Top Twelve 2013 METALOCUS videos.
28/12/2013.
Thinking about other things.
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
The following selection is made up of 10 videos, that flit about architecture, suggesting ideas, or were motivators during this 2013. To see them better in HD, and full screen. The selection, below. -
Cyberpunk 2077.
The Centrifuge Brain Project.
Video screenshot. 5m80 by Nicolas Deveaux, Cube Creative.
Top Floor. Video screenshot.
Phantom Landscape I, Nr.1, 60 x 120 cm. Phantom Landscape I. Photography © Yang Yongliang.
Jonah by Factory Fifteen. A Stray Bear Production in association with Jellyfish Pictures.
Patrick Vale: City Lines. Coningsby Gallery.
SubMap x UrbanCyclr, 2.1
The Anatomy Of Owen by Indoek.
The Iranian Internet by Maral Pourkazemi.
Nike Free Flyknit, Billboard by Wieden + Kennedy in Shanghai.
Roof garden view. Ombu Architecture.
01 Cyberpunk 2077. Teaser Trailer
..."Usually, working on video game cutscenes involves creating a visual story in an already established world: the animation process is very orderly, divided into classic stages, and predictable. This time around, it was markedly different. The first drafts of the screenplay and preliminary concept art was created when the game was still in initial stages of core development. In the course of our collaboration with CD Projekt RED, we approached dozens of ideas before settling on a seemingly freeze-framed setting that referenced one of the illustrations from the original game manual."...
02 The Centrifuge Brain Project
...The amusement rides are caricatures of civilisation. In todays fun parks people are centrifuged by gigantic robots - an expression of our desire to escape. We humans are constantly looking for bigger, better, faster solutions to satisfy our desires, but we never arrive at a limit - it's an endless search. The seven plans are purely fictional, they are a montage from Nowaks carousel designs mixed with pieces of real plans...
03 5m80, o las Jirafas Nadadoras.
...In a few time will be difficult distinguish fact from fiction. A group of nice swimmers giraffes jump into the pool from a trampoline, a video by Nicolas Deveaux in his latest 3D animated short entitled "5m80"...
...A whole floor of many square meters to organize, decipher, narrating the lives of its occupants. And on the top floor, and what happens on the top floor?...
05 Trabajos de Yang Yongliang II.
...I have chosen this ancient ideal of a spiritual world, to mark the beginning of my series The Peach Blossom Colony. I have chosen to place the ancient literati dressed in plain clothes into an illusional and reconstructed setting based on modern reality, I have consciously obscured the time period, space, and cultural boundaries. In this setting the ancient literati figure is not only a simple cultural element, but a symbolic carrier of spirituality...
...Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah...
07 Patrick Vale: City Lines / Las lineas de la ciudad.
...Patrick Vale is an artist who’s intricate portraits of cities have recently captured public imagination. His time lapse film “Empire State of Pen” captured five days of intensive drawing and brought critical acclaim across the design and architectural worlds, it clocked up 700,000 plays in a few weeks. The Huffington Post described the film as “jaw-dropping” and Rob Alderson from “It’s Nice That” commented that “the ridiculous level of skill involved is staggering”...
...Kitchen Budapest and UrbanCyclr teamed up to untangle the invisible pattern of bike traffic in Budapest. 100.000 kilometers of biking routes collected from individual bikers are overlaid on the city map. All distortions of the map reflect higher biking activity in the respective area of the city. 24h map animation reveals the daily biking patterns of a growing community of urban bikers in Budapest...
...Indoek is a website where are making their own original content that is free to their audience. They are both visual storytellers. Drew is a photographer and filmmaker who has shot short films that have premiered at festivals like Sundance and Cannes. And Matt is a designer with his own studio called Italic. Here are a video of original content they have created and produced:...
...“Design is my conviction and my religion,” says Iranian designer Maral Pourkazemi. For her master thesis project “The Iranian Internet” at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam, she created a beautiful infographic which contains six content panels to explain the complexity of online censorship in Iran. Including information on the general Internet usage,...
11 Nike Free Flyknit en Shanghai.
...The ultimate achievement in knitting technology deserves an extraordinary introduction. Over the course of a live installation on a prominent billboard in Shanghai, the sock-like Nike Free Flyknit was "knitted" in a XXL scale to transmit the features of the new brand sneakers...
12 Villa Savoye, Los cinco puntos de la Nueva Arquitectura.
...Andrea Stinga shows us her latest creation in collaboration with visual artist Federico Gonzalez. The video illustrates Le Corbusier’s “Five Points of a New Architecture” on his masterpiece, Villa Savoye, constructed in 1929 like an example of each point...
