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2001 Waves

A “homage” to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, specifically the stargate sequence at the end.

I shot the footage in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and applied a slowly changing gradient map.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, 2001 and waves

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Google reality

Google Earth has just added a hugely detailed database of 3D buildings to a lot of cities, including New York. Careful examination suggests that they’ve used imagery from their Street View project to fill in a lot of the facades. However, at a broad scale, the results are impressive:

New York from Google Earth

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Tokyo Contacts

The “Bubble Years” in Tokyo led to an explosion of nightlife and partying, wilder than anything seen before. My friend Jude was there, taking pictures and being part of the scene.

Pics courtesy of, and copyright © Jude Brand

Animation in After Effects (that’s why it took me so long to update) and music via Cinescore.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: video, art, tokyo and photography

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Something different about NY cabs

One more video in my ongoing series:

Check out the rest of the daily videos in my One Minute Per Day project.

NY Cabs

Bright yellow cabs are a noticeable feature of New York’s urban landscape – but what if they were a different color?

Everything was done in Vegas Video. With a bit more time, would do it in After Effects and put more effort into the masking.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: new york, video, art and funny

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The Last Train

Shibuya Station in Tokyo, approaching midnight. A mass of people racing to catch the last train, and after they enter the station, a wave of people leaving the station to spend the night clubbing, partying or otherwise making the most of the darkness.

Applied a simple effect to highlight the unreality of the situation.

Music generated by Cinescore…

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: video, art and tokyo

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There 10 types of people: those who can program and those who can't

Clay has posted on article over at BoingBoing on a test that can predict whether people will be able to learn programming or not. It’s been observed for many years, and I can attest from personal experience, that there are people who can learn computer programming, and people who can’t.

In certain cases, people […]

Sakura Yukata

Simple animation made from yukata textile patterns.

While cherry blossoms tend to be an image associated with the spring, yukatas are worn mostly in the summer.

The music is a recording of street musicians at the Sanja matsuri, also in the summer.

I worked on trying to make the animation match the music, and have the transitions be relatively clean.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: video, art, yukata, flowers and japan

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NY Street Numbers

Another one minute video is taking a long time to finish, so I’ve decided to update and re-post this project to avoid falling behind.

I took pictures of the numbered street signs from 1st to 60th Street (and beyond…), and made a little montage. I originally prepared this project last year, but have now re-rendered it in high definition.

I made the beat track myself using Ableton Live.

Interestingly, compressing a high definition file using the H.264 codec results in a file half the size of standard definition, using Motion JPEG…

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: video, art and nyc

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Moving without travelling

No matter what route you follow, the destination looks the same…