Worldmaking

Celebrity Autobiography - Kristen Wiig reads Suzanne Somers (via kushcomedy)

Incredible BBC abstract animation captures the 10 yrs Iraqi oil minister spent in Solitary Confinement http://ow.ly/KB7i via @brainpicker

BBC The Iraqi Oil Minister from Mato Atom on Vimeo.

Extraordinary recitations of Sarah Palin by William Shatner - channeling “her inner Allen Ginsberg”

Three examples of sexy text «  Adam Westbrook

On the info wants to be free meme @kegill posted this video from one of her students. Great work @matthewstringer. http://bit.ly/52GzqV

RT @macloo: This is really good video storytelling. I’ve watched 3 times, and I don’t even like football. http://bit.ly/8xUwUl

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Hope brings our values to what we expect. Guardian’s Wordia video on hope. http://bit.ly/7VzNlO

News as art. Video of artist Ripo who took headlines from BBC, May 6-15 and made a painting. http://bit.ly/6Q92bk

10 DAYS from ripo on Vimeo.

Dr Who: The End of Time. Trailer for special two-parter due to air on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year’s Day 2010. PLEASE remember to tune in to see it - BBC One and BBC HD.

“Spacious Thoughts” NASA feat. Kool Keith & Tom Waits on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Bk publishers awkward struggle w/ video/mmedia. Book trailers http://bit.ly/39GhWc Penguin Classics http://bit.ly/3kux2r via @PD_Smith

A lovely piece of video storytelling. Adaptation of Kafka’s The Hunger Artist. A cinematic artist refuses to sleep. http://bit.ly/4pYSc6

The Waking Artist from Jacob Mendel on Vimeo - a talented  film student at the University of Michigan.

Bill Viola’s Bodies of light

Review by Chip Schwartz at Escape into Life

The more traditional figurative studies undertaken by Viola are also among the most transcendent. Indeed, one of the highlights of Bodies of Light is the pieceIncarnation, a single-screen video portrait.
We watch the video from its apparent beginning, and two hazy, gray figures stride directly toward the viewer. As the figures come nearer, they eventually enter a sheet of falling water. The crashing curtain of water grows louder and louder to the point of becoming invasive and unsettling. The climax of noise shudders throughout the entire room.
The figures emerge through the other side of the water, gradually. For the first time, we see they are male and female nudes in full color and high contrast. They arrive weary, disoriented, and dripping wet. The “incarnation” of the title evokes spiritual parallels (God becoming flesh, spiritual cleansing, spiritual transformation). In the video exhibit, the man and woman turn together and lurch back through the waterfall and into darkness, and the cycle begins again.
The dramatic transformation of the figures from one side of the water to the other begs the question of whether this footage was digitally manipulated, further inquiring into the artist’s process. Before the shrouded pair enters the sheet of water, we are reminded of shadowy, early Expressionist films. After they pass through the sheet of water, a supernatural glow lends itself to contemporary film and hyper-real imagery. Thus the work, Incarnation, is also a comment on the history and the process of moving image making.

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Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Very cool video. 5 yrs of graffiti, animated in 3D http://bit.ly/3m8cjz via @GreatDismal @fuldog @junkyardmessiah @PinkTentacle

Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.

Gainsbourg, mur rue de Verneuil, partie droite. from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.