(Un)Familiar A collection of short animations for the Rundle Lantern
Aiyudot Khom, SALA Festival 2014
Short animations by Aiyudot Khom for the Rundle Lantern developed as part of the Light Up the Lantern project (SALA 2014).
To view these animations on the Rundle Lantern tweet:
@RundleLantern #tetris
@RundleLantern #daps
@RundleLantern #rain
@RundleLantern #qr
@RundleLantern #crossing
The overall concept of (Un)Familiar is to create and present a series of short video stories, designed for the Rundle Lantern, that present the very familiar in rather unfamiliar ways.
The viewing audience are taken on a journey skirting the fine line between the virtual and real.
(Un)Familiar consists of five 20 second videos:
1. Tetris
2. Rain
3. Crossing
4. QR
5. Daps
These videos were produced for the 2014 SALA Festival with the kind support of Adelaide City Council and the Australian Network for Art & Technology.
A short description of each is provided below. You can view the videos from 1 August 2014 at the Rundle Lantern website.
1. Tetris
Anything and everything can happen through the night on the streets surrounding the Lantern.
In this animation, a person falling to the ground is shown through collapsing Tetris pieces. Where they really should be, though, is snug and warm in their bed.
Through an act of kindness, good fortune or maybe both, they mange to get there.
Watch the video....
... and see how it looks on the Rundle Lantern...
2. Rain
In the city, we often escape from the elements by walking under an awning or hanging out in a mall.
Not so, though, when we need to cross a road. This is when we are at the mercy of the weather.
In this animation, a person, clearly on a mission of great importance, braves crossing near the Lantern during a flash storm.
They make it, but only just.
Their courage is rewarded as they returning heralding a rainbow.
Watch the video...
... and see how it looks on the Rundle Lantern...
3. Crossing
Every few minutes
On Rundle and Pultney
Turns to green
Organised chaos
Reigns … ’til no
Yellow
Can be seen
Whilst cars sit idling, this animation gives a bird’s eye view of a group of pedestrians coming together ever so briefly at the crossing near the Rundle Lantern.
We see their arrival, the wait, the mad rush and their departure - to who knows where.
Watch the video...
... and see how it looks on the Rundle Lantern...
4. QR
It wasn’t that long ago that the world existed without QR codes, those strange grids of black and white dots that we’re meant to scan with our smart phones.
Now they’re everywhere.
With their square shape and three large frame like things, they could be mistaken for a small nugget of digital art.
This animation brings a QR code to life as a person’s face, only for it to be gobbled up by the QR itself.
Watch the video...
... and see how it looks on the Rundle Lantern...
5. Daps
We're the Daps
From Planet Apps
Ever adapting creatures
We bounce and clash
Shake and flash
With ever changing features
See more at http://thedapsfromapps.blogspot.com.au
The idea for the daps came from the all too familiar person icon. A disconnected head, two straight arms, two straight legs.
Rarely do we fit the “person” stereotype. More often, we’re like the daps, with our own, every changing, shapes and ideas.
In this animation, two Daps, starting out in person form, reveal for a short time their true identities through shapes and colours before returning back to “normal”.
Watch the video...
... and see how it looks on the Rundle Lantern...