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Color Bubbles

Back to abstraction – I am playing with subtle changes in timing, and a very limited repertoire of shapes and colors.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, abstract and colors

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Hot Numbers

A montage of the tiny “bodywork” ads from the back of the Village Voice. I’ve wanted to highlight the unreality of the images shown, the low print resolution, and ultimately, the relentlessness of the business behind it.

(And no, I don’t condone the exploitation that underlies a lot of these business – think of this project as a way of drawing attention to it.)

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art and montage

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Bar and Circle Layers

More abstraction, multi-layered, in After Effects.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: abstract and art

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Displaced City

Working a bit more with displacement maps. Don’t look at this one for too long, it will make your eyes hurt!

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art and nyc

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RGB Moire Stretch

Two simple screens, one blue and one red, overlaid on a green background, and slightly deformed, to produce interesting moiré effects.

Best seen fullscreen, otherwise you get additional moiré effects!

(No sound on this one)

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: abstract, art and moire

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Aztec Calendar Displacement

Continuing with the theme of abstract colors… this time I’ve added in a photographic element, a picture of an Aztec calendar I took on a trip to Mexico.

Displacement mapping spreads out the colors of the image, revealing the texture of the calendar.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, mexico and abstract

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Pop Circles – Blue to Orange

Working more with abstract forms and colors. Color palette is based on Pop Art from the 1960’s. Three layers are animated at mathematically related rates.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: abstract, pop art and art

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Fibonacci color bars

Color bars are arranged by width according to the Fibonacci series, colors themselves are a series of complements. Several copies of the still image are composited together, in a way that the starting and finishing states are the same.

(Music from Cinescore again – some people like it! I might work up some generative compositions based on the video image, in the future.)

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: abstract, art and fibonacci

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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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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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