Really well-communicated Modern Dance: "Elastic Heart" - Sia
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Sia's recent music video for her song "Elastic Heart" has affected me positively. I think this is literally the first time that I am able to actually understand the purpose and motions of a modern dance coreography.
At a technical level, I'd imagine this is effective for animators and storytellers, but in terms of visual communication, I'm hoping this is somewhat insightful for everyone.
This felt powerfully done, and well executed. The initial barrier might be the music, but have a crack at it. What do you guys see?
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At a technical level, I'd imagine this is effective for animators and storytellers, but in terms of visual communication, I'm hoping this is somewhat insightful for everyone.
This felt powerfully done, and well executed. The initial barrier might be the music, but have a crack at it. What do you guys see?
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If anything the media backlash just points out how much of a problem our society has about men being around children. It's quite honestly sickening that people would even suggest anything of the kind.
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I never expect to see anything interesting from LeBeouf, but I think he did a good job in this.
I've been thinking for years about some sort of integration of modern dance into video games. I'm a bit surprised that more people haven't taken advantage of the possible synergy. Modern dance probably isn't going to pop up in mainstream AAA games in a significant way, but I think there is plenty of room for bits of it in the indie scene. There has certainly been a fair amount of extremely well done choreography in dance to draw inspiration from.
i also got a slight pedo vibe from it. i obvously dont think they were aiming for that, but i cant help to feel that some of the poses are pretty sexualised. it worries me, that it accidently caters to peadophiles.
im pretty feed up with this whole wierdly young girl-grizzly old man relationship that is almost like a troope nowdays. last of us, sin city to mention examples. maybe old woman- young boy is something worth discovering instead?
Man, ugh.... Ok im just gonna walk out now.
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EDIT2: Eh no it's not worth starting this shitstorm.
Sticking with OP's original thoughts, I think this video does a very good job conveying emotions to the viewer. Sia described the song and video as her "two warring sides". Pretty neat concept with a solid execution.
That's strange, I'm not really getting the "two warring sides" thing from it. Seemed much more moving when I took Jade's advice beforehand and pictured it as a father/daughter relationship.
Yeah, I'm with you on that. It wasn't until I read her own meaning behind it that I went back and re-watched it to see where she was coming from.
Criticism and questioning is great. I just wish it could also come with some appreciation for the performance of the artists involved !
Oh well ...
You play with your kids, you love them, you care for them and you live together in this happy world that you build for them. Eventually though, they begin to understand the world as it exists in reality - all of the pain, misery, fear that they will experience. As much as you can be there for them, you can't go with them into that world.
I never got any weird vibes, peeps are just looking to hate.
Prolly the only good thing Shia's ever done aside from this:
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