Neural misfires from a northern brain

A sort of stream of consciousness of things I collect from t'interweb. Don't expect coherence or anything.

Scarred I.D - Hell No! - Credits The credits roll for Scarred I.D’s “Hell No!” video. Created partly to say thanks to everyone involved and partly because I was enjoying playing with Premiere Pro :).

Wow. This is wonderful and haunting and weird. From BoingBoing:

This music — which sounds like a moody piano soundtrack for a existentialist movie about a rainy day — is made by slicing a tree in cross-section, sticking it on a turntable, and dropping a tone-arm with a PlayStation Eye Camera in the head, and processing its output through Ableton Live. It’s called Years, and it was created byBartholomäus Traubeck.

I got stuck in YouTube for a while. I can’t even remember what I was looking for in the first place. Anyway, I’ll leave you with this and get on with something productive.

Mobius (by Vincent Laforet)

Vincent Laforet was invited to test the new Canon C300. This short is the film he shot with it.

Chase Jarvis marrying technology and abstract art for charity.

Lisa Hannigan - Knots (by lisahannigan)

Endearingly chaotic. I’ve seen this done lots in static shoots, but never in a video.

Also, very much looking forward to this album - I’ve been a fan of Lisa Hannigan since her work with Damien Rice.

Diego Stocco - Music From A Dry Cleaner

Time

I’ve been experimenting with video blogging for a couple of weeks, after being turned onto it by local lad Stuart Grice. So far it’s a damn sight easier than writing a real blog, that’s for sure.

Anyway, Stu issued a challenge, to talk about our perception of time in 60 seconds. So I did. Quite like the way it turned out as it happened, even if it is a bit maudlin.

Sometimes in our industry, our professionalism, we get [put into] silos…it should be all of our goals to break out of those silos. The more you work, the more people want to put you in a silo so they can define who you are by their terms. Our job is to never let anyone define who we are…

(via Chase Jarvis)

I’d also add:

 Sometimes we put ourselves into silos - Not Good Enough, Not Smart Enough, Not Had Enough Experience. Breaking out of these silos is the hardest task in many ways, but it’s one worth pursuing every single day.

Timelapse Montage (by Mike Flores)

Mindblowing.