Motion Commotion/Devotion/Emotion/Promotion etc. - Week Six

Thank Each Mistake - Maniac

This is an animation created only using the iPad Brushes App. A statement from the artist, Shawn Harris:

"I illustrated this video for "Thank Each Mistake" using the Brushes app for iPad. I heard about it through Jorge Colombo's New Yorker covers, but for me, the best media for this technique wasn't print, but video! By taking advantage of the actions playback feature, and by using a brushes viewer application for my Mac, I found I could export my painting as a quicktime movie. The app isn't designed for animation, but the playback feature, which records each brush-stroke as a separate frame, lends itself to a coarse morphy style of stop-motion fingerpainting, if you can manage to be deliberate enough about not lifting your finger from the painting..."

What I appreciate about this work of motion graphics is it's (almost) seamless transition from each section/animation to the next. It's a little choppy, but it flows nicely. It's interesting how the brush/finger strokes are both the foundation and the animation.
The content in interesting; I can't conceptualize the flow of imagery. Night sky to teeth to an eye? Or faces as icecream melting into a palm tree? There is no logical flow and it's refreshing because you can sit back and let it guide your mind fluidly.
And in the spirit of the music, it's not afraid of the mistakes; there are clearly errors in the video which could have been cleaned up, but the artist wanted to have used only the iPad app and put artistic integrity over neat and polished. The video and audio fit well together, thematically (and sometimes literally).