12 Glowing Men

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1. Tony says:

   July 29, 2008 at 6:53 am

   What’s the big deal with this video? Maybe I’m missing something but from what I can make out the ‘artist’ just slapped the default settings for the After Effects plugin ‘trapcode starglow’ (http://www.trapcode.com/products_starglow.html) over this scene and rendered it out…….the whole thing seems kinda lowbrow and half arsed. Getting excited about something like this is like blowing your load over a lens flare or drop shadow. What happened to ‘art’ that pushed the medium or at least experimented with the given media….I’d be interested to hear his justification for such laziness.

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2. Cliff Kuang says:

   July 29, 2008 at 11:18 am

   Tony, you’re a grade-A putz. Making something really nice isn’t about who’s got the bigger dick with FX techniques. If that’s what you’re into, go read a design blog. I bet you love Kitsune Noir or Coolhunter. They (like you) are interested in techno tweaks for the sake of the technology itself. Real art doesn’t have to live in that space.

   This piece is about being “lowbrow”, as you say: simple, and straightforward, and introducing a bit of jokey transcendence to a musty old piece of well-worn film. It’s a good piece of appropriation/web art.

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3. Tony says:

   July 29, 2008 at 1:03 pm

   Ahhh….now I see. Thanks

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4. Graham says:

   July 30, 2008 at 12:03 am

   Hear hear, Cliff!

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5. Optical says:

   July 31, 2008 at 8:05 pm

   Sorry, but no. You want to see clever, artful massaging of appropriated, old material? How about that ‘Alice’ video by Pogo?

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6. jonny says:

   August 1, 2008 at 3:46 am

   I’m with Cliff on this. it’s simple and effective. I like it. It’s obviously Starglow, but so what? it’s just a tool and it’s there for artists to use it. and there’s nothing wrong being lowbrow. I just hate people pointing out some geek design tricks in artwork and think they are good.

   focus on the meaning, kids. not the technique.

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