Featured Work From The Gallery: Week 7

You may have noticed our new online Gallery. It’s a place where creative professionals can showcase their portfolio of work, gain exposure, build their network, find collaborators, and become eligible for funding opportunities like The Studio. It’s also a place where fans of cutting edge creative work can discover new artists and inspiring projects. Each week we’ll be selecting a few of our favorites and bringing you the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer. To have your work featured, submit your tech-powered projects to the Gallery.

Morphologic Studios: Man O War

Scientific art collaboration, Morphologic fuses coral reef organisms and electronic music in their new collection of 25 short videos, the Natural History Film Series. This video focuses on the illusive man o war creatures—often mistaken for jellyfish—a colony of organisms with candy colored, highly venomous tentacles that can grow up to 100 feet long. In the video, the tentacles extend, recede and pulsate to music scored by Geologist (Brian Wietz) from Animal Collective. Man O War, which premiered at The Borscht Film Festival in Miami, disorients the viewer with amorphous squiggly shapes—marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay of Morphologic wanted viewers to have no idea what they were looking at. The organisms could either be in outerspace, or underwater, but their natural movements mixed with the music make these dangerous creatures seem surreal and almost angelic.

Jeremy Cowart: The (Portrait) Eraser

The (Portrait) Eraser, a video by photographer Jeremy Cowart, fast-forwards through frames of Cowart's three-hour process of making a multi-layered portrait of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's face. He begins by making his own sketches of Yorke’s visage, before superimposing his drawings over dozens of Google-sourced photos, erasing and blending stray lines to finally create a palimpsest collage of the musician’s face.

Robert Shaw: Stop the Blame, Play the Game

UK-based motion graphics buff Robert Shaw argues in his video Stop the Blame, Play the Game that video games can even aid in learning. For example, gamers score 20% higher than most people when put in situations that rely on accuracy or perception. More importantly, games are used to enhance medical recovery and aid those with physical disabilities. Additionally, the UK videogame industry is worth $4 billion, generating jobs that contribute to the overall well-being of society. With old school games like Pong and the heavily-pixelated Super Mario World in the background, Shaw's video provides all of the pros of gaming that seem to outweigh the stereotypical cons. Shaw wants the government to support videogames so citizens can reach their full positive potential—this video definitely gives a compelling argument.