BANSHEE BEAT from chinorockwell on Vimeo
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Video artist Eugene Cheung, aka Chino Rockwell, used Google’s Street View functionality to create a music video for the Animal Collective Track Banshee Beat. This was not easy task. The process involved taking thousands of screen captures from Google Maps as he clicked along down the road from Harbor City to Little Tokyo, retracing his own steps from an actual drive he once took, and then laying everything out in a timeline, synced to the music. Sheesh!
Cheung says, “it took days upon days and then some more time laying out how i wanted to pace each segment. very arduous process, but it was a nice feeling seeing it come together piece by piece” (source: Vimeo.com).
This piece is an extraordinary example of what can be done with music video in the information ages. Free source material is all around us if we just know where to look. You don’t need to shoot a second of film or be a motion graphics wizard if you know how to be resourceful.
Banshee Beat has been up on Vimeo for 7 months. Its received a tidal wave of traffic in December 2009 when if was featured in a blog post on Mashable.com. In the 4 days following that post Banshee Beat was viewed over 15,000 times.
You can watch this inspiring music video in all its HD glory here.
July 17th, 2011 at 9:37 am
sounds good.. really nice.
July 20th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Hi Eugene – Love this video just wanted to ask did you do the rendering for the Mesolithic forest for Stone Age Atlantis? Best Wishes – Cyril