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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Category Archives: Blog
The Shock Doctrine (2007)
https://vimeo.com/26718047 “When I finished The Shock Doctrine, I sent it to Alfonso Cuarón because I adore his films and felt that the future he created for Children of Men was very close to the present I was seeing in disaster … Continue reading
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Tagged alfonso cuarón, documentary, jonás cuarón, naomi klein, politics
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En l’an 2000
The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000. They are credited to Villemard.(Paleo-Future: French Prints Show The Year 2000)
TXT of The Living Dead
I took the original movie (public domain) and broke it out into 500 frames to visually tell the original story from beginning to end. Within those frames there are about 150 frames with speech bubbles. Text messages sent in from … Continue reading
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Tagged narrative, paul notzold, projection, sms
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Projection Bombing
Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. This tutorial comes out of trial and error and it works. (Instructables: … Continue reading
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest
A scientist-turned-artist, Jansen’s bizarre beach animals have their roots in a computer program that he designed 17 years ago in which virtual four-legged creatures raced against each other to identify survivors fit enough to reproduce. Determined to translate the evolutionary … Continue reading
Very Nice, Very Nice (1961)
When Very Nice, Very Nice was released in 1961, it was immediately embraced by the new generation of hipsters, academics and artists. The film is sharp, jazzy, confrontational and darkly comic. It announces itself straight off with opening shots of … Continue reading
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
Yes, German film director Werner Herzog really does eat his shoe to fulfill a vow to fellow filmmaker Errol Morris — boldly exemplifying his belief that people must have the guts to attempt what they dream of. Inspiring. (Les Blank: … Continue reading
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Powers of Ten (1977)
Powers of Ten is a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Charles Eames and his wife, Ray. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). … Continue reading
"Big Rig Jig" at Burning Man 07
Click here for more images from this year’s Burning Man event.