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Underworld
This is just here because I mentioned Underworld in a previous post and then had the urge to look up one of their videos. I have played this over and over on my ipod yet never seen the video . . .turns out . . .I love it!
Blogger Makeover
I have managed to give my blog a look I actually like!! Taken me a little bit to get there but I'm finally at peace with it. I chose the dandelion image because I feel it relates well to the Intimate Immensity theme. . . tiny little flower whose seeds float and carry with the wind to populate the world with more dandelions, whose seeds will float and carry to create hundreds more. There is a beautiful, fragile, whimsical infinity assosciated with such a common weed. It has inspired me to discover more about them and explore the possibilities.
Sculpture Reel
Sculpture Reel 1 from Sculpture on Vimeo.
I love this video. I'm not sure what he's doing and how he is managing to achieve what he is doing but love the whole thing. I seem to have become quite fascinated with musical/visual sculpture. It just looks really cool. I love the images on the record producing the kaleidoscope effect . . .very like the early zoetrope animation technique. I like the makeshift adhoc approach, seems very spontaneous but there had to be a lot of planning and genius behind it all. It seems very eccentric mad professor accidentally being cool. It's just brilliant.
Solar
Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.
I had a look at this video because I became fascinated with audio visualizers and this looked to me like it was going to be just that with some solar graphics (I'm clicking and searching just about everything space and universe related at the moment)It is pretty much what I expected it to be except of it's use of words. That added a whole new dimension for me - the immensity of language and also how intimate words can be too. It all looks beautiful together. The words are lyrics from the song but I was thinking that when you view it, it could be interpreted as trying to understand the immensity of the universe with the limitations of language and how that means we have to bring the universe into our own minds to only begin to comprehend.
Kymatikon
A very nice one - Kymatikon 0002 - Live at Alkatraz from Arnold Marko on Vimeo.
This is just ammazing. A very simple idea but so effective. It appears to be very fine white flour on the speaker and filmed in black and white. I have posted a similiar video a few posts back but the music used in this is much more experimental and atmospheric. It works really well and I am in awe. . . really want to try it out myself. It's the real equivalent of audio visualizer software. I like the whole process of the vibrations determining what happens to the thousands of particles of dust. Sometimes it's violent, sometimes it's gradual. A bit like the Big Bang and evolution.
Tidy Monster
Tidy Monster - 3D Animation @ University Of Hertfordshire 2007 from Digital Animation Herts Uni UK on Vimeo.
Again, this is stunning but absolutely terrorfying. I'm not too sure what it's about but it strikes me there are several themes. Mental constraints, unleashed rage, simmering anger, claustrophia, mental instability, violence, behind closed doors, domestic abuse and terror, mental confusion, hallucination, imprisoned, frustrated, lack of control . . . all of these could also relate to intimate immensity in a far darker way than I have otherwise been exploring. The mood is very dark, sinister and threatening. It reminds me very much of Underworld and some of the music they make, where snippets of other peoples conversations are turned into song lyrics to surreal and evocative effect.
Suddenly
Suddenly from Magnus Engsfors on Vimeo.
The maker of this video stated along the lines that this had been inspired by a mental collapse he had sufferred. I think it is very effective. Being completely incapacitated and surrounded by barren wasteland. No vitality and no foreseeable future, just broken within a time standstill. I have included it because it relates to the mind and how it is immense and intimate but not infallible.
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