» Cultural democracy or mediocrity? PressPausePlay Full Movie Online

In February I posted this:

"PressPausePlay, a film about fear, hope and digital culture". The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with influential creators of the digital era. To name a few interviewees, Ted Schilowitz, founder, Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, Scott Belsky, CEO & founder, Behance. The film was shot globally between August 2009 – January 2011, covering more than 150 hours of interview footage with international creatives and thinkers - representing the state of digitized culture today.

Now it's out, you can download it from their website, full HD.

» Saam Faramand and Absolute's Blind Pig, NSFW

It's been a couple of months since this video came out, I was waiting for the right moment to make this post, but after the Cédric Blaisbois post I can post almost anything.

London based Partizan director Saam Faramand and Absolute's little brother Blind Pig created this clever orgiastic siamese video for the Klaxons track “Twin Flames”. He has chosen to execute his video with the use of motion control rigs and computer blending. Using techniques of the modern combined with inspiration from the old, Saam creates a wonderful homage to Brian Yuzna’s "Society" in this NSFW video for the band. This piece also highlights the current trend in directors being able to push the  boundaries.

» Andrei Muratov, GTLK

Andrey Muratov is a director and prodcuer based in Moscow, Russia. There is no much info about him out there, except hi runs a company named Proxell. He made this piece for Gosudarstvennaya Transportnaya Lizingovaya Kompaniya, a finacial company in Moscow. He directed and produced it, the sound was made by Nebulo. The images are quite rythmic and beautiful, sure he's talented.

» NOVA documentary, 75min online premiere

A documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Directed by Isaac Niemand, and produced by Rojo, an independent creative organization, founded in 2001 by David Quiles Guilló, in collaboration with BossaNovaFilms, it was all filmed at Nova Contemporary Culture which happened in July and August 2010, in MIS-Museum of Image and Sound, and SESC Pompeia, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Starring: Yoshi Sodeoka, Rebecca Ward, Tofer Chin, KRINK, Base V, Yochai Matos, Max Hattler, Lucy McRae, Kit Webster, Jimmy Joe Roche, Flavio Samelo, Matt W Moore, Zeitguised, Mulheres Barbadas, Gustavo Gagliardo aka Defi, Filippo Minelli, Quayola, Javier Longobardo, Renaud Hallée, Mark Jenkins, Ljudbilden & Piloten, Sosaku Miyazaki, Anna Taratiel aka Ovni, Robert Seidel, B. Fleischmann, Koen Delaere, Taras Hrabowsky, Cristopher Cichocki, Yusk Imai, to name a few.

Music by: Bradien, Roll The Dice, Fuck Buttons, to name some.

» Kim Holm, Matta - Release The Freq

This is the official video for ¨Release The Freq" by Matta, from the album "Prototype" under AD Noiseam label. Kim Holm did direction, design, cinematography, editing, 3D and animation, pretty much everything. He created a poetic and  dreamy look, some great images, very beautiful to watch, unfortunately I had to watch it on mute.

» Clemens Wirth, Macro Kingdoms

Clemens Wirth, Salzburg, Austria, is a multimedia art student at the University of Applied Sciences FH-Salzburg. He created this videos playing and exploring with a MP-E 65mm Canon lens, Macro Kingdom I, II and III are visual ongoing poems showing us the unseen micro world.

» Butterflies feat. John Malkovich, Gentleman Scholar and Sandro Miller

Sandro Miller directed his friend John Malcovich in this kind nigthmare-ish dark piece. He is an award winning photographer that has been in the business for over 30 years and has numerous big campaigns under his arm. He collaborated with Gentleman Scholar, a collaboration between veteran Executive Producer, Rob Sanborn and Director/Designer Duo, William Campbell and Will Johnson. This is what Gentleman Scholar has to say: "I have this idea in my mind for a painting about butterflies. Blue and green and yellow butterflies, tumbling out of my brain. I think it’s going to be good. I feel like I can almost touch them... like they’re right there for me to grab as they’re flying away... out of my skull and taking all those dark thoughts and little devils with them. Just fluttering away and leaving the good stuff behind. Butterflies. I’m going to get my canvas and my paints. I think I’m all better. I think I’m ready to leave."

» Orelha Negra - M.I.R.I.A.M. X Vhils aka Alexandre Farto

A couple of days ago I posted about Alexandre Farto and his portraits. He recently upload this music video for Orelha Negra.

» Replica, by Jeff Howard and Alex Vessels

Replica was created by Jeff Howard and Alex Vessels for the class Big Screens at ITP. The project was presented at the IAC building’s 120 foot video wall in Chelsea, December, 2010. Replica is a performance using live image processing, it was developed in Processing using the Most Pixels Ever library. Video was pulled from a Canon 5D Mark II camera using Canon’s EOS utility and CamTwist to communicate with Processing. The project was performed by Claire Westby with the song “Lost in the World” by Kanye West.

» Cultural democracy or mediocrity? PressPausePlay Trailer

"PressPausePlay, a film about fear, hope and digital culture". The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with influential creators of the digital era. To name a few interviewees, Ted Schilowitz, founder, Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, Scott Belsky, CEO & founder, Behance. The film was shot globally between August 2009 – January 2011, covering more than 150 hours of interview footage with international creatives and thinkers - representing the state of digitized culture today.

» 360 music video, "Are We" by Craig Wedren, directed by Tim Nackashi

Former "Shudder to Think" frontman Craig Wedren has released a new solo album, "Wand", which doubles as an 360 interactive film directed by Tim Nackashi. This is not the first 360 music video ever made, the Black Eyed Peas released an Iphone and Ipad app to watch it but you had to pay for it (I guess they just don't have enough money yet). Nackashi says that he wanted to do something more multifaceted than the typical music visual experience, he wanted to conjure the surreal qualities of the 70s rock films with the technological amenities we have today, so he shot this 360 degrees video that allows viewers/listeners to choose their own perspective of each scene. He says he used his dslr to do some tests first, he stitched 15 frames per second all around (we techy geek visual guys call that spherical projections) and got a clue how he must do it, I guess the entire video is shot with dsrl's but he didn't specify on the article I just read. He has on his website a video with a planar projection of the 360 stitch in case you're interested. I think 3d stereoscopic images are now on it's "boom", but 360 degree video is relatively a new frontier, some guys at MIT media lab are doing some interesting stuff with different concepts. According to Wedren this video shows a hero on his journey through mundane life and cotidianity. Watch this interesting film/music video/augmented reality here.