Oskar Fischinger's Early Abstractions - (1946 - 57)

Another piece of inspiring work produced by Oskar Fischinger. The use of color is stunning.

John Whitney's Matrix III (1972)

Some very inspiring motion graphics I came across on Create Digital Motion. Ever since looking at Edward R. Tufte's work of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I've being inspired by the idea of abstract and geometrical shapes, another source was the Real Time Rome work that aggregated data from mobile phones and mapped the position of people moving throughout Rome, this displayed information in a very visually stimulating way.

Economic Growth - Richard Fenwick

Nice little video I forgot about which brought back a few college memories, I attended an opening to his RND films in 2004 which involved a talk and a private session in a studio with him showing his work and how he went about developing, designing and producing his videos which was very insightful and inspiring.




Also a dark comical animated video potraying safety procedures on a plane.

Red Riding - Channel 4

For anyone that hasn't seen this, the final chapter of the trilogy was aired Thursday Night, however it is possible to watch all 3 online at channel4.com/catchup. I highly recommend watching it! The direction, acting and visual style, and how all 3 stories interlink is fantastic. I found an interview with James Marsh (Director) talking about Red Riding to give a little insight to what its all about.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Robert Henke aka Monolake

I came across this video after reading through various music forums. Robert Henke is a software engineer for Ableton. He is also part of Monolake an electronic music act based in Berlin along with Gerhard Behles (CEO of Ableton), and Torsten Pröfrock.

The video is a 1hr 35mins long workshop in New Zealand and is defintly worth a watch if your into Audio Engineering and Live Performance/Music Production.

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Closer to the Edit

Richie Hawtins 2001 album named DE9: Closer to the Edit got me thinking about producing. I stumbled across this on the web a while ago and it made me think.

"After recording, sampling, cutting, and splicing over 100 tracks down to their most basic components, I ended up with a collection of over 300 loops, ranging in length from 1 note to 4 bars. I then started to recreate and reinterpret each track, putting the pieces back together as if an audio jigsaw puzzle- using effects and edits in between each piece. This 53 minute piece, consisting of over 70 tracks and 31 ID points, represents what those loops became, and how their interactions created something that had not existed before."

Richie Hawtin

This is something that has given me ideas for producing, I always struggle with arrangement but I have a few loops I've made myself. I am going to strip them down even more to there basic components and try to make a small mix using simple edits in the same vein as Richie Hawtin to see if my work will flow better!

Spin

I stumbled across this short film whilst looking for something to spark an idea for my short film I have to create. I really like the overall look and feel of the video, especially the lighting and the simple concept.

Synopsis:

A mysterious DJ is sent to a busy city block to mend a series of tragic events that occur in our everyday lives. Winner of 35 film festival awards worldwide.

Interaction Design

After having my SPP lecture on Interaction Design, I decided to have a look at the website Commarts.com, there is some very inspiring work on there, one site which has given me a very strong influence for an idea I have for my online portfolio is the look of the WhatNoise website which was created to increase the awareness of hearing impairment.

Commarts.com:
Overview: Using experiential games, this innovative site brings the effect of specific hearing impairments home to its visitors. Intended to produce empathy and understanding, What Noise? also serves as a fundraising vehicle for the client.
Built with Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Audition
3 interactive games
$70,000 raised as of May 2007

http://www.whatnoise.org/

Minilogue - Hitchikers Choice

This video is quality! Minilogue are group of artists that produce Minimal Techno/Electronica music, they are linked to the right of this page, I would recommend downloading there free live set which has some cracking tunes on it.

High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music

Time Lapse

I came across this Michel Gondry video after searching for Time Lapse in YouTube, this is something that really interests and inspires me, especially the Minilogue Hitchikers Choice video.

Id never really heard of Michel Gondry before, but his name rang a few bells and as usual one thing leads onto another with youtube and I ended up watching more of his videos, he does a lot of commercial work and music videos and has won numerous awards, defnitly worth looking into!

Documentaries

I recently bought two DVD documentaries that I find inspirational and motivating, the first is a Slices dvd special of Richie Hawtin and the second is High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music, featuring the likes of Derrick May, Juan Atkins, and Kevin Saunderson, basically the forefront fathers of the Detroit Techno music scene in the late 80s early 90s. I particularly like the way they are shot and how the interviews never bore, The slices DVD seems alot better produced, however I prefer the interviews of High Tech Soul, as you get a better understanding of the characters.