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Home » General Inspiration » Something Purdy: Meridian

Something Purdy: Meridian

Posted by: Rachel Hulin    Posted date: August 15, 2008  |  4 Comments
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Whoa, Blade Runner smokes a doobie and watches Koyaanisqatsi; that’s how this makes me feel. Maybe I should rethink LA.

watch.

Here’s a more informative description, from Shape & Colour:

Created by Brian Levi Bowman (a CD at the legendary Digital Kitchen NY.
Amongst Digital Kitchen’s legendary-ness is the best credit sequence to
any TV show in the history of TV– the mesmerizing opening to “Six Feet
Under”)
and cinematographer Rod Lamborn; they eloquently describe the beautiful
collision of physics and poetry that was the catalyst idea for their
film:

“The philosophy of materialism holds that the only things that can be
truly proven to exist is matter. Fundamentally, material composes all
things and all phenomena are the result of material interactions;
therefore, matter is the only substance and can neither be created or
destroyed. Hence, we are all made of only what came before us yet
discretely conceived through form; we are all made of earth and sky and
stars.”

I’m not crazy about all the bath scenes; they may ring slightly cheesy, I think, but the time lapse footage is stunning, and there are some amazing stills.

That magical thing in photo is translating over to film…

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I know this is art for art’s sake, but it would be a great show opener.

 

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Rachel Hulin




4 Comments

sidiif 8-15-2008

slightly better, smoother version of the Six Feet Under opener, and this crediting Digital Kitchen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YMhGIrt6B0&NR=1

gavin 8-15-2008

that was beautiful.

Kleist 8-15-2008

Very nice, really. I don’t like (or get??) the ending, though. Most intriguing show opener I know is Dexter’s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utqoFsMYPKs

Aaron 8-16-2008

Music by Tycho!



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