from dangerous minds. um. that’s some awesome music video choreography.

full post.

hey guys.

i know i’ve been aloof. but i’ve been so so busy!

one of the many things i’ve been up to is updating my portfolio. check it out : WORK. some of these are student projects, some professional, some just plain fun. woot. notice that there’s a new time-based media category, that all of the old video stuff has been moved too. the stuff in this category includes some video trailers i’ve made for Half Straddle, personal projects, and some work from my Digital Design class from last semester.

here are some new additions (click to go to page) :

the OP-1 from Teenage Engineering.

this post in creepy / awesome writer, dennis cooper’s blog, the weaklings, is a contest to name 100 movies based on their end titles.

i like it just for the awesome, now moot title plates.

cool.

on another note, to all those wonderful people out there in the dark :

i went here.

i took the above video with my digital camera. the song is “Nantes” by Beirut. most of the video consists of a 45 minute giant elephant ride that Kourtney and i took. the first part of the video features a bunch of french high school students riding some prototypes for a giant marine carousel that they are planning to build.

Les Machines was created after founding artist, François Delarozière split up with Royal de Luxe, a company responsible for this shit.

more photos after the jump.

here’s the elephant after we disembarked via jetway staircase.

a prototype branch for The Heron Tree (with a bar underneath it, of course! france!) which will be a massive tree adorned with plants. visitors will be able to take a flight over the structure by flying circles over the tree in baskets carried by giant mechanized heron puppets. (!)

technical sketch for the giant elephant. Royal de Luxe did a piece called The Sultan’s Elephant. according to a Nantaise informant, Royal de Luxe - also based in Nantes - has an identical giant elephant robot puppet.

one city. two giant elephant robot puppets. yes.

this squid was amazing (see video above).

Molly got to ride this sea dragon with a bunch of french high-schoolers.

manta ray. the construction of these “machines” is breathtaking. nothing is attempting to conceal itself, and every single detail is functionally beautiful. seeing them in motion reminds me of Reuben Margolin’s kinetic wave sculptures.

two person sea turtle.

here’s the prototype for the marine carousel. Aaron’s friend Benoit (who runs a awesome resaurant here in, Rennes) told me it would ultimately be 4 stories tall, with sea creatures at the surface of the water on top (like the sea dragon) and ocean floor creatures on the bottom, with sharks and stuff in between. and since each machine robot puppet requires 2-5 people to operate it, hundreds of people will be able to ride at a time.

um.

giant hundred person machine robot marine carousel that’ll probably have a bar =  i’m there.

seriously. anyone up for redez-vousing in Nantes say, deux mille douze?