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Hamster Squaredance

April 30, 2009 3:34 pm

Hamster Squaredance is one of the more visually distinctive music videos I’ve run across in a while. It was created for the musician Mr. Hayday by New Zealand-based Laurent Antonczak and Patricia Burgetsmaier. The lengthy description of the project on their Vimeo page does leave me slightly confused though:

The framework of “Hamster Squaredance” explores an aesthetic and conceptual relationship of rhythm and narrative by developing a new visual approach for displaying on small screens, mainly iPHONE. Furthermore “Hamster Squaredance” explores a new narrative structure (short-duration, screen limitations, narrative synchronised with music) and reinterprets the aesthetics of computer game industry from the early 80s into nowadays trend. While using basic, modular and simple graphics, which denote the early stage of computer development and its graphics, it develops yet highly crafted visuals, using the most advantageous elements of photography, illustrations and mix-media technique.

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11 comments posted in Music Videos

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04/30/09 3:49pm	Modo says:
	Akkk! I am starting to have a seizure…
04/30/09 4:03pm	FP says:
	Interesting clip, even though the soundtrack makes my speakers screech. It’s cool the way the producers are super geniuses, yay Maybe they haven’t see the CUBE WORLD toys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvxKF85O8C8
04/30/09 4:06pm	amid says:
	For some reason, only a 30-second clip is embedding. The actual video is much longer (and much slower paced). Go to the video’s page on Vimeo and click on the high-quality version. That should get you the entire vid.
04/30/09 4:34pm	fluffy says:
	I am way too interested to know what those 2D barcodes say.
04/30/09 5:32pm	robcat2075 says:
	That is classic academic-speak, incorporating as many interjections and elaborations, even unnecessary ones, as possible (along with explicit parenthetical lists, sequences and/or series) in a run-on sentence structure including the obligatory “it is based entirely on X, Y and Z but is, none-the-less, daringly novel” claim, all designed to impart the aura of meaning and significance to something that may have only one or none, for a duration long enough that no will question it until they’ve left the building and gone home.
04/30/09 8:52pm	red pill junkie says:
	Nice… although I think it could have benefited from using some color in the 8-bit like figures.
04/30/09 10:55pm	Shmorky says:
	The style very much closely resembles Super Paper Mario.
05/1/09 4:42am	Michael Sporn says:
	Etch a sketch animated, I guess. Incoherent.
05/1/09 9:31am	mike smith says:
	Yin Yang Yo
05/1/09 2:21pm	Gene Hole says:
	well played robcat2075.
05/1/09 6:44pm	fluffy says:
	In case anyone else is interested, here are what the 2D barcodes say: 01:05: phase 01: destruction cube 01:06: phase 01: destruction cube 01:13: salut, ca va ? 01:18: ca te dit de prendre un verre ? 01:22: et faire un tour ensemble ? 01:28: un cine alors ? 01:32: tu preferes rester seul ? 01:37: Ahhh… 01:41: on s’appelle alors… 01:42: on s’appelle alors… 01:47: A plus… ciao ciao…

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