Here are two more Movement Picture Moments.
Both located in Venis Beach, LA.
"LORYN HOOLAH DANCE NUGGET WINDOW IN TIME" by Deena OH
"BODY BUILDER HAT DROP MOMENT" by Deena Oh
The raw version below. Which I like because it's slow anticipation and real time.
I love the way he misses the first time. And how he takes his shoe to the sand to smooth it out, as if that will increase his chance of success. And the fact that I zeroed in on the shadowed sand just as his hat dropped.
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Confused Cell Lady Observation
This marks my first sharing post of my "long stills" or "mini videos." Under the video I would like to talk about this for a second. I'm excited about sharing these observational moments in time.
"Confused Cell Lady Observation" by Deena Oh
Video: Taken at the Dallas Texas airport
Sound: Taken at Tryst, a coffeeshopslashbar, in Washington DC
I think that flickr introducing less-than-90-second video is brilliant. Everyone's still camera has video on it now.
These long pictures blend the brevity ("brevity is the soul of wit") with the motion of video. Motion pictures. The photographer's favorite concept should state the singularity of the moment. Video loses that, but gains precious time. The breaking time down into these nuggets is perfect for us when we are being attention deficit multi-tasking internet readers. Youtube of course approaches this, you could argue it created this, and sometimes it accomplishes this-- but you have to go through so much trash and looooooong unedited crap that remains interesting only if it is you or your buddy. A 90 second cut off causes you to choose more carefully what time you want to keep-- what moment to show. This being said, of course there are very uninteresting flickr mini vids, but at least it can never waste too much of your time.
But careful everyone: those 90 seconds, like that $3 coffee, adds up.
Hans quoted someone saying "humor is a waste of time." Then he explained that it sounds much better if taken out of context, but in context he's simply referring to wasting your time scavenging for internet humor.
What about wasting your time scavenging for beauty?
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"Confused Cell Lady Observation" by Deena Oh
Video: Taken at the Dallas Texas airport
Sound: Taken at Tryst, a coffeeshopslashbar, in Washington DC
I think that flickr introducing less-than-90-second video is brilliant. Everyone's still camera has video on it now.
These long pictures blend the brevity ("brevity is the soul of wit") with the motion of video. Motion pictures. The photographer's favorite concept should state the singularity of the moment. Video loses that, but gains precious time. The breaking time down into these nuggets is perfect for us when we are being attention deficit multi-tasking internet readers. Youtube of course approaches this, you could argue it created this, and sometimes it accomplishes this-- but you have to go through so much trash and looooooong unedited crap that remains interesting only if it is you or your buddy. A 90 second cut off causes you to choose more carefully what time you want to keep-- what moment to show. This being said, of course there are very uninteresting flickr mini vids, but at least it can never waste too much of your time.
But careful everyone: those 90 seconds, like that $3 coffee, adds up.
Hans quoted someone saying "humor is a waste of time." Then he explained that it sounds much better if taken out of context, but in context he's simply referring to wasting your time scavenging for internet humor.
What about wasting your time scavenging for beauty?
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Friend's Videos
Here are some links and videos made by friends:
Black Magic Rollercoaster is great. Thomas is skilled at mimicking genres. Mostly inspired to make stuff for Alamo Draft House's various competitions, his videos show great style and a suburb sense of humor. Whether it be the Unnecessary Sequel Trailer Contest, or the 48-Hour Bloodshots Horror Film Contest, or in the case of my personal favorite that I embedded below, the BPM 48-Hour Music Video Contest, it proves that Thomas has a cool brain.
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You should definitely also check out the unnecessary sequel "SON OR DAUGHTER? OF GLEN OR GLENDA?" because it is very very well done. Wiley does a really amazing job in it, tough role too. You may know him from Dazed and Confused and Waking Life. He made a little video that I'm in. Made from footage taken through his infrared camera of a little walk we took around my old neighborhood. Nothing crazy, very simple and sweet. What's awesome is that it looks like it's winter and we're on another planet, but actually it was summer in Austin, Texas. Here's a link to that: Going for a Walk, it's on his blog:New of The Dead.
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Speaking of things I'm in, but really this has very little to do with me, Jason directed and Ben produced and edited this Super 16mm film called Rut. It Won Best Overall at the 2006 Open APPerture Film Festival, got Viewer's Choice at the 2006 Jumpcut Film Festival, and an Audience Award at the 2006 Cinematexas Film Festival, and was Feature at Fantastic Fest 2006. I'm only in it for a second, dressed as Dorthy and holding a shotgun! Which made for a great photo op that got published in the Daily Texan, even though I barely did anything. That was one of the best costumes ever!
It's worth seeing eventhough it's in a little flash box as opposed to how beautiful it was in its original format. strange subject, odd tone to the film, interesting, really well shot.
Here's a link: "Rut"
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Speaking of little videos with me. My friend Brandi made this little thought provoking flower half outta footage from us karaoking and half outta I'm not sure what. She describes it as: "simpletone explores night setting." It's both kinda terrifying and sorta sweet...
dear deena
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There's much more I want to share at this moment but I'm tired of blogging. I'll come back and put more friend's videos up soon. And hopefully soon enough I'll put some stuff I've been working on as well. I went on an erasing spree recently, caused by Vincent Gallow. I'm afraid to write his name here now. He had one of my videos on youtube taken down due to "copyright infringement" because I mention him in the description. I didn't use any footage or music or anything that he has a copyright on. When I posted the little homemade video, of which I did the sound & music too, I threw together a description. It read "Vincent Gallo went looking for his lost love tripping on mushrooms and it was very difficult. He put all his blood sweat and tears into this journey, but to no avail. As if in a dream, he heard the eerie voice of a mysterious woman detective that could find his lost love." And that was enough reason for him to get it taken down and accuse me of copyright violation. Ugh! I'll also mention that he took down footage from the original movie that the song "Come Wander With Me" by Jeff Alexander was in. As you may know, he used that amazing song in Brown Bunny, which I really liked.
Anyways... tangent!
Black Magic Rollercoaster is great. Thomas is skilled at mimicking genres. Mostly inspired to make stuff for Alamo Draft House's various competitions, his videos show great style and a suburb sense of humor. Whether it be the Unnecessary Sequel Trailer Contest, or the 48-Hour Bloodshots Horror Film Contest, or in the case of my personal favorite that I embedded below, the BPM 48-Hour Music Video Contest, it proves that Thomas has a cool brain.
---
You should definitely also check out the unnecessary sequel "SON OR DAUGHTER? OF GLEN OR GLENDA?" because it is very very well done. Wiley does a really amazing job in it, tough role too. You may know him from Dazed and Confused and Waking Life. He made a little video that I'm in. Made from footage taken through his infrared camera of a little walk we took around my old neighborhood. Nothing crazy, very simple and sweet. What's awesome is that it looks like it's winter and we're on another planet, but actually it was summer in Austin, Texas. Here's a link to that: Going for a Walk, it's on his blog:New of The Dead.
---
Speaking of things I'm in, but really this has very little to do with me, Jason directed and Ben produced and edited this Super 16mm film called Rut. It Won Best Overall at the 2006 Open APPerture Film Festival, got Viewer's Choice at the 2006 Jumpcut Film Festival, and an Audience Award at the 2006 Cinematexas Film Festival, and was Feature at Fantastic Fest 2006. I'm only in it for a second, dressed as Dorthy and holding a shotgun! Which made for a great photo op that got published in the Daily Texan, even though I barely did anything. That was one of the best costumes ever!
It's worth seeing eventhough it's in a little flash box as opposed to how beautiful it was in its original format. strange subject, odd tone to the film, interesting, really well shot.
Here's a link: "Rut"
---
Speaking of little videos with me. My friend Brandi made this little thought provoking flower half outta footage from us karaoking and half outta I'm not sure what. She describes it as: "simpletone explores night setting." It's both kinda terrifying and sorta sweet...
dear deena
--
There's much more I want to share at this moment but I'm tired of blogging. I'll come back and put more friend's videos up soon. And hopefully soon enough I'll put some stuff I've been working on as well. I went on an erasing spree recently, caused by Vincent Gallow. I'm afraid to write his name here now. He had one of my videos on youtube taken down due to "copyright infringement" because I mention him in the description. I didn't use any footage or music or anything that he has a copyright on. When I posted the little homemade video, of which I did the sound & music too, I threw together a description. It read "Vincent Gallo went looking for his lost love tripping on mushrooms and it was very difficult. He put all his blood sweat and tears into this journey, but to no avail. As if in a dream, he heard the eerie voice of a mysterious woman detective that could find his lost love." And that was enough reason for him to get it taken down and accuse me of copyright violation. Ugh! I'll also mention that he took down footage from the original movie that the song "Come Wander With Me" by Jeff Alexander was in. As you may know, he used that amazing song in Brown Bunny, which I really liked.
Anyways... tangent!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Takeshi Murata
I was reminded by Ivan and Eric that Takeshi Murata (American, b. 1974) is featured in the Hirshhorn Black Box circa right now. Nick and I went the other day and were blown away. Who needs drugs when you've got this brand of hallucinogenic video art right in front of you? Of course, then one can't help but wonder about the coupling.
Murata digitally re-works and re-joins various motion picture images individually rendering and altering the pixels into his own creation. Described as "electronic painting," the effect is like "visual quicksand."
I'm not sure if there is much better than a pixelated psychedelic soup where a huge beast emerges. Oh wait, I think there is something better: an epileptic pink dot where Rambo emerges. I can't stop thinking about manly entities disguised as cubed rainbows flowing out of waterfalls!
In Monster Movie (2005), Murata samples from a video of the B-movie Caveman (1981). In Pink Dot (2006) we get Rambo. Also, the music in each piece couldn't have been a better fit. Monster Movie, 4 min: sound by Plate Tectonics. Pink Dot, actually a 5 minute loop: 20 minute soundtrack by Robert Beatty
Here's a little taste of "Pink Dot" though without all the movement this is near pointless:
Murata digitally re-works and re-joins various motion picture images individually rendering and altering the pixels into his own creation. Described as "electronic painting," the effect is like "visual quicksand."
I'm not sure if there is much better than a pixelated psychedelic soup where a huge beast emerges. Oh wait, I think there is something better: an epileptic pink dot where Rambo emerges. I can't stop thinking about manly entities disguised as cubed rainbows flowing out of waterfalls!
In Monster Movie (2005), Murata samples from a video of the B-movie Caveman (1981). In Pink Dot (2006) we get Rambo. Also, the music in each piece couldn't have been a better fit. Monster Movie, 4 min: sound by Plate Tectonics. Pink Dot, actually a 5 minute loop: 20 minute soundtrack by Robert Beatty
Here's a little taste of "Pink Dot" though without all the movement this is near pointless:
Friday, July 6, 2007
Nam June Paik
If you aren't already familiar with Nam June Paik (South Korean born-American, b.1932)'s video art than I am glad to be of service. Check-a-check-him-out!
Nick and I went to the Portrait Gallery which for some odd and awesome reason has not one but TWO Nam June Paik video installations! Happy day. As it's obviously a very visual and auditory experience, I won't bother trying to explain it much in words.
1. Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii,: a multimedia work in neon, 49-channel video installation map of the United States, with various representative sounds and pictures emanating from each of the 50 states.
2. Megatron/Matrix: 215 monitors driven by eight computers continually changing laser-disc images.
This youtube video ain't so hot but it can give you a bit of a feel. However keep in mind it is missing the right HALF of the installation.
I was first introduced to him long ago by way of the Hirshhorn Museum in DC- his piece that is aptly titled: "Video Flag". The title explains all that I would, it must just be seen, but here's a picture of me in front of it:
Nick and I went to the Portrait Gallery which for some odd and awesome reason has not one but TWO Nam June Paik video installations! Happy day. As it's obviously a very visual and auditory experience, I won't bother trying to explain it much in words.
1. Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii,: a multimedia work in neon, 49-channel video installation map of the United States, with various representative sounds and pictures emanating from each of the 50 states.
2. Megatron/Matrix: 215 monitors driven by eight computers continually changing laser-disc images.
This youtube video ain't so hot but it can give you a bit of a feel. However keep in mind it is missing the right HALF of the installation.
I was first introduced to him long ago by way of the Hirshhorn Museum in DC- his piece that is aptly titled: "Video Flag". The title explains all that I would, it must just be seen, but here's a picture of me in front of it:
Thursday, April 5, 2007
"Mystically Gay"
Rell Ohlson (yes!) and Josh Rios (all right!) made this adorable little animation. Including the music. I intermittently witnessed this glorious endeavour as it unraveled in the comfort of my own home.
* “Crucified cupcakes on the holy mountain as the ghost balloons try to steal my dog to take to Conan the Barbarian. Josh and Rell documented the whole thing.” -Rell
* “Jodorowsky eats a bloody cupcake and kicksback with Rell and Josh to drink Tecate and watch Matt Dillon be sexy. Afterwards we made a video about it.” -Josh
Please enjoy! How could you not?
* “Crucified cupcakes on the holy mountain as the ghost balloons try to steal my dog to take to Conan the Barbarian. Josh and Rell documented the whole thing.” -Rell
* “Jodorowsky eats a bloody cupcake and kicksback with Rell and Josh to drink Tecate and watch Matt Dillon be sexy. Afterwards we made a video about it.” -Josh
Please enjoy! How could you not?
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Pipiloti Rist
Ivan and I went to see Pipiloti Rist's exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Rist's video art has come to be a real inspiration for me. It was nice to see them not on my computer. Her installations floored me.
One of the most impressive installations was entitled "Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond." It's pure magic. The projection light creates shadows from the large and intricate tree branch structure as well as the various items hanging from the branches (a plethora of interesting shapes in movement). Oh but it's not done. The light also bounces off the various plastic objects creating illuminations- beautiful ghosts that dance around the room.
"Selfless In The Bath Of Lava" still haunts me in the best way possible. You are walking around and somewhere you here someone pleading in different languages aside the sound of fire burning. You walk one way and it grows fainter, the other and it grows louder. So you walk towards it, naturally, trying to find it. But where is it coming from? Well soon enough you will look down and see a tiny little woman pleading to you from a hole inside the wood floor. The video could only be about 4 by 4 inches or so (but I'm bad with measurements). It's teency! And that's part of it's power. It brings you to your knees, literally. She is naked looking up at you from a pit of fire. On the looping soundtrack, Rist cries in German, French, Italian and English: “Help me! Excuse me! I am a worm and you are a flower. You would have done everything better.” And what can we do? Nothing. We are powerless.
Fortunate enough to see these? Here's a compilation from UBUWEB of Rist's videos.
What you saw:
* 1992 - Als der Bruder meiner Mutter geboren wurde, duftete es nach wilden Birnenbluten vor dem braungebrannten Sims - 4 Min.
* 1999 - Aujourd'hui
* 1993 - Blutclip - 2:50 Min.
* 1988 - (Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler - 11:10 Min.
* 2003 - I Want To See How You See
* 1995 - I`m a Victim Of This Song - 5 Min.
* 1986 - I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much - 7:45 Min.
* ? - Lullaby
* 1998 - Oasis Dance, Sipping My Desert--Santa Fe, New Mexico
* 1996 - Mutaflor
* 1992 - Pickelporno - 12 Min.
* 1998 - Regen Spot Sverige
* 1987 - Sexy Sad I - 4:36 Min.
* 1990 - You Called Me Jacky - 4 Min
(http://www.ubu.com/)
One of the most impressive installations was entitled "Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond." It's pure magic. The projection light creates shadows from the large and intricate tree branch structure as well as the various items hanging from the branches (a plethora of interesting shapes in movement). Oh but it's not done. The light also bounces off the various plastic objects creating illuminations- beautiful ghosts that dance around the room.
"Selfless In The Bath Of Lava" still haunts me in the best way possible. You are walking around and somewhere you here someone pleading in different languages aside the sound of fire burning. You walk one way and it grows fainter, the other and it grows louder. So you walk towards it, naturally, trying to find it. But where is it coming from? Well soon enough you will look down and see a tiny little woman pleading to you from a hole inside the wood floor. The video could only be about 4 by 4 inches or so (but I'm bad with measurements). It's teency! And that's part of it's power. It brings you to your knees, literally. She is naked looking up at you from a pit of fire. On the looping soundtrack, Rist cries in German, French, Italian and English: “Help me! Excuse me! I am a worm and you are a flower. You would have done everything better.” And what can we do? Nothing. We are powerless.
Fortunate enough to see these? Here's a compilation from UBUWEB of Rist's videos.
What you saw:
* 1992 - Als der Bruder meiner Mutter geboren wurde, duftete es nach wilden Birnenbluten vor dem braungebrannten Sims - 4 Min.
* 1999 - Aujourd'hui
* 1993 - Blutclip - 2:50 Min.
* 1988 - (Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler - 11:10 Min.
* 2003 - I Want To See How You See
* 1995 - I`m a Victim Of This Song - 5 Min.
* 1986 - I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much - 7:45 Min.
* ? - Lullaby
* 1998 - Oasis Dance, Sipping My Desert--Santa Fe, New Mexico
* 1996 - Mutaflor
* 1992 - Pickelporno - 12 Min.
* 1998 - Regen Spot Sverige
* 1987 - Sexy Sad I - 4:36 Min.
* 1990 - You Called Me Jacky - 4 Min
(http://www.ubu.com/)
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