Colour, Phillip Glass and Sesame Street!

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I have become increasingly interested in shape, colour and movement. I came across these sesame street animations from the 70's. I think they're pretty amazing. Set to music by the brilliant Phillip Glass (from Koyaanisqatsi) and using very simple lines and blocks of colour to demonstrate the colour wheel and more importantly I think to stimulate the imagination. Beautiful and elegant although I wonder how children reacted to these, could potentially be quite scary...
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A fantastic collection of production company idents, a feast of neon and dusty animation.
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Further development with shape and movement using after effects. At this stage, these are basically visual studies.
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The Y axis

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This experiment showed the potential of working with x y + z axis. Brings Max to a whole new dimension...

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Television Test cards

Alan Pemberton seems to know everything there is to know about testcards and has kindly decided to share his knowledge with the rest of the world.

www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/index.html#9R-59

The purpose of a test card was to enable you to set the configuration on your television set and each differen't part of the test card has a purpose (to set the contrast or the aspect ratio for example). This makes them more than just pretty pictures and I didn't realise just how many there were and how diverse they could be, alot of them are extremely well designed... they're amazing images.





Reminds me of the work by Eduardo Paolozzi, another huge inspiration of mine. Video works in a grid like fashion. Artists like Paolozzi and Bjorn Copeland used grids in astounding ways to create kaleidoscopic collages...



Bjorn Copeland is in an electronic noise band Black Dice and has made this great video...

Waves

So I have been getting into grids, patterns and waveforms with a nod to time in video. Whilst researching the above on google I stumbled across Daniel Crooks, a digital artist who seems to share similar interests. These images remind me the strands in DNA, as shapes, strands convey movement, movement of sound waves possibly?

Similar to my work the image is slices up in a chronological manner. However, the movement is not horizontal, the movement is three dimensional with shapes coming towards the viewer and away. Perspective kicks in.




Here's what sound waves look like... The caption reads, "A visible pattern of sound waves. This new technique of studying sound demonstrates the focusing effect of an acoustical lens on sound waves issuing from the horn at extreme left. Wave pattern is produced by a scanning technique . . ." photograph, from the book The First Book of Sound: A Basic Guide to the Science of Acoustics by David C. Knight, Franklin Watts, Inc. New York (1960). p. 80