Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Lost Wax
I've seen (and drawn) plenty of vaguely helpful illustrations of how lost wax bronze casting works. But the Israel Museum did it right and made a fun video.
Don Justo's Cathedral
Spain's newest cathedral--though technically not a cathedral--has been under construction for 55 years. And almost all the construction has been completed by one man.
"A Kind Drone"
A clothing commercial. With clothing-less dancers. And perfectly placed drones. Watch it!
Fun video!
Like animation, owls, Russian, and/or short videos?
Try this one. A former Art History student sent it to me.
*Updated. I had a bad link before, but not it should work.*
Try this one. A former Art History student sent it to me.
*Updated. I had a bad link before, but not it should work.*
Restoring a centuries-old painting
The Met has a really nice video about the restoration process they used with a Charles LeBrun painting from 1660.
Stainless, Shinjuku
It's like an 11-minute meditation on humanity and our shared experience. What it is, literally, is a pass through a subway station shot at very high speed and then played back very slowly. Bobby Solomon at The Fox Is Black calls it "an incredibly engrossing 11 minutes." I'll echo that and say it's a mesmerizing 22 minutes--because you'll watch it twice. It was made by Adam Magyar, and his web site includes videos from several subway stations.
Art Through Time
Are you looking to make more thematic connections as a way to prepare for the exam? Have a look at Art Through Time. It's a series of videos--each about 30 minutes--focused on certain themes.
The Tapestry. Again.
Here is the Vimeo version of the Bayeaux Tapestry animated. Since Youtube is blocked at school.
Gangnam Style
I never thought I'd be mentioning the international hit "Gangnam Style" on this blog, but then international artist extraordinaire Ai Weiei went and made his own spoof. So how can I resist? For an interesting contextualization and defense of the video (and to give credit to where I got this photo), check here.
Science. Choreography. Insects.
I don't know. This seems like a sightly different version of rats in mazes, only with a highly invasive species of ant from Argentina. But it's got a cool name, I have to admit.
A commercial for a painting
Christie's has a slick new video for an Yves Klein painting they'll be auctioning soon.
Is there even an Yves Klein work in your textbook? The man knew how to manage spectacle--he would have loved the internet age, I think. He had a proprietary--and beautiful--blue pigment named after himself, International Klein Blue, or IKB. His favorite tools for painting were naked women and fire. The painting for sale, above, is significant for using both. In one piece, Klein conducted an orchestra to play a single note for ten minutes while nude women covered themselves in IKB and made a new painting. Afterwards, the live audience--in formal wear for the art opening--stood in silence for ten minutes. In another piece, Klein sold patrons certificates proclaiming them the legal owners of pure, empty space. The only payment he would accept for pure space? Gold. But if you would then burn your certificate and therefore the art, he would throw (half) the gold payment into the river.
Warning: the video has a bit of nudity. It's nothing salacious, but it does make it clear that the artist is working with nude women.
It made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!
You should watch this three-minute video if you like stop-motion photography, Legos and/or the Millennium Falcon. If you like none of those, I really don't know what to say to you.
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