A music video done with Google Sketchup. Crazy.
They quickly degenerated into a garden-variety house music act, but back in 1997 Gus Gus were awesome, part of the Cool Icelandia phenomenon spearheaded by Bj÷··rk. Watching this live performance of Believe in some late night show of the German music channel Viva convinced me to buy their album the very next day.

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So that I don’t leave you without a good demo example, here’s TPOLM’s seminal 1998 demo, TE2RB.

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Action Painting #8 (after Michael Bay). It may be really a lot of wishful thinking on my part, but I want to believe there’s more to Michael Bay than just literally blowing up millions of dollars in a big loud BOOM! CDM describes how Jeremy Rotsztain made some generative ‘action paintings’ informed by Bay’s mindless action sequences.

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Oblong’s TAMPER system. AE Portal News has more information about this demonstration of the future of video editing. Now excuse me, I’m cleaning the drool off my keyboard.

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The Fifty Greatest Movie Trailers. Citizen Kane’s may be at #6 and Psycho at #2, but it’s interesting most movies in this list aren’t that good, are at least not historically resonant. For instance, I have no issue with Cloverfield’s trailer being third on the list — the great work of art was exactly the trailer, not the film.
