Beautiful animation. I think perhaps some of the TED fans below should educate themselves in the science of art. Understanding the difficulty of creating such a piece, and appreciating the imagination needed is key to seeing why TED should have an eye on art. Such work is current, as a display of a narrative impossible twenty years ago, yet still an extension of age old arts like shadow plays. Thanks TED for not being as narrow minded as some of your viewers.
I find myself coming back to this video randomly as I get older. I saw it when I was pretty young and the visuals always stuck with me. Every time I want to see it again I have to frantically search for it for like ten minutes 😂
It's well done. People should just sit back and relax and enjoy the piece rather than complain on how 'boring' it is to them. Like any artwork, this is meant to stir up all types of emotions and one can interpret this in different ways. Also, if you don't like it, there is a pause button and lots of others videos you can watch just a click away. No one is forcing you to watch this.
@rupertshean Music credits: Shadow Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen Island scene song: "Shells" by Mirah, (a)spera, K records City scene song: Caroline Lufkin Magic Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen additional music by Mileece
I actually saw this in person at a show in San Francisco. This piece was beautifully done and very creative. She was actually pretty spot on when we saw her.
@triplecold I agree, but what makes it cool is not that it is a personal vision of herself, but that it is her view of what is more universal in humanity. She sees our movement from nature to cities, and this is the central story of humanity. She still sees that we have within us "the milk of human kindness..." There is a lot of Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth in this work. It has universal themes. Cool.
@blueskiesmev I posted that for everyone who was saying 'this isn't science' or 'have they run out of scinece topics to talk about?'. I know it's not restricted, was just showing that it discussed more topics science than JUST science.
I think people forget that the idea of art, that expression does not belong to one person or two or three, that it is there for all, and if Miwa Matreyek is here displaying the things she has done, the ideas she wanted to convey in this art form then why is that so bad? When you are a musician a you happen to play a Les Paul that doesnt mean you're copying or ripping off Slash's style from Gun's N' Roses. There is more to this than the idea of who it belongs to, there is a story.
This is for everyone complaining that this isn't science: "TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts" Learn to read before you criticise.
@x1plus1x Yeah, Her placement and which gestures are applicable are coreographed at given times, but as an example lets just take the part where she is bend down and the shadow dude walks on her back. That part is actually harder to do if it was all static precoreography and would take time to make that fit everytime, when technology can make that animation walk on her back with a simple edgedetection and almost 1 line of code to do... Why assume its is done the assinine way.. TT
Reading some of the comments, i am getting scared of how little people understand when they see things. I really can't see how people can even think that it is her who follows the projections and not the other way around. Sure she follows a script, but the projections responds to her movement. NOW go play your Nintendo Wii's, Kids, and let the grownups play
I saw two performances of this piece this weekend. And, as far as I can tell, I don't think she's using any kind of edge detection to pull it off. I can't say I asked her about it specifically, but the two performances differed enough to show that there definitely is room for human error. In that scene you mentioned, her placement is off enough that the lower parts of the shadow figures legs were noticeably obscured. And actually, there were a handful of places where that was the case.
@percheron1654 This was on TED because the E in TED stands for Entertainment. If you weren't entertained, at least a little, by this performance then you must be pretty emotionally cold.
There was a mall I went to once where there was a projection on the floor and using your shadow, you could play it and make all of the cars run away from you if your shadow got too close.
@neurocrater Its a computervision piece... Of course there is a great amount of preprogammed elements in it, but i believe this is a responsive system tracked by a camera. So i find it funny technerds don't like this on TED when it in fact isn't very interesting from an artistic point of view, mostly due to its abundance in technical limitation
@DonArsuk84 I don't agree with you, or your attitude. It's obviously choreographed. The whole thing is set in motion, and she must move her body in time with the animation. The animations isn't responding to her movement technically.. It is made to appear that way. You can see she is off a few times, when her hands aren't in quite the right place, but the animation doesn't know that..
I understanding people liking what they like, but i don't get why some people feel the need to share there disdain for something just cause they don't get it. It's alright to love science, but ya don't have to hate everything else. And i think a lot of people here have never come across an interactive projector before.
charming animation, i liked the clever use of two projectors, that was novel. the shadow work was cool and was really needed to make this what it was, but it was also a weakness since it revealed imperfections
@zartic4life Get high enough and you'll see. Western Winds is a good strain to try. That said, I was actually referring to the manner in which her creativity was expressed; a psychedelic tint to one's art is a common byproduct of a healthy marijuana habit.
@captainhampton you do know what the tEd stands for don´t you? Why don't you go watch the video on pest control they posted the other day I bet its science enough, maybe that will cheer ya up. *jezzas*
@kentrel2 pretentious? WTF? Its beautiful and creative. Pretention is nothing but a title individuals give artists whom they refuse to understand. Dislike it fine but calling it pretentious is going to far. A lot of work went into this.
@sdrawkcabnipyt seems like you are hoping for a more naturalistic performance. Perhaps such a process would have changed certain qualities of the work- for better or worse-
@badcalculon Oh boy. I'll bet you go through life criticizing everything. The woman is simply expressing her own personal vision. But, I guess every personal vision must cater to your personal aesthetic. Stop and smell a flower or something.
@KGR89 Yes, pretention has to do with individuals and works that do not possess the qualities that they tout. But, with modern performace (and all art, really), the performer and the viewer must collaborate in an effort to construct meaning. If you are unwilling to collaborate as a viewer, as perhaps kentrel2 is, then you are not participating in the endeavor; you are only pretending to play the role as a viewer; you're full of pretention becasue you are pretending to be a participant.
Sorry, the hand-shadow thing was disappointingly unworked. Gimick level art. The idea is only worked to the first things you would come up with. Really could be much more. Very much seems to be derived from Bjork's videos, and the chanteuse sounds like Bjork. That limits this to essentially a Bjork rip-off. Even the backgrounds are her style and the whole tone and texture -- it all screams Bjork.
This is a very good, but nothing really new, shadow puppetry for the 21st C, and was really just a sort of music video. Now had it been interactive or participatory allowing those who haven't memorized the content to be involved and create their own experience, now that would have been innovative and TED worthy.
Beautiful animation. I think perhaps some of the TED fans below should educate themselves in the science of art. Understanding the difficulty of creating such a piece, and appreciating the imagination needed is key to seeing why TED should have an eye on art. Such work is current, as a display of a narrative impossible twenty years ago, yet still an extension of age old arts like shadow plays. Thanks TED for not being as narrow minded as some of your viewers.
I find myself coming back to this video randomly as I get older. I saw it when I was pretty young and the visuals always stuck with me. Every time I want to see it again I have to frantically search for it for like ten minutes 😂
This must be the twentieth time I've watched this video, till as intensely beautiful as the first time I saw it.
The first time I saw this I was blown away and I was crying it was too beautiful
i remember watching her perform in Columbus Wexner Center back when i was a student. It was awesome!
It's well done.
People should just sit back and relax and enjoy the piece rather than complain on how 'boring' it is to them. Like any artwork, this is meant to stir up all types of emotions and one can interpret this in different ways.
Also, if you don't like it, there is a pause button and lots of others videos you can watch just a click away. No one is forcing you to watch this.
Matreyek是位多媒体艺术家，她将动画、光影变化和音乐融入表演中，使她的表演特色十足。
@rupertshean Music credits:
Shadow Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
Island scene song: "Shells" by Mirah, (a)spera, K records
City scene song: Caroline Lufkin
Magic Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
additional music by Mileece
The 'ocean' sequence is completely mesmerizing...
I actually saw this in person at a show in San Francisco. This piece was beautifully done and very creative. She was actually pretty spot on when we saw her.
@triplecold I agree, but what makes it cool is not that it is a personal vision of herself, but that it is her view of what is more universal in humanity.
She sees our movement from nature to cities, and this is the central story of humanity. She still sees that we have within us "the milk of human kindness..."
There is a lot of Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth in this work. It has universal themes. Cool.
This is so so magical! More please .... What an inspiration you are.
First time I was ever blown away by a live performance, wow
Wow that was fantastic. A great example of how technology may be used in art to create something beautiful.
Wow this is like a never ending dream that has its smells, touch and noises staying with you forever as you move on to the next.
This was exquisite. Thank you for showing it.
Brilliant. Original, inspiring, beautiful and fascinating to watch.
Came across this by total accident!! WONDERFUL!! What beauty...thank you, Ms Matreyek!!
I saw her last night! She was amazing.
@squirreljester2 TED has never been just about science, TED celebrates all fields of human intellect and creative endeavour and that includes art.
@blueskiesmev I posted that for everyone who was saying 'this isn't science' or 'have they run out of scinece topics to talk about?'. I know it's not restricted, was just showing that it discussed more topics science than JUST science.
Technology, Entertainment and Design, this performance had all three.
This was absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing this.
I think people forget that the idea of art, that expression does not belong to one person or two or three, that it is there for all, and if Miwa Matreyek is here displaying the things she has done, the ideas she wanted to convey in this art form then why is that so bad? When you are a musician a you happen to play a Les Paul that doesnt mean you're copying or ripping off Slash's style from Gun's N' Roses. There is more to this than the idea of who it belongs to, there is a story.
i def love her performance!!!
loved it, specially the island bit
So beautiful.
Beautiful. I found it very moving and inspiring. Everything that TED's all about! I'm glad I watched this now :)
absolutly fantastic
This is for everyone complaining that this isn't science: "TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts"
Learn to read before you criticise.
Mesmerizing!
@x1plus1x Yeah, Her placement and which gestures are applicable are coreographed at given times, but as an example lets just take the part where she is bend down and the shadow dude walks on her back. That part is actually harder to do if it was all static precoreography and would take time to make that fit everytime, when technology can make that animation walk on her back with a simple edgedetection and almost 1 line of code to do... Why assume its is done the assinine way.. TT
@squirreljester2
There's more to TED than just mere astrophysics.
Wonderful!
A very creative performance, bravo!
Art and entertainment that lightens up someone's day can really make our lives better. :)
this is stunning
Reading some of the comments, i am getting scared of how little people understand when they see things. I really can't see how people can even think that it is her who follows the projections and not the other way around. Sure she follows a script, but the projections responds to her movement. NOW go play your Nintendo Wii's, Kids, and let the grownups play
nice way to start my morning
I saw two performances of this piece this weekend. And, as far as I can tell, I don't think she's using any kind of edge detection to pull it off. I can't say I asked her about it specifically, but the two performances differed enough to show that there definitely is room for human error. In that scene you mentioned, her placement is off enough that the lower parts of the shadow figures legs were noticeably obscured. And actually, there were a handful of places where that was the case.
good talk...
"watch this for english class" my teacher said... wait but noone said a word.. >.
Interesting innovation and creativity! Wow, great concept indeed
Very cool! I liked it.
holy crap. 0.o excellent work!
@percheron1654 This was on TED because the E in TED stands for Entertainment. If you weren't entertained, at least a little, by this performance then you must be pretty emotionally cold.
interesting new form of art. this has potential.
(it does remind though of that funny guy who pretended to be moving cars by magic)
wow, very nice.
There was a mall I went to once where there was a projection on the floor and using your shadow, you could play it and make all of the cars run away from you if your shadow got too close.
I really enjoyed this. :)
@neurocrater Its a computervision piece... Of course there is a great amount of preprogammed elements in it, but i believe this is a responsive system tracked by a camera. So i find it funny technerds don't like this on TED when it in fact isn't very interesting from an artistic point of view, mostly due to its abundance in technical limitation
this is beautiful :)
Imaginative and mesmerizing :-)
that's gotta be the trippiest thing I've ever seen. this looks like project bluebeam tech. how do we know what is real anymore? maybe nothing is...
what the names of these beautiful songs?
@GrimSoul66 That's funney. It made me set mine down.
@DonArsuk84 I don't agree with you, or your attitude. It's obviously choreographed. The whole thing is set in motion, and she must move her body in time with the animation. The animations isn't responding to her movement technically.. It is made to appear that way. You can see she is off a few times, when her hands aren't in quite the right place, but the animation doesn't know that..
The tech seemed overwrought to me. I prefer the many "sand art" projections here on RUclips.
TED, consider shooting stuff in HD.
That is all.
Some videos just cause people to argue, its funny.
Thats kinda cool.
I understanding people liking what they like, but i don't get why some people feel the need to share there disdain for something just cause they don't get it. It's alright to love science, but ya don't have to hate everything else.
And i think a lot of people here have never come across an interactive projector before.
charming animation, i liked the clever use of two projectors, that was novel. the shadow work was cool and was really needed to make this what it was, but it was also a weakness since it revealed imperfections
Hardest game of Where's Waldo I've ever played.
Must have taken her a long time to create this.
Hopefully it doesn't become content for an ad, then forgotten.
@zartic4life
Get high enough and you'll see. Western Winds is a good strain to try.
That said, I was actually referring to the manner in which her creativity was expressed; a psychedelic tint to one's art is a common byproduct of a healthy marijuana habit.
Attention: teens and immature adults ..PLEASE refrain from making comments. Most of them simply betray your intelligence level.
@Israeli88
TED: Technnology, Entretainment, Design
This is trippy as fuck. WIsh I had some lsd
i miss the old rating system, i would have given 3 stars. in this case it gets nothing.
very smashing pumpkinish
@Sencei152 afternoon
who did the animation, it is stunning? visual artists should get more credit, i don't think that Bjork did the animation for her videos!
@defect530 like anyone ever cares about rating systems. And to those that do; just watch it for yourself and make up your own mind.
@captainhampton
you do know what the tEd stands for don´t you? Why don't you go watch the video on pest control they posted the other day I bet its science enough, maybe that will cheer ya up. *jezzas*
60 bitter creatures already refer to science as "My precious"
@kentrel2 pretentious? WTF? Its beautiful and creative. Pretention is nothing but a title individuals give artists whom they refuse to understand. Dislike it fine but calling it pretentious is going to far. A lot of work went into this.
@sdrawkcabnipyt seems like you are hoping for a more naturalistic performance. Perhaps such a process would have changed certain qualities of the work- for better or worse-
Bjork did all this many times over years ago.
Mirah - shells:
/watch?v=Kf3EzP_OsHg
@badcalculon Oh boy. I'll bet you go through life criticizing everything. The woman is simply expressing her own personal vision. But, I guess every personal vision must cater to your personal aesthetic. Stop and smell a flower or something.
@Israeli88
I couldn't even enjoy this with a bong...
I don't see anything.
@Epicred1997 Were you stoned?
@Vic92084
How does weed make you hallucinate? I gotta get some of the stuff your smoking pal.
@KGR89 Yes, pretention has to do with individuals and works that do not possess the qualities that they tout. But, with modern performace (and all art, really), the performer and the viewer must collaborate in an effort to construct meaning. If you are unwilling to collaborate as a viewer, as perhaps kentrel2 is, then you are not participating in the endeavor; you are only pretending to play the role as a viewer; you're full of pretention becasue you are pretending to be a participant.
interesting presentation with the projectors. i just wish i knew what the f*** she was trying to convey :S
@KGR89 I cannot comment because your retort is senseless. Please, read my post again with an eye towards openness and humility.
Sorry, the hand-shadow thing was disappointingly unworked. Gimick level art. The idea is only worked to the first things you would come up with. Really could be much more. Very much seems to be derived from Bjork's videos, and the chanteuse sounds like Bjork. That limits this to essentially a Bjork rip-off. Even the backgrounds are her style and the whole tone and texture -- it all screams Bjork.
what is this i dont even
This is a very good, but nothing really new, shadow puppetry for the 21st C, and was really just a sort of music video. Now had it been interactive or participatory allowing those who haven't memorized the content to be involved and create their own experience, now that would have been innovative and TED worthy.
prectty cool... but tbh its meh as for excitement in art
ffs stop spreading your fingers so much, it makes the hands look really unnatural
Not my cup of tea. Felt forced and pretentious.
WTF was this?! Did TED run out of science things to talk about?!
pretentious
That was really quite...boring.
Yawn.
any ipad can do all this crap