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Advice/How To
Garageband Tutorials - helpful video tutorials to get you started making, editing, mixing audio
FrameThief tips-
from Heidi for basic NTSC standard movie making
FrameThief for 16x9 format - for Animation for Broadcast class
Creative Cow - has great forums and video tutorials for many different softwares, After Effects, Final Cut, etc.
2-Pop - forum for video, motion graphics, special FX, etc.
After Effects User Listserv - excellent listserve with amazing people on it, subscribe to digest mode
Apple's Final Cut EXPRESS video tutorials - excellent for beginners
Apple's Final Cut STUDIO video tutorials - for those having Final Cut Pro
Heidi's Final Cut Express How to page
Lynda.com's FREE tutorials - excellent video tutorials, subscribers get access to all of them for $25/month
Heidi's High Def video/animation tip sheet - for HD, HDV

Free Downloads--movies, images, sounds

UM Mother of all ART & Art History LINKS page--online image collections accessible to you from UM Library
Visual Resources for Professionals list--great list of links
Prelinger Internet Movie Archive:1000's of public domain/copyright-free ads, documentaries, etc...
Free Play - downloadable music and other stuff
Library of Congress--Prints & Photographs division, see their cool photostream on FLICKR
Terra Server- huge collection of USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps
American Memory Collections- US LIbrary of Congress great high resolution images


On-line animations, videos, art - Sites to watch

Play Gallery-School of Art and Design's very own online video channel for time-based work. Submit your work today
Play Gallery's favorites--on YouTube
Motionographer - motion graphics site, student section
Wooster Collective- - INCREDIBLE STUFF ON THIS PAGE, great street art
UBU Web --great site for artists' videos from 1950s, 60s, 70s, etc.
DVblog - Art & Entertainment, QUICKTIME movies
New York Times: SCREENS BLOG, about television, digital culture
New York Times: Animated Life Blog

STUART--Saatchi Gallery in London's STudent ART site. Submit your work today!
Illegal Art.org - great remixes of movies, news, etc.
Cyclope
- Netherlands Media Art Institute. Artists' videos, REAL PLAYER needed
Aardman Animations
- from the people who brought you Creature Comforts, Wallace & Gromit
Flicker Film and Video Artists - giant list of video artists
Post-video art online--nice site for experimental video
Learning to Love You More - great art "assignments" that were executed by anyone who wanted to do them
Adult Swim-cartoons for adults on television
Cube-Creative-French animation studio (is it better because it's in French?) look at: driving animation --writings, fe

INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, ANIMATIONS, FILMS
Jacqueline Goss - animations about applying scientific and political systems to irregular things, like PEOPLE!
TYGER--Beautiful 2D/3D slightly dark animation
Ezra Johnson - animated paintings as screensavers for DIA Art Foundation--gorgeous!
Jim Duesing
- Animator (2D & 3D)with some terrific storyboards and notes atures about video, tv, viral video, etc.
Diane Nerwen - appropriated, recycled and re-made
Virgil Widrich-Austrian digital filmmaker, outrageously laborious work
Lovely Productions - selected shorts by a small company in Ireland

TELLING STORIES WITH PICTURES/VOICEOVER
Ripped from the Pages of Real Life: real audio story telling with After Effects animation of photos, etc....
Story of Stuff - by FreeRange Graphics, the ones who brought you the MEATRIX about corporate farming
Demetri Martin - young comedian on Comedy Central, monologs with stick figure pictures
Whale Hunt - visual journal with photos taken every 5 minutes
Paul Zaloom - performance artist/storyteller uses props and tells stories

STOP MOTION ANIMATION/PIXILATION (using humans as objects)

PES--terrific stop-motion animator, watch the "how to" videos as well
Jan Svankmajer - THE Czech animation genius
National Film Board of Canada presents the best animation from the last 50 years (GREAT STUFF) -check out Norman McLaren
Sandow Birk and Paul Zaloom's Dante's Inferno with Paper puppets in LA in 2005
Stop Motion.com list of sites--various things here
David Crawford's stop motion studies using photographs taken on subway
Death Cab for Cutie--"drawless animation", nice how-it-was-made piece
This is Where We Live - GORGEOUS animation using publisher's books and paper as raw material

FLIP BOOKS
Flipbook.info-French collection with great videos of all kinds, antique, etc. of flip books being flipped!
History of Flipbooks-illustrated
Jack and Beverly's Optical toys- personal collection of pre-cinema devices
Ruth Hayes' site- flipbooks and IPOD animation sequences (!) check it out...
Daumenkino-flip book in action
Human Flip book-on a T-shirt
Polaroid stop motion piece-WOW.
Post-It Notes gone WILD!
Sports flip book with sound effects
Matrix style flip book drawings
Pre-cinema history and collection - EXCELLENT Early Visual Media site

ART AND ARTISTS::::Performance/Actions/Body/Activism

Look on UBU WEB for many more...

1960s
Yoko Ono- Fluxus artist, performer, former spouse of John Lennon, REAL TIME performances 1970s
Yves Klein - "Action" paintings using women as his paintbrushes
Fluxus films - see this page for all kinds of films, scroll down



1970s
William Wegman
- classic video performances with his dogs, see Early Videos, Stomach Song, many others

Chris Burden -daring, death defying acts documented well
Vito Acconci-early conceptual artist who expands art beyond the gallery, using public space, his body
Marina Abramovic


1980s
Ana Mendieta - figurative performances w/gun powder, blood, natural forms
Tehching Hsieh - originator of the intense year long durational performance
Paul Zaloom - aka Beakman the science guy, known for his stories told with objects and overhead projectors
Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh - audio interview about their year long performance tied together from Studio 360

 

1990s
Tim Miller - one of the famed NEA four

2000s
Patty Chang
-provacative performances for the camera
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping - "revives activism by staging it in new places"

The Yes Men -perfecting the art of impersonation for good causes, they call it "Identity Correction", Yes Men Movie online!

 

AUDIO SITES

Third Coast Audio - festival from Chicago
This American Life - Great weekly themed radio
programs out of WBEZ-Chicago.Excellent!
Turbulence.org - Specializes in showcasing
networked art and audio projects
New Radio and Performing Arts - experimental radio and sound arts
Somewhere.org --Full length works --check out and listen
Soundtoys.net --
showplace for audio visual projects
Transom.org --Showcase and workshop for new public radio produced by Jay Allison. Includes archive of audio programs and technical resources, discussion
Hearing Voices - Billed as a mini-museum of radio artistry.
StoryCorps - Traveling audio booth that lets ordinary people record stories with friends and families, reproduced and broadcast on NPR
This I Be
lieve - radio series of people writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives
Free
109point3 - audio art, radio art, "transmission arts"

AUDIO ART/Sculpture/Instruments/
Trimpin - kinetic musical object maker extraordinaire, Documentary on him, Performance at UM w/Cello, Experience Music Project large guitar sculpture
David Byrne's "Playing the Building" 2008
Nina Katchedourian's Natural Car Alarms (on NPR), 2002-bird sounds replace car alarms

Christian Marclay - visual artist, composer, uses record players as instruments
Paul DeMarinis - electronic media artist/sound object installations, lecture here, other movies here
Christina Kubisch - reprogrammed a clocktower at Mass MOCA
Vegetable Orchestra
--exactly what it sounds like! Videos are great.
Sonic Memorial - Commemorating 9/11, tons of really great audio and interesting interfaces, check out Stephen Vitiello's audio recordings of the World Trade Center (search in Archive under "Vitiello"), Stephen Vitiello on Studio 360
Shawn Decker - audio installation
Ed Osborn - sound artist & sculptor

Ken Butler - hybrid stringed instruments made from household objects
Theremin -musical instrument that uses radio waves and a delicate hand, Clara Rockmore-master of the theremin, Samuel Hoffman plays
How to turn a bicycle into a record player - 2 people locked in a room make it happen

Avant Garde Music
Luigi Russolo and the Futurists' Manifesto "The Art of Noise" (1913)
Harry Partch - composer and custom instrument maker, BBC Documentary-shows his interest in visual objects
Harry Partch - Interesting site that allows you to "play" Harry Partch's instruments!
John Cage - avant garde composer, embraced chance music, "prepared pianos" and other non standard uses of musical instruments
4'33" - famous piece during which the performers are silent for 4'33"--the piece is all the OTHER sounds that occur during this time
Water Walk - Television performance using variety of objects, Speaking About Silence and Sound, Noise performance
Fluxus artists - combine everyday objects/music/performance: G. Brecht's Drip Music, Paik and Moorman's TV Bra Cello
Laurie Anderson - musician, performance artist, storyteller, documentary here on her NASA residency
Matthew Herbert: electronic musician, Manifesto here

FLASH SPECIFIC

Free Range Graphics--great design firm that does work for political groups and non-profit organizations
Meatrix etc...
Albino Black Sheep - great Honda Ad using the car parts in a series of perpetual movements
Figli Migli animation- work of Alex Budovsky

Storybeat.tv - some very nice graphics and interfaces

Flash Forward 2005 - Flash User conference

Black Mustache - GREAT flash political parodies
The End of the World - hilarious hand drawn animation that takes a global view of politics
A is for Apple - visually rich and very fun non-commercial interactive artwork
nobodyhere.com - playful series of interactive screens

Fly Guy -terrific interactive story, very playful and inventive
Girls Allowed - screen by screen story telling
Young-Hae Chang--text based flash pieces, sometimes x-rated, check out Perfect Artistic Web Site

macboy.com--check out the animation, DAD vs. AOL, and the Mac Switch parodies

Flash Film Festival 2003 --Flash-specific pieces in a variety of catagories--LOTS of examples

bzzzpeek-flash animation with different cultures' animal sounds

Comics online - Wednesday Cooper.com, cool way to display still drawings
The Meatrix - just what it sounds like!
Egomedia.com
Homestarrunner.com - cartoons of all kinds, nice tv interface
I can't read Borges - 1st person narrative about reading Borges
Music "video" WEEEEEEEEE - featuring a little hopping squirrel

Une Heure Cinq - quirky animations taking place in diff. parts of a city

Locus Novus: A Synthesis of Text and Image

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


ARTISTS


Sabrina Raaf - robotic sculpture, electronic artworks
Beatriz DaCosta - tactical media, robotic sculpture

Brooke Singer - tactical media, wireless media
Victoria Scott- Electro-mechanical Sculpture and Installation
Elizabeth King - sculpture
Josely Carvalho
- sculpture, bookmaking, electronic arts
Gail Wight - Critical History of science
Paul DeMarinis
Fernando Orellana - maker of machine oddities
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy -gorgeous video installations using miniatures and web cams



COLLECTIVES
Yes Men - tactical media, check out their movie!
IAA - Institute for Applied Autonomy
Critical Art Ensemble - tactical media, writings, SUPPORT THE
Preemptive_media.net
Negativland - media appropriationists since the 1980's, good links/info on Fair Use

VIDEO AND ANIMATION Makers
Guerilla News Network

Jim Duesing - Animator (2D & 3D)with some terrific storyboards and notes


POLITICAL ART AND ANIMATIONS
Bush's "State of the Union" speech REMIXED!!
Bush REMixed---"...give every child in America 3 nuclear missiles"
DIY Media.net

Dancing Bush - simple flash DANCE commands
Bush Speech maker - flash interface
moveon.org--did public call for work for anti-Bush, 30 second advertisements, check 'em out!
about.com--Political humor/photoshopped images
"Time to Bomb Saddam"--Madblast's musical animation
Animations and cartoons about War in Iraq and Saddam Hussein
meatrix.com- Terrific online animation by FreeRange Graphics
Bush games - many flash examples
Bush Speech Maker -video version
Make Your Own Bush speech - cartoon version

 

APPROPRIATION/CULTURE JAMMING
Illegal Art.org