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‘Ce soir je vous propose’ - transcendence from Dan Canyon
from DVblog
July 04, 2008
3 of 7(2002, 74.7MB, 4:00 min) 4 of 7(2002, 105MB, 4:00 min) Two (from a series of seven) heartbreakingly beautiful, lump-in-the-throat-evocative lyric poems about being young, disguised as music video/documentaries. Dan Canyon is a natural filmmaker. He so is. What more to say, except nice to see B...
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John Cage - 4:33
from DVblog
July 05, 2008
John Cage - 4:33 (2004, 47MB, 9:23 min) Wonderful video of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Lawrence Foster giving a performance of John Cage’s notorious/ provocative/seminal/epoch-making 4:33....
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Exercise by Lucia Nimcova
from DVblog
July 06, 2008
Lucia Nimcova - Exercise (2007, 40.5MB, 6:03) Outrageously funny video from Slovakian artist Lucia Nimcova. I m pretty sure not being able to understand the language makes this that much more endearing and amusing....
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Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study Video Brochure
from DVblog
July 07, 2008
Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study (2008, 82.2MB, 9:15 min) Rather wonderful piece from Shawn Kornhauser Brandon Joyce who seem to exist in a strange crevice between real Philadelphia well some other one. The layers of japes spoofery multiply exponentially but something near the truth, whatev...
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Two from Robert Croma
from DVblog
July 08, 2008
Thibaut Is Singing On Oberstein Road (2008, 15.5MB, 2:36 min) Rules of Engagement (2008, 18.1MB, 2:15 min) Tremendous work from Robert Croma. The Iraq piece is harrowing but you should watch it nonetheless. The Thibaut piece is simply exhilarating. I was trying to figure out what exactly makes this ...
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Creation Myth by Robert Todd
from DVblog
July 03, 2008
Robert Todd - Creation Myth (2007, 39.3MB, 5:46) Robert Todd is a master of 16mm. With an enormous catalog behind him and no sign of his work ceasing in the near future, Todd is slowly migrating his work onto his personal website. What a treat for us. This piece, Creation Myth, is one of several I w...
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Barry McGee at Deitch Projects
from DVblog
July 01, 2008
Golly Gee, Mcgee (2005, 4.8MB, 1:31 min.) Barry McGee’s installation at Deitch Projects, was one of my favorite shows in NYC in 2005. Music by Gorillaz....
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Ask A Ninja Classic, Special Delivery 4 "Net Neutrality"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 30, 2008
Go to SaveTheInternet.com and get involved. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A Ninja Fans Send your que...
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‘No Animals Were Harmed…’ - Pleix
from DVblog
June 30, 2008
Birds (2006, 15.5MB, 3:04 min) Netlag (2006, 15.8MB, 4:23 min) 24 carat weirdness ethereal beauty respectively from the French Pleix group, a ‘virtual community of digital artists based in Paris. Can’t help feeling, though, that the chosen music seems a tad ordinary for these images…...
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Three from Brian Beletic
from DVblog
June 29, 2008
Basement Jaxx - Red Alert (1999, 10.5MB, 3:42) Fatboy Slim - Don t Let The Man Get You Down (2003, 9MB, 3:08) Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (2006, 12.2MB, 2:43) Three videos from the funky fresh Brian Beletic. (Why doesn t a music video director have a website?) In any case, Beletic s work spa...
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Home of the Twisted Films of PES
from DVblog
June 28, 2008
Kaboom (2005, 9 MB, 1:14 min.) Fireworks (2004, 6.1 MB, 28 sec.) PES is a New York based animator and movie maker. His work has been commissioned by Bacardi and Diesel. His shorts, stop-motion animations are known for their skill and brilliance....
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Ask A Ninja Question 77 "Ninjenglish"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 27, 2008
Find out what words Ninjas have contributed to the English language. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A...
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Personal Genome Project
from NOVA Vodcast | PBS
June 27, 2008
The Personal Genome Project, spearheaded by George Church, the Director of Harvard's Center for Computational Genetics, aims to recruit 100,000 people to offer up their DNA and personal life histories, all in an effort to further knowledge of human genetics and why we get-or don't get-diseases. Don'...
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Diluvio Gallery Once More
from DVblog
June 27, 2008
Hansel and Gretel Chapter 1 (2007, 15.9MB, 4:11 min) More from Diluvio Gallery, this time from Cristóbal León, with quite the most disturbing take on the Hansel and Gretel story I ve ever come across. This strange precise, slow moving black and white universe suggests all sorts of antecedents, fro...
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Skye Bender-deMoll
from DVblog
June 26, 2008
Skye Bender-deMoll - Organic Brand Ownership Networks (2007, 9MB, 0:18) We love moving charts and maps, in case you couldn t tell. This one, from Skye Bender-deMoll, features organic food brands circa late 2007, and their often overlooked connections. The yellow nodes are food processors, blue are i...
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Grizzly Bear - Knife
from DVblog
June 25, 2008
Knife (2007, 67 MB, 5:50 min.) Death Valley is hot. We wouldn’t recommend going there to shoot a music video. But we did, and it was tough and we got desert madness and Sean split his head open and there was much nakedness and much futzing with makeup, but we made no compromises and we are very ex...
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Journey Through the Center of the Earth
from NOVA Vodcast | PBS
June 24, 2008
Ever wonder what would happen if you dug a whole from one side of the Earth, through the center, out the other side, and then jumped in? Watch all new episodes of NOVA scienceNOW every Wednesday night this summer at 9pm on PBS, starting Wednesday June 25. Watch past episodes of the program, try out ...
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Amy Carpenter - Why Not?
from DVblog
June 24, 2008
Amy Carpenter - Why Not? (2006, 8.4MB, 2:56) In thinking back on the people that inspired me when video online first began to really take hold of everyone, I remembered Amy Carpenter s Welcome to Amyville. Turns out she still posts occasionally - maybe about as much as she always did. This little pi...
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Journey Through the Center of the Earth
from NOVA Vodcast | PBS
June 24, 2008
Ever wonder what would happen if you dug a whole from one side of the Earth, through the center, out the other side, and then jumped in? Watch all new episodes of NOVA scienceNOW every Wednesday night this summer at 9pm on PBS, starting Wednesday June 25. Watch past episodes of the program, try out ...
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The Dark Matter Mystery
from NOVA Vodcast | PBS
June 23, 2008
We can't see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. Astronomer Doug Clowe explains how the Bullet Cluster, a group of galaxies billions of light years away, may shed some light on this mysterious stuff. Don't miss th...
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Diluvio Gallery
from DVblog
June 23, 2008
Lucia (2007, 48.5MB, 4:01 min) Exquisite stop motion work from Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León in Chile who ve banded together as the Diluvio Gallery. We ve shown some of Niles s great stop-motion music work here before - maybe those pieces are quite intentionally more functiona...
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Yogin - John Hanrahan
from DVblog
June 22, 2008
Yogin (2008, 57 MB, 3:15 min.) Yogin is a 3 minute short animation I created for my MFA thesis. I am responsible for everything but the musical score. It is the story of a brash young yogi challenging an old master to a yoga battle. The egotistical challenger thinks he has what is necessary to take ...
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Take a Chance on Me
from DVblog
June 21, 2008
ABBA - Take a Chance on Me (1978, 9.9MB, 3:55) I have an unnatural obsession with ABBA, and thankfully, Doron already posted one of their classic and amazing music videos. Let s break this one down a little, though it s clearly enjoyable without my commentary. First off, the ABBA couples broke up, b...
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Wisdom of the Crowds
from NOVA Vodcast | PBS
June 20, 2008
Ask enough people to estimate something, and the average of all their guesses will get you surprisingly close to the right answer. Don't miss the new season of NOVA scienceNOW, airing every Wednesday at 9pm starting June 25 on PBS. Watch past episodes of the program, try out interactives, and more o...
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Nameless Films
from DVblog
June 20, 2008
Croque Quartet (2007, 29.5MB, 2:05 min) I Didn t Say That (2007, 45.8MB, 3:14 min) Writer, musician, artist general polymath Talan Memmott turns his attention to film in this series of shorts made mostly in Paris in collaboration with Sandy Florian. They re assured, quirky, evocative and entertainin...
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Ask A Ninja Question 76 "Ninja vs Crazy People"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 19, 2008
Ninja or crazy person. The Ninja sets you straight. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A Ninja Fans Send ...
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Psycho Bob - Bob And The Neighbors
from DVblog
June 19, 2008
Bob And The Neighbors (2008, 10 MB, 1:10 min.) Another lazy Sunday in Bob s neighbourhood; while Bob works on his yard, his nosy neighbor crosses the line, forcing Bob to take matters into his own hands. From The AV Club....
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The Loneliness of the Species
from DVblog
June 18, 2008
Krista Birnbaum - Agatha and Bernice (2006, 35.2MB, 4:12) The Loneliness of the Species is a three-video series by Krista Birnbaum, featuring little white mice friends and their respective teacups. The first features a mouse named Constance, who roams his china playground alone. The second (seen her...
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Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - Fedde Le Grand
from DVblog
June 17, 2008
Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (2007, 13.6 MB, 2:25 min.) Sexy remix action from Director S.MacKay-Smith using footage from Till West DJ Delicious, TV Rock, Dirty South and Claude Von Stroke. By Fedde Le Grand....
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Get Out and Pay
from DVblog
June 16, 2008
Get Out and Play (2008, 36.9MB, 1:25 min) Somebody called Donna sends us a mail writing from a Nokia sponsored blog . Donna, kind soul that she is, thought With your stop motion background we thought you might have a different take on the video than the gamers and tech bloggers who might normally wa...
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Ask A Ninja Question 73 "Modern Major Ninja"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
May 30, 2008
The Ninja breaks into song telling about all the different types of ninjas. Thanks to Andrew Melton for his help on the music. http://www.andrew.melton.com/ Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a fr...
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Ask A Ninja Question 74 "Ninja Moves"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 06, 2008
The Ninja gets his move on. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A Ninja Fans Send your questions to askani...
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Ask A Ninja Question 75 "Oh Brother"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 12, 2008
The Ninja's brother takes a stab at answering your questions. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A Ninja ...
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Psycho Bob - Bob’s Big Date
from DVblog
June 14, 2008
Bob s Big Date (2008, 7 MB, 50 sec.) These are the adventures of a psychopath named Bob. Bob is not a nice man; not even a little bit. This show is the video equivalent of a Sunday comic strip. Here Bob goes out on a date with Betty, perhaps the first woman other than his mother to truly understand ...
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June Pak
from DVblog
June 15, 2008
June Pak - double (2002, 892MB, 0:30) June Pak s work is innovative and breathtaking. In double, one character disrupts the other s stability by changing the television channel but is nevertheless oblivious to this effect. Pak says, This exchange between the two suggests the disjunction within onese...
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Amazing Atoms
from NOVA Vodcast | PBS
June 13, 2008
Throw away your textbooks. Here is the latest, atomically correct, version of our old friend, the atom. Don't miss the new season of NOVA scienceNOW, airing every Wednesday starting June 25 on PBS. Watch past episodes of the program, try out interactives, and more on our Web site: http://www.pbs.org...
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Movies both Made By & Starring Brittany Shoot
from DVblog
June 13, 2008
Art Model [AHP] (2008, 4MB, 56 secs, silent) Burger King [BS] (2008, 22.4MB, 1:02 min, silent) Meeting from Above [BS] (2008, 28.7MB, 59 secs, silent) Pole [AHP] (2008, 4.39MB, 55 secs, silent) Sour Candy [AHP] (2008, 3.58MB, 46 secs, silent) Five Lumières, two by DVblog s own Brittany Shoot and th...
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Ask A Ninja Question 75 "Oh Brother"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 12, 2008
The Ninja's brother takes a stab at answering your questions. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A Ninja ...
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3 from Alan Sondheim
from DVblog
June 12, 2008
me (2008, 12MB, 1:06 min loop) slbarrier (2008, 33.1 MB, 4:32 min.) elo1 (2008, 46.3 MB, 5:26 min.) I ve run out of superlatives. (For a full list search on Sondheim on the dvblog front page) Here s three movies from the last six months. Watch marvel, watch learn. PS I m going to post beneath a rece...
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On Database Driven Movies - Interview with Lev Manovich
from DVblog
June 11, 2008
Interview with Lev Manovich (excerpt) (2006, 8.8 MB, 4:23 min.) Lev Manovich is a Professor in Visual Arts Department, University of California -San Diego and the author of The Language of New Media which is hailed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan”. ...
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Africalls
from DVblog
June 10, 2008
Africalls Trailer (2008, 23.3MB, 1:57 min) If this rather lovely trailer is anything to go by then Africalls the movie proper, by director Pere Ortin Andres, will display a pretty high level of visual sensitivity to its subject matter -art artists from urban centers of Africa. (And I can t help feel...
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David Yun
from DVblog
June 09, 2008
David Yun - A Taste of Home (2007, 4.9MB, 2:19) When David Yun went home to care for his terminally ill mother, he found himself as disconnected and alienated from his small hometown as he had always been. Clip from Yun s seven and a half minute video. Beautiful footage and a voice-over that never b...
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healthy!
from scratch video
June 07, 2008
It's so humid and hot that I keep staring at this with nothing to say. I've been juicing a lot. Strawberries and carrot juice is particularly good. Then there's the carrot, celery, apple, lemon, beet juice. I try to make a fresh glass of something a few times a week....
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healthy!
from scratch video
June 07, 2008
It's so humid and hot that I keep staring at this with nothing to say. I've been juicing a lot. Strawberries and carrot juice is particularly good. Then there's the carrot, celery, apple, lemon, beet juice. I try to make a fresh glass of something a few times a week....
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Impactist - Nebraska
from DVblog
June 07, 2008
Impactist - Nebraska - in single frames (2004, 16.9MB, 3:29) The simplicity of this piece resonates with me. From the enormously talented Impactist duo, Kelly Meador Daniel Elwing....
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Ask A Ninja Question 74 "Ninja Moves"
from Ask A Ninja - iPod
June 06, 2008
The Ninja gets his move on. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Visit Ask A Ninja Fans Send your questions to askani...
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The Vasulkas: Pioneers & Magicians
from DVblog
June 06, 2008
Violin Power (clip, 1978, 2.1MB, 1:17 min) The Vasulkas, husband wife team Woody Steina, have devoted over thirty years to an intensive exploration of the possibilities of electronic image making. It’s a strange paradox, perhaps, that this exploration, which has been highly formal technical in nat...
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