Another fun projection mapping found? I think they spend a bit too much time playing with some of the animations, almost like they are showing off instead of entertaining. Yet, overall it is pretty interesting.
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The animation was put together by Darkroom.
Another video by urbanscreen that I found so amazing that it needs its own blog post. Projecting video onto a 3D object that they have mapped & compositing it in real time is insanely cool. Don’t be scared by my geek drool, watch it anyway because it is pretty amazing stuff.
This is a fun video installation. Of course, I am a fan of video installations and pinball so they had me at ‘hello.’
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The folks who put this together, urbanscreen
All I have ever wanted was enlightenment. (All you ever wanted was for me to shut up and just watch some videos, skip down to the last one, it is the best.)
I don’t need your wars, your materialistic trappings. I sit here on my computer because I can’t stand the brainless morons roaming the Earth looking for fame, fortune and next great movie where a guy dresses up like an animal and blows stuff up.
Of course, that was all before I saw ZARDOZ! I worship the gun now. I see that enlightenment brings you immortal, sexless boredom with annoying, talking rings and boxers for a hat.
As much as I would like to share wisdom that I have learned from ZARDOZ with you, as I did with Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, I think I would fail miserably. I was too taken aback by the wizardry of all the special effects and the cleverness of the script.
and die a little inside
1) You don’t need special effects when you have an intro like this:
Yes, the disembodied, floating head just broke the fourth wall and asked you if God was in show business too.
2) ERECTIONS ARE EVIL: Sexuality declined probably because we no longer needed to procreate. Eternals soon discovered that erection was impossible to achieve. And we are no longer victims of this violent, convulsive act which so debased women and betrayed men. A glorious line from the film when Sean Connery is forced to watch porn and they see if he gets an erection. No, I am not making this up.
3) I had NO CLUE where this movie was going, which meant I had no idea when it was going to end. Brilliant! Seriously, Sean Connery seemed to know what he was doing and many of his adversaries knew what he was up to, but the audience…We don’t know what the fuck is going on. Awesome!
4) I like my social commentary in my face, please; screw metaphors.
5) Blow your mind? I don’t want to spoil anything, but like I said in point #3, I don’t think I can. We learn something in the movie, WIZARD OF OZ. Oh wait, the talking head in the intro already told us ZARDOZ was a fake god, but thanks for telling us where you got that keen god-like name…I guess.
1)Everything in this film is sealed in plastic like a comic book collector was the set designer. Futuristic = Plastic, boys and girls.
2)Projection + Nude bodies. Sean Connery learns all the knowledge of the people he is supposed to kill, through osmosis. At least that is what they say in the film, though I am pretty sure osmosis doesn’t involve nudity or projections.
3)Wiggling your fingers at someone and gyrating can age them a number of years as long as it is accompanied by someone holding a couple of keys on an organ down. Screw make-up effects from the old school Indiana Jones films or your modern CG crap. “Mmmmmeeeeee,” I say as I wiggle my fingers at you! Are you older yet?
4)REWIND!!! Oh, classic! I don’t like that you just smashed my Greek statues, rewind! More films of today really need to go back to this effect! Playing things backwards looks so cool. Damn you VCRs & DVD players for ruining the magic and letting any chump do this.
5)MIRRORS!! Nothing is more confusing to a character in a 70’s or 80’s film than a hall of mirrors!!! Sorry, not a hall of mirrors, Sean Connery was inside a crystal multiple times in this feature. Whoa! Freaky!
6)We ran out of mirrors!! Let’s do a scene where Sean Connery and someone else are talking under a…hmm…ah…SHEET!!! Yes, lets put the characters under a sheet and do the scene, it is creepy and uncomfortable being that close and trapped under a SHEET!! AHHHH!
I hope you don’t feel like I have spoiled the film for you because I had no idea what was going on, I was too mystified by those effects and the hairy beast that was James Bond. I believe that I will watch it again, but in order to ignore some of the things above that distracted me, I shall have someone drop an old 17″ computer monitor on my head first. So, before you see the film be sure to smack yourself with a dresser drawer, I am sure it will be better that way.
(I saved the best for last.) And remember to hate your penis…
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