Hector Plays Piano
November 25, 2020 3:19 PM Subscribe
Swedish Kitchen Sink Sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag (whose book Tales From the Loop was recently serialised by Amazon) has moved on from creating sumptuous art books (previously) to directing a pop video starring a somewhat mournful robot called Hector and some rather large fish...
(This is nice, Hector's design is very rad and the video is a lovely kind of strange.)
posted by Lonnrot at 3:55 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Lonnrot at 3:55 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
It’s “Stålenhag”, with just one “h”, not as in German orthography; the mods may want to correct this
posted by acb at 4:07 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by acb at 4:07 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
I'm in love with the sheet music notation.
And the rest of it. But especially that.
posted by vverse23 at 4:26 PM on November 25, 2020 [3 favorites]
And the rest of it. But especially that.
posted by vverse23 at 4:26 PM on November 25, 2020 [3 favorites]
I'm in love with the sheet music notation.
That's cool and all, and so is the rest of the video, but also I super like listening to it.
posted by aubilenon at 6:47 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
That's cool and all, and so is the rest of the video, but also I super like listening to it.
posted by aubilenon at 6:47 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
Ancient creatures from his paleo art interests?
posted by jjj606 at 8:00 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by jjj606 at 8:00 PM on November 25, 2020 [2 favorites]
vverse23, you may want to lose a few hours in John Cage's very out of print Notations (if you haven't already). That article links to the full book as a 78MB PDF. It also mentions the likewise-cool follow-up-of-sorts Notations 21—which I sadly neglected to purchase before it started selling for, somehow, more than the original which inspired it.
Both are as bewildering as they are beautiful.
posted by angelplasma at 12:49 AM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]
Both are as bewildering as they are beautiful.
posted by angelplasma at 12:49 AM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]
Sent this to my partner yesterday and they're obsessed with it. I keep looking up and they're just staring at the video entranced again. Thanks for the share.
posted by brook horse at 1:47 PM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by brook horse at 1:47 PM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]
Oops I've watched this too many times because I just noticed their drippy eye changes sides between when they're walking up and when they're seated at the piano. But when they get up again, it's back.
I assume they screwed up the 180º rule with their initial live action footage and noticed after the CG work, but just mirrored the parts that didn't show the piano with words painted on it, instead of rerendering it. Oh well.
posted by aubilenon at 4:41 PM on November 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
I assume they screwed up the 180º rule with their initial live action footage and noticed after the CG work, but just mirrored the parts that didn't show the piano with words painted on it, instead of rerendering it. Oh well.
posted by aubilenon at 4:41 PM on November 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
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Sold!
Wait, what did I just buy?
posted by Lonnrot at 3:54 PM on November 25, 2020 [3 favorites]