I really like generative music, and my friend Jon Klein and I talked about making a musical orrery years ago. This guy beat us by doing more than sketches, though.
Category: art
Academic Materials
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F9O8YV_36Q&feature=player_embedded
(Video is loud but sound is unnecessary)
In Human Contact, the Academics have these subtle and powerful materials that they use for all sorts of stuff — materials that change volume, texture, or color, for instance.
I’m not really making that stuff up. I’m just extrapolating.
Tron vs. Saul Bass
Tron vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo.
Phi Love You
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA&feature=player_embedded
The Real Winner at the Special Olympics is Cyborgkind
I think Mike Pondsmith would have some unpleasant things to say about it, but these amazing pictures of the Paralympics don’t seem to be lacking in humanity.
World Air Traffic
World Air Traffic in 24 hours from Clément Joubert on Vimeo.
Watch as the day progresses and planes leave in the morning, around the world. Consider the effects this has on world culture and genetic variety.
This Is the End of Publishing
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg&feature=player_embedded
Very clever.
Now, what I’d really like to see is a total, anarchic proliferation of publishing. Who’s with me?
Escaping to World War II
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZGZZlM-AJo
I’m pretty sure the world is full of people like this guy, Mark Hogancamp, Henry Darger, and Matthew/C++. It’s only in this age of astounding communication that we can get these glimpses into their experience through their art.
(Thanks, Jason Corley for the link)
An Interview with John Lennon by a 14 Year-Old Kid
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&feature=player_embedded
This is really charming, in part because of the fanboyish naïveté of the interviewer, and in part because it still applies so well. I’d be proud to have that kid around. It would be nice to still have John around, too, I think.
Lovely Woman Has An Awesome Time While Snowed In To Pittsburgh
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1va9Jdt7g&feature=player_embedded
There’s always time for art. Especially when you’re stuck somewhere.