RIP MCA
Sad to hear about the passing of Adam Yaunch a couple of days ago. The Beastie Boys are the soundtrack to much of machine-building – here’s a video from the construction of the Ant Ballet machine last...
View ArticleLong train ride
I passed through what must be the longest station in the world the other day. Youtube / Vimeo
View ArticleLove at first bite
A love story between a boxer and a toy pig. Music by Barry White (of course). Video on Youtube and Vimeo.
View ArticleNybble code base
This is the video which explains how the code-base within my Nybble project works. Each symbol represents a dancer in the performance, and the combination of four dancers creates a letter. For more...
View ArticleShadow chasing
I love it when the sun is low. Here’s some shadow chasing on Tottenham Court Road. Video is on Vimeo.
View ArticleThomas Feuerstein Psychoprosa
I gave a talk at the University of Innsbruck the other day, and on my day off I went to see the Thomas Feuerstein exhibition Psychoprosa. Unfortunately the show has now finished, but I made this video...
View ArticleWaves lapping, Italy
I recorded this video of waves lapping on a beach in southern Italy recently. There was something mesmerising about this patch of water, which is far thicker than most. And a nice thud as it hit the...
View ArticleLearn Italian
My friend Fiona Williams (who kindly helped me film the Nybble video) made a lovely stop-motion film about the now-probably-obsolete method of learning Italian by cassette. She filmed it in a...
View ArticleSupermoon
Like thousands of people around the world, I took a time-lapse of the super blood moon. This was from our porch in Chicago, although doesn’t feature anything that is remotely identifiable.
View ArticleNybble video
I just realised I never posted about the making of the video for my Nybble project! It took a long time for me to get round to re-editing, since myriad other projects came up in the time after the...
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24fps Psycho
24fps Psycho About A performance visually remixing and reinterpreting Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho (1960). Working with footage from the Institute National Audiovisuel (France), the Prelinger...
View ArticleScriptych collaboration
The French Audiovisual Archives (INA) made a lovely short film about the collaborative process Simon Valastro and myself used to make Scriptych, a performance at the Opéra National de Paris earlier...
View ArticleRock music
Whilst in Korea last year, I came across this incredible rock playing an instrumental version of Celine Dion’s Oscar-winning My Heart Will Go On. Hold me, Jack.
View ArticleLogic by Machine
We don’t talk about computers like we used to. Whilst writing up my PhD thesis, I came across this teaser video for my Nybble project. It was designed to elicit the interest of potential dancers and...
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Making Space at the Royal Academy
A version of my film Scriptych (a collaboration with Simon Valastro at the Paris Opera) will be playing tonight after the Bartlett’s Film Making Space symposium. The event looks great (Penelope...
View ArticleRules of the Game
This weekend I took part in the annual Sci Fi London 48 hour film challenge, in which participants have to write, shoot, and edit a sci-fi film in 48 hours. My film had to include the following...
View ArticleRoad worthy
I haven’t spent a day in the studio just doing studio-ish meandering things for ages, despite this being part of “the plan.” Today I was able to head in, finish production on three podcast episodes for...
View ArticleHybrid Futures talk video
Here’s the video of the talk I gave yesterday at Central St Martins as part of their Hybrid Futures series: It was great to be able to present work from my PhD (which is now open access!) and my...
View ArticleGoogle Earth, 2011
Google Earth 2011 from Ollie Palmer on Vimeo. A video of footage I took back in 2011 of late-night journeys in Google Earth. This is my attempt to recapture the strange energy of that time: staying up...
View ArticleEchoes of Disruption by Dubmorphology / commissioned by Invisible Dust
I feel honoured to have been interviewed by Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart from Dubmorphology about ants as part of their work Echoes of Disruption. The work forms part of the new exhibition...
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