I am a sad video... (artsy Oto with 5cm + David Sylvian)

[Otohiko]

...because I'm not part of the post-AWA rush but I'm in the midst of it anyway



Good evening hippies,

This one's a sort of exploration into minimalism, especially when you realize that the audio source consists of vague ambient humming, noise, and half-sung poetry.

My theme for this video is "vivid bleakness", so that makes it a really slow (but hopefully artsy) video. The dynamic of it should be very different enough from drama/sentimental videos, though I'm afraid this one will seem pretty pale if you try to compare it to the better examples of those. If that's the case, well, I can always pull a "misunderstood underground artist!" card

But if slow and weird stuff is your thing, perhaps not.

PS - All the noise and stuttering that you see/hear in this is totally intentional.



Thanks to everyone who helped out with this one; feedback always appreciated!

[jasper-isis]

Hooray! Good job! Nice panduck you got there in your poster.

Edit: So I just watched the final version, and I'm happy to report that I thought the first blip was a-okay now.

I'm trying to figure out what I like this video better than a few others you've released this year... I feel like it's because here you used a good deal of motion based synch as well as your usual texture based synch, and you know how much I like the former. But then, I can't be sure because it's all done in a subtle, right-at-the-level-of-consciousness manner (if I were distracted by someone talking in the next room while watching this, I would miss the connections and not enjoy this as much).

[Yok/0]

shall gets

Edit: bitchin... 4/5 <why>

[Malificus]

/downloads now

[Ingow]

lulz yer artsy video reminds me of david firth cartoons

I always love that kind of weird styles and stuff, but really this was a kind of random source to use for that kind of a concept IMO. It's way too bright and shiny and happy for the entire poetic sedate mood of the audio, I mean there even are obvious creepy factors in the audio and the video source screams ROMANCE LOVE at me with full power - or so it seems to me at least. Your effects are always on-time but they seem to be not really integrated into the video, more like overlays.

Anyways, in general I love your concept but I would've enjoyed the video more had it been more altered to fit the song/or had it used a more gloomy source.

3.8/5.0

[AphexTwin]

Awesome clip.
The song was great. Didn't know this artist. Now I have to check this.
The mood was good, the editing was neat.

Great minimalist/experimental video.

[Falconone]

/gets

Edit:
Really good video.
I like the effects in it, they fits really good. The Flow of the video is also great, good emotions.

[Emong]

Wow, that was instant win, my friend

I was really pulled into this by your original syncing and the mood in general. You captured the song just *perfectly* by your clip selection and syncing to those distorted sounds, not to leave the very appropriate effects unmentioned~ Yeah, it was deffinitely an experiment gone right

While the mood was just perfect, I still wasn't a big fan of your clip selection because there seemed to be from little to none of progression in it. I'm not a fan of that type of a thing, even if the song is otherwise captured perfectly.. But.. I can't think of a better choice for your video source. I just saw this movie recently (and damn it was depressing as hell) and this video totally surprised me because it created a mood very similar to what I was feeling when I had finished watching the movie 0.0

And what comes to the artsy side, yeah, it was what you could call "artsy". I was a little sceptical about your intentions on this video you explained in the video description, because videos with that kind of a concept tend to turn out to be quite pretentious and... kitschy? I wouldn't say the same about your video. Deffinitely not. This was a positive exception to that rule

Awesome, awesome work, Otohiko! Instant keeper, even though I see myself growing somewhat bored with it in a few, thanks to the quite disposable clip selection.. But anyways, it goes to my favourites~

4.25/5

I just wish it was longer Something like 5 minutes would have been perfect, imo~

[Tsunami Jones]

hmm . . .

[Minion]

interesting sync. nicely done

ingow pretty much covered my thoughts on this video