A magic marker, a camera and some snappy editing combine to brilliant effect in this clever promo for Field Music‘s “In Context” directed by Dan Lowe. This is a great example of how pure creativity can cut through the bullshit and achieve over two million YouTube views.

Picked up at the always excellent Make: Blog...

We just finished this rather unorthodox project to promote “Black Ice”, the latest album from giants of rock AC/DC. The idea came about because we realised that many people work in offices where there’s a fairly heavy internet usage restrictions in place, and we loved the thought that we could subvert those policies with AC/DC’s music.

We decided to use the Excel format as it’s almost universally allowed through corporate firewalls. The result is the world’s first (and probably only ever) music video in Excel format, which plays back as ASCII art directly in the fields of the spreadsheet. You can download the spreadsheet here and try it out yourself.

This music video by fellow Irishman Glenn Marshall is generated entirely from code using the marvelous Processing language developed at MIT specifically for use in programmatic art. The video looks amazing, although I am very slightly disturbed by the small swimming objects in evidence throughout the piece...

I’ve been staring at my 1200s for years and never thought of doing this. Bah! Found at the always excellent Monster Munch