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Totally Bizarre Experimental Video Explores Slit Scanning

Totally Bizarre Experimental Video Explores Slit Scanning video art slit scanning

Whooooooooaa wait what? Welcome to the bizarre world of slit scan photography, a special effect created mechanically or digitally that results in warped and wobbly images. How does it work? Here’s my armchair filmmaker explanation: while regular photos and film give you a full frame image of a single moment in time, slit-scan photos and films capture the world just one line at a time. This results in a two dimensional image where one dimension is continuously (but still chronologically) displaced. Or something. This is by no means a new invention, slit scanning has been experimented with for decades and was even used extensively by Douglas Trumbull in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey back in 1968.

In this video by French filmmakers Adrien M / Claire B, two subjects engage in a surreal but highly entertaining dance through the warped fabric of space and time, made all the more wonderful with music from Beirut. (via the curious brain)

By Christopher on November 7, 2012 • slit scanning video art

Noah Kalina Updates Self-Portrait Video to Include 12.5 Years of Daily Portraits (4,514 Photos!)

Noah Kalina Updates Self Portrait Video to Include 12.5 Years of Daily Portraits (4,514 Photos!) video art timelapse portraits

Photographer Noah Kalina has been taking a self-portrait each day for the last 12.5 years as part of his aptly titled Everyday project. Six years ago a video chronicling six years of portraits set to music by Carly Commando took the internet by storm spawning legions of people to embark on similar self-portrait projects. This morning Kalina released an updated video containing some 4,500 photographs shot from January 11, 2000 through June 30, 2012. Here they are all at once.

Guerilla Creative Collective ‘Kut’ Brings Unexpected Weather to the Streets of Riga

Guerilla Creative Collective Kut Brings Unexpected Weather to the Streets of Riga video art snow

A Latvian group that goes by the name Kut who describes themselves as “a creative collective consisting of filmmakers, musicians, artists, politicians and cats,” recently undertook an action on the streets of Riga called “Oh Joy!” where the group brought nature to the city and made the weather change unexpectedly. Aside from the few “Oh dear god what is this stuff all over me” moments, it looks like most people enjoyed it quite a bit. Love the editing. (via vimeo)

By Christopher on August 29, 2012 • snow video art

The Pleasure Of: A Video Compilation of Life’s Most Pleasurable Moments by Vitùc

The Pleasure Of: A Video Compilation of Lifes Most Pleasurable Moments by Vitùc video art

Taking the first bite of a watermelon. Cracking an egg. Floating in the ocean on a sunny day. These are brief, seemingly inconsequential moments that almost immediately slip from memory as they pass, neither life-altering or particularly remarkable, and yet taken together they become a sort of texture of our lives. Filmmaker Vitùc recognized the importance of these small moments and collected several dozen of them in his new video short called The Pleasure Of that was shot in part with an iPhone 4s. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet did something similar in Amélie as he introduces a number of quirky pleasures enjoyed by Audrey Tautou’s character and I find this film by Vitùc to be just as charming.

By Christopher on August 26, 2012 • video art

Ball: A New Short Film from Everynone

Ball: A New Short Film from Everynone video art

Ball is the latest video from filmmaking team Everynone whose previous films have been widely shared online including Symmetry, Words, Re:words and many more. In this new clip directed by Daniel Mercadante, hundreds of ball and ball-shaped images taken from Google image search are placed in a rapid sequence creating a sort of visual poem. Very cool.

By Christopher on August 8, 2012 • video art

Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Painting Made from 7,067 Falling Dominoes

Vincent van Goghs Starry Night Painting Made from 7,067 Falling Dominoes Vincent van Gogh video art dominoes

Industrious domino artist FlippyCat recreated Vincent van Gough’s famous Starry Night painting using 7,067 dominoes stacked vertically and horizontally to create an impressive chain reaction that seems to sprawl in the same direction as the artist’s brushstrokes. The video above contains some pretty heartbreaking outtakes as well. See also his Domona Lisa from 2007. (via neatorama)

By Christopher on June 24, 2012 • dominoes video art Vincent van Gogh

Flatten: An Experimental Video Exploring the Shape of Flattened Food

Flatten: An Experimental Video Exploring the Shape of Flattened Food video art food

I’m loving the concept of this experimental video by Dutch artists Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree that explores the shapes and forms of popular foods when flattened. (via vimeo)

By Christopher on June 5, 2012 • food video art

Diego Stocco: Music from Nature

Diego Stocco: Music from Nature video art plants nature

A new video tonight from musician Diego Stocco (previously) wherein he samples audio from trees played with a bow, bark, coconuts, bees, almonds, orange peels, rice and other natural objects to create one of his signature tracks. This guy can make music from anything! Learn more about his Music from Nature project over on Behance.