16 in VJ / Motion Graphics Archives
October 18, 2004
Joy Division reanimation »
C505 | "Shadowplay" by Joy Division, ReanimatedInspired by Peter Saville's iconic design of the Unknown Pleasures album by Joy Division, C505 have recreated a music video taking this signature style and applying it to vintage footage of the band playing on Granada Reports (which was a local Manchester TV programme). It takes a certain amount of design machismo to...Posted on October, 18 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
October 13, 2004
U.S. Election video mashups »
"Ever year, by law and by custom we meet here to threaten the world..." Rev:USA is a project regenerating the spirit of Coldcut's original Re:volution track. The remix project is well underway and more pertinent than ever with only a few weeks before the big election. Hosting video mashups and activist video bootlegs satirising and commenting on the U.S. Election...Posted on October, 13 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 05, 2004
Make Warp visuals »
The audiovisual projects are coming thick and fast from Warp. News emerges on the follow-up to Warp Vs Creative Review, the successful music video 'competition' run by the label and magazine: Warp/CR Animate was so successful in turbocharging their promo video output they are doing it again. Ten young filmmakers are wanted for a motion graphics piece to accompany...Posted on October, 05 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
September 09, 2004
The Return of EBN »
A VJ Extravaganza featuring heavyweight acts EBN and Hexstatic is scheduled as the final event of Resfest 2004's first outing of their new touring programme, in NYC (9-12 September, Tribeca Performing Arts Center). The live event takes place Sunday, 12 September, 10PM at Canal Room (285 W Broadway). EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network), seminal influences of the international VJ scene, recently...Posted on September, 09 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
September 03, 2004
Panasonic's Motion Olympic shorts »
"Bring it up, bring it up... Squeeze it up. Take it down." Capture the motion, ten short movies from Panasonic on the olympic spirit, are an idiosyncratic, enlightened micro-movie blitz of creativity. From weightlifting, dancercising poodles in Nagi Noda's infomercial comedy, to impressionistic snatches of athletes in action in Joel Peissig's latest, compositing and special effects are integrated to tight capsule ideas. // More...Posted on September, 03 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
August 02, 2004
Precursor motion graphics »
A clinical yet grotesque micro-world is explored in Quietus, where renegade motion fragments illustrate a modern bio-vectoral medical experiment. Precursor adds live action and motion controlled camerawork to their sharp motion graphic work showcased memorably in 2003's Anomaly, a information study of a NASA shuttle flight, which was a Creative Review/Digital Vision finalist. Anomaly exhibits the fractured aesthetic that cuts...Posted on August, 02 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
July 01, 2004
Projekttor vj festival »
The three-day Projekttor VJ festival takes place in Berlin, 1-3 July, 2004. Locaton: Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee. Daytime programme includes VJ workshops and software showcases of Arkaos, DV jukebox, Pure Data, and Phlumx, alongside the innovative Pioneer DVJ-X1 VJ DVD mixing deck. Nightime programme features an international collection of DJs and VJs including Pixel Orchestra (IT), Photonics (NL), Azz (TW), Pfadfinderei...Posted on July, 01 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
April 23, 2004
KDLAB / NikeLab: Art of Speed »
Expect to see NikeLab's Art of Speed project featuring multi-disciplinary moving imagemaker-created shorts all over the Web and at digital film festivals globally shortly. The Computerlove site has a great preview of the collection featuring Les Jumelles by KDLAB. Art of Speed will be featured at nikelab.com from 1 May 2004: "With the Art of Speed project, Nike sought an...Posted on April, 23 | Permalink | TrackBack (1)
April 05, 2004
Bluespoon generative visuals »
Blue Spoon recently completed providing a striking set of generative visuals for the London Sinfonietta, Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell tour, a worthy unofficial touring sequel to London's annual Ether festivals which combine modernist classical works with contemporary electronica. Of particular note was a twitching, convulsing hyperrealistic 'Sam head', and a lush evolving web of neural networks. Other visuals were provided...Posted on April, 05 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
March 11, 2004
ZenTV NinjaTune tour splits »
Purveyors of audiovisual club events, and VJ pioneers, the NinjaTune label continues with live events tied in with the excellent ZenTV DVD release. After initial gigs in the UK and Europe the ZenTV line-up splits in East and West directions. Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Bonobo, Blockhead & Sixtoo continue North American gigs from 17 March. The Euro-contingent of Coldcut, Pest,...Posted on March, 11 | Permalink | TrackBack (1)
March 09, 2004
Pleix Sometimes motion graphic promo »
The latest work from Pleix is an indirect elegy to 9-11. Subtle use of motion graphics and compositing in this music video for a Kid 606 release on Mille Plateaux showcase this French collectives versatility. Previous work for Futureshock and Plaid are more shout-out effects driven, but the plaintive tone of Sometimes with its gracefully exploding skyscraper, unhurried editing and...Posted on March, 09 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
March 05, 2004
N-EO Ken Ishii music video »
>>>> ::::: n e o ::::: ->>>" href="http://www.ne-o.co.uk/">NE-O, fresh from being being featured in Dazed&Confused as among the "six best promo directors in Europe" (the other namechecks being Pleix, Lynn Fox, Alex & Martin, Dougal Wilson, and Daniel Levi), are among the luminaries present on Ken Ishii's new DVD. The Visionary World video is already gaining eyeplay at moving image...Posted on March, 05 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
March 01, 2004
Ikara Colt music video »
Ikara Colt's Wanna be that way video by Woof Wan-Bau is one of the best new examples of a new wave of video spots and trailers incorporating the conventions of the comic book world. Moving tableaux within framed 'illustrated' spaces....Posted on March, 01 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
February 27, 2004
Beep Twist music video »
The Japanese release of Interpretations for Ken Ishii: Future in Light Visualised and Remixed is ample excuse to revisit the sheer simplicity of (LA-based) Logan's latest music video for Ken Ishii. Beep Twist, comprises a series of hypercharged motion graphic vignettes, and makes up part of Ishii's Interpretations DVD....Posted on February, 27 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
February 25, 2004
Ken Ishii DVD »
KENISHII.COM features new release, Interpretations for Ken Ishii: Future in Light Visualised and Remixed. Ishii has been at the forefront of electronic music, and visualising this with previous projects featuring the innovative animation and motion graphics. This DVD carries that forward with contributions which extend the music video artform from an international selection of some of the most innovative visual...Posted on February, 25 | Permalink | TrackBack (2)
February 23, 2004
Franz Ferdinand Dadaist music video »
Jonas Odell follows his distinctive 60s tinged montaged Goldfrapp animated video with another graphically-saturated winner. Take me out is inspired by Dadaist imagery, Victorian automata, and Hollywood musicals. Take me out | Strict machine Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out music video: Nexus Productions | Domino records QT stream | Video-C QT clip....Posted on February, 23 | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
