MUTO - Seven minutes of wall-painted animated joy by blu (previously)
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Koyaanisqatsi
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Dressing a dog up as a person is I think not a very good thing. But when I do it, it's fine. William Wegman's Early Videos. Short Films. Trio/Metropolis/Guitar. Clips from his feature, The Hardly Boys.

David Hart's David Hockney meets William Wegman
posted on Mar 24, 2008 - View this thread

Speaking of speeches, David Eggers delivers one at TED on grassroots community tutoring for kids who need help with their English homework: "There's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one on one, getting all this attention. They finish their homework, they go home -- they're finished. They don't stall. They don't do their homework in front of the TV. They're allowed to go home 5:30, enjoy their family, enjoy other hobbies, get outside, play and that makes a happy family. A bunch of happy families in a neighborhood is a happy community. A bunch of happy communities tied together is a happy city and a happy world, right? So, the key to it all is homework." Love him or hate him (mefi consensus) it's a great example of nervous energy microphilanthropy, social entrepreneurship and, if I may make the connection, machines of loving grace. [previously]
posted on Mar 23, 2008 - View this thread

La Real Frida offers beautiful film footage of Frida Kahlo.* Beyond her own self-portraits, some of the most iconic images of Frida are portraits by her 10-year lover, photographer Nickolas Muray.
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - View this thread

I was going to share the many amazing videos that StSanders has uploaded to youtube featuring guitar gods like Van Halen and Santana shredding, since they have inexplicably only received scant mention on mefi so far. But StSanders' account has been suspended all all videos have been removed!
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - View this thread

Balls!
posted on Jan 16, 2008 - View this thread

A site for artist Bas Jan Ader (wikipedia) who was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. Site includes his most famous piece, I'm Too Sad to Tell You.
posted on Dec 23, 2007 - View this thread

Wayne White's paintings
posted on Dec 20, 2007 - View this thread

With the wild success of the Guitar Hero series, using video game controllers shaped like guitars is nothing new. However, the duo at Modal Kombat actually use guitars as video game controllers. They won't reveal all of their tricks, but you can read a bit about their technology here and at this interview with Urban Guitar. The results are awfully impressive. View the original Modal Kombat here, and their newest installment, the admittedly trippy GuitarKart here. via
posted on Dec 3, 2007 - View this thread

       Pretty Big Dig
A dance film by Anne Troake that gently illustrates the assimilation of technology. QT video
posted on Dec 2, 2007 - View this thread

Darth Vader Helmet Art. Outfits for Darth Vader in Love?
posted on Nov 5, 2007 - View this thread

High speed camera.
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - View this thread

Thangkas! what is a thangka? Look it up in this Encyclopedia of Buddhism pdf then take a tour in Darumsala with Werner Herzog
posted on Oct 29, 2007 - View this thread

drawnline: The commercial and personal work of Andrew Bell.
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - View this thread

The destruction of Untitled #133 by Aeneas Wilder took place on Labor Day. He knocked down his latest piece at the San Francisco Exploratorium to cheers from the audience and applause. The giant wooden sphere took 10 days to make out of painstakingly stacked (never fastened) wooden planks. Is it an artistic expression of the impermanence of man? Another chapter in the ongoing discussion about the nature of art? Or just every little kid's ultimate building-blocks-meet-Godzilla fantasy?
posted on Sep 24, 2007 - View this thread

Une Mission Ephemere
Animated by Piotr Kamler, featuring music by Bernard Parmegiani.
posted on Sep 2, 2007 - View this thread

Public Art was never this hypnotic. (U-TB)
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Ubuntu Studio is a Linux distribution focused on creative audiovisual pursuits.
posted on May 10, 2007 - View this thread

PSST! Pass It On…
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Jason Eppink has taken Light Criticism a step further with his Pixelator.
posted on Apr 15, 2007 - View this thread

People have drawn river landscapes (1, 2) in MS Paint, but how about the Mona Lisa?
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TechDawg's I Ride the Lines has the best Line Rider movies I've ever seen. Van Halen is nuts, as is this awesome video with an atrocious soundtrack. (Previously)
posted on Feb 15, 2007 - View this thread

Tim Fort's Kinetic Art
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Fora Tv is a good place to watch videos of lectures and discussions on topics ranging from politics and science to religion and the arts. Whether you'd like to see Jim Lehrer talk about politics and prose, or watch Brian Eno and Will Wright discuss the joys and techniques of generative creation, you might find something here to like
posted on Jan 24, 2007 - View this thread

This time-lapse video of an oil-painting being created by Pablo Picasso is brief, but captivating. The clip is a scene taken from the 1955 French documentary "The Mystery of Picasso," in which director Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed the artist painting 20 different pieces. Bizarrely enough, almost all the art created for the film had to be destroyed upon close of production due to contractual obligation. Via
posted on Jan 1, 2007 - View this thread

A talk with Benoît Mandelbrot, entitled Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty) [video, 80mins, realplayer] about fractals as A Theory of Roughness.
posted on Dec 3, 2006 - View this thread

ArtPod --video art for your iPod, from Artnode Denmark
posted on Dec 1, 2006 - View this thread

My Misio - a site for a pet crochet bear cat. Some nice pics in the diary section and a vid, too. {It be Flash}
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UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats. via WFMU.
posted on Nov 28, 2006 - View this thread

Stop motion animation plus Post-it notes equals pixelly goodness. (Flash, via milkandcookies)
posted on Nov 25, 2006 - View this thread

Karolina Sobecka has made animations of a running tiger (Wildlife) and violent cartoon hijinks (Chase), which she projects onto city landscapes from a moving car. (Embedded Quicktime.) She's got a site full of her other projects, including a ton of nifty commercial work.
posted on Nov 22, 2006 - View this thread

Skate Bording Girls. Disclaimers: flash clip, uncanny nudity.
posted on Nov 13, 2006 - View this thread

Clockwork steampunk rideable tiger. (via YouTube.) Flickr photos here. Artist's site here.
posted on Oct 21, 2006 - View this thread

Futures, organic abstraction in motion in this music video directed by Robert Seidel (previously) for Zero 7.
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - View this thread

Flight Patterns (watch the overview video) is a cool visualization based on FAA flight records for one day. You can see the overnight lull, then the morning sweep across the country in a series of short videos. It's like cabspotting, but on a much larger scale. This is from the same guy behind The Sheep Market.
posted on Aug 26, 2006 - View this thread

10 greatest beat-making videos ever* "*Or, you know, today." A Music thing thing.
posted on Aug 23, 2006 - View this thread

Let's Paint and Exercise TV! Four videos of a public access TV show where a guy paints pictures of a fat naked dude and runs on a treadmill at the same time. Features four letter words and a fat naked guy, so may not be work - or mind - safe. Presented by artist John Kilduff and featuring musician Frozen Plastic and model Michael Q Schmidt, star of 'Huge Naked Guy'.
posted on Aug 1, 2006 - View this thread

GX Jupitter-Larsen - noise maker, video artist [some NSFW] and inventor of the TNU.
posted on Aug 1, 2006 - View this thread

787 pieces of clip art, in a loop -- mesmerizing, haunting, and amusing. I can't stop watching. [via coudal]
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - View this thread

The Vasulkas - an archive of early video and electronic art including a trippy Lilith (Doris Cross) and a hip Don Cherry. [via]
posted on Jul 24, 2006 - View this thread

Nonononono, After You (.mov): A short animated film by Christopher Cordingley, graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design. The school's computer animation portfolio is worth a browse; there's some real talent being nurtured there. (Last four links are to .avi files.)
posted on Jul 24, 2006 - View this thread

Human Space Invaders
1 theatre
67 extras
4 hours of shooting
390 images
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= 3 minutes of video [16 MB QT]
[Site in French, video without words]
posted on Jul 17, 2006 - View this thread

Island by Oliver Kunkel is a disturbing but also funny little video piece (NSFW).
posted on Apr 22, 2006 - View this thread

At the end of this short film, you'll see a graphic illustration of Christopher Walken. If you can stomach zombie babies bursting forth from women's wombs. A short film by Paul Robertson. An artist who also made the music video for Architecture in Helsinki's Do the Whirlwind. [MPG : Alternate Link : Torrent]
posted on Apr 22, 2006 - View this thread

Nam June Paik passed away on Sunday. We'll read educated commentaries in the next few days, but what I most affectionately remember about him is how his work made me laugh happily during the 70s and 80s. A precursor of video art, he was the first to use plugged tv sets as building blocks in the most playful ways. His TV Buddha is arguably an unsurpassed classic (a motionless moving image, an outside observation of an inner meditation, even -why not?- a premonition of a blogger) (this last one is a joke: I told you Paik made me laugh). R.I.P.
posted on Jan 30, 2006 - View this thread

An awesome short commercial (quicktime) that's a sort of visual music mashup from a DJ equipment company. [via tween, a cool video effects blog]
posted on Jan 29, 2006 - View this thread

Soft Cinema is a software+video project by media-theorist Lev Manovich, which 'mines the creative possibilities at the intersection of software culture, cinema, and architecture.' While perhaps more intriguing in prospect than in practice, it seems at least a noteworthy attempt at making something new. A DVD version of the project was released earlier this year.
posted on Nov 17, 2005 - View this thread

Apparently before Jed had left us
he wrote some poems
wrote them for no one
I guess I'll show them
here's one of Jed's Poems.
[via the ape]
posted on Nov 11, 2005 - View this thread

Cool Polaroid video.
posted on Oct 2, 2005 - View this thread

Get 1 Minute. "When I wake up in the morning I go out and film a one minute observation of the day."

Every day Johanna Marxer films for one minute and posts it. While you are there check out the chaotic future.
posted on Jun 23, 2005 - View this thread

Electronic Sand Painting (Artiste sur sable très doué) -- embedded video, from France, and Korean TV
posted on Apr 19, 2005 - View this thread

Meet Jakob Lodwick of Blumpy.org. You may be familiar with him because of sites like this or this.
Blumpy.org i s a bit of a step up, however, featuring some pretty nifty skits and a great video-journal.

He has also made a video for Cex, Baltimore's soon-to-be legendary (any day now) basement rock god, whose site also has a huge stash of excellent b-side material and another video.
not the biggest sites, so go easy on'em and be patient.
posted on Mar 22, 2005 - View this thread

The best music videos ever produced. A list, for those that like to watch.
posted on Feb 23, 2005 - View this thread

Straight outta Belgium, it's "The Matrix: The Beginning". This is a see-it-to-believe-it occasion. [20m WMV; Trailer for those with a lower tolerance for this sort of nonsense; Main site]
posted on Feb 20, 2005 - View this thread

The Viral Chart tracks British viral marketing videos.
posted on Feb 18, 2005 - View this thread

Carnivore. Webcam. Sniffing.
posted on Dec 7, 2004 - View this thread

While trying to find anything about Japp Drupsteen's odd video piece Hyster Pulsatu (which I saw years ago on the sadly defunct Alive from off Center aka Alive TV and badly want to see again) I came across the site of the Netherlands Media art Institute Montevide/Time Based Arts collection. Quite an interesting catalogue, with many samples. No consumer releases, though they do rent tapes and discs for institutional screenings.
posted on Nov 9, 2004 - View this thread

1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)
posted on Nov 3, 2004 - View this thread

It's the best of advertising at this year's BTAA. Flash. Click BTAA Awards, Winners.
posted on Oct 10, 2004 - View this thread

AN AMAZING JAPANESE ANIMATION based on the psychologically complicated and beautifully playful work of comic book artist Jim Woodring. (Monday morning cartoons for you, complete with a nod to the Jetsons, courtesy the Japan Media Arts Festival. Other featured work here.)
posted on Aug 16, 2004 - View this thread

Midi is to music as ASCII is to art: Music videos converted to text and MIDI. [via waxy]
posted on Jul 8, 2004 - View this thread

Jason Salavon is an artist who creates images (and video) by averaging data to create seemingly complex amalgamations. From the mundane to the more exotic (and nsfw) his work shows the regularity inherent in almost all media.
posted on Nov 10, 2003 - View this thread

Madonna's being sued for stealing images from Guy Boudin's photography and using them in her Hollywood video. Here are side by sides. When does imitation/homage become theft? And who gets to decide? Should she have been sued for using this image in her vogue video?
posted on Sep 30, 2003 - View this thread

British Television Advertising Awards [Flash, QuickTime]
posted on May 8, 2003 - View this thread

Remember the Honda advert? It was real. [Previous]
posted on Apr 18, 2003 - View this thread

Cartoons! A significant percentage of late 80s British childhood available for download. Dangermouse! Bananaman! Sharky & George! Don't say I never link you anything good.
posted on Apr 2, 2003 - View this thread

If your looking for terrific writing and a gallery of flash art/movies updated monthly, you might want to check out Spark Online. There are a lot of E/N and discorse sites out there, but few I've stuck with as long as Spark. Their forums are usually hot with debate and quality insights. (Again, one of my favs)
posted on May 18, 2001 - View this thread