Customer Reviews

Spotworks

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I thought that after a while I would get sick of this DVD - I've now played it far more than I expected to. However, it's not like that at all.
The reverse is true. The dance between visuals and sound just keeps getting better and better each time I play it.
One day it's diving into the exquisite visuals of a fractal journey that holds me captive. The next time it's the river of mood and moments, captured in audio and triggering a massage for the eardrums.
A beautiful, organic, sequence of digital life.

Is this a peek into the teeming world of a drop of water or am I observing images light years across?
Both seem apt.

Enjoy this journey. I still do.

simply put, scott draves is one of the best algorithmic/generative artists. while the fractal flame software is available for download, and you can make your own strange attractor renderings, owning this dvd saves you potentially thousands of hours of rendering time, it's from the artist himself, and it's all tied together with music and other work. with all of the hack job "Art dvd"'s out there, this is one of the few truly original and groundbreaking pieces.

Admittedly I was in an induced "receptive" state of consciousness while viewing this DVD, but I don't think that condition invalidates my amazement with these motion graphics. Unlike most computer aided animation, these pieces feel like they could be timeless. As an animator myself, my impression of the first minute or so was cynical and critical and then I "got it". Whatever you get out of viewing this depends on how much attention you pay to the details it triggers in your imagination. If you patiently allow these visuals to unfold (because some are really slow), it can be like kinetic meditation.

Well worth the price and certainly worth supporting the hours of work it must have taken to create this art.

I am amazed by the beauty of Spot's lifetime of work. I am especially awed by his artistic interpertation of the concept of evolution and how he has created a form of life from something we use everyday: machines. The computers ability to process information into a spirl of energy that can be manipulated by
someone, as Spot has done, expands our minds and our concept of the universe.

This DVD goes far beyond the typical "groovy fractals" visuals we're all used to seeing at parties... far beyond. The beauty, intelligence, and originality of this DVD is stunning. Enhancing the visuals even further are gorgeous original tracks by experimental electronic musicians like ABA Structure and Spool. For anyone who enjoys mind-bending uniqueness, intelligent art, and exceptional music, this DVD is definitely for you.

I wanted something to add mood to my home and this DVD does just that. The visuals are very soothing. If you like kaleidoscopes, you'll like this. I have a Phillips Ambilight TV so the colors glow onto the wall. Sometimes I have the music on low but usually I turn the TV volume all the way down.

Sold by all the five star reviews. I could not believe it started in black and in white normal TV square screen format. I can download better 'Kaleidoscope videos' for free, I wasted my time and money on something not worthy of my HD 65" Toshiba TV. You can have my 'Spotworks' for $1 plus p&p.

this is basically two packages:
-lots of old cliche visuals done to generic hippytronica and whatever, forgettable
-new stunning generative visuals to deep exquisite audio, and chat about the project, super great, top marks

put together in a powerpoint-looking dvd menu


could seriously just lose all the old stuff, adds zero. more of the magic sheep stuff: and hooray for the author's transientness-of-competitive-things conceptualizing, but blah blah, just render these things every few weeks and make DVD compilations and I'll buy them.

This video sucks. The Graphics are not even proof of evolution. Get winamp and play with the plug ins and then you will know what graphic visual evolution. I am disappointed.

As a fan of the early 90s raves, I found this DVD to be much too modern looking to really resonate well with me. The visuals seem to go best with dance music released after 1998 so they would go well with Drum & Bass and hard techno. The pace of the graphics is fairly slow and relaxed. I was however impressed that this DVD was made by the same people who wrote the "Bomb" rave graphics freeware that was designed for MS-DOS. I ended up redownloading that software after seeing it on this DVD. As a lover of the rough and ready style rave graphics I actually like the Bomb software better then the polished content on this DVD.