information aesthetics.
the new music video for Radiohead's song "House Of Cards", of which the images were generated without cameras or film, but with 3 different real-time 3D laser scanners that are normally used to capture geometrical terrains & objects. several low-tech approaches were used to deliberately "break up" the data. anyone is invited to & upload the original data & then post the visual results.
be sure not to miss the "Making of" video after the break.
[links: stereogum.com & code.google.com (interactive viewer)|thnkx Katherine]
reminds me of UVA's music video for Colder, "To the Music", which can be seen here.
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it's a cool idea, but it seems as if they weren't aware of the new possibilities -- they could have done a lot more with the data, or at least present the point clouds in a more interesting way...
Also, the inconsistency between physically distorting the scan of the singing people, and the simulated dissolving of the outdoor-scans makes it look a bit like beginner's work.
But hopefully others will follow :)
we did some mixed reality experiments with the 3d data on an iphone and the LP cover:
http://i.document.m05.de/?p=505
@pascal I agree some more abstraction might have been nice - hope we get some from other sources. But I also think this simple "failed" visualisation does the (emotional) job. More thoughts on my blog.