DATA MOSHING?

I realise that this has been upon loads of blogs as of recent, but I thought I'd add it here anyway...

Kanye West's Welcome to Heartbreak

I really like this technique as it is a very creative use of the frame tearing and lossy atrributes that go with compressed video formats. As far as I have read in an interview with the director, it's not the easiest of techniques to pull off well. I can't stand the term 'data moshing', however. It comes across as some sort of high-school kid term used by the nerds in an attempt to sound cool.

Similarly, David O'Reilly, one of my favourite animators used this technique a while back in his showreel. With a nice soundtrack.

DAVID O'REILLY'S COMPRESSION REEL

TAKE THIS DANCE (OR NOT)

When I first saw this site advertised somewhere, I thought wow, that's a good idea. It is an online music video that takes variable information from API websites such as Flickr, Geonames, and even Google. Alas, the video is actually shit. The concept of using information based on real-world figures is a great idea, yet it really hasn't been done justice in this instance. Rather than use the information to enhance the overall video and get across a message, of which I assumed the song was trying to do—though I couldn't bear to actually listen to his whiny 'Disney-Punk' voice—it merely used the variable figures (or photo in the terribly juxtaposed Flickr instance) as layers that served as a novelty.

Rating 1 star out of 5. And only because it gave me an idea.