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

Freedom Tunnel

Freedom Tunnel

Filmed and cut by Charles le Brigand
All shots are video, no stills.

Under Manhattan’s Upper West side, runs the “Freedom” Tunnel. Built in the 30’s by Robert Moses, the passage boasts legendary graffiti murals and piles of debris remaining of the past homeless city era. After using it for only a couple of years, Amtrak discontinued the line and left a massive cavern which later became a shelter for street people. Progressively, the tunnel turned into a veritable underground metropolis where thousands of homeless were living in organized communities underneath the city’s skin.

The tunnel also became a prime spot for graffiti artists. Chris Pape, aka Freedom, was one of the pioneers and his work inspired the name of the tunnel. “Freedom” painted immense murals utilizing the unique lighting provided by the ventilation ducts, turning the tunnel into an extraordinary underground art gallery. Some of his most notable paintings survived for decades and are still conspicuous today (“Venus de Milo”, the “Coca-Cola Mural”, Dali’s “Melting Clock”,a self-portrait featuring a male torso with a spray-can head, etc.).

In 1991, Amtrak decided to reopen the tunnel. The shanty towns were cleared out by the police and homeless were evicted. Although deserted, the tunnel is now an active train line and a stunning experience for urban explorers.

It is a bizarre blend of dark and light, silence and rumble, solitude and multitude. As you penetrate the tunnel and walk along the tracks, the sunbeams perforating the ceiling and highlighting the railway gives the place a post-nuclear feel. Voices from children playing above in Riverside Park sound like lost souls and trains whistling and roaring through the ruins of the shanty towns send chills down your spine.

This is one of the most uncommon and fascinating journeys I’ve ever taken.

Video and words by Charles le Brigand
For information please visit charleslebrigand.com/​ or ldbk.eu/​carlito
or email me here: charleslebrigand@gmail.com
All rights reserved. Une production de Brigand © 2010

Music: “Ascendance” by Zenzile
zenzile.com

More Images here:
flickr.com/​photos/​stephanemissier/​sets/​72157624396820178/​

Cast: Charles le Brigand

Sync/Lost

Sync/Lost

Sync/Lost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.
The installation can be used by three users simultaneously, with wiimote and headphones/soundspeakers. Each one interacts by choosing a style on the interface.
Made with Processing. More info: 3bits.net/​synclost/​

Cast: 3bits, Pedro M Cruz

Making Of… Moray McLaren – We Got Time

Making Of... Moray McLaren - We Got Time

All the animations seen in the music video were created in camera. No stopframe techniques, or computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The animations in the side-on views were produced by the camera capturing the moving reflections from the mirrored carousels, and the animations in the top-down views were created by matching the cameras frame rate to that of spinning record. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.

All the animations were created, drawn and coloured by the director David Wilson.

MAKING OF CREDITS…
Directed, Edited and Animated by Tom Kingsley
On-site Shoot Footage by Tim Keeling

‘WE GOT TIME’ available now on iTunes

Cast: David Wilson Creative

Moray McLaren – We Got Time

Moray McLaren - We Got Time

ALL THE ANIMATIONS SEEN IN THIS VIDEO WERE CREATED IN CAMERA.

WATCH THE MAKING OF AND HI-RES VERSION….

davidwilsoncreative.com/moray

Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.

All the animations were created, drawn and coloured by the director David Wilson.

Produced by Blinkink
blinkink.co.uk

Cast: David Wilson Creative

Copyright Criminals Promo Video

Copyright Criminals Promo Video

SXSW Screening Afterparty
Monday, March 15th
@ The Mohawk

Featuring live video mash-up courtesy of ECLECTIC METHOD, as featured in the film.

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COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.

For more information, please visit indiepixfilms.com/copyrightcriminals. DVD available for pre-order now!

Cast: Eclectic Method

Jam Session 2.0

Jam Session 2.0

We put together a virtual “jam session” with musicians from all over the world! Music was inspired by Galt MacDermot’s amazing “Coffee Cold”. Handsome Boy Modeling School (Prince Paul and Dan the Automator ) flipped that song with J-Live and Roisin Murphy from Moloko and called it “The Truth”.

It’s AMAZING what you can do nowadays!

Lyrics

Dumbfoundead

A kid at the pawn shop just bought his first drum machine,
From the slums, but them buttons will take him to another kingdom
A woman humming in a kitchen in brazil, while 50 tenants listen by
sticking their heads outside the window sill, this shit is real, hear
the sounds across the land, no name brands, woman and man jam on pots
and pans, a musician with lost dreams, sitting on concrete, playing
his heart out on missing guitar strings, street performers for a
quarter put on the show of there life, an emcee gets put on the spot
rocks it and tears up the mic, the human instrument, reaching
continents in long distances, no need for sophisticated systems for us
to listen in, countries at war, expressing hate through there
aggression. while two musicians on each side are having a jam session,
whether both em know it or not, they are collaborating. You never know
which way your music is navigating,

Esna

Sing your heart out let your soul be heard
Move to the rhythm to the groove of the drum beats
Chill to the lines disappear to the moment
Fly away persuade all the madness
Just bounce just sway just listen

Herbal T

La música es un sonido supersónico
y es por eso que no creo lo que leo en el periódico
presenta un mundo dividido y tóxico
pero ahora por los cables fiberópticos
yo me comunico, así el mundo se pone chico
si no me entiendes yo te lo explico
whether you in the Bronx and you like to spit bars and rock clubs
or Mumbai playin sitars and tablas
the music is a way we escape, heal and grow
and you aint gotta speak the language if you wanna feel the flow
olha só rapaz, a gente vai a gente vem
mas o ritmo é coisa todo mundo sempre tem
tudo bem, faço música com colaboradores globais
utilizando piano voces tambores e mais
es un laso que nos une hasta el infinito
the rhythms in us it travels wherever we go

Esna

Just let the music take you let your mind take you
Way to find a way to need a way to a brighter day
Don’t let it stop in you don’t let it die in you
Breath just breath
Just fly away persuade all the madness
Just bounce just sway just listen

Dumbfoundead

Across the seas I hear piano keys playin, translating languages
through the rhythms in beats bangin, a universal exchange, of personal
pains and joys, it started with a verse, each person just came and
joined in, some are complete strangers, some only teenagers, all of us
creators, , we are the dreammakers, internationally transmittin
through bandwidth, passin this bands passion so the masses can jam
with us, all are invited to play, none are required to pay, let the
virus spread, inspire heads, go pirate away, this is that free music,
for people who need music, just listen and breathe to it, I hope that
you feel movement, different souls around globe, connected through
sound makin, they set the foundation now we take it to groundbreakin,
everybody played there part and now we have one song, and this is how
an unheard voice becomes strong

Esna

Sing your heart out let your soul be heard
Move to the rhythm to the groove of the drum beats
Chill to the lines disappear to the moment
Fly away persuade all the madness
Just bounce just sway just listen

Free download of this song is available at

dumbfoundead.com

Cast: Cain Mosni

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

“Le Petit Prince” released on iTunes Store. itunes.apple.com/us/album/le-petit-prince-from-

Movie
:Takuya Hosogane
(private)hsgn.tk
(unit)bonsajo.org

Music
:cubesato
cubicroom.net/
ax.itunes.apple.com/jp/artist/cubesato/id323664538
:Meine Meinung
meimei-music.com
itunes.apple.com/jp/artist/meine-meinung/id252608676?uo=6

BMS
:sweez
sweez.net/works_bms.html
atsp.bms.ms/

Agency
:BOW
b-o-w.jp/#

Tools
:AfterEffects Cinema 4D

HighResolution Pictures(2560*2560)
flickr.com/photos/24062064@N07/sets/72157623287039234/

iTMS
:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/le-petit-prince-from-meine/id365369727?i=365369781

Cast: Bonsajo

The Third & The Seventh

The Third & The Seventh

.Fullscreen it, please.

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Credits:

CG

|Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman

POST

|Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman

MUSIC

Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)

Sound Design by Alex Roman

Based on original scores by:

.Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
.Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)

Directed by Alex Roman

Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.

thirdseventh.com/

Cast: Alex Roman

Flavors.me

Flavors.me

Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet. Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between. Music by Emancipator. emancipatormusic.com/

Cast: Jack Zerby, Jonathan Marcus

Stargate Studios Reel

Stargate Studios Reel

stargatefilms.com

Founded in 1989 by Sam Nicholson, a distinguished cinematographer and special visual effects supervisor and producer, Stargate Studios was conceived as a high tech production company offering visual effects and production services to the film and television industries.

Today, Stargate has studios in Los Angeles and Vancouver with over 150 artists, supervisors, and producers covering all areas of digital production and visual effects. Stargate Studios provides a turnkey solution to high concept film and television production and is the only independent entity which blends all the available production technologies into one fully integrated, high tech production and editorial service. (see Credit List).

In addition to film and HD production, matte painting, 3D, compositing, and editorial services, Stargate Studios offers our innovative Virtual Backlot™ utilizing VB Live (our real time compositing system) and our Virtual Backlot Library, which includes hundreds of photo-real, virtual locations covering 28 major cities from around the world (see Virtual Backlot).

To achieve the highest quality of work in an efficient and cost effective way, Stargate Studios is uniquely designed to provide online, real time networking to each artist in NTSC, HD, 2K or 4K. This allows shots to be worked on by multiple artists simultaneously and streamlines production, editorial and film output.

Stargate Studios also provides its proprietary online ShotTracker™ system to every project and client, enabling producers, directors, supervisors, and artists an easy-to-use visual tool to track and manage each shot – from pre-viz to final delivery – from any desktop, or laptop, anywhere in the world.

Cast: RAWworks

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.9

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.9

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations
Compilation Video V1.9 / Last update: June 2010

Zimoun’s sound sculptures and installations are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic».

He is interested in the artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviours in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.

Website: zimoun.ch

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Cast: ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE

SWEATSHOPPE, The Landing

SWEATSHOPPE, The Landing

In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the
multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables
them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. Dubbed
“video painting”, this technology allows them to essentially “paint” video onto any
surface. Shooting in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, the duo spent weeks
documenting their work in urban settings to create “The Landing” the first in a
series of episodes that showcases their work as artist, technologist and performers.

Video and Music by SWEATSHOPPE
Thank You: Arpana Rayamajhi, Jacky Tran (Quizbowl Productions), Charlie Tran, and all the popsicle lovers

sweatshoppe.org
myspace.com/sweatshoppe
brunolevy.com

Copyright 10/14/2009 Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw
All Rights Reserved

Cast: SWEATSHOPPE, bruno levy