steven holl

tschumi - manhattan transcripts


diller + scofidio

* moma architecture exhibit

* this one is for nico.

malevich _ suprematist paintings

couceiro

pretty much everywhere.

baby donk.
4 million views and counting.
only +150bpm. grime, but from chavs.

you're going to die on a scraphead of broken dreams with your mouth filled with the bitter ash of failure.

blew me away. 'datamoshing' both introduced and refined.
watch the much higher quality version here.

".. at 1:05 that is a balloon filled with red glitter and flour exploding that creates the mosh that breaks through…and at 2:11 that is really a rock breaking through a big sheet of glass a few feet in front of the camera. I had 2 pieces of glass and Eric the production designer had 2 chances to throw it right, and he did. At 2:32 those balls of light that are wiping Kanye are sparks from a grinder I shot hitting a pieces of metal, and aimed the sparks right at the lens." from nabil (director) + ghost town media.

near-simultaneous release with another video using same techniques:

from teraflop via metafilter:
"video codecs like MPEG-4 use motion compensation to cut down on the bit rate. Only a few keyframes of the video are encoded in full, about one every few seconds; the rest ("predicted" frames) store a rough estimate of how much each block of pixels has shifted since the previous frame, along with just enough actual pixels to make up the difference between the estimate and the real picture. So if there's a single moving object on a static background, all that needs to be stored is the area of the background that's been uncovered since the previous frame.
..what they did is encode their raw video clips with no keyframes (except the very first one), then spliced them together, so the decoder applies the motion vectors to the wrong original image. .. they also duplicated the same frame several times in some places, to get those swirls of color."

early paperrad experiments.
everyone credits Takeshi Murata.
great article about the kanye video, and the whole technique, from motionographer.

the most exciting thing i've seen in a long time. ripping apart the usually invisible technological operations and then reassembling the pieces, without the ability to directly predict how the technique will alter the value of the whole. making the process explicit - forcing the elements of prediction and chance.
expect to be seeing this everywhere.

more datamoshing:

Sven König and his key-frame/delta-frame studies.

2003/6 trials from owimahn.

frantic compression effects.

almost related (this is just chroma/luma keys?), still beautiful.

jcvd.
* greatest scene.

* koolhaas drawings
moma

archigram / superstudio.

jumpman.

when no-one is watching.

under the antarctic sea _ from encounters at the end of the world

corbu _ ronchamp cathedral

this video is still insane.
try hearing this song again without getting that feeling in your stomach.

here.
feels like watching an old episode of cheers.

these guys, again.

i'm dying in this fucked-up country-ass town.

look at it, i'm looking into your arm
nothing confused in there
look how clear
Yes Billy, clear
_ondaatje

* dear 'inspirational' tea-bag: fuck off.

world domination.

been around for a while, but very worth watching.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis

jonathan glazer for guiness.

logan.

keith schofield.
terrible website interface, wonderful videos.

'The easy possibility of letter-writing must — seen merely theoretically — have brought into the world a terrible disintegration of souls. It is, in fact, an intercourse with ghosts, and not only with the ghost of the recipient, but also with one’s own ghost which develops between the lines of the letter one is writing and even more so in a series of letters where one corroborates the other and can refer to it as a witness. How on earth did anyone get the idea that people could communicate by letter! Of a distant person one can think, and of a person who is near one can catch hold — all else goes beyond human strength. Writing letters, however, means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. It is on this ample nourishment that they multiply so enormously. Humanity senses this and fights against it in order to eliminate as far as possible the ghostly element between people and create a natural communication, the peace of souls, it has invented the railway, the motorcar, the aeroplane. But it’s no longer any good, these are evidently inventions being made at the moment of crashing. The opposing side is so much calmer and stronger; after the postal service it has invented the telegraph, the telephone, the radiograph. The ghosts won’t starve, but we will perish.'
_kafka

ohello.

you non-contributing zero _ louis ck

almost perfect.

explosion.

“The problem is, he never looks at you. He’s looking left, right, left, right — not at the camera. It’s almost like he’s not making eye contact with the American people.” [italics added].
politico

hypnotize.

never
ending
fun.

'Unfortunately, in design, as in many other fields today, there is a strong drive to … complicate description in the belief that complication in itself represents substance and depth. So we borrow arcane language from disciplines historically associated with substance and depth. In design the mathematical term parameter is used to mean nothing more than constraint; the engineering term feedback is used to mean nothing more than response; the logics term paradigm is used to mean nothing more than model; viable (a biological term) is used to mean feasible. Or, often as not, to mean nothing at all.'
_ ralph caplan

_agnes martin
'a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.'
_emerson

is beautiful.

marriage.

20 posts, 20 days until eyday is 365.
then, goodbye. (for a time)

'we only use small characters because it saves time. moreover, why have 2 alphabets when one will do? why write capitals if we cannot speak capitals?'
bauhaus 1925.

mies _ 1923 brick villa plan.

sixth sense.

the graveyard.
buy the full version, for five dollars, and there is the randomized chance that she may die at any point. or not.

yes, you are perfect.

bound to happen. &design.

but, this is perfect.

much perfection lately.
fragmentary optimism.

just a few minor revisions.

in your milk.

watch this trailer again. it is perfect and worth two minutes.

* schindler house _ 1922

* simple statement of fact.
the office s5e12.

balsa: the coward of woods.

play them all at once.

across the world.