![]() ![]() And, this being Beeple, the visuals you see are Creative Commons-licensed, ready for your use. Of course, this being Beeple, it’s also paired with some of our favorite music (hello, Hecq) and fluid, sharp sound design (Kyle Vande Slunt). Transparent Machines™ from beeple on Vimeo. And it’s not something imposed on us: it’s something we created. And it works not simply because it’s impressive animation, but because that impressive animation reminds us that the science fiction universe we imagined is around us now – a Ghost in the Machine, Serial Experiments Lain, cyberpunk universe that can be utopian and nightmarish all at once. His latest short is retina-singeing, brain-stimulating imagination of the issue of transparency and data privacy, in the age of Snowden and the NSA, targeted Facebook ads, Foursquare check-ins, and Google Glass. They can if they’re in the masterful hands of motion graphics / visualist wizard Beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann. Can shiny, rotating 3D eye candy have a message? ![]()
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