduction to it:
Perhaps the simplest, most straightforward defining distinction in this respect would then be to say that (perhaps) cinema’s ultimate goal is to entertain, whereas video art’s intentions are more varied, be they to simply explore the boundaries of the medium itself (e.g., Peter Campus, Double Vision) or to rigorously attack the viewer’s expectations of video as shaped by conventional cinema (e.g., Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll).
Peter Campus – Double Vision (1971)
Campus investigates the metaphoric overlap between properties of the video camera and processes of human perception, an area of great interest to many early videomakers. Double Vision inventories strategies for comparing simultaneous images of a loft space produced by two video cameras whose signals are fed through a mixer, thus producing an electronic version of what in film would be called a “double exposure.” The cameras are set up to perform variations of binocular vision; for example in the section entitled “Copilia,” the two cameras are set at different focal lengths and search independently around an empty room, attached to the same moving body. In “Convergence,” the cameras are stationary and separated but focused on the same distant wall; their images gradually merge as the artist repeatedly returns to the cameras and moves them closer together. Double Vision is an elegant and systemmatic exploration of vision using basic video technology. “[Double Vision is] an exploration of double or two-camera images and works its way up to an eye-brain model, always conscious of how this model differed from its subject matter. ” — Peter Campus
The opening sequence created for the ProMax/BDA Africa 2007 annual event celebrating the best in broadcast motion graphics and channel identity design.
It was myself and another 3D animator who both work at a company called Orijin that put the sequence together. The robots are 3D on all of the wide shots. We did close ups and tight cuts with other kinds of contraptions.
Just finished this video for the first release of the music label I co-run, mmii / midnightminustwo. It’s for a track called Grifter, taken from the excellent (even if I am slightly bias) 5 track EP from one James Fox. Those of you who listen to my MANTIS radio show may well have seen his name crop up once or twice with tracks from this release or from his first release last year on the superb netlabel Myuzyk.
The EP has been getting some really positive reviews from some highly respected musicians and DJs. So we’re hopeful it’s going to do well when it’s released next week (8th June)
So anyways, here is the video. Short and sweet.
You can take a listen to all 5 tracks in this minimix courtesy of Soundcloud
