In The Summer
“I hear a noise, I put the spell, I put the coin,
Into the wishing well.
You make a point, I make a yell,
I am alive I make a yell into the wishing well.”
Tobias Stretch provides his bizarre directorial panache to this stop motion music video for multi-national indie dance outfit, Crystal Fighters. Prepare to soak in the strangeness, friends.
[ In The Summer by Crystal Fighters ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 14, 2011 in Videos | tags: bizarre, colorful, crystal fighters, fantasy, music video, nature, stop motion, summer, tobias stretch
The Art of Jeremy Fish
Rodney Montenegro wrote in with a hot tip to check out http://sillypinkbunnies.com, the online home of super-talent Jeremy Fish. This is just an ultra-small sampling of Jeremy’s vast portfolio – a mere appetizer – so click here when you’re ready to dive into the main course. So then, what would this link be? An apéritif? Dessert? Just another course? Perhaps it would be best to get straight to the point and put it plainly: it’s a high definition, Jay-Z backed time lapse video of Jeremy painting. So yeah, watch that. It’s awesome.
Thanks, Rodney!
[ Silly Pink Bunnies | The Artwork of Jeremy Fish ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 12, 2011 in Pictures | tags: art, colorful, illustration, jeremy fish, nature, trippy
Sur Le Quai
Colorful high definition animation set to some french electro pop that takes the viewer on a bizarre fantastic voyage through a forest to a flying train, the inner wormhole visions of the mind and beyond. In other words: an instant classic of The Tripatorium™. Direction from Sanghon Kim, production by Machine Molle (of Cartoon Style Fighting Kids fame) with backing tunes courtesy Les Mains Ensorcelées.
The proper viewing ritual should be familiar by now: full screen, in HD with a nice pair of headphones strapped to your skull. Enjoy!
[ [clip] Les Mains Ensorcelées (The Bewitched Hands) - Sur Le Quai ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 11, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, bizarre, colorful, fantasy, french, hd, les mains ensorcelées, machine molle, music video, nature, sanghon kim, trippy, wormhole
Gargoyle Gecko
Bal Soora took this fantastic photograph of his son’s Gargoyle Gecko, a species (Rhacodactylus auriculatus) unique to the southern end of New Caledonia.
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 09, 2011 in Pictures | tags: bal soora, colorful, eye, gecko, lizard, nature, photography, trippy
High Hopes
Absolutely loving this abstract, monochromatic, slow motion, abstract and positively gooey music video that Romain Glé and Thomas Séon turned out for Team Ghost. We love how the visuals slowly evolve in complexity right along with the steady progressing intensity of the tune. Our only gripe? Don’t worry, it’s a small one: no HD. This kind of stuff begs to be seen big and sharp with the volume cranked.
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 08, 2011 in Videos | tags: 16ar, abstract, french, liquid, monochromatic, music video, romain glé, slow motion, team ghost, thomas séon
The Aurora Borealis
“The Sun acts as an enormous power plant. The energy is created deep inside the core of the Sun, here the temperature is over 14 million degrees and the pressure so enormous that hydrogen atoms are squeezed together into another element: helium.”
Time for some science, bitches – prepare to get your learn on! The Sun is an endlessly fascinating topic for me and this video, produced by forskning.no in concert with the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo, does a great job of explaining the complex process of how the Aurora Borealis forms in an easy-to-understand way. Speaking of which, my favorite way to wrap my head around complex topics, like nuclear fusion, is to first head over to Simple English Wikipedia. It’s page on The Sun is fantastic – “The sun is basically a very, very large ball of plasma bubbling with non-stop explosions. These explosions give off so much energy that if we could gather all the Sun’s energy for one second it would be enough to power the U.S.for 9 million years…more” – as are the entries pertaining to the Higgs Boson, strong force and the special theory of relativity. Don’t forget: knowledge is power.
Related: More Aurora Borealis on The Tripatorium™.
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 08, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, astronomy, aurora borealis, colorful, educational, science, space, sun
Who’s Gonna Save My Soul?
“For you.”
“You do realize I’m breaking up with you, right?”
“Well that’s the strange thing; it’s actually yours now. I don’t know why it works that way but I’m never going to be able to get over you and so from now on every girl that I meet will be meticulously compared to you and, unfortunately, none of them will be able to measure up to the false memory of what you and I once ‘had’.”
Chris Milk directed this fantastic more-than-a-music-video for one of my all-time favorite acts, Gnarls Barkley. Bask in the strangeness, friends.
[ Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 08, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, bizarre, chris milk, dark, gnarls barkley, hd, heart, love, music video, trippy
Artificial
“The idea was to make a visual representation of how art communicates with the viewers emotions, and it was very inspiring to animate other artists work.”
Sven Larsen passed along this minute-and-a-half short film by Lasse Gjertsen – Mr. Hyperactive himself – that takes you on a tour of Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal, Norway. The visuals are subtle, sufficiently trippy and go especially well with the mellow backing tunes, also by Lasse. Enjoy!
Thanks for the heads up, Sven!
[ Artificial - A Short Trip Through Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 06, 2011 in Videos | tags: art, bizarre, chill, hd, lasse gjertsen, mellow, museum, trippy
She Just Likes to Fight
chutieboy took some time-lapse footage shot by Philip Bloom, kaleidoscope-o-fied it and then set it to some chilled-out Four Tet. After being subjected to our stringent approval process this video was unanimously deemed, ‘Suitable for mellow reflection and contemplation after a long weekend of merry-making.’ Recommended use instructions: full screen HD and headphones. Enjoy!
[ Four Tet-ulizer - She Just Likes to Fight ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 05, 2011 in Videos | tags: chill, chuteboy, colorful, contemplative, four tet, kaleidoscope, time lapse, trippy
Oh gee Oh why
”...or how to mastermind a nonsensical parade following a cock-a-hoop bestiary into the doors of infinity.”
Five second-year students at French school-of-awesome, Gobelins – Hanne Galvez, Yoann Hervo, Juliette Laurent, Stephanie Mercier and Pierre Zenzuis – put together this fantastic, trippy, bizarre and wonderful animated short that was exhibited as one of the many opening films that kicked off this year’s Annecy, the legendary international animation film festival. If this is what they’re making now during their second year, imagine what their graduation films will be like. Enjoy!
P.S. If you’re into process, be sure to check out this great Röyksopp-backed ‘making of’ video that Juliette put together.
[ Oh gee Oh why ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 01, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, bizarre, circus, colorful, french, gobelins, hd, kaleidoscope, whimsical