"End Notes" [18.8 MB .mp4]
The .mov file above [converted to .mp4] is one version of this piece. It is a video using (i) my own music and animation and (ii) the collaborative animated GIFs I did with jimpunk in 2004 (including the opening GIF seen above in freeze frame).
I more or less composed the video for the the 13 inch screen above. The music was mixed to monaural and plays on the TV speaker or through headphones. It also looks pretty good in "full screen" mode on the computer, but I was trying to work for the worst case scenario of a cheap TV that cropped a good bit of the border. The TV version is grittier and more aggressive than the .mov file.
Great! For some reason the imagery reminds me of '50's Cold-War era progaganda like some of the stuff in "The Atomic Cafe".
Yeah, there's a lot of time warpage going on. The "end titles" are 30s-40s film, the molecules recall 50s-60s science filmstrips, some of the pieces have cubist backgrounds (10s-20s), the guns 60s-70s Pop, the SID chip that made some of the sounds is 80s, the drum machine is modeled on 80s, the MacPaint style fill patterns--more 80s, but the software synthesizers and sequencers and the video capture software and the DVD burning programs are all 00s. (The only decade since the turn of the century not represented is the 90s--sure it's in there somewhere, though).
All this historicizing is after the fact, by the way. At least I think it is.
I don't think you give nearly enough importance to the type of TV used to display the video. You need to find an old Admiral or Zenith black and white with some occasional horizontal and vertical control problems to frame this piece.
Thanks for your comment. That little Toshiba is plenty bad, though, in terms of the picture quality. It doesn't roll, but it jiggles incessantly, and the sharpness controls are hell on these black and white patterns. I wouldn't want the TV to be too "period"--I'm against overt baby boomer nostalgia. (Jethro Bodine references notwithstanding.)
And speaking of the Beverly Hillbilllies, just saw a funny one where Phil Silvers tries to sell Central Park to Jed for "huntin and fishin," and keeps flattering Granny by confusing her with Ellie May.
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"End Notes" [18.8 MB .mp4]
The .mov file above [converted to .mp4] is one version of this piece. It is a video using (i) my own music and animation and (ii) the collaborative animated GIFs I did with jimpunk in 2004 (including the opening GIF seen above in freeze frame).
I more or less composed the video for the the 13 inch screen above. The music was mixed to monaural and plays on the TV speaker or through headphones. It also looks pretty good in "full screen" mode on the computer, but I was trying to work for the worst case scenario of a cheap TV that cropped a good bit of the border. The TV version is grittier and more aggressive than the .mov file.
- tom moody 2-18-2006 12:24 am
Great! For some reason the imagery reminds me of '50's Cold-War era progaganda like some of the stuff in "The Atomic Cafe".
- Thor Johnson (guest) 2-18-2006 3:02 am
Yeah, there's a lot of time warpage going on. The "end titles" are 30s-40s film, the molecules recall 50s-60s science filmstrips, some of the pieces have cubist backgrounds (10s-20s), the guns 60s-70s Pop, the SID chip that made some of the sounds is 80s, the drum machine is modeled on 80s, the MacPaint style fill patterns--more 80s, but the software synthesizers and sequencers and the video capture software and the DVD burning programs are all 00s. (The only decade since the turn of the century not represented is the 90s--sure it's in there somewhere, though).
- tom moody 2-18-2006 5:51 am
All this historicizing is after the fact, by the way. At least I think it is.
- tom moody 2-18-2006 8:37 pm
I don't think you give nearly enough importance to the type of TV used to display the video. You need to find an old Admiral or Zenith black and white with some occasional horizontal and vertical control problems to frame this piece.
- anonymous (guest) 2-19-2006 10:03 pm
Thanks for your comment. That little Toshiba is plenty bad, though, in terms of the picture quality. It doesn't roll, but it jiggles incessantly, and the sharpness controls are hell on these black and white patterns. I wouldn't want the TV to be too "period"--I'm against overt baby boomer nostalgia. (Jethro Bodine references notwithstanding.)
- tom moody 2-19-2006 10:52 pm
And speaking of the Beverly Hillbilllies, just saw a funny one where Phil Silvers tries to sell Central Park to Jed for "huntin and fishin," and keeps flattering Granny by confusing her with Ellie May.
- tom moody 2-19-2006 10:57 pm