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Visually inspirational music videos

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Tue, 2011-03-15 19:26

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Visually inspirational music videos

Just came across BT's "The Antikythera Mechanism" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ONqYRGzqQY Great song that grows slowly, and a fine setting for being trapped in a simspace that is increasingly breaking up, maybe inside a dying TITAN. That got me thinking of music videos as sources of good visual design. What about other music videos suitable for EP? Madonna's "Let's Get Unconscious" strikes me as a surreal autonomist habitat where strange experiments in bodysculpting and psychosurgery are quietly done - the genteel levels of Carnival of the Goat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSaFgAwnRSc Air, electronic performers: what you see through nanoscopic vision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBuyt5bwUc Björk's "All is full of love" is a beautiful picture of synthmorphs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA&feature=more_related And finally some Lost escape tricks (this is so much more technically feasible in EP than in the video!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxEb2FrQUbE

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Wed, 2011-03-16 15:53

The Doctor The Doctor's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Arenamontanus wrote:
That got me thinking of music videos as sources of good visual design. What about other music videos suitable for EP?

The only one that comes immediately to mind is [u]Immortal[/u] by the Cruxshadows, which may as well be about a Firewall raid on a hypercorp research facility (down to the Fury taking a dropship down the gravity well): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcqEZapjf7g I keep meaning to turn this video into an adventure for EP. That is the only one which comes immediately to mind. With some time I can dig through my collection and find others.

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Wed, 2011-03-16 17:21

The Green Slime The Green Slime's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Lustmord - Zoetrope Maybe some far-flung hab gone batshit exsurgent, or a glimpse of a psychotorture simulspace... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLe3P0xYd50 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance Notable for it's inconspicuous, everyday apparel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I Have to have a think about more. I would've thought there'd be plenty from the industrial heydey of the '90s but that scene was a bit too fringe to produce non-corny visuals.

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Thu, 2011-03-24 21:27

Axel the Chimeric Axel the Chimeric's picture

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All this is inspiring, but seeing Lady Gaga again just makes me want to... Hmmm... Actually, yes, I think I will. Off I go to the Homebrew section...

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Sun, 2011-03-27 13:19

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

One of the first signs of an emergent AGI breakout is that sarariman synthmorphs begin to exhibit unusual coordinated behaviour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qhj3sJ5qs And when they state WE ARE ALL ONE, run!

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Wed, 2011-03-30 06:44

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Maybe a bit on the silly side, but MC Frontalot's "Zero Day" is a fun take on the Fall. http://uk.io9.com/5786856/world-premiere-mc-frontalots-post+apocalyptic-... The lyrics are even better: Press play, prepare as history is made: "largest hack in one day," all the headlines will say. All out of time, hear the chime from the buzzer. Found this bug on my own, no need for a fuzzer. "It's already too late," spreading as we planned. No need for the NO OPs, I know just where to land. Clearing out the registers, with pointers to my functions, loaded to your memory and writing new instructions. Braindump i/o, siphoned out the eye holes; enticed so i'm digging through the disassembled byte code. Push pop change order stack frame FILO filesystem inodes, all fall to my flow. Running over, there again i go: self-propagation engine, polymorphic sideshow. Every network, we're found to get around... the exploit payload encoded in this sound.

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Wed, 2011-03-30 08:01

Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Enjoy your Fall human. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XfAYZAA7w

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Fri, 2011-04-22 13:30

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Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Mastadon's "Oblivion" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U Beautiful video. Not only do you have a post-Fall earth, but a tin-can orbital habitat with the crew falling into madness and decay. This could be artwork from the game itself.

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Fri, 2011-04-22 19:58

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Oblivion was pure EP. I really plan to use the outside greenery and butterflies. Here is a Mercurial lovesong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeawPUpTHJA Apropos AGI love, we mustn't forget the classic syntmorph romance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxBO28j3vug

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Wed, 2011-04-27 21:49

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Not a music video, but great ideas for people living in simspaces... especially the more damaged ones. This is how expressive avatars can be: http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/04/ryan-animated-documentary.html Here is some great visuals for a nanoswarm: http://vimeo.com/22382541

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Thu, 2011-04-28 21:54

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Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

not a music video either (well, not really), but a teaser for the new game of the team who brought us Vanquish and Bayonetta: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1SGtosGI0&feature=player_embedded[/url] a good idea of the Fall's squirmish and operations DIGITAL DOMAIN the age of machine has begun

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Fri, 2011-04-29 12:49

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Somewhere in between a very calm music video and arthouse film, Alex Roman's "The Third and Seventh": http://vimeo.com/7809605 http://www.thirdseventh.com This is a masterpiece of CGI, and roughly how I imagine many standard, "out of the box" personal simspaces might look: breathtaking detail, but not yet filled with the minutiae of human life. Some of the locations are wonderfully inspirational as places to have things happen in game - a meeting near the circular pond, a researcher floating among his books, a reclusive infomorph living in his house in the forest surrounded by lanterns, the hypercorp building opening its wings to receive the sunrise... There is a great deal of Inception over this. Hmm, that film had plenty of good visuals. Which, via this ad done by Alex Roman http://www.thirdseventh.com/index.php?/commercials/silestone/ brings us to this music video: http://vimeo.com/19252893?ab After all, pre-Fall Earth simspace environments are amazingly popular. Yet some people do very odd things to them in their home 'scapes.

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Tue, 2011-05-03 17:46

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Axel the Chimeric Axel the Chimeric's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPuU8Pq9D3Q]Not a music video, but I figure this is relevant.[/url]

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Mon, 2011-05-30 18:29

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Here is an interesting video/animation: http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/05/partitura-001.html I can imagine smart matter blobjects doing this to the music in the background of some tasteful corporate office on Mars. Or this is a simspace inhabited by a rather non-human AGI that prefers to communicate in shape.

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Mon, 2011-05-30 19:06

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Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

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i would suggest the video of "Faraway" by Nedy John Cross, from the B-movie "humanity's End" soundtrack (how that movie managed to get such a great OST baffles me!) [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6GjCGzkkyE&feature=related[/url] gotta say that the ship's AGI, Blue Whale, really cracked me up all movie long!

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Sun, 2011-08-21 16:01

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rfmcdonald rfmcdonald's picture

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Justified thread necromancy! The video for the 2009 song "The Girl And The Robot", a Scandinavian collaboration by Röyksopp and Robyn, displays a case study of the existential ennui of people left to themselves in a high-producing but emotionally empty transitional-economy society, people who just can't find a way to connect with each other.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJUCkSMN4k The video for the 2008 Mylène Farmer hit "Dégénération" shows nothing less than an exsurgent's eruption from the laboratory chamber where a cocky few thought they had her safely confined, complete with manifestations of exsurgent psi-gamma powers. http://vimeo.com/1325223?pg=embed&sec=1325223 "I'm in my bed, my bed has to get out of the way I don't know myself, I have to get out of the way This coma, it has to get out of the way I don't know myself, but I have get out of the way, I have to get out of the way"

Sun, 2011-08-21 18:46

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Here is a semi-interactive flash interface/music video: http://www.tokyoplastic.com/drummachine.html Starts slow, but the final little video is worth it. For people with no patience, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4GleAqOyI This is the kind of toys bored kids make/grow in EP... including the hidden sinisterness. (In one earlier game, I had an entire habitat of cleanliness fascists run on this aesthetics) Here is an idea for a slightly eccentric AGI sleeving: http://vimeo.com/9800754 "Before we enter, I should warn you that Dr 026686 is a tad eccentric. Not just a big believer in retro, but eccentric..." Incidentally, this is how 360 degree vision feels: http://vimeo.com/1478602

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Tue, 2011-08-30 12:47

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Visually inspirational music videos

Not exactly a music video, but cool nevertheless: http://vimeo.com/28304264 http://vimeo.com/22866665 This might be how nanoswarms slowly creep up on you.

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Mon, 2014-03-24 18:31

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

A bored gerontocrat and his

A bored gerontocrat and his casemorph muse: http://youtu.be/ScBOrwUpr20

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