February 2012
13 posts
WatchMmmmmmagnets! Love this video installation by Hunter Longe, channeling Nam June Paik.
theatlanticvideo:
Hunter Longe’s Psychedelic Art Bends Video With Magnets
Hunter Longe’s video installations use magnetic fields to scramble and warp VHS video feeds, erasing information stored on the magnetic tape. The technique dates back to the early work of Nam June Paik, at least, but Longe takes...
January 2012
54 posts
“A friend of mine in San Francisco had a video Tumblr whose tagline read: “New...”
– Dan Abbe, writing on photography criticism and the road to doing what you love.
This is like my “it gets better” for everyone who Tumbled while freelancing or unemployed…
WatchI <3 SF.
theatlanticvideo:
A Gorgeous Cinemascope Time Capsule of San Francisco in 1955
This beautifully shot amateur film by Tullio Pellegrini, courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, captures the city in vibrant, widescreen color.
Via Boing Boing.
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
A Cinematic Love Letter to Riding a Bike Through Mexico City
Dos Ciclos, or Two Cycles, captures the dynamic energy of Mexico City, weaving through traffic with a cyclist as he describes why it makes him happy. The film was directed by Rodrigo de la Mora and Darío López Ortega, also known as the Panchits, at the production company Sake Group, featuring Oscar Espinosa...
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WatchI’m in love with a tetrahedral kite…
theatlanticvideo:
Heather and Ivan Morison’s Little Shining Man is work of art that can fly. Built from carbon fiber and a 3D-printed joint system, it draws inspiration from the crystal structure of pyrite and Alexander Graham Bell’s tetrahedral kites. Here, the artists take one cube of the three-part sculpture for a spin in St. Aubin’s Bay,...
