Puppies and Flowers

In February of 2009 we got a call from Catherine Owens, the long time super creative director for the uber-famous band U2. Catherine came across our work and knew she found the team who could help with U2’s 2009 world tour (titled 360). After a quick stint of meetings in New York, we came back to the Bangkok studio and begin work for the following two months on numerous ideas.

U2 from Michael Paul Young on Vimeo.

The concert opened in Barcelona on June 30, 2009 to a sold out crowd of 90,000 fans. The screen that displayed this work was designed by Willie Williams, Mark Fisher, Chuck Hoberman, and Frederic Opsomer. The screen was composed of 888 individual hexagonal panels that support 500,000 Barco LED pixels. It can transform from seven meters to 22 meters high and move up and down. To sum it up, this is the most massive and badass screen ever and we were mega-amped to have worked on such an intense project.

Previously:

• U2 and Leonard Cohen – Tower of song
• U2 — Magnificent — with more cowbell! Brilliant!

Originally posted 2009-08-31 14:10:17.

Boing Boing presents a music video from the N.A.S.A project: “Spacious Thoughts,” featuring Tom Waits & Kool Keith, directed by Fluorescent Hill.

More about the making of this video online at Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/…

Originally posted 2009-11-18 10:32:37.

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Previously:
Tears for Fears — Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version

Originally posted 2009-06-04 12:34:28.

Originally posted 2009-06-18 08:24:43.

Worth playing for the soundtrack alone!

Thanks Josh P.

Originally posted 2007-10-03 13:00:43.

Previously:

• Grocery Store Musical — Improv Everywhere
• Latest Improv Everywhere — Surprise Wedding Reception
• Excellent T-Mobile Ad, a la Improv Everywhere
• Improv Everywhere — Brooklyn Bridge Flash Mob
• “Can I have a napkin please?” — Improv Everywhere
• Grand Central Station Stunt — 200+ people ‘freeze’ for 5 minutes

Originally posted 2009-11-06 15:03:48.

About The Walker Brothers (From Wiki):

The Walker Brothers were an American 1960s and 1970s pop group, comprising Scott Engel, John Maus, and Gary Leeds. They had a number of top ten albums and singles in the mid-1960s, including number 1 chart hits “Make It Easy on Yourself” and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)“.

Formed in 1964, the three unrelated musicians adopted the ‘Walker Brothers’ name as a show business touch – “simply because we liked it”.^[1] They provided a unique counterpoint to the British Invasion in that they were a group from the United States that only achieved success in the United Kingdom and Germany, while the popularity of bands such as The Beatles spread to the US.^[2]

Thanks Ray C.

UPDATE:
I just watched the documentary “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man“. Brilliant. Please excuse my ignorance, I’d never heard of him.

Related:

This is a must watch.

Originally posted 2010-05-10 13:24:15.

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Originally posted 2010-03-01 14:00:59.

Very cool indeed.

Learn about how the video was made and the 3D plotting technologies behind it.

Thanks Noah.

Originally posted 2008-07-14 10:35:28.

Link to Flash piece and the main site is here.

Originally posted 2009-07-02 09:44:46.

Originally posted 2010-04-16 23:15:00.

'Kitty scratch attack' 

via neatorama 

Originally posted 2007-08-31 14:19:22.

Online video chat by Ustream

Originally posted 2009-04-09 21:51:16.

Who needs Brian Eno when you have morecowbell.dj! Listen to the first 30 secs at least.

Originally posted 2009-03-23 10:52:55.