Circle of Abstract Ritual – Psychedelic Stop Motion Time Lapse About Creation and Destruction (Video)

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This short film combines 300,000 photos of riots, wildfires, and paintings in abandoned houses. The entire stop motion time lapse was created without any digital special effects.

Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an exploration of the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing.

The destruction end of that thought began in earnest when riots broke out in my neighborhood in Anaheim, California, 2012. I immediately climbed onto my landlord’s roof without asking and began recording the unfolding events. The news agencies I contacted had no idea what to do with time lapse footage of riots, which was okay with me because I had been thinking about recontextualizing news as art for some time. After that I got the bug.

I chased down wildfires, walked down storm drains on the L.A. River and found abandoned houses where I could set up elaborate optical illusion paintings. The illusion part of the paintings are not an end in themselves in my work. They’re an intimation of things we can’t physically detect; a way to get an ever so slight edge on the unknowable.

Jeff Frost

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The History and Poetry of Animation (Video)

The History and Poetry of Animation (Video) | Third Monk

Animation has captivated audiences for over a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live action filmmaking.

It is a tool for educating, a place for experimentation and play, and a way of telling personal stories that reach the viewer with powerful visual metaphors.

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Mear One & Nosaj Thing – The Economic Monopoly of the Ruling Class, Street Art Stop Motion (Video)

Mear One & Nosaj Thing – The Economic Monopoly of the Ruling Class, Street Art Stop Motion (Video) | Third Monk image 1

A stop motion video with Mear One painting a thought provoking mural in London.

Filmed and Produced by Roger L. Griffith
Music by Nosaj Thing

I came to paint a mural that depicted the elite bank cartel known as the Rothschilds, Rockefellrs, Morgans. The ruling class, the elite few, the Wizard of Oz. They will be playing a board game of monopoly on the backs of the working class. A symbol of the free mason pyramid rises behind this group, behind that is polluted world of coal-burning nuclear reactors.

I started noticing that the people were giving me some strange looks. I was feeling some serious heat and anger from them. I continued to try to express my intent but they were not trying to hear me. I felt that I was all alone.

The next day I painted in the bankers in with the playing board and noticed that people started to become more curious.

My third day, I got the working class holding up the game board painted in, and the people were smiling saying how much they were enjoying the evolution.

Come the fourth day, there was a street festival going on, and the people were engaging me on the subject matter of the mural,  old white men to Muslim children were explaining how us Americans were spending beyond our means and how we don’t understand what our military does around the world.

My mind was blown, this whole experience transformed my whole understanding of the game. I finished my mural, drank a beer, smoked a joint, and converesed with the people My dream to paint a mural that would rally people together and inspire conversatan of things that matter was just realized. – @mearone

Mear One – The Economic Monopoly of the Ruling Class Gallery