There has been a wave of Hollywood A-list actors offering up their services to small indie short films in recent years such as the likes of Keira Knightley, Colin Firth and Richard E Grant to name but a few. “The Route” directed by Stephen Frears and starring only the charismatic Robert Downey Jr is an interesting blend of the emotive as well as the intriguing. I can guarantee that the astonishingly well written plot will have you smiling by the end.
Let me know what you think in the comments section below or me directly.
HDR photography has really taken off in the last couple of years with DSLR’s and other consumer cameras importing this feature. Apple recently even added this feature to the iOS 4.1 update and well guess what, Soviet Montage have created the first HDR video. Trust me, it’s incredible.
If you don’t know what it is, it’s basically the process of creating three images. The first is under exposed, the second is under normal exposure and the third is over exposed. Then it’s post-processed and combined to create this High Dynamic Range photo. Now Soviet Montage have combined two Canon 5D Mark II’s into creating the world’s first High Dynamic Range Video. Check the footage below.
You can follow Soviet Montage’s work on Twitter here and I’m sure like me, you’ll be looking forward to the next video they release.
So who would win in a fight between a Flamethrower and a Fire Extinguisher? This amazing music video from little known band Dancing Pigeons helps to shed some light on it.
It's an awesome music video as I'm sure you'll all agree and the song itself has managed to embed itself into my head and it doesn't look like it's going to leave for a while. (PS. watch the video in HD if you can to really appreciate Super Slo Mo Awesomeness)
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I have heard this question repeated in podcasts, random rhetoric, online articles and in conversations amongst friends. This is very much an open ended and debatable question to which has equal amounts of proponents on either side. On the one hand you have your traditional neo-classical intellectuals who maintain that in order to appreciate art, it must be in a traditional medium which can be appreciated and explained. On the other hand stands the Avant-garde of modern media, casually referred to as gamers, who believe that their everyday hobby is something to be appreciated as more than just a series of noughts and ones.
What is Art?
A predictable start would be to define what art is. Immanuel Kant once defined art as:
“a kind of representation that is purposive in itself and, though without an end, nevertheless promotes the cultivation of the mental powers for sociable communication”.
Other traditional advocates of art might define it as:
Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
My personal definition of art is that it is a means to which an individual can create and express himself, his ideas or his emotions to people. That is my own personal opinion and whatever your definition of art can ultimately sway you in one direction or another in this little debate of mine. Therefore the next logical step is to argue, can the creator of a video game really express himself through this medium? Can he “promote the cultivation of the mental powers for sociable communication”? Can he “imitate, supplement, alter or counteract the work of nature”? Well in my opinion, I don’t see why ever should he not.
However to compare video games to “art” is almost like comparing David Beckham to American Basketball or Metallica to Opera. I think the easiest means to do a comparison is if I relate specifically to the medium of traditional physical art like paintings and drawings as well as to more modern forms of art such as film and the cinema.
There are no meaning or emotion to Video Games
Supporters of traditional art will argue that there is no meaning or emotion in video games. What you see is what you play in front of you. It is not something that is presented to you like a film or a piece of music but played on controllers, mechanical keyboards and mice. I argue how much meaning and emotion can be elicited from the painting just below of the house on the prairie?
Many people regard this as fine art. They perceive this as a skilful representation of what the artist saw and decided to illustrate. But just how many levels of thought and emotion can be taken from this piece of art if for example no context has been added to it. To me and a good portion of you, this really does just look like an image of a farmhouse and does not elicit any emotion response.
And so I ask you this, do you believe that video games can’t have emotion or meaning to it? If so then allow me to point in the direction of a title that some of you may know called “Flower”. This game was released for the Playstation platform in 2009 and was designed by a Chinese designer called Jenova Chen. If you’ve never seen or heard of the game then have a look at the embedded video of the game in action.
Flower is a game whereby the user takes control of a breeze of wind and the aim really is to explore the environment of the game picking up petals as you go along. Jenova Chen the “artist” of this game emigrated from the urban metropolis that was Shanghai in China over to California and into a rural environment. He’d never experienced the vastness of hillscapes and fields that had now come upon him and in time grew to miss his old life back in Shanghai. The gamer experiences this expression of Jenova’s emotion and so the video game takes them on a journey where like Jenova, you try to find a balance between the two worlds and a means to have the two together. Jenova’s life experiences helped to create a game that was representative of how he felt just as a painter or a composer or a director creates a piece of art to represent the emotions they want to convey. The musical score to the game was composed by Vincent Diamente and was intentionally scored to invoke an emotional response from the player at certain key points in the game. I believe that gamers can be led into an emotional connection with the video game if such a thing is intended.
Going in the opposite direction though, video games can make a gamer react in a negative manner. I take the example from the latest “Modern Warfare” video game. The controversial “No Russian” level of the game creates a situation whereby the player must fight on the side of the Russian terrorists, walk through a busy airport and allows the player to shoot civilian men and women (and possibly children) in order to progress to the next level. The reaction of a lot of gamers to this was to question their own morality and decide for themselves how they felt about performing such actions. The level is designed so that you need not have to shoot a single civilian in order to progress but what it does is it builds an emotional connection to the gamer and puts you right in the shoes of the character you’re meant to be playing. This creation of a guilty emotion and one of moral questioning in the player could be argued is more taxing on a player’s judgement than even the most depressing painting.
But Art spawns movements, Video Games spawn anti-socials
The stereotypical view that all gamers are anti-social adult males who live in the basement of their parent’s house seems to have taken hold in today’s society. I could not disagree more. The inference that you play video games and therefore lack social are simply unfounded. Traditionalists argue that movements such as the Renaissance era or Surrealism art have had a substantial effect on culture both past and present. But then couldn’t video gamers spawn equally as significant a movement as say Picasso or Andy Warhol?
Most of you will recognise all of the images just above. If you come across an Andy Warhol poster in the middle of the street, you could probably recognise it as Andy Warhol or at least the art style that belongs to him. If you saw the mushroom, the space invader or the Pac man above, you’d probably be able to associate them with their counterpart games. Video games have inspired movements of society to where “geek” is the new cool. There has been a huge influx in conventions such as The San Diego Comic Con or E3 for example in the last few years. These trade shows are a celebration of video games and their cultures such as the Tate Modern is a celebration of British modern art. Just because it isn’t formalised in society, does not mean to say it does not exist.
Art required evolution
The early beginnings of any form of art is in my opinion, simplistic and lacking of (ironically) art. How did paintings and drawings start off with? They started in the caves of ancient man with drawings depicting their everyday life. That eventually evolved into the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and Salvador Dali to name but a very few. The first movie to have been shot is recognised to be Louis Le Prince’s “Roundhay Garden Scene” and was recorded at just 12 frames a second and lasted 2 seconds. From this you eventually evolved the medium to create masterpieces such as Donnie Darko and Requiem for a Dream for example.
The gaming industry has really only taken off in the last two decades if even that. While the art world required that it’s tools and instruments to express ones selves had to catch up with us to give us paintbrushes and canvases, so did the movie industry and in their development of sophisticated film cameras and CGI for example. Well so too must video games. We cannot presume that in the future, technology wont be able to create video games that are so immersive that they evoke a stronger emotional connection in the virtual reality world than they would in reality. How are we to say that the better the technology at our disposal, the greater the connection we can make with the gamer?
It’s not original though
That is true. Video games are on the basic level a series of code that becomes translated into something a user can digest. However just because it can be produced on a machine, does that mean that it is not original? The greatest movies ever conceived were done by the innovative minds of the directors and writers of the films. The greatest pieces of art ever to be put onto a page or sculpted into a building came down to the ingenuity of a human mind. The greatest lyrics to the greatest songs were thought up of our of the inspirations of a human mind. Therefore is it so hard to concede that the greatest lyricists, the greatest directors and writers and the greatest artists could have scripted, designed and innovated an idea and a video game for you to play? I don’t see why not.
Innovation I believe does not only lie in the greatest architects to design the greatest buildings but also in the minds of game designers to create game characters and levels that aim to thrill and excite. More and more in video games these days you find big name actors providing their skills to voice the characters of the video games or to act in cut scenes as we’ve seen Kiefer Sutherland do in Call of Duty or Liam Neeson in Fallout 3 or Patrick Stewart in Elder Scrolls. Hans Zimmer (whom I regard as the greatest film score composer of all time) composed all the music to Modern Warfare 2.
Conclusion? It can be.
To say that all video games out there today would be ludicrous. Clearly there is some artistic interpretation to be had about a film such as “House of Flying Daggers” or “Hero” compared to a game such as Space Invaders or Duke Nukem. But what I think I’m trying to say in this blog post is that video games can be regarded as art. There are many instances out there where you simply could not with certainty argue in whole that the infamous Tracey Emin’s piece of modern art is more artistic than the visualisation used in the game “Limbo”.
I’d love to hear any comments or thoughts about these arguments. Clearly I’ve only argued on one side of the debate and to do both sides in full would create a post of epic length so I decided to stick to one side or the other and plus I could ramble on forever about a million and one other points but hey, wouldn’t want to bore you all now would I. Either way I hope you enjoyed reading my post.
Isaiah Mustafa, otherwise known to you and to millions of other Television viewers as the Old Spice man, take a bow. Now we don’t have Old Spice here in the UK so I can only just take their word that it’s a manly product however that’s not what’s being highlighted here. The advert itself, is genius. Pure and simply. I’ve no idea if they’re trying a serious targeted ad towards men or if they really do just run this advert for comedic effect but either way, it’s as funny and as random as watching a muscle man open a stubborn monkey nut.
Here are all the adverts with the latest one at the top. By the way, favourite part of the first advert, “Swandive. Into the greatest night of your life”. Classic
Now for possibly the greatest remix on the internet:
Now I know there are other actors such as Neil Patrick Harris who’ve done Old Spice adverts but nothing in my mind compares to the legend that is Old Spice Man.
Another item from Dan Trachtenberg’s awesome blog One Cool Thing A Day blog of underwater base jumping. French world champion free diver Guillaume Nery specialises in Constant Weightfree-diving. In this movie, he dives in the world’s largest sinkhole: Dean’s Blue Hole, just off the west of the Bahamas. That’s a good 663 feet deep towards the ocean floor. If you’re wondering how deep that is, just take a look below. And for the record. He did the entire dive, on a single breath of air.
Check out the astonishing video after the jump.
(For the record, Guillaume Nery never reached the bottom of the sinkhole as to do so would have made his head implode, the film was done just to demonstrate underwater base diving and made to artistic effect.)
Guillaume Nery and myself decided to use our time during a freediving competition at Dean's Blue Hole (deepest blue hole in the world) to make a short movie. Since a long time Guillaume wanted to make the link between freeding and base jumping. Our goal was to emphasise on esthetic images and innovative camera moves. [Julie Gautier: Camerawoman]
Described as Pulp Fiction for Brands, this was the 2009 Oscar Award winner for best animated short. It beat off other very good short films such as “French Roast” and “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty. It also opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as well as being presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Safe to say, it’s a genius 16 minutes of film.
In this film there are two pieces of licensed music, in the beginning and in the end. All the other music and sound design are original. The opening track (Dean Martin "Good Morning Life") and closing track (The Ink Spots "I don't want to send the world on fire") songs are licensed pre-existing tracks. All original music and sound design is by, human (www.humanworldwide.com). Source: Vimeo
Anyways if you watched it through to the end, I’m sure you’ll agree it brings a smile to the face and well, just an awesome film with technically superb animation.
An awesome short film done by young asian film maker, Freddie Wong. This short film lasts just over a minute but demonstrates the use of lights with camera’s performing long exposures. In it Freddie depicts a street gunfight of epic proportions using nothing but clever camera tricks and many LED lights.
Click the jump for the superb demo of light warfare.
Freddie gives a short tutorial and a behind the scenes video demonstrating how you could make your own “Light Painting”.
“The idea behind light painting is that if you open the shutter, you can draw lines by moving the flashlight around in front of the lens. So hold the shutter open, get in front, and try drawing something in the air. If you have a camera flash, you can have someone stand in place, and flash them. Then have them hold still and draw around them. Experiment!”
No? Well don’t worry because I’ve no doubt that everyone of you will have seen him before. This is the Star Wars Kid. The video of him 7 years ago leaked onto the internet and caused him internet infamy as the Star Wars Kid.
Want to know what’s happened to him now?
Motherboard.tv recently ran a documentary detailing internet culture and did a take on the people behind the videos. The researchers for the show then came across Star Wars kid and discovered where he’s ended up today:
“Not as many people know the rest of the story: Ghyslain Raza – or to the internet,Star Wars Kid – didn’t feel famous, or funny. He felt harassed, the victim of the most visible bullying in history. Ghyslain dropped out of his Quebec high school, was diagnosed with depression, and checked into a psychiatric ward for children.
Ghyslain and his parents would later sue the families of the three classmates who leaked the video in 2003, for around $250,000. According to the lawsuit, which resulted in a settlement, “Ghyslain had to endure, and still endures today, harassment and derision from his high-school mates and the public at large.”
But after eight years of laughs at his expense – and a few campaigns in his defense – Ghyslain is back. Now in his early 20s, he’s reemerged as the president of the Patrimoine Trois-Rivières, a conservation society that aims to preserve the cultural heritage of his hometown of Trois-Rivières.
Revenge of the Sith this isn’t, but he’s putting his litigious experience to some use, getting his law degree at McGill University in Montreal.”
From the experience Ghyslain gained from the courtroom, he took it upon himself to embark on a career in Law. Good on you Star Wars Kid. And May the Force be with you.
A short and sweet post for you today with this great video entitled “Lost Generation”. It’s one of those videos you’ll smile at as you watch and will want to see through to the end. Enjoy!
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Apologies for the lack of background information, if anyone would like to fill in the details of where this is from or what the purpose of the video is then, please leave a comment.
Everyone loves watching Parkour. The combination of jumping and climbing around urban cityscapes is both captivating and graceful. This here is a melding together of both Parkour running and stop motion paper craft is the creation of both Serene Teh (designer) and Noel Lee (post-production) and is in my opinion, a truly creative piece of animation.
Click the jump to check out the superb animation.
According to her Vimeo profile the lead designer on this Parkour project, Serene Teh, is a graphic design student living in Singapore. She’s had “work experience in a production company doing exhibition design and festive decors.” Although she doesn’t have very many works under her belt, it looks like she’ll have a bright future if she maintains this clearly creative streak.
Illustrated with technical pen,frame by frame. I admit it might not be the best, or the quality isn't perfect, just a shot at animating the old flip book whatever-you-call-it way. =D
The audio I used is Dr Dre Rap beat, not sure who's the artiste..
Post production credits goes to Noel Lee for his patience in piecing the sequence up together!
Sometimes there are things you find that pop up across your RSS feeds and can only be described as magical. This is without a doubt one of them.
Produced by Spanish group “Herraizsoto & Co” is a piece of musical genius. A mixing together of the song “Soy Tu Aire” and what can only be described as paintbrush art, it really does redefine interactive music but I think it really can only be described when you try it out for yourself. You’ll find it quite hard to resist a smile too.
Also below I’ve posted a translation of the song for those who are interested:
I’m made of air,
I’m made of water.
I make tiny furrows on the melted wax of your desire.
And, slowly, very slowly, I come into your tickles.
I make myself comfortable, I put you out to make you laugh.
And I sneak into this mess without knocking, without any warning.
I’m your air,
I’m your water.
You drink me, you chock on me, you breath me, I splash you, you swallow me.
And I linger, I play in your memories for a while, I put them under my petticoat.
I tear your wails to shreds, I create crazy fantasies
And I confuse your memory with the tip of my kisses. I belong to air,
I belong to water.
I belong to air,
I belong to water.
I fly free, don’t tie me down, cause I’ll slip through your fingers.
Impassive, I turn impossible into unexpected just for you
And I build an improvised future on the insecure things
Where one and one don’t make two, and the others are unwanted
And they are no one, no one, no one, no one anymore.
I’m your air,
I’m your water.
I’m your air,
I’m your water.
Also if you have a look on their site, Herraizsoto & Co, and at their Latest Works, they have some pretty interesting work on big scale projection and Wii-motes with this project. Enjoy!
Upon my usual trawl through the murky waters of YouTube, I happened to come across this gem of a director and a rather unique type of cinematography. The YouTube Director, under the name of Keshen8, has managed to quite brilliantly put together the joy of Lego and the beauty of spot motion into some pretty epic videos. I might also add that the film Ninja Assassin is in itself a pretty kick ass film anyways so although probably not worth the price of admission, should definitely be checked out at your local movie rental, or more likely, torrent site …
Usually year on year, this list is fairly hard to compile however I must admit, I was fairly surprised at how easy it was to come up with this Top 5 List. Of course, “Best” film is just an opinion so there’s really no need to lambast me with criticisms for leaving some films in or some films out. Either way it’d be great to know what your opinion is. So without further adieu, I present my favourite films of 2009:
5 - Ponyo
An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human.
From the inspirational director Hayao Miyazaki comes yet another animated masterpiece. It’s so refreshing that in a day and age where Ice Age and Up tend to rule the box offices that there’s still a place for amazing Studio Ghibli animated films. This eco-orientated film is a stunning piece of art that really does bring a smile to the face no matter what age group you are. Not only does this film bring about a great message to it’s audiences, Miyazaki manages to draw in it’s audiences and make them really connect with the onscreen characters over a relatively short 103 minutes. Either way this is probably my favourite feel good film of the year.
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
What may look like your run of the mill action/suspense/thriller movie will have you leaving this film with a real connection to the three main protagonists of the film. An incredible onscreen performance by Jeremy Renner who plays the cowboy bomb disposal technician with underlying psychological issues is met with an enticing storyline that leaves you gripped to your seat wondering where the film will turn. I won’t spoil the scene but it leads to an absolute heart wrenching scene with an Iraqi boy that’ll make you feel like as if you were in Baghdad itself.
Let me just preface this by saying that no, I am not a Star Trek fanboy, in fact I am firmly rooted in the Star Wars camp. Yet this film was easily the second most anticipated film I was looking forward to seeing in 2009 and it definitely lived up to it’s expectations. Say what you will about the predictability of high budget Hollywood films such as this, but it took a massive change from the 2002 flop that was Nemesis. With a refreshing origins story, J. J. Abrams has really pushed forward the Star Trek franchise onto a new and younger generation. This turned out to be a surprisingly beautiful film despite perhaps the over-use of lens flare in the cinematography but either way, my jaw literally dropped open at the sight of the giant ship Narada emerging from a black hole. Also a massive mention has to go to Michael Giacchino for probably the most phenomenal soundtracks of the year.
2 - District 9
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
I must admit, I’d actually heard very very little about this film going into the cinema to see it (much like The Hurt Locker) and what I saw was cinema genius. Every little thing about this movie is so well thought out not only from the very well documented undertones of racial prejudice and social divides but also from a technical standpoint. The pacing in this film is something that all film directors should be looking at, there were moments where the film was nice and narrative, moments where the thrilling action came in, but at no point during the film did you think that it wasn’t going anywhere or that there was a part left unexplained or too heavily emphasised. Sharlto Copley has to take the awards next year for his incredible ability in conveying the rose as the tormentor of “The Prawns” to his brilliant re-birth. No stops were taken in ensuring a very real experience to what is essentially a science fiction about prawn like aliens.
1 - Avatar
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Say what you will about the plotline, but Avatar definitely deserves to be at the top of the list this year even if it’s on sheer visual quality alone. What I’ve said time and time again, you have to see this film on an IMAX screen and in 3D. You just cannot settle for anything less. From the very first scene, you’re left being sucked into the film feeling like as if you’re on Pandora itself. The film is almost 3 hours of engrossing visual effects that you will never have seen the likes of before. The true legacy that this film will leave behind is that it has changed movie making history. This half a billion mammoth of a project that’s spanned 15 years in the making, has revolutionised not only the way technology creates such amazing cinematography but also how directors direct their cameras. Much of the film’s Sure the plotline may have been a little cliched and if anything, runs way too close to the likes of Pocahontas (1995) and the likes of Call Me Joe (1957) but that doesn’t mean to say that it’s a bad story. I think all the hype about it having a bad plotline is simply because the visual effects are so stunning that there’s high expectation for the plot to be “just as stunning”. The casting in this film was almost perfect. Sigourney Weaver as the tough lead scientist should definitely get an award for best supporting actress. Much has been made of Zoe Saldana’s performance as the heroine of the Na’vi people yet I think just as much credit should go to Sam Worthington as his role as the protagonist of the story. Stephen Lang, the face of evil, definitely deserves recognition in what was a very Apocalyse Now vietnam war general-esque role in the film. All in all, this is an absolute must see film.
Most Disappointing Films of 2009
Just thought I may as well throw in my two cents over what I thought was either over hyped or just a plain bad film:
And there you have it, with 2009 now fading in the memory, here’s to 2010 and hopefully a fantastic year for film (that said, Karate Kid looks to be going the way of Dragon Ball =[ ).
(All plot summaries are from their respective IMDB pages)
Unless you’ve been living in a subterranean cave somewhere in the far reaches of the Himalayas, you’ll of course know that the King of Pop legend that is Michael Jackson passed away a few days ago. Now how did everyone find out about this. There was TV and the radio for those who happened to have it on but for most people it would have been on the internet and what better place to search out information than Google.
At 9:45 pm GMT time, Google saw within about 10 minutes of the news first breaking on the TMZ website, a remarkable 16.4 million unique visitors worldwide logged onto their computers and searched for Michael Jackson. This unilateral action completely threw Google off so badly that it’s news site was inaccessible for a good 25 minutes. In fact the error messages that came up when people tried to Google this piece of news was that "We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now." In fact the security company that protects company issued malware warnings and even had some users use CAPTCHA verification boxes just to make sure you weren’t a bot and suspected that this was an attempted terrorist attack to bring down Google.
We can only assume for now that this was an automated response due to the system’s algorithm detecting a huge spike of traffic from a mass number of IP addresses from the around the world rather than a human error which made Google double over.
In fact it wasn’t just Google that this surge in traffic manage to take down. Twitter which has in the past been used to break upcoming news ultra-fast collapsed under the weight of “tweets”. However it must be added that even my own experience with Twitter has shown it’s servers can’t cope with anything whether it be the Iranian conflict, the launch of iPhone 3.0 or even just the release of Star Trek the film is enough to bring it to it’s knees.
AT&T the American mobile phone operator also reported that it set a new record for the most text messages to be sent on their network. A whopping 4,000,000 text messages per minute were being sent around which was significantly more than during the 9/11 attacks. However bare in mind that the number of users on the network has increased fourfold since 2001. Facebook too showed it’s dominance of the social networks but trouncing all it’s competitors to the river of traffic and proving that although it may not be the most efficient platform for news reporting, it most certainly was the most popular.
That said, the editors of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud Podcast Rafe Needleman and Tom Merritt did mention a good point on the podcast a day or so after this event. If there really is to be a global crisis or some sort of worldwide phenomena that needs to be reported to the world, don’t we need a system in place that doesn’t collapse under the weight of traffic pressure? If heaven forbid, an asteroid was coming towards the Earth on the scale of dinosaur extinction level, should we not have a more stable and emergency system for this to be reported on? Would there not perhaps be more than the 16.4 million visitors we saw on MJ’s death?
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