Synesthesia by Terri Timely
June 20, 2009 // Video
Update: The previous video was deleted, but Ian uploaded a new one. Thanks Ian.
I get a lot of emails about work, sometimes rich and detailed descriptions, other times one liners… This is a story of the latter. It was from a guy named Ian, who made a new short film. As always I checked it out, thinking it might have been a school project or something. The film ends up being just short of brilliant, something I didn’t quite suspect.
As it turns out, Ian Kibbey made the film with his partner Corey Creasey, who are the duo behind Terri Timely. Together, Ian and Corey have directed music videos for music artists like St. Vincent (who’s new video for Actor Out of Work is brilliant), The Little Ones, Joanna Newsom and Midlake among others. To say these guys are talented would be an understatement.
So the video above is titled Synesthesia, which for those who haven’t heard of it is, “is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” For example you might smell a color, or hear a taste… it’s sensing something and processing it in an entirely different matter. So in the video above, we see a family go about their rather suburban lives, but experiencing things in a different way. The boy at the table is listening to his vegetables, the mother is chopping up words, possibly tasting what she’s reading, and the other son in the living room is smelling color from his music.
The idea is quite brilliant and is visualized as well as I think one could with such a complex topic. Sit back and enjoy this little visual treat. Also, for more about synesthesia, click here to read the Wikipedia page.
Bobby
Spent the afternoon destroying my theme to build a portfolio site for a client. I don't think you could even tell it's Wordpress.
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Amazing & Great.
Comment by oGhu — June 21, 2009 #
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the part where the cats come out
amazing stuff !!!
thanks for sharing!!!
Comment by phil — June 21, 2009 #
A real mind-opener…
Comment by Enrico — June 22, 2009 #
this is not an original idea. i’ve seen this in a commercial in which a guy is sitting at his table eating and listening to a faulty discman or something, he pulls the jack out and sticks it into an apple or something thats near him, he then open the fridge and starts putting git into other items, the final scene before it cuts out is him going for his belly button…
Comment by sam — June 22, 2009 #
Sorry, but this is not just short of brilliant, it’s a bit further away. It’s basically a compilation of things I’ve seen before. Don’t get me wrong, there IS talent here to be sure and I AM looking forward to their next film, but a lot in ‘Synesthesia’ has just left me quite unimpressed.
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@Sam and Christian – Since when is anything a completely original idea anymore?
Please feel free to create something just as creative, interesting and beautiful I’ll be happy to post it on the blog.
Comment by Bobby — June 22, 2009 #
about your twitter: you said “I have like 14 million fonts and about two dozen of them have apostrophes… WTF is that about?”, ahah you have no idea how a portuguese designer feels about it, there are even less fonts with ´`ç~^
Comment by plastessina — June 22, 2009 #
I think its fantastic
Comment by Ben Rowe — June 22, 2009 #
very well executed and fun to watch.
Comment by ian — June 22, 2009 #
to enrico. the commercial you speak of is a converse commercial that terri timely directed a while back. I think they are entitled to steal a little from themselves.
Comment by c-rock — June 23, 2009 #
@C-Rock – I totally agree. They thought up the idea in the first place so they can re-use it as they want :)
Comment by Bobby — June 24, 2009 #
for years i have WISHED that i had synesthesia! can you imagine how fantastic it would be? what an excellent video
Comment by tara — June 24, 2009 #
this is fantastic!
Comment by Jacky — June 24, 2009 #
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@Bobby
I’d love to, but I’m afraid I’m quite bereft of talent. Also, would you mind if I hit you up with email about the crazy town where you go about spending all your days?
Comment by christian — June 28, 2009 #
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Love the cats, brilliant stuff!
Comment by tvoff — July 1, 2009 #
Wow. I’m going to try to find some more of their shorts right away – truly awesome!
Comment by Brian — November 20, 2009 #
This is pure genius. I’m well impressed
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