I’ve just finished making a video about the similarities between the ancient Hindu art of spiritual discipline and the rather more modern art of online gaming. Watch the higher self rack up high scores getting to the next level of consciousness in the transcendentally physical world of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch! It’s a little over four minutes and change, keep reading for the download links and screenshots.
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Yoga Deathmatch
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Tearful Collaboration
My new DVD zine is out, nine weird and wonderful vids on the theme of Tears on the Pie–you can buy it online here [UPDATE: Sold out.]. My most interesting experience with this issue was putting together one of my own shorts with Creative Commons-licenced music. On the excellent Opsound website was an mp3 posted by a fellow in Japan that was perfect for the tone and tension of the piece. After I screened it at Splice This! I sent Yosuke a link of the finished piece, and he wrote back to thank me! Click on to see the two minute short.
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Novel Amusements Goes DVD
I’m kind of sad to leave behind the CD-ROM format for my digital zine, we’ve had some good times together, but with more and more people owning DVD players and burners and media costing less and less, it was a no-brainer. Not to mention that a poll on the site indicated that given a choice between a $5 CD-ROM and a $15 DVD, twice as many people prefered the new format.The format change’s slowed me down a little, so the new deadline for submissions has been extended to May 1st [UPDATE: Passed.]. Check the submissions page if you have an odd or interesting vid you want to be considered for the new disc. It doesn’t pay anything, but these damn things have a way of getting around — thanks to Astria a bunch of the vids from #2 and #3 are being screened in Germany at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, My Trip to Liberty City among them. According to my stats counter, it’s been viewed 20,000 times so far. Not bad for something I made last minute because it fit in with the Dress Up theme of #3. If you’d like to see it, keep reading… (more…)
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My Vidz Attack New York
Pretty crazy. Earlier this summer My Trip to Liberty City was part of the New York Video Festival, and got blurbed in the New York Times.Then some lunatic tells me he wants to show >interactive on a rooftop in Brooklyn. We decide it’s a sign — this is the second screening I’ve had in NYC this season, for cryin’ out loud — and we go down. Rooftop Films turns out to be a supercool project: a technically tight and tweaked showcase of indie flix in a surreally beautiful locale.
We’ve been inspired ever since. Here’s one of the vidz we made for the upcoming “Tears on the Pie” theme of Novel Amusements #4.