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.
Brian
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, alexander rutterford wrote:
Hey Brian,
Glad you still like this video after almost 20 years - wow its scary when I say that.
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 .
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.
So far I found only a small part but nothing enough to reproduce fully.
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.
But at this stage it looks like it could be lost in time.
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.
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.
Have a great day dude.
Best
Alex.
On 23 Apr 2018, at 05:07, Brian Behlendorf <brian@behlendorf.com> wrote:
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.
Brian
---------- 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>
On Apr 21, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Brian Behlendorf <brian@behlendorf.com> wrote:
Yeah, that Warp video compilation is amazing. Pretty much anything by Chris Cunningham or Michel Gondry from that era was fun to mindblowing.
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
I'm not sure it exists in 1080p , since it targetted DVD resolution .. 2002 was a different time :)
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
http://warp.net/news/alex-rutterford-on-the-creation-of-the-gantz-graf-video
underworld - rez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Y7lcvubhU
We Have Explosive holds up as a sort of Keith Haring on acid play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc9l7pygQRo
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
Orbital's "The Box" was pretty arty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQXy4YdFcM
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
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
OK, pulling out of the rabbit hole,
Brian
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.
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