1st in a series of videos exploring the magic of the "Green Screen"

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:30:52

Show concept by Kris Bennett

Playlist

Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian - The Door
Public Access Television Production about consciousness - really very good. Watch it here:
http://www.networkawesome.com/show/jack-kevorkian-the-door/

Snow Canon (1981)
Video by Synopsis Music by Steve Roach
Graphics by Denise Gallant/Brian Samuels from California Images:HiFi For The Eyes

"The Water" by Os Ovni (2010)
directed by Seth Nemec filmed at Discovery Village and Barton Springs
http://osovni.tumblr.com/
http://www.answeringmachinerecordings.net/

Yellow Magic Orchestra Rydeen (video Remix)
"Yellow Magic Orchestra, has been very popular or famous in Japan during the period."

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Candy Pants (not to be missed!)
"Oh Sugar Britches, you got my nerves in stitches"
Lionel Davis sings - ahem, lip syncs (badly) - the song "Candy Pants" from his album "I Got the Mack in the Sack."

Gospel Aerobics Hi Lo
"Here you go, another clip to share with the world. This is gospel aerobics taken to higher level. Old school dance aerobics to a faster beat. Enjoy! pauleugene..."

nobody here
"I like the part where he says "There's nobody here". Also, the part with the jiggling triangle of rainbow."

Pantomation (1977-1979)
Pantomation was a very early tracking chromakey system from the 1970s. Originally intended for music scoring, the system was adapted to other styles of performance art. While crude by modern standards, the concept was decades ahead of its time; it can reasonably be considered an early forebear of systems like Microsoft's Kinect.

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Chroma key compositing (or chroma keying) is a technique for compositing (layering) two images together. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, color-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC^[2]), greenscreen, and bluescreen. It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein the news presenter appears to be standing in front of a large map during live television newscasts, but in a television studio it is actually a large blue or green background. The meteorologist stands in front of a bluescreen, and then different weather maps are added on those parts in the image where the color is blue. If the meteorologist wears blue clothes, his clothes will be replaced with the background video. This also works for greenscreens, since blue and green are considered the colors least like skin tone.^[3] This technique is also used in the entertainment industry, for example for special effects. Software is available today, such as Pinnacle Studio, which makes it possible and relatively easy for the average home computer user, to create videos using the Chromakey function and greenscreeens.

Art - Science Friction (Stan Vanderbeek, 1959)

Fantastic experimental short film from 1959 by Stan Vanderbeek

Curated by The Sadnesses

Total Runtime: 0:09:51

VanDerBeek studied art and architecture first at Cooper Union Collegein New York and then at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met architect Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham. VanDerBeek began his career in the 1950s making independent art film while learning animation techniques and working painting scenery and set designs for the American TV show, Winky Dink and You. His earliest films, made between 1955 and 1965 mostly consist of animated paintings and collage films, combined in a form of organic development.

VanDerBeek's ironic compositions were created very much in the spirit of the surreal and dadaist collages on Max Ernst, but with a wild, rough informality more akin to the expressionism of the Beat Generation. In the 1960s, VanDerBeek began working with the likes of Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, as well as representatives of modern dance, such as Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer. Building his Movie Drome theater at Stony Point, New York, at just about the same time, he designed shows using multiple projectors. These presentations contained a very great number of random image sequences and continuities, with the result that none of the performances were alike.

His desire for the utopian led him to work withKen Knowltonin a co-operation at Bell Labs, where dozens of computer animated films and holographic experiments were created by the end of the 1960s. Between 1964 and 1967 Vanderbeek created Poem Field, a series of 8 computer-generated animations with Ken Knowlton.

During the same period, he taught at many universities, researching new methods of representation, from the steam projections at the Guggenheim Museumto the interactive television transmissions of his Violence Sonatabroadcast on several channels in 1970. He ran the University of Maryland, Baltimore Countyvisual arts program until his death.

Collection - Chromatoast

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