Much like Dr. Evil was not content with mere killer dolphins, Radiohead take the video for In Rainbows standout track "House Of Cards" to the next level with some frickin' lasers. No cameras. Just lasers and scanners to capture all the images as pure data that could then be rendered through some visualization software. The shit is technologically advanced, no doubt, so much so that the video was premiered, documented and elaborated on at a special Radiohead House Of Cards section at Google Code, a blog and resource site for developers. You can check out a behind-the-scenes movie, read about the companies that developed the equipment and technologies that made it all possible, and even download and manipulate some of the data to make your own little Radiohead visualization. All that whizz-bang backstory is interesting, but the video works as more than just a nifty experiment. The images jitter between realistic 3-D depictions and totally abstract splashes — as if Thom Yorke and the other characters in the video are fighting to break loose from some sort of technological and embryonic haze. It's a nice match to the same push/pull (or pulk) between the organic and synthetic that runs through much of Radiohead's post-OK Computer music. --> watch "House Of Cards" and a behind-the-scenes featurette, plus learn more about the technology and download the data and more at code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
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Radiohead "House Of Cards" (TDB)
James Frost, director | Dawn Fanning, producer | Zoo Films, production co | Heidi Gregory, video rep for James Frost | Aaron Koblin, technical director | Yon Thomas, DP | Nicholas Wayman Harris @ Union Editorial, editor | Geomertric Informatics, 3D real time capture (performance/party) | Velodyne Lidar, 3D laser imaging | 510 Systems, Lidar data processing | The Syndicate, visual effects | click for full credits
