The Art of Analog Computing

The Art of Analog Computing

The premise of this short film is to represent the digital tools and interfaces we use daily in an analog way. In the analog office, your computer desktop becomes your actual desk, your inbox gets flooded with Spam cans, the server runs past you multiple times a day (and perhaps crashes every now and then), and Twitter users follow each other around the space. This concept is essentially just for fun but also reminds us just how digitally connected we all are. The video was acted and produced entirely by the Meltmedia team and filmed in the Meltmedia office. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Heads-up: The “butler” or “waiter” guy is the “Server.”

Also heads-up: The movie is mostly Mac-based because we’re a Mac shop.

Also, also heads-up: Movie was edited using Final Cut Express 4. The typewriter scene, credits, and open title compositing were done in After Effects. Props and graphic elements in video were built in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Also, also, also heads-up: There’s a bonus scene past the end of the credits (beyond the copyright line).

Head over to meltmedia.com/ignite for photos and more information on our little video.

Cast: meltmedia

ゴラン・レヴィンが作る見つめ返す作品

ゴラン・レヴィンが作る見つめ返す作品

ted.com アーティストでありエンジニアでもあるゴラン・レヴィンは、ロボティクス、ソフトウェア、認知科学といった現代的な道具を使い、人を驚かせ、楽しませるアート作品を作っています。音が形になり、体から絵が作り出され、興味津々の目が見つめ返してくる様をご覧ください。(TED2009)

Cast: aoky

‘YEKPARE’ (monolithic)

‘YEKPARE’ (monolithic)

“Yekpare” is a storyteller which narrates the 8500 year story of Istanbul. The story embraces symbols from Pagans to Roman Empire, from Byzantine Empire to Latin Empire, and finally from Ottoman Empire to Istanbul at the present day.

Haydarpaşa Train Station, with its brilliant architectural forms, is the building on which the story is projected. The connection between middle east to west has been provided by Istanbul and Haydarpaşa since 1906. In the 50’s it served as a door for millions of internal emigrants who have triggered the chaos in Istanbul’s dialectical daily life scenes.The project’s conceptual, political and geographical positioning, the location’s depth of field and the fact that the entire show can be watched from Kadıköy coast; make “Yekpare” a dramatic presentation.

The first day of the performance also marks the 47th deathday of Nazım Hikmet Ran, the famous Turkish poet. We started out with a quote from his epic novel, “Human Landscapes from My Country”: “At Haydarpaşa Train Station, in the spring of 1941, it is three o’clock. Sun, exhaustion and rush lay on the stairs…”

Art Direction & Visuals:
Deniz Kader – Candaş Şişman

Music & Sound Design:
Görkem Şen

Project Management:
Erdem Dilbaz

Technical support : Alican Aktürk – Refik Anadol ( griduo.com)

Modelling: Gökhan Uzun – Can Dinlenmiş (prospektif.org)

Special Thanks to: Efor Production, Visio – Vox, Sinevizyon, Yakup Çetinkaya, Gökhan Kurtuluş, Lokman Doğmuş, Baran Güleşen, Ümit Özdemir, Tolga Dizmen, Yunus Dölen, Murat Durusoy, Ahmet Türkoğlu, Mustafa Nurdoğdu, Burhan Ersan.

Realized with mxwendler.net mediaserver

contact: nerd@nerdworking.org

Cast: nerdworking, candas sisman