Ben Eine

Street Artist Ben Eine "Greatest" - White Walls... by WarholianTV



Source: dailymotion.com, Street Artist Ben Eine "Greatest" - White Walls - Warholian, viewed, 11th August, 2011,
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhszxw_street-artist-ben-eine-greatest-white-walls-warholian_creation

This video is great. The guy is such a character. He talks about how he developed his style to distinguish himself from a graffiti artist while still working on the streets. The video follows him in San Francisco putting up large scale works. Its a really positive video. His work has great messages and he's genuinely excited to be able to the work. Its one of the first interviews that is shot almost entirely outside. There's background noise but it adds to the atmosphere of the video because he's talking about the streets in the context of his work.

The music is fairly upbeat. London underground type stuff. It corresponds with the character of Eine. He's a bit of a 'geezer', in his attitude. A fun colourful video showing people that street art does not just have to be political or socially messaged. It can just brighten your day.

Thoughts in Week 4

I have had successes in this project so far. I can also say that now I am hitting a bit of a wall!! I had a nightmare situation the other day where the camera I as using to record an interview broke down without me realising until I checked the tape back. It was a spur of the moment interview and It went amazingly well. The downside was that the heads of the video camera were dirty and I lost everything!!

I had almost storyboarded the entire end product of this shoot in my mind and the interview fed right into my ideas. I felt tlike I was onto a great video. It happens and there is a chance I might get to shoot it again? I am definitely being more considerate of lighting and all the aspects of shooting interview footage that will make the end product more engaging, but Technology seems to be what is holding me back this week!!

Today I have tried to put a video onto the university computer and there are so many files that students have left on here that I can't manage to get the computer to keep up with the playback. I have basically lost a day of editing messing around with cleaning up hard drives and moving data from place to place. Always a scary thing, in case you lose valuable files!

So whats next? I can't give up. I have too videos edited to the point where the audio is good enough to start storyboarding so I guess that is the next step. Technical problems can be worked out over time but you can't sit there and worry about it. I just have to keep pushing through it and producing work. It is hard for motivation though when you keep hitting walls rather than going forward. The E-media guys are a great support team though!

ROA video Profile

ROA street artist profile film by filmmaker... by WarholianTV


Source: Warholian.com 2011, ROA Street Artist Profile Film, Day, C.M., viewed 11th August, 2011,


I found a great new source of artist profiles today. The site is called 'Warholian.com' and there is a wealth of artist profiles on here. This particular video id nice. The artist deals with the animals that benefit from the urban environment. It is shot nicely and clearly and what really drew me to it was the parallels that I can draw between his work and that of Gabbee Stolp who works in our studio. She makes jewellery and performs taxidermy on animals that she finds or that people find for her. She is a vegitarian and soes not agree with harming animals but there is a sense of exploration of the living and dead that I can see in her work and in ROA's.



Source: Alphabetrix.com 2011, 'Deceased Estate', Stolp Gabbee, Mixed Media, 2011, viewed 11th August, 2011,

Summadayze 2012 | Colourfornia* from Future TV on Vimeo.

This is a fun video that has been created as a teaser for the upcoming Summerdayze festival. Using the theme of "Colourfornia" the video shows slow motion video of beautiful girls being covered in powder paint. Who wouldn't watch that?

The beauty of this sexualised imagery is the paint as it passes through the air, mixes and contrasts with other coulours in slow motion. The shapes that it forms and the pieces that fall away engage the viewer, as the girls slowly change from white t-shirts and blue jean-shorts to completely coloured with paint.

The music is performed by Calvin Harris and is very appropriate due to the lyrical nature of the song entitled: 'Colours'.

I enjoy the visual of colour flying through the air and it was the same with the video previously posted about the Absolute Vodka project. I can't explain it really? Something about that freeing experience and expression of the act of flinging paint at something and seeing the often uncontrolable but exciting result?

Again this was fun to watch, but is also providing me ideas for my video imagery that will accompany Nicole O'Loughlin's video. She talks about how colour is important with feeling and emotion and that colour is an important element of her work.

O'Loughlin talks about Mark Rothko's work and Richard Sarra. There I am wondering if rather than just add still images of their work, I might try to represent their ideas and her ideas through other visuals of a similar nature. For example. Filming rust and brightly coloured canvases that allude to these artists work as well as suggesting the themes that O'Loughlin talks about herself.

LA Light from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

Source: Rich C 2011, 'LA Light', VImeo, viewed 9 August, 2011,


This video is a beautiful time laps piece that shows off the architecture of LA and builds a visual picture of the city. Accompanied by a slow well suited piece by Cinematic Orchestra, the piece is nicely constructed and has a certain luminosity to it that makes the scenery surreal and almost 3-dimentional.

I am starting to realise how difficult it is to get fantastic footage. Its not always as easy as just setting a camera up and starting to shoot. Lighting angle, focus, shot and all these other elements come into play. I have shot 3 videos now and I feel like I am considering all these elements a lot more when I shoot. Compared to my first effort this semester, my latest work is a lot more considered.

I am especially interested in colour at the moment. I shot an interview with Nicole O'Loughlin to create an artist profile and I have realised that the underlying themes of colour and texture are so important to her work that I really need to shoot a visual narrative that captures colour and texture.

For this I will be shooting in a brightly lit setting with a pure white background so as not to detract from the object or texture in shot with complicated backgrounds or shadow.

I feel with enough consideration I can make a very lovely video from what has provided in the interview. I have finished editing the audio information. The next step for me is to storyboard and start shooting the visual elements.

Mastodon: "Black Tongue" Official Video

Source: Youtube 2011, Black Tongue, viewed August 3, 2011,


This is a video clip for Mastodon's new single Black Tongue. Mastodon has always had a strong visual aspect to their audio work. The band deals with mythical and mystical subjects in its music and this particular video is no exception. The video shows a wooodworker bringing the cover graphic for their forthcoming album to life. The cover features a multi mouthed beast that looks like a cross between a deer a wolf and a cow. The video shows the crafting process and pays particular attention to the creation of the eye.

I have been thinking about ways to show process lately. This is born from thinking about the videos I have previously uploaded for my journal/blog and how they show artistic process as a way of providing insight into the way different artists work, and also through reviewing footage I have already shot and thinking of visual imagery to enhance my own artist profile videos for the current "Rage Cage" project.

I have been cutting the video footage I have shot down from almost an hour of conversation with each artist, to 5 minute distilled versions of the footage that speak to the essence of that interview and tell a story or capture the essence of that artist. From this I will storyboard a sequence and come up with a concept for each artists profile video. It will feature rich visuals that will accompany footage of the interview or might just accompany the audio of that interview. The outcome is intended to be insightful. A window of vision into the artist and their process.

Although nothing new I do like the scratchy effect on this video. I think its unnecessary on this video but it can be fun and an obvious choice hwen trying to make a video appear older than it is. I in fact don't think that the video and the music work that well together on this video. I think that the part that works are the computer graphic elements in black and white where the head of the beast is multiplied and turns in on itself. I think this part of the video is most successful as a visual and as an aesthetic that fits with the bands song. The footage of the craftsman is too slow and does not seem to find rhythm with the music.

You can't always praise every video you find and you need to see what doesn't work so you can try and lean from them and create things that do work. I find that you can often match music quite well to a video if you take your time to really understand the mood of the visual and also what the content is trying to say.

LASCO Brand Introduction from LASCO on Vimeo.

Source : Lasco 2011, Lasco Bran Introduction, 1st August, 2011,


This is a really nice uplifting video. It shows the determination of a brand that stands up for its own country rather than sending money outside of America to cut production costs. The video starts of showing ghostly almost still shot images and walkthroughs of abandoned warehouses that presumable once produced footware. This part of the video is accompanied by a slow piano soundtrack that almost makes you feel sad that shoes are no longer made in these abandoned spaces.

The second half of the video has an uplifting soundtrack and is accompanied by video that shows the shoe making process. The shift in music and the appearance of new shoes in these old abandoned spaces is a really nice transition in terms of composition and storyline. It also contains interviews and voiceover and gives you an insight into a shoemaking company and its workers, who refuse to let quality slip for the sake of making more money.

I think its nicely shot. The interview shots are shot on a dark background with a light hitting the subject. Its a nice feel that works well with the darkly lit shoe factory. The beginning of the film has a fish eye lense effect that is blurred around the edges. I'm not sold on that and I think it was unnecessary.



Apart from that the storytelling is done very well through the use of camera and narration.