Oh that's interesting. Thanks for asking. It's one of my top-5
favourite music videos. Every Ae track should have one.
On 29 April 2018 at 00:14, Brian Behlendorf <brian@behlendorf.com> wrote:
quoted 176 lines BTW, I reached out to Alex Rutterford about Grantz Graf, to which he replied
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> BTW, I reached out to Alex Rutterford about Grantz Graf, to which he replied
> the following; I asked if I could forward and he agreed. I thought others
> might find it interesting.
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> Brian
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> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, alexander rutterford wrote:
> Hey Brian,
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> Glad you still like this video after almost 20 years - wow its scary
> when I say that.
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> The bad news is that it was never rendered at 1080 it was finished at
> D1 PAL 720x576 pixels, and the only way of seeing this at 1080 is through a
> pixel blow up .
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> I have recently been going through a pile of cd’s, some having cd rot
> and archiving in an attempt to find if I backed this up, I did this video
> whilst working elsewhere and I can’t
> reminder whether I took a backup.
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> So far I found only a small part but nothing enough to reproduce
> fully.
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> My next step is to go through some old magneto optical discs and zip
> cartridges at a data revival service and see if i get lucky, as one of my
> missions in life is to re-render this
> video in 4K and have a 3d version as well.
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> But at this stage it looks like it could be lost in time.
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> That video took me 6 months on and off fitting around other jobs and
> was crafted using animation and very little generative solutions, only the
> slicing look was a visual filtered
> version of the music but the rest was all animated by myself.
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> Otherwise the only way is to re-create is from the bottom up, and I
> don’t think I’m crazy enough to do that now.
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> Have a great day dude.
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> Best
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> Alex.
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> On 23 Apr 2018, at 05:07, Brian Behlendorf
> <brian@behlendorf.com> wrote:
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> Sending an email as a shot in the dark. Count me in as a big
> fan and someone who's die to see a proper 1080p scan of Grantz Graf if one
> ever were to materialize. I
> assume not without proper fundage; does source material exist?
> See ref below from other fans.
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> Brian
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net>
> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@behlendorf.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:33:49 -0700
> Subject: Re: music videos from the MTV era
> Cc: Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>, idm list
> <idm@hyperreal.org>
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> On Apr 21, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Brian Behlendorf
> <brian@behlendorf.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, that Warp video compilation is amazing. Pretty much
> anything by Chris Cunningham or Michel Gondry from that era was fun to
> mindblowing.
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> Granz Graf is my ATF. Wish I could find it in true 1080p,
> not just upscaled SD. I'd love to know how much of this was generated from
> the same upstream source
> as the music, vs emulated afterwards.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3vENli7wQ
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> I'm not sure it exists in 1080p , since it targetted DVD
> resolution .. 2002 was a different time :)
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> rutterford said it's not generative at all, it's animated by
> 'hand' to match up to the music...which is somehow even crazier than writing
> a program to do it
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> http://warp.net/news/alex-rutterford-on-the-creation-of-the-gantz-graf-video
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> underworld - rez
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Y7lcvubhU
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> We Have Explosive holds up as a sort of Keith Haring on
> acid play:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc9l7pygQRo
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> There was a VHS tape put out for the Orb's Adventures
> Beyond the Ultraworld, which someone has encoded and put on Youtube, at
> least the latter 3/4ths of it,
> that I for some reason really like:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEBRTFGtYBI
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> Orbital's "The Box" was pretty arty:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQXy4YdFcM
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> I know the above are practically Top 40, but nothing was
> as accessible (and still pretty era- and genre-defining) as Bjork's All Is
> Full Of Love
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI2J2SQ528
>
> And I forgot about DHS's "House of God" video til just
> now!
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRPEDOVJzk
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> Hexstatic used to have a lot of fun with videos and
> sampling:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhXp-Wemn3I
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-jK46PEwcs
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e4ItvRGwis
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> OK, pulling out of the rabbit hole,
>
> Brian
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> On Sat, 21 Apr 2018, Chris Taylor wrote:
> Anyone have any favorite Official Music Videos from
> the MTV era they'd like to share?
> I was compiling a playlist of house music videos and
> couldn't remember if there had been a good music video thread on here. The
> one I put together
> is below but like I said, it's on the house music
> tip,
> although IDM heads should recognize sasu
> ripatti/Vladislav Delay appearing for one moment in the extremely banal
> video for his alias Luomo's
> Tessio. What a fucking tune tho.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gidanrIFc&list=PLqe7_QSh_6iy8Sv6JCLwBeS9oNqdpTg8K
> All the Warp videos were obviously really dope, I
> used to have that DVD they made. But yeah please share some vids! I
> live/grew up in the US, so
> all this stuff which I assumed was in somewhat
> regular
> rotation in Europe never got played here outside of
> the really poppy stuff (like Crystal Waters or Real McCoy) or on speciality
> shows like Amp.
> Ahhh - here's another good one:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwUQ5oKM-hE
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