A rolling blob gathers Omoss

May 29, 2016 2:56 AM

Albert Omoss is an artist who uses computers to explore bodies as rubbery, entangled forms (all likely NSFW) and to make ads and data visualizations. Among other tools, he uses Processing to make hypnotic animations.
posted by a lungful of dragon (13 comments total)

Very cool.

Reminds me of this video game: Mount Your Friends
posted by Fizz at 4:45 AM on May 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is like seeing art from the future. Strange, creepy, alien. Thanks for this!
posted by Termite at 6:09 AM on May 29, 2016

There was a brief time in my childhood when meat producers were marketing and selling boneless chickens -- whole chickens that had been put through some sort of mechanical deboning process, so they had approximately the right shape, but with no structure. Maybe they are still available, though I haven't seen one in years. These animations reminded me of those poor, creepy deboned chickens and what people might look like after undergoing that process.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:39 AM on May 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

I wonder if he was the inspiration for the iOS game Osmos?
posted by fairmettle at 6:54 AM on May 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

Many of these, especially "Peer Pressure," remind me of youthful summer days, watching the juvenile shoggoths play in their spawning pits.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:15 AM on May 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Similar: Jesse Kanda [NSFW] (discussed previously and previously-er).

Also similar: Under The Skin: VFX.
posted by Monkey0nCrack at 7:22 AM on May 29, 2016

David Cronenberg regrets being born too soon to have used these effects in his previous films.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:29 AM on May 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

David Cronenberg regrets being born too soon to have used these effects in his previous films.

I was thinking more Screaming Mad George for Society.
posted by Huck500 at 8:33 AM on May 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

I feel like this is the sort of art that belongs in Virtual Reality
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 9:31 AM on May 29, 2016

Going to the store and Late for meeting by David Lewandowski
posted by a lungful of dragon at 11:03 AM on May 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

Meanwhile, in Oslo
posted by Too-Ticky at 11:13 AM on May 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Interview with Albert Omoss
posted by chaz at 1:07 PM on May 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

Oh, I love this. Thank you for this post. Even without having seen the rest of this amazing work, I knew there was something special about that Verizon ad when I saw it on TV. I thought it was a stroke of artistic luck, and little did I know it was just one element of a broad (jiggly) corpus.
posted by rlk at 1:31 PM on May 29, 2016