Experimental Film
September 30, 2022 2:21 PM Subscribe
Excellent.
The end felt like a truly alien invasion.
posted by doctornemo at 5:27 PM on September 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
The end felt like a truly alien invasion.
posted by doctornemo at 5:27 PM on September 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Droll Lord, that sounds very bad. I'm sorry.
posted by doctornemo at 5:27 PM on September 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by doctornemo at 5:27 PM on September 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
All well and good, but it's no FRACTINT
posted by knoxg at 6:43 PM on September 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by knoxg at 6:43 PM on September 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
There was some controversy in 2019 involving this video. Microsoft was accused of taking too much inspiration from it for the Xbox Series X reveal trailer, which I won't link because using Alan Watts' The Dream of Life to sell video games fills me with unbearable existential disgust.
Anyways, this is a cool short. It reminds me a lot of those CGI shorts you would see in the '90s and early '00s. Those are all pretty cheesy in 2022, but they were a ton of fun to stumble on when channel surfing back when that was a thing. I think the most famous ones were the Animusic shorts which, unbelievably, got airtime on Fox News among many other places.
posted by forbiddencabinet at 9:58 PM on September 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Anyways, this is a cool short. It reminds me a lot of those CGI shorts you would see in the '90s and early '00s. Those are all pretty cheesy in 2022, but they were a ton of fun to stumble on when channel surfing back when that was a thing. I think the most famous ones were the Animusic shorts which, unbelievably, got airtime on Fox News among many other places.
posted by forbiddencabinet at 9:58 PM on September 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
This is pretty great.
I've had ideas about actual site specific art and light projects that resemble some of the ideas in the video, stuff involving lasers and video projectors in natural environments. Especially paired with music and interactive stuff.
There's something really fun and cool about how you can project slices of light with lasers and sort of transect and illuminate the natural world and reveal its fractal nature. An example is the classic scanned laser through a smoke machine or fog trick to illuminate a slice of Brownian motion and convection. But you can get similar fractals and interesting effects projecting or scanning a line laser through, say, a field of wild grass, or bisecting a stand of trees. Or how about projecting an accurate topographic map over a large desert rock canyon and valley?
Or you could 3D scan and LIDAR map and natural areas with high detail and work with video projections directly mapped to rock structures and features, plants, even terrain down to details and sizes in the centimeter range. Doing projections on big rocks would be really cool and it's been done, but imagine walking around a park, a beach or a desert and even small rocks on the ground you're walking on could have video projection maps happening on them. They could be changing color, or occasionally lighting up in patterns like waves of fireflies.
Or imagine an really silly interactive installation where every rock generally too big to pick up or move has... a cartoon face, or looks like the claymation rock animations from the movie Return to Oz, and they can interact with people with real-time 3D tracking.
Imagine being able to pick up a rock and it stays video-mapped with real time 3D tracking and it's changing color, or it has a face and can "talk" via surround sound and phased projected audio beam steering.
There's a whole lot of wild things you could do with light and sound like this with both natural and man-made environments.
posted by loquacious at 11:45 AM on October 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
I've had ideas about actual site specific art and light projects that resemble some of the ideas in the video, stuff involving lasers and video projectors in natural environments. Especially paired with music and interactive stuff.
There's something really fun and cool about how you can project slices of light with lasers and sort of transect and illuminate the natural world and reveal its fractal nature. An example is the classic scanned laser through a smoke machine or fog trick to illuminate a slice of Brownian motion and convection. But you can get similar fractals and interesting effects projecting or scanning a line laser through, say, a field of wild grass, or bisecting a stand of trees. Or how about projecting an accurate topographic map over a large desert rock canyon and valley?
Or you could 3D scan and LIDAR map and natural areas with high detail and work with video projections directly mapped to rock structures and features, plants, even terrain down to details and sizes in the centimeter range. Doing projections on big rocks would be really cool and it's been done, but imagine walking around a park, a beach or a desert and even small rocks on the ground you're walking on could have video projection maps happening on them. They could be changing color, or occasionally lighting up in patterns like waves of fireflies.
Or imagine an really silly interactive installation where every rock generally too big to pick up or move has... a cartoon face, or looks like the claymation rock animations from the movie Return to Oz, and they can interact with people with real-time 3D tracking.
Imagine being able to pick up a rock and it stays video-mapped with real time 3D tracking and it's changing color, or it has a face and can "talk" via surround sound and phased projected audio beam steering.
There's a whole lot of wild things you could do with light and sound like this with both natural and man-made environments.
posted by loquacious at 11:45 AM on October 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
Droll Lord...Perhaps you are experiencing scintillating scotoma? I get this occasionally, and those lights resemble what I see, as well.
posted by Thorzdad at 1:37 PM on October 1, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 1:37 PM on October 1, 2022 [1 favorite]
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Strangely I guess, a few weeks ago my right eye suddenly degenerated to the point where some of what I see through it looks just like the tiny moving, flashing points of light that sometimes appear during this film. To try to describe this effect left me tongue-tied, but now I can at least tell my wife "it looks like this" at certain points in the film.
posted by Droll Lord at 5:02 PM on September 30, 2022 [3 favorites]