First post of November! Anywho, since we don't really have a topic yet, and this is a cool video I just found, I'm going to throw it up here. Gotye (apparently pronounced "gore-ti-yeah" according to AllMusic) has made a few tracks recently that have been really catchy - look up "Someone That I Used to Know" and "Eyes Wide Open" by them. This video for "Don't Worry, We'll be Watching You" is very shimmery and slow mo-y and just kind of awesome. We seemed to have arrived at a point where computer simulations of things and even people are about as realistic as film of the real counterparts, but the computer generated ones can be manipulated to look pretty spectacular. I'm not sure how much if any of this video is from real life, but I'd be interested to find out. Enjoy:
Haha, it says "The film has been removed by the user." Such a fate seems to have happened to many of my Beatles posts, too. :(
ReplyDeleteAh yes, the fail-safe-lessness of youtube. Here's at least the audio of the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gCuoZfZQTc
ReplyDelete(that'll probably get removed too)
If I find the video ever, I'll put that back, if even for a temporary time.
I'm assuming this is the video?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6V_44ibou8. Weird stuff. If you mean by "generated from real" life that they used real video or photography, I'm going to go ahead and guess that this was all animated either by hand or through a computer.
ReplyDeleteAs to the video's significance, it seems to be a pagan cult. There was a recurring image of half of a cross, as well as the unicorn, signifying the Celtic/Druidic pagans that were popular during the early years of Christianity in Europe, perhaps linking the world of dance-trance music to the experience of a cult ritual. At least that's what I got out of it.
Apparently the one I originally posted was not the official one if this one with the animation is - there could also be more than one. Either way, the one I posted had a long slow motion sequence of a guy walking on a street looking at a woman in a restaurant. A lot of things break, explode, and splash in extremely slow motion, and it looks like a video game with absurdly good graphics.
ReplyDeleteAs for the animation, I think Edward, you captured it better than I could.
I've seen a few of those everything-breaking-in-slow-motion videos. Isn't Fiona Apple's "Across the Universe" like that?
ReplyDeleteAnd, *flexes*, why would anyone else even try to describe something after I have? I'm the Church of Edward Chamberlin.
"fast 'last word' Eddy"
ReplyDeleteYou better go to the bathroom and take your time in there, because this is going to be a long night.
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