Parks on Fire is a new piece of video art by Scott Pagano. Mr. Pagano, with his fancy-pants RISD cred, has done a lot of amazing work with a large list of world-class electronic musicians. Seeing him live at the Recombinant Media Labs (R.I.P.) in San Francisco as visual counterpart to Speedy J (oh, don’t get me started on him!) was inspirational. This particular piece is set to the chilled-out sounds of Trifonic.
Parks on Fire is the latest short graphic film creation of digital artist Scott Pagano. It is an exploration of the complex, interpenetrated, and reflective relationships of structure, form, and motion that both bind and conflict the natural and manmade worlds. The experience is a visual and aural expedition through a series of uniquely explicated environments. Stunning synthetic worlds of micro precision evolve and meld in to landscapes of natural forms evoking the achingly unknowable sublime that is here captured, redefined and expressed via intensive digital reprocessing. Sound and image drive each other to create the uncanny sense that both are emerging from the same dammed-but-divine ethereal engine. The lush cinematic soundtrack is by Trifonic, and is available on their debut release Emergence.
The “We’re All Going To Die – 100meters of Existence” project is by Photographer Simon Hogsberg. He took a picture of 178 people from the same point on a rail road bridge in Berlin over 20 days. He then linked the photos into a 100 meter long image that you can interact with via an Adobe Flash interface.
I have been an on-again-off-again fan of Ze Frank since his debut with the now classic “how to dance properly“, that god and everybody has seen by now. I used to work at Macromedia, back in the day so anything Flash based tended to float by our desks. Since then I would catch up on his work now and again and most recently saw him open for one of the Macromedia (now Adobe) MAX conferences. Good times.
Ze Frank is featured in a short pilot called “The Remnants” and seeing his name made me check it out. You should too…
The pilot for The Remnants, written and directed by John August. Starring Justine Bateman, Michael Cassidy, Ben Falcone, Ze Frank, Ernie Hudson, and Amanda Walsh. It was shot during the WGA strike in February 2008, using the SAG internet agreement.
The project is currently in development with 60Frames in association with NBC/U, so it could in theory become a series at some point. Either way, we had a good time making it.
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I have heard a bit about Poster Boy, mainly just references to him via friends in NYC. I didn’t take too much effort to review his work at first, mainly because I am not in NYC and what I saw seemed to be him simply covering up exiting ads with his “custom” work. Dustin recently shared a link via Google Reader that showed Poster Boy at work with his blade and now I have a much better understanding of a) what he does b) how he does it and c) why my friends are all gaga for him. Check it out:
I am impressed by the simplicity of it and how fast he has to work not to get caught. I also like the fact that he has an audience, and they clearly are enjoying watching him dismantle and then reconstruct posters using nothing but a razor and a damn good eye.
Some people are just born dripping with creative talent. Vancouver-based videogame artist Eric Testroete took a 21 day trip to Japan with his girlfriend and just sorta popped out this masterpiece upon returning home, just sorta offhandedly pulled it out of his ass. The photos were taken on a Pentax k20d, post-processed to give them that excellent saturated look, and stitched together in Sony Vegas. Tuneage by LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends”, which I think really adds some nice emotions to the already beautiful photography. Click through to the Vimeo page for a version with more pixels. If this doesn’t make you want to visit Japan, then you probably live there already.
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