the blog of makemassair

Yuichi Higashionna questions the optical experience in his work. Back in May ‘09 in Tokyo at the Calm and Punk Gallery he exhibited his refract! collection:

this particular show features an installation that is inspired by the idea of ‘the uncanny’. Included in the show will be a new piece in his chandelier series made from florescent lamps as well as an installation made from rubber bands and pieces combining painting and animation

There are some amazing pictures from his exhibition on Designbloom and an interview with Yuichi on the SHIFT site

Did it ever go away? I’m not sure.

Remember about 10 years ago you would go bowling or to a large service station on the Motorway and they had virtual reality machines (they probably still do, shows how long ago I went bowling).

Developed by IDEO Labs as an immersive projection rig which in their own words:

A simple, featherweight headset, a 10ft x 10ft x 10ft white room, and $600,000 worth of projector and computer equipment, combined with the smarts of the folks at Eon Reality, results in one insanely real experience.

Vicente Sahuc made this slow motion video in New York. Using a Steadicam mounted Casio EX-F1, shooting at 300fps he skated around the City on roller blades. Post wise, he did some colour correction and slowed the piece down to 24fps resulting in a great captivating piece.

Music: U2 – Numb

Some really beautiful black and white art from G. Bènard. A captivating darkness and erotica to the choice of poses and framing.

Living and working in Spain, Portuguese born artist G. Bènard explores the power and influence of memory in his work.

Surreal, occasionally bizarre, provocative, conceptual, often ironic, G. Bènard mixes cultures, rites and rituals, life and death. Encompassing everything human his work speaks of faith, sex, spirit and what it is to be alive and trying to make sense of a world that cannot make sense of itself.

Inner Placenta, a Dance in the Dark

a self dance in the darkness of a placenta. a self embryo in a video art poem. please listen to it loud to get the inner dialogue.”A fake self we are, in real mirrors we have”

I recommend checking out the large amount of photography on gbenard.com as well as his Youtube channel

First up. Sorry for the lack of updates, I know I made a point about keeping the blog up to date, but I got booked to perform video visuals at a festival (Glade no less, details from that coming real soon). Anyways, hopefully this will interest you. It’s a webcam choreography piece slash music video for the band Sour and their track Hibi no Neiro (Tone of everyday) taken from their first mini album: Water Flavour EP

The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com

(more…)