Adam Norwood

Tag: video

  • Lucasfilm Games Tv Humor Video

    If you’re a fan of the old Lucasfilm Games (and the kind of video game nerd that likes this sort of weird find…), don’t let your week go by without watching this internal Lucasfilm Games parody video unearthed by Mix n’ Mojo. Shots of Skywalker Ranch, Ron Gilbert, Larry Holland, jokes riffing off of the “Bo Knows” and “Spielvergnügen” (erm, Fahrvergnügen) ads, and even a song sung on the Ranch’s porch about their adventure games. It doesn’t get much more 1990 then this, folks!

    (Bonus: watch for the boxed copy of King’s Quest V on the desk at around 8 minutes in — how’d that get in there??)

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  • Extemeties Skateboard Video

    Music – Blackbird Blackbird “Pure” // http://blackbirdblackbird.bandcamp.com

    Skateboarding – Aryeh Kraus

    Director: Eli Stonberg // http://elistonberg.com
    Executive Producer: Danielle Hinde
    Commissioner: Sara Greene
    Producer: Josh Fruehling
    Director of Photography: Ross Riege
    Camera Operator: Hermes Marco
    Camera Operator: Ariana Natale
    Editor: Eli Stonberg
    Asst Editor: Josh Sasson
    PA: Jackson Hoose

    Produced by Doomsday Entertainment // http://www.doomsdayent.com
    In Association with The Masses // http://www.wearethemasses.com
    Thanks to The Idealists // http://theidealists.com
    Created for Burn // www.burn.com

    Extremities: six GoPro cameras attached to the skateboarder’s arms, legs, head, and one mounted underneath the deck (my favorite), combined with a couple of static cameras for context. Between this and the hula hoop video, these little cameras are cranking out some fascinating new perspectives this week.

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  • Pee Wee on the Gong Show

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    More from the “things I did not know” file: Paul Rubens’s first widely-seen appearances, years before he hit it big as Pee-Wee Herman, were on the Gong Show.

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  • Making of Pharcyde Drop

    The behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite Spike Jonze music videos, Pharcyde’s Drop (original video). The group had to learn to rap backwards to create the right lipsync for the effect, so Jonze hired a professional linguist to help transcribe the reversed audio track!

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  • Bute Tarentella

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    Experimental animation pioneer Mary Ellen Bute’s short film Tarentella was selected this week for preservation in the National Film Registry as a culturally significant film. From the press release:

    “Tarantella” is a five-minute color, avant-garde short film created by Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneer of visual music and electronic art in experimental cinema. With piano accompaniment by Edwin Gershefsky, “Tarantella” features rich reds and blues that Bute uses to signify a lighter mood, while her syncopated spirals, shards, lines and squiggles dance exuberantly to Gershefsky’s modern beat. Bute produced more than a dozen short films between the 1930s and the 1950s and once described herself as a “designer of kinetic abstractions” who sought to “bring to the eyes a combination of visual forms unfolding with the … rhythmic cadences of music.” Bute’s work influenced many other filmmakers working with abstract animation during the ‘30s and ‘40s, and with experimental electronic imagery in the ‘50s.

    Bute’s final piece was an interpretation of Finnegans Wake, one of the very few attempts ever made at staging Joyce’s novel of troubled dreams.

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  • Sunset on Mars

    Sunset on Mars, as seen by the long-lived rover Opportunity. Otherworldly yet primal.

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  • Livewriter

    Eyewriter 2.0 + Robot Arm = Livewriter. Combining the FFFFAT Lab’s inspirational Eyewriter project (named this week as one of Time’s top 50 inventions of 2010, and now glasses-free!) with their GML RoboTagger Sharpie Magnum-wielding robot arm, kids were able to try out the eye-tracking graffiti system to print out giant-sized tags of their own names. These projects touch on so many of my favorite areas of interest, so very cool.

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  • Frank Zappa on “What‘s My Line”

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    Frank Zappa as the mystery guest on What’s My Line. Pretty dry, to be honest, although some might find interest in hearing him go into surprising detail about the video-to-film process used in filming 200 Motels (it was shot and edited in PAL video then upconverted to 35mm, a novel process at the time).

    So why do I post this? Because at the 2:50 mark he references the awesome Time Life photo of him and his parents, confessing that it was “too purple.”

    (Via They Might Be Giants’ Facebook)

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  • iPad Light Paintings

    This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

    We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

    We’ve collected some of the best images from the project and made a book of them you can buy: http://bit.ly/mfmbook

    Read more at the Dentsu London blog:
    http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/
    and at the BERG blog:
    http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/magic-ipad-light-painting/

    From Dentsu London, Making Future Magic:

    We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

    Take that, Picasso.

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  • OBAMA GML PLAYA

    https://vimeo.com/14575301

    A novel way to view Graffiti Markup Language tags: Obama GML Playa.

    And speaking of the Graffiti Research Lab, if you happen to be in Houston next week, you can see the local chapter demonstrating their laser tagging as part of the MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY event at the Menil.

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