No cameras, please!
Radiohead has released a new video for their song, "House of Cards." It's, well, kind of cool. They're making a lot of fuss about it because they didn't use cameras in the making of the video at all. Instead they employed a 3-D motion capture system that "produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity." (Although, let's get philosophical here: isn't a camera at its essence a machine that uses light to transfer a live panorama into a static image?)
This video explains the technology further. OK, it's neat, but I don't get how a light-receptive sensor is not a camera. But I'm obviously getting caught up in semantics here.
The grainy, bare-bones electronic aesthetic of the video is a good fit for Radiohead's sound, and it's cool to see Thom Yorke's lonely, Max Headroom-ed crooning to no one.
And, of course, this being Radiohead, there's more. They encourage you to download the data here to create your own video and post it here.
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