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Chris Milk's Mind-Blowing 3D Music Video '3 Dreams of Black' Redefines Web Browsing

05.16.11 @ 12:31PM Tags : 3D, chrismilk, chrome, musicvideo, rome, seen, watch, webgl

Director Chris Milk, whose work I’ve covered here before, has released in conjunction with some Google Chrome developers his latest music video, “3 Days of Black,” for the supergroup Rome (which, for this song, consists of Danger Mouse, Daniel Luppi, and Norah Jones). The first full 3D scene is literally eyebrow-raising and the video highlights a number of important web-based storytelling tools, like the 3D browsing technology WebGL. Requires Google Chrome. More »

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Johnny Cash's Final Studio Album Gets a Beautiful Crowdsourced Music Video

10.28.10 @ 8:49AM Tags : chrismilk, flash, interactive, johnnycash, music, musicvideo

What do you do when you have a final studio album from the late, great Johnny Cash, but no way to have the legendary man in black appear in the music video? Crowdsource it. This is what director Chris Milk has done with Cash’s song “Ain’t No Grave,” setting up a Flash-powered website that allows visitors to hand-draw individual frames of the video. The video is then dynamically pieced together from these frames, based on ratings by viewers — in this way, it is an always-changing work of art. Here’s the video in its current incarnation: More »

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Is The Last 3 Minutes just a rip-off of Last Day Dream?

05.18.10 @ 5:53PM Tags : chrismilk, pochang, seen, short, video

The Last 3 Minutes, a DSLR short from director Po Chang, reminds me a bit too strongly of a video released a year ago by director Chris Milk, entitled Last Day Dream. Even the titles are similar! Both videos are shot in their entirety from a first-person perspective, enabled by the small size and maneuverability of the DSLR du jour, the 5d Mark II. Here they are in chronological order (Last Day Dream was released a year before The Last 3 Minutes). NSFW language in the former: More »