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Mechanized robots repeatedly break plates, endlessly swipe credit cards, and eternally straighten out a frame in the band Anybody There's music video for their rhythmic song "Endless."The band approached Buenos-Aires based Molistudio to create the video. Inspired by the song’s title, the designers at Molistudio broadened the song’s topic of a never-ending search for love by elaborating on the idea of “’seeing and not finding,’ and how that search is the engine of our actions in everyday life,” they tell The Creators Project.They brainstormed a list of absurd but recognizable situations, each representative of a certain mood or action. The result is an accessible and whimsical video that “decontextualize[s] activities from our ordinary life and turn[s] them into metaphorical, somehow ambiguous, endless micro-tales.”For four months, Molistudio researched how these gear mechanisms function, and managed to create them in a way that could actually work in real life (“after a few tweaks,” they admit). The scenes are straightforward and crisp, utilizing a simple pastel color scheme, contrasted with shiny metallics and glass “to achieve a rich shading and detailed reflections in motion.”Get into the heart of robotic repetition in the video below:ENDLESS from molistudio on Vimeo.Related:The "Never Ending Slinky Machine" Is Exactly What It Sounds LikeThe Creator of 'Marcel the Shell' Is Making Deceptively Ordinary Wall PostersMake Your Own 3D-Printed Zoetropes with This DIY Kit
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