Video Art: Fire

5 Artists That Were Left Out

Disco: The Village People

House: Cassius

Dubstep: Hardwell 

Girl Power: Spice Girls

DJ Culture: Adventure Club

Massive Attack

This song Angel, by Massive Attack is very beautifully done. The way the video and the music coincide, makes the viewer feel that they were each made for each other, not just one then the other. After hearing the song I began to wonder what exactly the softly sung lyrics meant. After researching this I believe that they are about a almost love hate relationship, something beautiful that can also destroy. The way the song is put together is very rhythmic and almost hypnotic to listen to.

This song by Massive Attack named Teardrop is interesting, beautiful, and a bit creepy. Again as in Angel the lyrics are sung in a very soft melodic voice, paired with a very rhythmic background the music becomes very soothing and hypnotic. When this sound is paired with the video however, it becomes something else entirely. I personally spent much more time paying attention to what was going on on the screen than really listening to what was being sung. 

UK Underground and the Smiths

Above is a picture of The Smiths, what some call one of the greatest bands of all time. The Smiths, formed in 1982, sang in a whole new genera of music. A genera known as the UK Underground was the birthplace for this band. These boys along with others began to sing about the way things were around them. There songs reflected the feelings of many young people at the time, and not just in the UK but everywhere. Lyrics such as the following, "There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you. But you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home and you cry and you want to die." from the song How Soon is Now? reflect a darkness of the generation, and it was something a lot of people were feeling. 

TR 808

Here are some examples of music that relied heavily on the TR 808, pictured below.

Video Art

http://vimeo.com/13362364
I find the above video so fun to watch. I think it is clever and engaging. I love the use of the real world and a pixaleted world, but with popular video games that make it fun to watch. Its as if they are taking over.
http://vimeo.com/1785993
This video was extremely interesting to me. The first time I watched it I was not sure if what I was viewing was real life, or small models. I then researched the method of filming used which I discovered is called shift and tilt. I had never heard of this before, but I love the effect.
http://vimeo.com/1766652
This video uses a method I have heard of before, called stop motion. I find it interesting that an example of what a day is, took eleven days to photograph.

Video Mapping

When we watched examples of video mapping in class I thought it was pretty incredible what people could project onto different surfaces. These projections were all incredible, but I never even thought about what could be done with the human body, this is amazing.

Here is an example of video mapping being done on a sculpture. Since video mapping was originally shown to me on structures such as large buildings, I find the use of unique bases for the video to be projected onto very interesting. 

What I find so incredible about this example is the amazingly believable textures that they are able to create on a completely smooth surface.