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The technique of spelling words with everyday objects is at this point well-travelled, but nevertheless this video by the band Softlightes is a compelling marriage of type, image, and motion (via VSL).
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For some funky graphics, check out Linked By Air’s Responsive Wallpaper Videos for the Architectural League of New York’s Beaux Arts Ball.
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A few nice videos of This American Life’s Ira Glass talking about the art of storytelling (via Your Daily Awesome).
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“Without the guidance of institutions and armed only with the ability to crudely search for text, the Internet’s version of art history slightly differs from the academic version. For instance, on the Internet, actual artist videos are placed next to user generated karaoke remakes. The control systems that normally govern the systematization of art are dismantled by the search algorithms and whims of home users.” Hanne Mugass and Cory Arcangel’s massive online video archive entitled “Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet).”
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Behold the brilliant homemadeness of The Go! Team’s video for “Panther Dash” (via VSL).
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Khoi Vinh pointed me to this You Tube video for the song “Quicksand Under Carpet” by the band New Radiant Storm King. Reminds me of one of my favorite book designs by the fantastic designer Thomas Buxò.
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The madcap animations of Jan Svankmajer.
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UbuWeb is billing itself as “The YouTube of the Avant-Garde,” having converted all of its rare and out-of-print film and video holdings to on-demand streaming formats: “We offer over 300 films & videos from artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Jean Genet, The Cinema of Transgression, Richard Foreman, Terayama Shuji, Paul McCarthy Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, John Lennon and hundreds more—of course all free of charge.” You could start with some Peter Greenaway films of “Four American Composers,” or—better yet—with Robert Smithson’s excellent Hotel Palenque.
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A database of talking heads at ReporterCaps.com.
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If you haven’t seen Stewart Smith’s award-winning video for Grandaddy’s song “Jed’s Other Poem,” programmed entirely in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple II+, you should.
