Category: Video

Learn to say ‘f**k you!’

In 1965, Sol LeWitt wrote this letter to sculptor Eva Hesse. Excerpts from it were used by Tim Armstrong of Rancid as lyrics in this 'stream of consciousness' visuals animation.…
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Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksm2eInvuwU] - Installations might not be your cup of tea, but you can't say no to living, experiencing something. That' s why I think these projects are exciting, they challenge…
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Pigmented H2O

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQQngH2xz0&feature=relmfu] - [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyc_OA5iL6Q&feature=relmfu] - [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9d9e0cOJPU] - [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjCMqtJr0Q&feature=relmfu] - [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2aunPHTe_I&feature=relmfu] - It wasn't intended, but as I was pooling together the videos, those on watercolor seemed to go so well together…
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Color wise

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrCizE_678] Thanks to arowanas44 for the clip. This is another example of how to treat text as an image, creating a very powerful vehicle for expression through tiers of meaning.…
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Recipe for creativity

A few ingredients which psychologists have discovered aid us in being creative in this 1991 talk from John Cleese of Monty Python.   [vimeo http://vimeo.com/18913413]
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“Touch” by Janine Antoni

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_n2kfqNmpY]   The video starts with the image of a beach, of the ocean and of the summer sky, with a thin black line mirroring that of the horizon. A…
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This is how you do it

[youtube=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9l3UDp1MM&list=PL7D3A913CF5CE02BB&index=6&feature=plpp_video] - I don't want to dismiss  artist Max Neutra, but I have to say I am not impressed by this at all.  Especially as he had the Photoshop-generated outline…
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Stray ray

. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/15749737] Short animation I saw yesterday at the digital film festival, Kinofest, were it won best animation. Beautiful  visuals with a quirky and fresh story behind it, putting…
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Watercolour happy slaps

The Dutch graphic designer and animator Rop van Mierlo is responsible for this uninhibited drop of joy which features an unexpected appearance by an one-eyed  Michael Jackson. His self-published animal…
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