Dead Can Dance were a neoclassical world music duo from Melbourne, Australia. It consisted of Lisa Gerrard with her ethereal voice and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London in May 1982.

As ist says on Lisa Gerrard’s website:
"With Lisa’s otherworldly voice counter-poised by Brendon’s mellifluous tones, from the outset, they thought nothing of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani…"

The video shows extracts of the hypnotic art movie ‘Baraka’.

(Lisa Gerrard)

The word baraka means ‘blessing’ in a multitude of languages. The movie is often compared to ‘Koyaanisqatsi’, of which Ron Fricke was cinematographer.

Trace this young man’s last few minutes of trying to come to terms with everthing and his quickly impending death.

Watch it at least twice because the film ist shot running backwards – it starts at the story’s conclusion and wind our way back to the start.

Another great reminder to focus on the things that really matter in life!

Ien Che shot ‘Tick Tock’ on Oxford College of Emory campus for a campus movie fest.

One of the most famous ones was (and of course still is) Tetris, a puzzle video game originally programmed and designed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union which was released in summer of 1984.

Directed by Patrick Jean of Onemoreprod in Paris, this video shows an attack of pixels. Some scenes besides Tetris simulate Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and the breakout game Arkanoid.

Floating is an absolutely brilliant example of ‘flying paint floating through the air’ filmed in super slow-motion with a great play of various depths of focus. Watch it collide, speckle, drape and dance.

Enjoy this terrific 3D short movie from 2007: ‘Mindplotter’.

A commentator said about this animation:

"It seems like the machine daydreams away from its job whenever it has a spare moment only to discover there is something just as fantastic and magical about the real world from the design of the flames.
That or it is being attacked by some humanoid like creature that is getting into its robot brain…"

And another superb 3D animation video from 2006: Two electric snails find each other – but then something utterly unexpected happens…

The producer of this spectacular video animation is Sinje Gebauer. Soundtrack by dAdA – iNN.

Polynoid is the storytelling/design firm with collaboration of Jan Bitzer, Csaba Letay, Ilija Brunck, Tom Weber and Fabian Pross.

Polynoid.org

The Zunder by Swiss company tät-tat is an uncommon ‘set fire to grill’ set. Whatever you need for a respectable barbecue is there: A cervelat sausage, firewood, straw and a box of matches. The black string is made of used bicycle inner tubes.

Seen at the ‘Blickfang’ design trade fair, November 2010 in Zürich.

Order it here: Taet-tat.ch – zunder grill set

Enjoy this stunning trip through mandalas, chakras and sacred geometry.

Music by Karunesh.

Ultrafeel.tv already published a report on Aurélien Pumayana Floret’s incredible mandala art.