Looking Outwards -02

In June 2015, James George and Johnathan Minard produced an interactive documentary, CLOUDS, which is a really beautiful look at programming, creativity, and how these two entities bring together people from around the world in a very interesting way.

The picture below that was taken from the film caught my attention at first because it was pretty and reminded me of a rose. What made me click on it however, not knowing that CLOUDS was a documentary before I looked into it, was my curiosity at why they would name it “Clouds” when it doesn’t even remotely resemble them.

After seeing the trailer and other pictures from the documentary, though, I was floored by how amazing it seemed. I normally am not one to watch documentaries, but this would be a welcomed exception. The creators even took the people speaking and made them part of the artistic aspect in their pixelated appearance (as demonstrated in the video below). This documentary in particular also used multiple complicated algorithms to create the images that went with the interviewees, which can be seen in the link to the trailer below.

http://www.cloudsdocumentary.com/#trailer

Clouds: beta from Deepspeed media on Vimeo.