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In future posts, I will add one video at a time to both the TVs and the blog with a short description. However, to get us caught up with all the videos that have been added so far, I will begin with several on each post. These first seven videos illustrate the possibilities that abound when you merge technology and art.

“1 Week of Artworks” by Rinpa Eshidan
A motion painting project shown on the surface of a wall, this piece documents a week in the life of Rinpa Eshidan. This video combines time lapse videography with graffitti art. It is not only fascinating artistically, but illustrates one of the many ways that you can create an interesting video using low-tech equipment. Cast: Daisuke Yamamoto, Noiz-Davi

Women In Art by Philip Scott Johnson
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma
Nominated as Most Creative Video, 2007 YouTube Awards
For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm. I chose this video to show how computer software can be used to produce videos. This also an example of how new technology allows artists to interpret old information in new ways.

Women In Film by Philip Scott Johnson
Music: Bach’s Prelude from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma
This video is by the same artist as the Women in Art video and uses the same technique.

Sand Art by Ilana Yahav
“Ilana Yahav is a sand animation artist. Using only her fingers, Ilana draws with sand on a glass table.” www.sandfantasy.com

3D Street Art
This video, created by Jamie Walton, is a sampling of the amazing works of street artist Julian Beever who uses chalk to create 3-d scenes on the sidewalks of various cities around the world.

How to Paint the Mona Lisa with MS Paint by EclecticAsylumArt
This is a time-lapse video of an artist “painting” the Mona Lisa in MS Paint. The video plays in under 5 minutes but it actually took him 2 hours and 30 minutes to create the final image. This is another example of using new technology to “remix” old images.

Ten Thousand Cents
“‘Ten Thousand Cents’ is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, “crowdsourcing,” “virtual economies,” and digital reproduction.” - - tenthousandcents website
Music by Yasuhiro Tsuchiya. For more information visit http://www.tenthousandcents.com. Ten Thousand Cents was initiated by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima.