What happens when you combine the quirky craft room skills of a Japanese artist with the sensibilities of a UK film director? Animatic is a Rube Goldberg-esque moving art piece inspired in part by Daft Punk’s Around the World music video (which, btw, was directed by Michel Gondry). Creators Yuri Suzuki, George Wu, and Sarah Gottlieb call it “craft punk”–think of it as a physically tangible promo video-esque installation, something that reformats digital video into an analog 3D art piece. Suzuki, a Tokyo native who now lives in London, used to work at the amazing Maywa Denki, which explains his penchant for creating nonsensical entertainment machines.
You can’t tell by looking at a still photo, but a combo of a working turntable, animation techniques, and kinetics will take visitors on a crazy journey accompanied by the Silicon Teens singing Memphis Tennessee. First showing is on the 22nd of this month in Milan.
Previously, the team worked on Book of Orchestra, a bound hardcover that you can cut out real playable flutes from.
I would call this PITAGORA-esque installation! Beautifull!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PythagoraSwitch
(while “listening” to:
http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/ )
And yet, Pythagora Switch is Rube Goldberg-esque. Let us know when there’s video!