tagged w/ Stop Motion
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Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed in the (sometimes solitary) lavish joys of nature in rural South Carolina. The memories of the steaming, dusty red clay roads and the smells of downstate piney-woods are now fading away, replaced by years of gritty urban life in Chicago’s inner-city. However, that doesn’t mean that now I’ve become completely blind to the beauty of rural landscapes. I just have to enjoy it from the comfort of a chair, in more climate-controlled conditions. So this video is pretty perfect for me.
“Yosemite HD” is an amazing four-minute time-lapse short art film, a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. They made numerous trips to Yosemite National Park, where they captured the beautiful landscape it offers for visitors every year. Set to “Outro,” from M83′s lovely and stratospheric “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming,” this might be the best music video you could ask for. So stop whatever you’re doing right now, put this video in full-screen mode and breath very deeply during the film’s duration!
This piece includes colorful high-resolution photographs, as well as the exhilarating short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/look-homeward-angel-park-pretty/Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed... more
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It's a history lesson and a music video in one, complete with aliens (I knew those pyramids were too good to be true).It's a history lesson and a music video in one, complete with aliens (I knew... more
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Yeah, a little spoof on NWA, but not nearly as hard hitting as the originals.
http://youtu.be/JCEl8Id_19sYeah, a little spoof on NWA, but not nearly as hard hitting as the originals.... more
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“To Die By Your Side” (Mourir Auprès de Toi) is a tragicomic stop-motion animated short film co-created by the celebrated filmmaker Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are,” Jonze’s more recent short films include last year’s robot love story, “I’m Here,” and this year’s Arcade Fire collaboration, “Scenes From the Suburbs.” “To Die By Your Side” is his latest short film, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.
A tale to pierce the heart, the star-crossed love story is set on the shelves of Paris’s storied Shakespeare and Co. bookstore. When night falls, an old Parisian bookseller closes the small shop, and a klutzy skeleton springs off the cover of “Macbeth” and falls for Mina, the flame-haired damsel from “Dracula.” Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six-month period of time, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt that Le-Tan had cut by hand.
“To Die By Your Side” is a delightfully whimsical, humorous and poignant animated felt short film: Be sure to watch it to the end!
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wonderful animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/spike-jonze-to-die-by-your-side/“To Die By Your Side” (Mourir Auprès de Toi) is a tragicomic... more
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“Water Lilies Blooming” is a glorious time lapse four-minute short art film by photographer/filmmaker Vincenzo Di Nuzzo, which captures water lilies blooming in his own garden. This wonderful film has a beautiful soundtrack provided by Greendjohn.
This piece presents a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs, as well as the remarkable HD short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/water-lilies-blooming-hear-me-with-your-eyes/“Water Lilies Blooming” is a glorious time lapse four-minute short art... more
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“Flawed” is an impressive personal 12-min. stop-motion animated story told in gorgeous drawings done in black ink and watercolor by Canadian filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. The film has been acclaimed on the festival circuit for a couple of years, winning at the Palm Springs Film Festival, and playing at HotDocs and SilverDocs. It has been one of the jewels of the National Film Board‘s impressive animation catalog, but only now has become available on the web.
“Flawed” tells a story that is serious, heart-warming yet also heart-breaking, in which Dorfman examines the conflicted feelings that arise when she strikes up a romance with a plastic surgeon. Through an intensely confessional narrative, she discovers that the secret to getting the man to accept her is to learn how to accept herself. The drawings help to keep the story light and visually compelling, while presenting Dorfman’s philosophical take on self-esteem, growing-up, relationships, personal identity and even cosmetic surgery.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the acclaimed animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/flawed-thats-what-makes-life-interesting/“Flawed” is an impressive personal 12-min. stop-motion animated story told... more
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“Zero” is a highly acclaimed Australian stop-motion animated short film, written and directed by Christopher Kezelos. “Zero” has screened at over 50 film festivals and won 11 awards, including Best Animation from LA Shorts Fest and the Rhode Island International Film Festival and has been nominated for an AFI Award.
The film follows life in a world of yarn puppets, where the main character is a zero. This is a world in which from birth your destiny is determined by a number boldly displayed on your chest, representing all that you are or can be. 9′s are the elites of this world, and the very lowest you can sink, the untouchables, are cursed as Zero.
The dark fairytale takes place in a world built upon a rigid foundation of social intolerance. In this land of numbered characters, the zeroes endure lives of constant heart-ache, never allowed to have romantic relationships, marry, have children or be parents. Faced with constant prejudice and persecution, one oppressed zero walks a lonely path of disappointment and abuse until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can become truly something.
This piece includes color photographs, as well as the much-awarded animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/zero-a-courageous-yarn-of-forbidden-love/“Zero” is a highly acclaimed Australian stop-motion animated short film,... more
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“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change” is an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which presents the first-ever retrospective examination of all aspects of artist Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering photography. Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animals and humans in motion, what a magnificent photographer Eadweard Muybridge was and what a brilliant eye he had is too often overlooked. In addition to his iconic studies of animals in motion, Muybridge (1830-1904) was also an innovative and successful landscape and survey photographer, documentary artist, inventor and war correspondent.
The works in this exhibition have been brought together from 38 different collections and include a number of Muybridge’s photographs of Yosemite Valley, images of Alaska and the Pacific coast, pictures from Panama and Guatemala and urban panoramas of San Francisco, most of which were published under the pseudonym “Helios.” The exhibition also includes examples from Muybridge’s experimental series of sequential stop-motion photographs, such as his masterpieces “The Horse in Motion” and “Animal Locomotion.”
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs from the exhibition, a photo-gallery, a music video and a stop-motion animation.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/helios-the-pioneering-photography-of-eadweard-muybridge/“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change” is an exhibition at the... more
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“I Live in the Woods” is a gleefully bloody, high energy stop motion animated short film by Max Winston, which has picked up numerous awards and kudos as it burns through the animation festival circuit. The feast of colors and colorful characters is an absurdly warped little fairy tale about a woodsman’s frantic journey through the forest, driven by happiness, gory slaughter and an ultimate confrontation with much bigger prey. The purple-bearded woodsman maniacally runs and jumps throughout the woods, singing of his joys and freedom. His freedom just happens to consist of a lot of bloody butchering of hapless woodland critters; that is, until he sets his sights on…America’s God!
This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/i-live-in-the-woods-a-warped-little-fairy-tale/“I Live in the Woods” is a gleefully bloody, high energy stop motion... more
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“Vicenta” is an awesome stop-motion animated short film directed by Sam Orti at the Spanish studio Conflictivos Productions. This plasticine/claymation movie turns out to be an epic little horror-film, with scenes of hot sex, bloody corpses and intense violence. The film tells the story of a woman in search of her husband’s lottery winnings, whose rich but miserly husband is having a steamy liaison with the scheming floozy who lives in the flat next door. If you’ve ever wondered what a hardcore claymation sex scene might look like, then you’ve absolutely got to check this one out!
This piece includes colorful pictures, as well as the beautifully animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/vicenta-a-spine-tingling-tale-of-lusty-betrayal-and-bloodthirsty-revenge/“Vicenta” is an awesome stop-motion animated short film directed by Sam... more
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“For Sock’s Sake” is a very funny five-minute animated short film by Carlo Vogele, in which some clothes are taken off a clothesline and subjected to a range of cruel and harsh tortures. First, a sock falls from the clothesline and makes a mad dash for the nearby nightclub, suffering the fate of all wasters, philanderers and dilettantes who abscond in search of the nightlife’s bright lights and sleaze. Whether it be to rescue the sock or to similarly indulge, the line disgorges the rest of its clothes and a journey to the darkness and evils of an underworld clubland ensues. The film features graphic scenes of torture and licentiousness: a sleazy raincoat exposes his lining to the rescue party; Trousers, the boss man of the group, is badly-treated by a steam iron; and the poor little sock ends up being hung in chains above a vat of boiling bleach. This definitely is not a movie for the squeamish launderer!
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/for-socks-sake-a-sock-absconds-to-a-sleazy-nightclub/“For Sock’s Sake” is a very funny five-minute animated short film by... more
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“Coffee Time” is an amazing, tasty two-minute stop-motion animated short film by Ching-Wen Wu (aka Wan-Tzu). Does the taste of every cup of coffee change, each one containing its own soul that’s extracted from how you’re feeling when you make it? That’s how animator Wan-tzu feels and more, it seems. This animation shows the construction of a single cup of coffee, a veritable magic show that contains a number of different journeys bringing unending imagination and surprises along the way. With a sip of coffee, you not only taste your own story, but also change your perspective of the world!
This piece includes photographs, as well as the savory roasted animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/coffee-time-magical-cups-of-coffee/“Coffee Time” is an amazing, tasty two-minute stop-motion animated short... more
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“Opsin” is the new beautifully shot, pristine monotone short film/music video by Ivan Villafuerte, an inspiring and powerful piece of urban visual poetry. It can be viewed as a follow-up to Villafuerte’s “Destello,” a magnificent tribute to the city of Chicago that allowed us to rediscover the beauty of images that we have before us in everyday life.
Villafuerte is a Chicago-based videographer, who has been creating some great atmospheric, running visuals over the past few months. An important element in these projects has been the inclusion of progressive imaginative audio, which really precisely sets the tone of each piece. The music is combined with contrasting focus and a selective eye that captures some very unique viewpoints. Villafuerte seems to be making this imaginative and evocative style his own right now, and it’s vividly shown in an earlier short work that is also presented here, “olololololololxl_l_l_l.”
Opsins are trans-membrane proteins essential for the conversion of photons to biochemical processes; they can be viewed as the essential points of contact between outside reality and our interior world of visual perception and experience. So I recommend putting them to work with the wonderful frames of these videos. And try to make sure you aren’t doing anything else when you watch them, so that you can just sit back and really enjoy the views.
This piece includes a number of photographs, as well as HD versions of the two short films/music videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/opsin-an-inspiring-simple-and-powerful-piece-of-urban-visual-poetry/“Opsin” is the new beautifully shot, pristine monotone short film/music... more
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“Joy of Destruction” is an absurdly funny, but at the same time very sad paper-collage stop-motion animated short film created by Xaver Xylophon, in collaboration with Laura Junger. The film highlights mankind’s propensity to destroy everything, ranging from from the humorous blowing up of balloons or bubble wrap, to the hard reality of terrorism, ecological disasters and bloody human massacres. It’s fairly true that no matter what humans happen to encounter, they will always try to kill it. No matter what it is.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/joy-of-destruction-the-human-drive-to-destroy/“Joy of Destruction” is an absurdly funny, but at the same time very sad... more
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'The Fantastic Mr. Fox', loved by critics, but if it was based on a Nintendo 3D video game 'Star Fox', it would be set in outer space (rather than a aguicultual setting in the actual film).
Video from College Humor: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1948884'The Fantastic Mr. Fox', loved by critics, but if it was based on a Nintendo... more
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So we all know it's a bit sad (but also very impressive) to be able to colour-coordinate and organise your bookshelves. But I have a feeling that YouTuber "crazedadman" might have taken it one step too far...
So we all know it's a bit sad (but also very impressive) to be able to... more
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Because this short video from French-Canadian director / animator Patrick Boivin, featuring Hot Toys' 12-inch Scarlet Johansson figure from Iron Man 2, has taken care of it. Seriously, there's no way any Black Widow movie could contain half the awesomeness of the 60-second video. So Marvel? Don't bother. Unless, of course, Johansson changes her mind about appearing nude in her films. Then... then we should talk.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/02/well_we_no_longer_need_a_black_widow_movie.phpBecause this short video from French-Canadian director / animator Patrick Boivin,... more
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