My name is Benjamin Symonds, I'm currently part of the BA Illustration course at AUCB.

What you see on here is a mix of my work and other peoples that I admire/take inspiration from & not just illustrators... work from all areas of art. I'm also using this blog as a digital sketchbook for course assesment etc.

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Friday, 19 February 2010

House of Cards:

The video for Radiohead’s single "House of Cards" from album In_Rainbows was made without the use of cameras. Zoo Films directed the clip using different camera-less technologies (live 3D laser scanners) to create the video. The band made all the data compiled to create the images available to fans, allowing fans who know how to manipulate such information to make their own versions of the video.

"No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes."
“I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn’t meant to be used, the struggle to get your head round what you can do with it. I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points — and how strangely emotional it ended up being,” Thom Yorke said.

"It's a direct reflection of where we are in society, everything around us is data driven in some way, our lifes are digital".


Max Braun used the data released by radiohead to create his own video:

I also had a go at manipulating the footage myself... here are some stills:
 
 

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