Chris Coleman’s Modern Times on YouTube
Chris Coleman is a video/electronic/etc. artist who graduated from UB a few years back, has posted his new video on YouTube, so I thought it was worth a watch. The animation is great — I love some of the shots, like the brief sequence where the guy on fire runs across the screen. I’ve always thought that Chris had a real flair for editing, and we see that here, too. This animation uses those iconic “airplane emergency instructions” figures, although the line at the end of the video makes me wonder if they aren’t copped from Ready.gov directly.
From Coleman’s write-up on YouTube:
The original movie, “Modern Times,” featured Charlie Chaplin struggling to deal with man’s relationship to technology in the Industrial Age. We have now moved into the Age of Information in which our connection to the world around us is not only defined by technology, but the information it does or does not provide.
And, of course, don’t forget to rate it on YouTube, Google Video, and visit Chris Coleman’s website.
May 7th, 2006 at 5:12 am
Hey Shawn!
I was surfing and came across your site linking to my work. Thanks for all the kind words, I am glad you enjoyed it. Now I just need to finish my site and I will be sure to lay down some links to what you got goin on over here. Let me know what all you are up to. take care!