The capital leading interests of our generation seem to be: forcing up productivity, and shedding as many unprofitable tasks as possible, which in turn has delaminated the only constant thing we posses; the human spirit. We want more, more, and more of what isn’t truly fulfilling/important. Yes, facebook condenses time like no other living/breathing thing by bringing you real-time updates on whether/not your neighbor went to work this morning, and if he did, how much traffic is he encountering, or where he checked in to have his 2 o'clock coffee. But can all of these replace the value of a vis-à-vis human conversation?
Unlike the perplexing experience one would encounter on a trip to the moon involving all human senses, we are now experiencing things through the palm of our hands; introducing a false experience through new and improved fabricated senses. I posted Eskmo’s most recent video, animated by artist Cyriak. This guy is truly a hidden manic gem in the animation world. He uses everything from hindu connotations to capitalist and surrealist mario world politics. The song itself is short and simple, with a beat that could make cows tip over. In many ways, I feel the artist expresses his frustration through repetition. Like Eskmo’s sound-hacked simple statement we got more, Cyriak’s animation is simple but powerful enough to compose a valid statement.
"Hello, I am Cyriak from 100 years into the future, where I have been exhumed and sent backwards in time via cyberspace in order to welcome you to the unabridged contents of my brain-damaged imagination" (Cyriak)
Source: Decompos
If you haven’t heard of wrong-in-the-head-but-brilliant-because-of-it animator Cyriak, you’re really missing a trick. The video for Ninja Tune’s Eskmo is truly brain bending.
Source: BBC Music Video Festival
A few months ago BUG's David Knight suggested to the folks at Ninja Tune that animating genius Cyriak Harris would be a great choice to work with a Ninja artist – and wouldn't it be great if there was a new Cyriak video to premiere at the BUG Ninja Tune XX special, scheduled for November?
And so it proved. Cyriak made the video for San Francisco producer Eskmo's We Got More, and it was indeed premiered at the great BUG Ninja special last month. And now, its finally up on YouTube.
And if we say so ourselves, it's fantastic. Prepare to marvel Cyriak’s increasingly surreal manipulation of the everyday, through his unique mastery of common-and-garden After Effects.
Source: BUG