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SWEATSHOPPE-Whip It

SWEATSHOPPE-Whip It

In Whip It, SWEATSHOPPE creates a symphonic audio // visual collage made from balloon sounds.
After sampling the twisting and sculpting of balloons, and adding a few elements of sound,
SWEATSHOPPE, produces this hypnotic video, which visually illustrates beat variations.

Music and Video directed by: SWEATSHOPPE
Balloon Artist: Brian Harger
Thank You: Anthony Nguyen, Arpana Rayamajhi

Cast: SWEATSHOPPE, bruno levy

Colorama – Paint By Numbers

Colorama - Paint By Numbers

Client: Colorama
Agency: McCann Malmö
Direction: Upper First
Production: Upper First
Sound design: Kungen & Hertigen
Year: 2009

The idea behind the interior film has its origin in childrens play with colouring books, or paint-by-numbers. In our film a woman designs a room in the paint-by-number manner to display the wide variety of choices you have using Colorama products when decorating interiors. The film starts in a white void associating to a blank piece of paper with endless possibilities and total freedom. A gigantic hand comes in and executes the creative decisions made by the woman. Just as in the tilt-shift idea the thought is to create an interesting expression through displacement of scale as a contrast between worlds. The slight absurd becomes interesting. We’ll shoot an actor in a studio and will then create the outlines of the room in 3D. This will give us freedom in the expression. In the last shot we will mix visual effects with a real set to complete the illusion.

Backstage pictures:
flickr.com/photos/upperfirst/sets/72157622592587731/

Cast: Upper First, Kungen & Hertigen

Colorama – Makeover

Colorama - Makeover

Client: Colorama
Agency: McCann Malmö
Direction: Upper First
Director of Photography: Keith Loutit
Production: Upper First
Sound design: Kungen & Hertigen
Year: 2009

The idea is based on a technique called tilt-shift, combined with time-lapse (developed by Keith Loutit). It makes reality appear as a miniature model moving with a stop-motion flow. The thought is to create a visually interesting expression that give the audience something out of the ordinary, while at the same time providing a good overview of events. We would shoot from a high angle using specially developed lenses with a short depth of field. The fact that the world appears to be miniature makes the viewer think ”is it for real or not”. It is hard to tear your eyes from the images, something that works well for our purpose.

A gigantic hand will appear in the middle of events helping the workers to get the house ready for summer. It will light the barbeque with a magnifying glass for example. The idea is to create a visually absurd situation using displacement of scale between the people in frame and the giant hand. It is meant to underline the contrast of small and big, where the hand symbolizes the consumers ability to effect the environment and in the extension his or her own environment. Through time-lapse we’ll reinforce the ”before and after” scenario as you’ll be able to see small changes appear quickly. The film will start in a winter worn backyard and in 30 seconds evolve to a wonderful summer barbeque.

Cast: Upper First, Kungen & Hertigen and Keith Loutit

LAIKA

LAIKA

LAIKA, a dynamic typeface.
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For our bachelor thesis, we engaged ourselfs with dynamic typography, especially with dynamic typefaces. Since not much work has been done in this field, we devised a system in which a typeface would not be defined static fonty styles anymore but would be able to change it‘s shape and appearance at any moment reacting to a broad spectrum of inputs.

Bachelor Thesis von Michael Flückiger und Nicolas Kunz
Hochschule der Künste Bern 2009.

More about and a little playground: laikafont.ch

Cast: Michael Flückiger, Nicolas Kunz

Augmented Reality.

Augmented Reality.

On Friday, 25th September we launched our first Moving Brands paper, ‘Living identity’. By its nature, the paper is already out of date so we made a ‘living’ cover which uses augmented reality technology to allow people to see our latest thoughts, news and updates. Using just the cover (also download-able from movingbrands.com/livingidentity ) and a webcam, users can view live Moving Brands content using gestures to browse and scroll. We believe this is the first time augmented reality technology has been applied to a corporate book, as well as being pioneering in its ability to draw on a range of live feeds.

movingbrands.com
with thanks to RenderHeads renderheads.com

Cast: Moving Brands

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

This one’s for my dad.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory footage.

Visit neurosonicsaudiomedical.com for more info and credits.

Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.

Peep everyone here:

creativitezero.com
luke-palmer.com
myspace.com/scratchperverts
shlo.co.uk/
foreignbeggars.com/
myspace.com/stigofthedumpuk
myspace.com/drsyntax
will-cohen.com/
ward404.com/

Cast: Chris Cairns

Little Joy: No One’s Better Sake – HD

Little Joy: No One's Better Sake - HD

Rocksteady meets PBS in the debut music video for LITTLE JOY (Fabrizio Moretti of the The Strokes, Rodrigo Amarante of Los Hermanos and Binki Shapiro) complete with split-screen effects from the heyday of 1970s TV. Special guest appearances by Nick Valensi (The Strokes), Devendra Banhart and Greg Rogrove (Megapuss) and more. If you listen to the Jonas Brothers then these names mean absolutely nothing to you. The name ‘Megapuss’ alone probably makes you feel weird. It makes me feel weird. Get your retro on y’all.

Director: Warren Fu
Producer: Karen Lin
DP: Byron Werner

Cast: Warren Fu

iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of

iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of

Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )

Download the font here: nl.toyota.be/iqfont

More pictures here: flickr.com/photos/40243214@N05/sets/72157621047564023/

Cast: wireless, thesystemis and pleaseletmedesign

Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise

Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise

Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of unique video diaries gathered from the internet. The project is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard.

On one hand, new media technologies like YouTube have enabled new speakers at an alarming rate. On the other hand, no new technologies have emerged that allow us to listen to all of these new public speakers. Each video consists of a single lone individual speaking candidly to a (potentially massive) imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on unique speakers or become immersed in the cacophony. Viewers are encouraged to dwell in the space.

This is the final version of the prototype found at vimeo.com/468962.

Project Website: christopherbaker.net/projects/helloworld

Music “Push” by Milosh

Cast: Christopher Baker, Ben Myrick and milosh

Murmur Study

Murmur Study

Murmur Study is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and digitally-indexed by corporations. While the future of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal — often emotional — expression should give us pause.

This installation consists of 30 thermal printers that continuously monitor Twitter for new messages containing variations on common emotional utterances. Messages containing hundreds of variations on words such as argh, meh, grrrr, oooo, ewww, and hmph, are printed as an endless waterfall of text accumulating in tangled piles below.

The printed thermal receipt paper is then reused in future projects and exhibitions or recycled.

[Related Project “Hello World!” vimeo.com/1553583]

Murmur study is a collaboration with Márton András Juhász nilseuropa.com and the Kitchen Budapest kibu.hu.

The Murmur Study printers are controlled by Arduinos arduino.cc that receive data from Processing processing.org software.

Project Site: christopherbaker.net/projects/murmur-study/

Videography by Andrea Steudel bit.ly/andrea-steudel
Music – Tarlton – “Bol” tarltonmusic.com

Murmur Study is a commission of Northern Lights’ Art(ists) On the Verge program northern.lights.mn/programs/aov with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation jeromefdn.org. Additional support provided by the McKnight Foundation mcknight.org, the Weisman Art Museum weisman.umn.edu , and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design mcad.edu.

Significant support for creative time and travel provided by the arts.state.mn.us/grants/2009/09_aa_ai.htm Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant Program.

Cast: Christopher Baker, Andrea Steudel, Brett Bullion, KIBU and nilseuropa

OTTO ~ Getting Started

OTTO ~ Getting Started

OTTO is a new musical instrument for beat-slicing, the technique that allows to create complex and variegated rhythm sections by using just one rhythmic audio sample, cutting it into little pieces and rearranging them in time. OTTO provides a hardware solution with a strong visual feedback, to allow the musician to control the audio sample as if it was in his hands.

OTTO’s website: lucaderosso.com

Cast: Luca De Rosso

Elvis Costello – Sulphur To Sugarcane

Elvis Costello - Sulphur To Sugarcane

Short video piece for artist Elvis Costello’s new song “Sulphur To Sugarcane” from the album “Secret, Profane and Sugarcane”. The video combines digital animation, cut paper puppetry and projection.

Created in collaboration with Blip Boutique (James Frost & Mary Fagot) zoofilm.net .
Illustrations by Silvia Rigon.

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Cast: Takashi Kawashima

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras

©2009 COPYRIGHT – All Rights reserved
Project info @ vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney

Over 300,000 people lined the route of this years Mardi Gras parade, which marched up Oxford and Flinders streets in Sydney’s inner-city Darlinghurst this Saturday.

If you were there on the night: I tried to capture as much as the event as possible. High quality digital still images are available from every frame of every movie – Please contact me via this form keithloutit.com/contact-keith/ if this is of interest, or if you have any questions about the film. Happy Mardi Gras!

Project info @ vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney
Artist info @ keithloutit.com
Event info @ mardigras.org.au/internal.cfm?sub=Parade&nav=Mardi%20Gras%202009

©2009 COPYRIGHT – All Rights reserved

Music: “Throwing Shadows At The Wall” (SOUL VISA)
by Shawn Lee: myspace.com/shawnleemusic
Thanks Shawn & to Eddie Bezalel for the introduction.

Cast: Keith Loutit