Digital Wonderland Playlist #6
Aug. 13th, 2022 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eerietomAs I’ve said before, one of the problems with creating a Digital Wonderland video featuring futuristic footage and computer animation is finding just the right kinds of clips. But I’ve been in the mood for a new one so I spent about three months trying to find just what I wanted.
To create a more carefully curated video, I came up with a few “rules”:
1. Clips could not be longer than ten seconds, to create more rapid changes from clip to clip. Previously, it had been about fifteen seconds.
2. A type of clip (say, from a particular music video) could not occur more than nine times (or once every ten minutes for a 90 minute video)—ideally six times (or once every fifteen minutes). This was a problem with the first two DW vids where, for example, every other clip seemed to be a display from a Japanese train line.
3. Clips couldn’t be too static or too repetitive; to counteract this, I doctored some of the clips by adding text, special effects, or superimposing other clips or animation on top.
4. Though not a rule, I included some of the original audio from the clips, just to see how that would work with the music.
My DW vids are typically 90 minutes long, and I aimed for that, but even by adding my own footage and animation, this time I only came up with about 75 minutes’ worth, or about 480 clips. These include:
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1. TV commercials from Japan
2. clips from Design Ah
3. clips about infrastructure, communications, technology, and transportation from several countries, including France, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and Spain
4. footage from Expo 70
5. clips from video games and music videos
6. scenes from the 1981 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
7. video animation and art by Jeffrey Plaide, Matt Henderson, Rhizomatiks, John Whitney, Taguchi Masayuki, and More Motion
8. video art created by Scanimate and similar apps
Here’s an abridged version of the video; music is “Insomnia” by Anton Lanski, used under the provisions of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany.
And here’s the playlist. Number links refer to previous playlists on which the artist appeared.
The result was a success! Great fun to watch while stoned and to let myself get lost. The added audio also worked well, particularly the penultimate clip, which features Trillian from the 1981 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, announcing a return to normal probability. Seemed an appropriate way to end a trip to Digital Wonderland.
To create a more carefully curated video, I came up with a few “rules”:
1. Clips could not be longer than ten seconds, to create more rapid changes from clip to clip. Previously, it had been about fifteen seconds.
2. A type of clip (say, from a particular music video) could not occur more than nine times (or once every ten minutes for a 90 minute video)—ideally six times (or once every fifteen minutes). This was a problem with the first two DW vids where, for example, every other clip seemed to be a display from a Japanese train line.
3. Clips couldn’t be too static or too repetitive; to counteract this, I doctored some of the clips by adding text, special effects, or superimposing other clips or animation on top.
4. Though not a rule, I included some of the original audio from the clips, just to see how that would work with the music.
My DW vids are typically 90 minutes long, and I aimed for that, but even by adding my own footage and animation, this time I only came up with about 75 minutes’ worth, or about 480 clips. These include:
all links open in new windows
1. TV commercials from Japan
2. clips from Design Ah
3. clips about infrastructure, communications, technology, and transportation from several countries, including France, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and Spain
4. footage from Expo 70
5. clips from video games and music videos
6. scenes from the 1981 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
7. video animation and art by Jeffrey Plaide, Matt Henderson, Rhizomatiks, John Whitney, Taguchi Masayuki, and More Motion
8. video art created by Scanimate and similar apps
Here’s an abridged version of the video; music is “Insomnia” by Anton Lanski, used under the provisions of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany.
And here’s the playlist. Number links refer to previous playlists on which the artist appeared.
| Song (Year) | Artist | Link | |
| 1. | “Information Superhighway” (2021) | Steve Moore | Link |
| 2. | “Voyage” (2013) | Lunatique 4 | Link |
| 3. | “We” (2017) | 1st Day Today 4 | Link |
| 4. | “Which One Is It” (2017) | Akusmatic | Link |
| 5. | “Appropriate Position No. 5” (2015) | Manabu Shimada | Link |
| 6. | “Intellect” (2018) | Archaic Revival 4 | Link |
| 7. | “Insomnia” (2008) | Anton Lanski 4 | Link |
| 8. | “Oráculo” (2020) | Francisco Pinto | Link |
| 9. | “Insouciance” (2013) | Stoner Space Squash | Link |
| 10. | “Gramazeka” (2008) | Mr. Pips 1 2 | Link |
| 11. | “Rain Tree” (2013) | Mike Blackmore | Link |
| 12. | “Vobla Fish” (2014) | Faris | Link |
| 13. | “Gloods” (2005) | Digitalis | Link |
| 14. | “Trees in Bronze” (2016) | Bluescript | Link |
| 15. | “Right of Way” (2005) | Social System | Link |
| 16. | “Pole” (2004) | Holger Flinsch | Link |
| 17. | “Other Side of the Game” (2010) | Spirit Catcher | Link |
| 18. | “Black Saw (Pablo Caballero remix)” (2014) | Fcode 4 | Link |
| 19. | “Twilight” (2007) | Tatsu 1 2 5 | Link |
| 20. | “Angel Dark” (2006) | Zofa | Link |
| 21. | “Ethereous Journeys” (2016) | Smooth 2 | Link |
| 22. | “Karmabro” (2007) | TEC 5 | Link |
| 23. | “Try and Error” (2014) | Tanaka Scat 2 | Link |
| 24. | “From Dusk” (2022) | Soichi Terada | Link |
| 25. | “Sunset” (2002) | Nulleins | Link |
| 26. | “Smitten Kitchen” (2012) | Tilman 4 | Link |
The result was a success! Great fun to watch while stoned and to let myself get lost. The added audio also worked well, particularly the penultimate clip, which features Trillian from the 1981 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, announcing a return to normal probability. Seemed an appropriate way to end a trip to Digital Wonderland.
