DATAMOSHING

Datamoshing is one of the freshest things digital arts has seen in a while, although it's already a year old phenomenon.

It embraces the digital glitching that comes from compressing videos - something we've all seen a lot especially in the past days of low-quality YouTube videos - and makes it a visual effect that reminds of flowy oil painting, but still stands on it's own.

A few video makers have also used this on music videos, and the first one was Ray Tintori (directed MGMT's Time to Pretend and Kids too) + Bob Weisz for Chairlift's video "Evident Utensil" and soon Kanye West was forced to drop the video for "Welcome to Heartbreak" by Nabil Elderkin.

Other music videos out there are DD/MM/YYYY's "Digital Haircut" and previously blogged Jonathan Boulet's video for "A Community Service Announcement" that's the first one I've seen that really incorporates the effect super-smoothly on the rest of the material.

Video artist Takeshi Murata is one of the first ones that has been using the technique a lot on his work.

"Evident Utensil" director Bob Weisz has also made a "How to" video for datamoshing, where he rips every inch of mysticism to pieces from what was once a wonder to us all.

It'll be interesting to see if we'll see this technique used more are more creatively in video arts in the future.

CHAIRLIFT - EVIDENT UTENSIL


KANYE WEST - WELCOME TO HEARTBREAK


JONATHAN BOULET - A COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


WHAT IS DATAMOSHING AND HOW TO DO IT

THE FUTURE IN 360 DEGREES

Following the Yeasayer's brilliant site, I started looking for info about how the visuals were shot and yes, it's basically just a simple 360 camera.

We've all seen Google Maps' Street View and all kinds of 360 panorama pictures, but now it's all gone video, and the same people, Immersive Media, are behind it too.

Think about the possibilities of this technology! I mean, when you think about it, it's completely future! The future of television: 360 sports shows, travel programs like Madventures shot like this, reality shows, concert videos, video games, it changes everything.

It's could be the future of film too, this combined with the 3D glasses and these Wii-style motion controls, and maybe even bit of interaction, it could make things huge, a full on serious body experience action. It could send us straight back to the 90s, to the age of interactive movie and virtual glasses, but in a good way.

Immersive Media has a lot of these demonstrations of what it can do, and here's just some of them. Just grab on the video and start moving your view around.

YEASAYER - AMBLING ALP

Brooklyn's Yeasayer are truely taking it to the next level with the website for their new single "Ambling Alp". The site features some deliciously intriguing ambience and  wondorously immersive  moving imagery which you can pan around. The visions remind me a bit of family life and stuff like that, but in a more positive light. Like nothing ever went wrong.

The song is much more electronic than the groups previous acts, and don't get fooled by the site: the feeling of the song is actually very bright and positive. This could actually be the most infectious bit the group has released yet, as you kinda have to listen to it over and over again.

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

HAND FROM ABOVE

Hand From Above is an interactive installation by Chris O’Shea. for the BBC Big Screen in Liverpool, UK. 

Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?

  Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity. 

A SPEAKING PIANO

This has to be basically the craziest thing ever made! Really, a talking piano!

WEB 3.0

I just have to say that I just figured out that we're living in a Web 2.0 environment now, but the next gen web is coming at a fast pace!

Here's a short introduction to the idea of Web 3.0: