Sourced from over forty hours of 80s commercials pulled from warped VHS tapes, Memorex is a deep exploration of nostalgia and the cultural values of an era of excess. It’s a re-contextualization of ads – cultural detritus, the lowest of the low – into something altogether more profound, humorous, and at times, even beautiful.
Art
Weird Simpsons VHS
Weird Simpsons VHS – A tribute to the Simpsons.
Directed and animated by Yoann Hervo
with the help of Hugo Moreno
Sound design by Florian Calmer
Music by Valentin Ducloux
Darkest Dungeon by Dan Panosian
Awesome poster art for the game Darkest Dungeon by Dan Panosian. This looks like it could be the cover for one of the Fighting Fantasy books I loved as a kid. The game looks to be a bit too hard for me but the art is amazing!
Promo poster for the game Darkest Dungeon.
Exhausting a Crowd
Exhausting a Crowd – a mass surveillance art project, by Kyle McDonald. Click and make notes of what you see… can you spot the potential terrorist? Failing that, just write something funny.
Crowdsourced annotation of twelve hours of footage, shot at Piccadilly Circus, London.
The Mind of a Teen Bot – The Awl
The illustrated Olivia Taters, the teenest bot on Twitter.
Source: The Mind of a Teen Bot – The Awl
Come Together
Here’s a great animation from the French designer team Melon Dezign; this time they’ve taken on The Beatles’ “Come Together” in a wonderfully psychedelic flash version. Warning; a huge download, it clocks in at a little over 8MB … but still highly recommended if you wait it out!
These guys have been making demos and animations for a long time, I remember them from the Commodore Amiga demo scene in the 90s, where they made some excellent stuff. They’ve also made a similar animation for another Beatles song; I Feel Fine, from a couple of years back.