Baby I'm Yours, The Music Scene

A couple of my latest music video finds...


Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane) - HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo.


"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.

Time-lapse Landscapes/Skies

Here are a couple of breathtaking, high-definition time-lapse shorts. Watch at 4am with Rainy Mood and/or an Alan Watts / Carl Segan talk in the background and you've got one indulgently philosophical evening on your hands. Prepare yourself for an existential crisis.


The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.


Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Demilked

"Demilked is a design milking magazine. We milk the world's most creative minds and make you tasty inspiration cocktails by mixing industrial design, technology, concepts, advertising and a little bit of web design. Don't be afraid to take a sip - the drinks are on us!"

Demilked.com is absolutely brilliant. Whereas with many art and design blogs you have to tediously trawl through long catalogues of unoriginal, uninteresting content to get to the juicy bits, Demilked is chock-full of intelligent, pristine, aesthetically pleasing designs, concepts and products as well as snapshots of artists' work. Here are just a few of my recent finds:

   

Carved book landscapes by Guy Laramee

Mesmerising gourd lamps by Calabarte

Amazing book waterfall sculptures by Alicia Martin

Non-classical portraits of classical musicians

20,000 flowers installed at an abandoned mental institution by Anna Shuleit

Underwater ink photography by Alberto Seveso

Video Art: Echo, Dynamic Blooms, Forest

Here are some of the latest pieces of video art I've found, this time focussing on bodies and metamorphosis...


Echo from bart hess on Vimeo


Dynamic Blooms from Tell No One on Vimeo


Forest from Tell No One on Vimeo.

Animation: Topo Glassato Al Cioccolato (Frosted Chocolate Mouse)

Here's some really sinister animation I found over on Vimeo. Incredibly dark but very beautiful stuff. Something I admire about these kind of animated sketches is that there are no boundaries - a human being can suddenly explode into ten or so hummingbirds. Limitless fun with metamorphosis.


TOPO GLASSATO AL CIOCCOLATO by milkyeyes (shortfilm) from MILKYEYES - donato sansone on Vimeo.

La Queue de la Souris

This short film employs a very unique style of animation, using what looks like a jumble of cut-out shapes (weirdly like South Park) as silhouettes. I love how the lion grows out of the landscape and is completely black apart from its threatening eyes, claws and teeth.


La Queue de la Souris from Reineke on Vimeo.

Video Art: Gravity

Finding a lot of goodies on Vimeo lately. This physics-defying short film is really cleverly done...


GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN from Filip Piskorzynski on Vimeo.

Video Art: Drone and Drone II

Been doing some more visual research re: video editing. Check out these beautiful videos! Really need to look into how they were made as they're stunning.


Drone from A. N. F. on Vimeo.


Drone II from A. N. F. on Vimeo.

Japanese advert - huge wooden xylophone

The lengths to which people will go...



...to make something seriously cool.

Interesting video-editing techniques

I intend to explore video editing a great deal more. Above is something I made recently using a combination of relief and kaleidoscope fx in Final Cut Pro on some footage I took of the Redentore Festival fireworks show in Venice last summer.

















This guy (Mitchell Davis) has been an inspiration to me for a long time, in particular his art videos. I love the simplicity of the things he creates, and how clean, symmetrical and aesthetically pleasing his style is.



Here are a few other examples of his work:
The Inner
Pursuit of New York
The Birds Have Gone Beyond
Datamoshing Test Sequence #1
Eye No Hot Air

And here are a few other videos I've collected from browsing on Vimeo. If you like the look of them, I recommend you take a gander around the Vimeo website. It's like YouTube but the content is mainly video-art and short films.

Wood Smoke - Cool wheel-type editing technique.
Spectre - Bit frightening but very clever.
Iki Kanat / Two Wings / 2012 Remastered - Amazing dark/light contrasts and striking colours with a split screen.
Amateur - Weird and interesting editing, looks like a cross between a wave formation and a curtain rippling in the wind.