The Crisis of Credit Visualized

February 22, 2011 by cogixo in visual pamphlets | Comments Off on The Crisis of Credit Visualized

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LWm6_6tA[/youtube]

This one is trying to do what’s on the cover. The sound works really well, I’m not a fan of the colours, but that’s not really the point here. It works heavily with titles, and is well paced. More an attempt to explain very concretely what triggered this specific crisis (and very focused on the States), not so much trying to explain the general concept of capitalism. It works well though, and I actually do get the impression I’m learning something when watching. Although for some reason I don’t fully trust it.

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The Impossible Hamster

February 22, 2011 by cogixo in visual pamphlets | Comments Off on The Impossible Hamster

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqwd_u6HkMo[/youtube]

Another analogy: The market with it’s need for constant growth as a hamster that ends up eating earth. It doesn’t really reference the idea behind the growing markets very much, so while it is very cute, I’m kinda missing something here and watching it leaves me a bit unsatisfied.

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RSAnimate – Crises of Capitalism

February 22, 2011 by cogixo in scrapbook, visual pamphlets | Comments Off on RSAnimate – Crises of Capitalism

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0[/youtube]

RSAnimate is a series of talks made into animations by adding drawings on a whiteboard. It’s an extremely well executed concepts, and I envy the artist’s drawing skills. Very simple concepts: take a talk and make drawings to illustrate what is being said and make it more engaging and entertaining. You should check out the other films from the series, if you haven’t seen them.

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Visual Pamphlets

February 21, 2011 by cogixo in visual pamphlets | Comments Off on Visual Pamphlets

There are those ideas for projects that would be great to make, they keep nagging in the background, but there’s always something else happening and you never really get around to tackling them head on.

The idea to make short films about political key concepts is one of them. It first popped up during the Anarchist Bookfair in 2010. (Check out the Virtual Anarchist Bookfair over at Imc London.) We were chatting about how difficult it can be to communicate political ideas, especially more abstract concepts to a wider ‘audience’ (for lack of a better expression). Since the crisis, we keep reading about the market, the free market, debt, and the economy in general. But very few people (me included) actually have a firm grasp on what those terms mean. Even though they are affecting our daily lives very directly, they seem very distant concepts. Of course we are constantly told that we could not expect to understand things, and we should leave them to specialists. To make matters worse, these are the very same “specialists” who triggered the whole crisis. Being specialists and all.

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