beeple: subprime

beeple (Mike Winkelman) created “subprime” as a visual response to Americans’ tendency towards over-consumption, but instead of making his argument with charts and graphs, he simply shows the fictional progression of upgrades at a single homeowner’s site.

It’s obviously not to be taken too seriously—just a light jab at the housing crisis—and that’s another reason I like it. The rotating visuals and bouncy electronic soundtrack (music by Nobot) create a hypnotic effect that underscores the film’s ironic message to build more, think less.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to finish off the west wing of Motionographer Manor. It’s going to be faaaabulous…

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Justin Cone

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Together with Carlos El Asmar, Justin co-founded Motionographer, F5 and The Motion Awards. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with is wife, son and fluffball of a dog. Before taking on Motionographer full-time, Justin worked in various capacities at Psyop, NBC-Universal, Apple, Adobe and SCAD.

6 Comments

Kalone

Since I`m not american I can`t say “amazing” nor “awesome” – but I say: fantastic! :-)

kengunnlee

my favorite part is when the yellow Countach rolls in. sweet!

jake

Such tight animation on this. Definitely a labor of love. What 3d program was used to create this?

brandj

Jake: it’s Cinema 4D according to his comments on the Vimeo page …

rafaelmacho

Very nice animation and depiction of some reality!

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