Live Visual
Oscars 2009 - In Memoriam (YouTube)
Last Sunday's 2009 Academy Awards ceremony featured split screens at several moments. One of them was the In Memoriam portion during which multiple monitors of different sizes showed various footage related to the deceased. Unfortunately, YouTube seems to have pulled a better-quality clip that I was meaning to post, so here's one with a TV screen and ongoing commentary from a couch. Serves me right to not post this sooner.
Pink - Dear Mr. President (Live) (YouTube)
Pink sings her politically charged single Dear Mr. President at a concert in London in 2006. Five screens behind Pink and her band show footage related to the lyrics; when Pink's face takes center frame, two subframes flank her sides.
For a hi-res version of this video, you can get her tour DVD, Pink - Live from Wembley Arena.
MFO - Aviorama (QuickTime, 58MB) [MFO]
MFO - Aviorama (YouTube)
You might have noticed the presence of a Live Visual category for Split Screen, but I've done precious little with it. As a start towards fixing that, here's a long-overdue example of a split-screen work from the world of VJing. It comes from MFO, a Leipzig-based video artist.
MFO describes Aviorama:
“Aviorama” is a video performance featuring exclusive material filmed at the airport Leipzig-Halle (thanks to the airport carrier) and at the control tower (thanks to Deutsche Flugsicherung). Also featuring video footage by enthusiasts worldwide (thanks to the Internet).The material is being reworked to an immersive and dense impression, being woven to visual poetry, to visual music. “Aviorama” comes as a panorama - it is made for three adjoined screens!
You can see more of MFO's work at the official site or the YouTube page.
Via Accent Feed which looks like a fantastic resource for samples of VJ-related visuals.
Improv Everywhere - Look Up More (1) (QuickTime) [Improv Everywhere]
Improv Everywhere - Look Up More (2) (Windows Media) [Bullemhead]
Not exactly moving "images", but here's a fun example of a physical instantiation of the split-screen technique, using a building's showroom windows as subframes. Improv Everywhere is a group of kindred spirits who perform missions of "organized fun" in NYC, and Look Up More was one of their largest missions:
I was walking through Union Square a few months ago, and something caught my eye. In the window of the new retail store Forever 21, a girl was dancing with wild abandon. It was at night, and she was brightly lit standing next to the store’s mannequins. I stood and watched and laughed... It was amazing how eye-catching her performance had been. I began to look at the building as a whole... I figured if one girl in one window had been so fascinating to look at, it would be incredible to see someone dancing in every single window in the building... The windows provided a perfect stage for a mission. Not only are there so many of them, but they are perfectly situated across the street from one of Manhattan’s largest parks. At any given moment, there are hundreds of people walking through the park and out of its subway station. It should be no problem attracting an audience.
The mission page has lots of fun details and photos. Here is one participant's short account.
Photo is from seanich's Flickr photoset.
Via Screenhead.
