Hasta La Motion!

a visual language to generate choreography… This project is created by princemio and onformative. more information: http://princemio.net/portfolio/pathfinder/ choreographic consultancy: Christian Mio Loclair Raphael Hillebrand Dancer: Raphael Hillebrand (Animatronik, Battle Squad) Honjo Wang (Wang Ramirez) Christine Joy Alpuerto Ritter (Akram Khan Company) sound: Alva Noto and KLINGKLANGKLONG follow for weekly updates: https://www.facebook.com/princemioofficial The “Pathfinder” Project was finalized and presented at choreographic coding. Choreographic Coding is a laboratory invented in 2013, as part of the Motionbank research project of the Forsythe Company. Together with partners like the NODE Forum for Digital Arts, it offers unique opportunities of exchange and collaboration – for digital artists who apply choreographic thinking to their own practice.

The directors of short animated documentary film “Father” talk about their impressions, plans and hopes after the whole team met for the first time in Sofia in March 2010. Featuring: Veljko Popović, Rositsa Raleva, Moritz Mayerhofer, Dmitry Yagodin, Asparuh Petrov, Phil Mulloy

Pink Floyd has released a music video for Louder Than Words, the last track from their new album, The Endless River. With lyrics by David Gilmour’s wife Polly Sampson, the track acts as a tribute to the connection between musicians in the band, particularly Gimour and keyboardist Rick Wright. The music video ties together 1993 footage of the band recording The Division Bell, 2014 studio footage of Gilmour and Nick Mason, concept art relating to the album cover by 8-year-old Egyptian artist Ahmed Emad Eldin, and footage from near the remains of the Aral Sea on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Director Po Powell found his inspiration for the music video when he saw an image of rusting ships lying in the sand where the river used to flow. “A surreal image if ever I saw one,” says Powell, “and a shocking example of human mismanagement and one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters. The river has shrunk to 10 percent of its original size, destroying the fishing industry and whole townships.”

Rolling Stone reports that the remote location made for a very challenging shoot. “It’s a journey lasting some 18 hours,” says Powell. “The ships lie a further two hours drive over rough roads carved through the ancient sea bed. The weather was dismal – snowing for some of the time and then a chilly 10 degrees below freezing with 20 mph winds. Just what you don’t need! However, the sun shone for a few hours each day, and we filmed as if our lives depended on it.”

Credits

Filming was shot by Hipgnosis director Aubrey Po Powell, with producer Fiz Oliver, director of photography (UK) Brett Turnbull, editor Laurence Trickett, working with Kochegary Studio, Kazakhstan, with producer Valentin Zakharov, studio producer/location scout Stanislav Kotyay, administrator Danik Korganbayev, aerial film team Dmitry Stupin & Irina Druchinina, camera team Maxim Pupisov and Maxim Pokazeev.

Lucinda Schreiber’s “Kiss,” is a 15 second stop motion animation made of paper and ink to promote the new “plant bottles” for Coca-Cola, a new technology which replaces plastics with plant matter. (Agency: Ogilvy NYC)

Hi-resolution upload of this milestone commercial for Levi’s created in 1977 by Robert Abel & Associates and Chris Blum of Foote, Cone, and Belding/Honig. Voice-over by Ken Nordine using a re-worded version of one of his Word Jazz pieces. Scored a whopping 59 Burke score for audience retention (achieving a Burke score in low 30’s was usually considered an A+, according to Levi Strauss Creative Director Chris Blum.) Features the first use of motion-control in a television commercial to allow multiple repeatable camera passes in real-time. Fifty-two foot long set was designed in forced-perpective by Richard Taylor for ‘infinite’ feel. ‘Faceless beings’ wearing wet-suits coated with 3M reflective glass spheres similar to those used in street signs were filmed in separate passes against black velvet.