Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Blu


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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11 comments:

DarceysDad said...

I'm exhausted just THINKING about how much whitewash and scrubbing went on in the making of that.

May 13, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Blimpy said...

Holy cow!

May 13, 2008 at 6:48 PM
saneshane said...

It is just amazing and mind boggling to think of the effort and skill and planning that when into this.
Just fantastic visually and sound tracked as well...
I'm in AWE.

May 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM
steenbeck said...

I thought you'd like it Saneshane. If you click on the "Blu" I think it takes you to his blog, which looks very nice and has some more short videos of graffiti-animation.
Some of this reminded me of Street of Crocodiles (the head on robot legs...) done in 2 dimensions. He must have had permission from the city, don't you think, to carry out something on this scale. Wouldn't it be exilarating to have created something that required all that work and turned out that well?

May 14, 2008 at 3:12 PM
steenbeck said...

Nilpferd, Amanita designs have a new samorost-style game. I'm going to wait till Malcolm comes home from school to try it, but it looks good. It's here

May 14, 2008 at 3:19 PM
steenbeck said...

That's not working, is it? try this cut and paste method....
http://www.amanitadesign.com/

May 14, 2008 at 3:20 PM
nilpferd said...

Thanks steenbeck, I've been on the road the last few days on business but I had time to watch the BLU clip before I went, it's really brilliant, had a lot of resonance for me with scratch films. Questionaut looks great, I'll introduce it to my daughter if the promised wet weekend turns up..

May 14, 2008 at 8:19 PM
ejaydee said...

There's some art by Blu here it looks like:
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=194195_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0

May 31, 2008 at 4:37 PM
steenbeck said...

Do you think it's Kanye himself picking the stuff they post? He seems to have such a generous curatorial spirit. I admire that.

May 31, 2008 at 8:39 PM
ejaydee said...

I'd like to think so. The was a post on Blu on the blog, and the title was something like "I bow to this" which sounds like him, since he instructs people to "bow in the presence of genius"(himself) on one of his own songs. But there must be somebody searching for things he'd like to have posted, unless he does nothing else but trawl through design websites while being on a stadium tour. Overall the content is pretty consistent, so maybe he has somebody pick stuff for him, but there are some cases I'm sure he wrote the post himself. Basically I don't know.

May 31, 2008 at 8:51 PM
steenbeck said...

I think it's great when an established artist in any field uses their, what's the word?, fame, I guess, to help out lesser known artists. If they collaborate with them, or put them on their label, or in this case, help out artists in other fields by drawing attention to them. There are people looking at this art, or the one you posted yesterday for Saneshane, that would never have looked at it if Kanye West hadn't drawn their attention to it. I love that. It's so easy to be selfish with the attention (I would guess).

May 31, 2008 at 10:03 PM

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