Comments on: 8-bit creatures in a music video by Anne Lucht

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Donald must be the child of another age

Oh, I was a child of the 8-bit age. Born in 1969, and certainly played my share of Space Invaders and Asteroids and Berzerk. But I couldn’t wait for the graphics to improve, and never looked back.

I kind of have the same issues with retro-80s stuff like Izod shirts and corduroy pants. Hated wearing that stuff then (thanks, Mom), can’t imagine people wanting to wear it now.

By: Heike Sperling

Heike Sperling — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:49:00 +0000

Great, one of the best works at our Visual Music class this year at
Institute For Music And Media Düsseldorf (www.musikundmedien.net)!

By: russ

russ — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:46:00 +0000

Last four sounds in the bog-standard MIDI voice set. Ref. Yamaha DX7
TELEPHONE HELICOPTER APPLAUSE GUNSHOT

By: Dago

Dago — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:53:00 +0000

This is more like 4-bit graphics.

By: bjacques

bjacques — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:34:00 +0000

Shame they can’t do this in Boston!

Somebody had to say it. ..

[ETA]

I’ve always liked author Kodwo Eshun’s description of Düsseldorf as the Mississippi Delta of electronica.

By: kqih

kqih — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:15:00 +0000

good ! …but the bougé of the camera is insupportable…

By: James Siddle

James Siddle — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:55:00 +0000

Loved the video but was annoyed by the unsteady cam … gave me a headache.

By: thatbob

thatbob — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:49:00 +0000

I really liked most of these toons – the blue breakers! the Charlie Brown chomper! Bloopers! and Slimey! – but the giant rolling eyeball was an ungodly horror that has fractured the sanity of my mind.

By: 3William56

3William56 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:34:00 +0000

Brilliant.

Donald must be the child of another age, because the simple primary colours, blocky shapes, sounds and motion of sprites can’t but make me smile.

Still waiting for Pixels the Motion Picture. Someone give Patrick Jean a couple of million $$ and stand back, like they did for District 9, Monsters and 9.

By: mdot

mdot — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:00:00 +0000

Charming. Patrick Jean’s work is as well. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_creation?start=26#from=embed

By: pimlottc

pimlottc — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:32:00 +0000

Nice tracking!

By: Sebastian Spinczyk

Sebastian Spinczyk — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:26:00 +0000

As a fellow resident of Düsseldorf, let me just say:
This is fucking awesome!

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:02:00 +0000

Man, I don’t like 8-bit sprites and never have, but I kinda loved that video. And the music grew on me, too. And here I thought “krautrocky” could only refer to the likes of the Scorpions and Accept.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:33:00 +0000

Love the concept, but after about 45 seconds the music made me want to poke my eardrums.

By: michaelismichael

michaelismichael — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:16:00 +0000

That was super. I love pixels.

By: jlargentaye

jlargentaye — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:43:00 +0000

Reminds me of attack of the Space Invaders in the Röyksopp music video for Happy Up Here