Macaframa is the name of a crew of track bike riders but also the name of a film about them. In this first clip you can see a quite impressive skid by Nate Gogol. But actually all their clips on Vimeo are worth watching, some of them were shot with a high speed camera and the image quality is just lush.
And this is the trailer:
Portishead in Portishead - a 31 minute piece filmed in December 2007 in the drama block at Geoff Barrow’s old school, Gordano School in Portishead and featuring 7 songs from Third.
found at nerdcore
Ah … French pop music, if it looks good, I could be interested. So this is the new music video for ‘Ce Jeu’ by Yelle. It was directed by Yoann Lemoine and styled by Jean Paul Lespagnard.
Can it be more French than that? Colorful!
Mary Ellen Bute was a American pioneer film animator. Here are 3 of her 14 short abstract music films, made between 1934 and 1953.
Rhythm in Light (1934)
Dada (1936)
Tarantella (1940)
Polar Candle is a project by wowlab. It is a video installation based on cylindrical Anamorphosis. The effect isn’t new, but the execution is excellent
‘The Robotic Chair‘ is a project by Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea & Matt Donovan.
The Robotic Chair (1984 - 2006) is a generic-looking wooden chair with the capacity to fall apart and put itself back together. With shuddering force the chair collapses to the floor then with persistence and determination proceeds to seek out its parts and upright itself. The Robotic Chair is distinguished in the world of objects for its capacity to elicit empathy, compassion and hope.
This is quite a nice TV commercial for Guinness, unfortunatly the beer itself isn’t that good.
Timbap is a platform-independent application for augmented DJing. It was developed by students and assistants of the University of Ulm (Germany). It provides a rugged tangible interface for browsing your music collection and manipulating playback by scratching, pitching, skipping etc. Like many others it is based on an acoustic timecode signal recorded to vinyl records. In contrast to existing digital solutions however, it completely releases the DJ from mouse, keyboard and monitor. Instead it relies on physical interaction with the standard club turntable only.
It still sounds quite strange, right? So basically it is a projected video interface for selecting mp3’s. Maybe this video will make it all clear to you.
Guessing from the amount of student DJ projects, there are a lot of bedroom DJ’s among the students out there.
found at MAKE: Blog
Ian Cook made this painting of a Chevy Camaro with RC cars. He soaked their tires in paint and drove them back and forth. He cheated a little for the bigger parts, there he used a real tire.
Tonight is the premiere of the second season of Mad Men. Yeah! If you live in the USA at least. But if you want to catch up and see the first season, then you’ll have to get this DVD box
For those of you don’t know what Mad Men is all about:
The series (set in the 1960s) revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper, the biggest ad man (and ladies man) in the business, and his colleagues at the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. As Don makes the plays in the boardroom and the bedroom, he struggles to stay a step ahead of the rapidly changing times and the young executives nipping at his heels. The series also depicts authentically the roles of men and women in this era while exploring the true human nature beneath the guise of 1960s traditional family values.
